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that his novel is not fictitious, but, on the other hand, he also states that everything only happened more or less thus restricti...

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

an "observant Jew," which means that he is at odds with his own culture because "observant Jews do not paint at all" (Potok 3). H...

that she had organized her wards to the utmost efficiency. At the same time, her best friend Jessica had written to her brother in...

(which could mean anytime between the early 1990s and today, Coetzees "spare" novel (as some critics have called it) concerns Davi...

death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...

1817. While a master could lawfully punish a slave, using his own discretion and judgment, state law established a limit and that ...

the student was supposed to learn for himself. Concrete Experience Not all recognize this collective and monumental lesson,...

entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

"I Have a Dream" speech, in which King lambasted the United States for forbidding the Negroes to be free people (King). "We can ne...

as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...

Both items are gone, never to be replaced. Each of the fruit and the lock of hair in and of themselves are of little or no conseq...

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

to break down from involuntary inactivity. I now recognize the increased muscle weakness in both my legs and arms, as well as dif...

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

to promote his ideas being a printer and prospering in his business, his actions also promoted his ideal for constant improvement ...

of contrast, that it is freedom that makes the difference in a man, freedom and experience, not class or social status. Tolstoy p...

freedom is conveyed in The Awakening. Edna yearned to be free but she lived in a society where she felt a prisoner. She could not ...

portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

of the public social sphere, keeping themselves completely within the domestic sphere. The "good" or "true" woman was passive, dep...

the concept of free trade is one that separates economists into ideological camps even today. Smith further believed that the prac...

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

asks David directly whose son he is, when in the previous chapter, it appeared that David was Sauls favorite and the Saul was ver...

them up for scrutiny. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these romantic medieval values clashed with the new emphasis on re...

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

discussed here are narrative, dialectic and dramaturgical. Narrative Narrative theory is that which addresses communication...