YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Literary Devices in Three Novels
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the good parent, the grandparent. Some say he is father; others say she is mother. But the sentiment is the same: Nana is the sour...
the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...
is perhaps ready to face. What the journalist finds out is that the escape of a right wing leader does not result in the leaders...
who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...
scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...
were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...
values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...
seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...
a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility" (42). As this suggests, an ...
Aziz is a doctor who is living in India as the novel opens. His wife has died and he is raising his three children. Dr. Aziz makes...
Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...
up killing him for revenge and blaming the crime on another. Therefore, while we can clearly see this demon doing wrong, murderin...
suspend his judgment. Ironically, what Kurtz has discovered horrifies Marlow and it seems to haunt him. He went in search of him...
internal and spiritual questions about mankinds purpose. Though the truth is reported to set one free, as a writer writing about ...
period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...
and ones heritage is not what it once was. This character is Samad. He is an intelligent and educated man but a man who has had to...
focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...
that he wants to pay her for any liberties he has taken with her. We, the reader, clearly see this as something of a payment to a ...
you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...
this concept was combined with the idea that those with superior status would educate those who were lower in status through examp...
the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...
that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...
who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...
"too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers" (Shelley NA). In this we see the slow develo...
the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...
"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...
his letter: "He must be an oddity, I think, said she. I cannot make him out.--There is something very pompous in his style.--And ...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
work "Uncle Toms Cabin" influenced a great many people. And, her intention was to "inspire a strong emotional reaction of indignat...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...