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mean a person who saves children from going over a precipice. As this indicates, he wants to be a "savor/ defender of the innocent...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

This 3 page paper gives an example of how individual expression and freedom is shown in a few works of literature. This paper incl...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

could well relate to Salingers Holden who finds no hope in the people he meets, no sense of redemption in the adult society. If ...

because Holden cannot seem to figure out how to grow up, how to become an adult he would admire and respect. He is frightened of g...

face the truth and become a more aware young man or he will find a great deal of trouble in running from truth. Holden leaves his ...

is the protagonist in the story for it is her story we are essentially watching, although we are watching it often through the liv...

wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

self and applies a moral message to his way of being in the world. Others may not agree with this moral message, but a man of cha...

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...

to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...

less intelligent, intuitive and passionate than Emma, and yet he "receives an education as a health officer which equips him for a...

him, has him exhume Estradas body and for Norton to accompany him on a journey across country to Mexico in order to keep his promi...

how to save her legs and he and Buckley become almost inseparable. However, in the background, Jack makes it clear that he still c...

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

and the culture in which she finds herself having to embrace. She is also alienated by her social class. Antonia, in contrast to J...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...

are shaped in childhood. Young Jim is himself is something of an immigrant, the proverbial stranger in a strange land, when he goe...

homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not s...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

and finds that his father has not eaten much in the past three months. His father confesses that Dantes had left a debt when he l...

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...