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The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Nihilism in the Character of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and the Development of Ishmael

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

Christ Like Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver and Applicatioins of Erik Erikson and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories

for their ethical behavior. He identified six stages which were classified in three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and pos...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Macabea in The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symb...

Character Development in The Things They Carried

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

The Mayor of Casterbridge and Character Destiny

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...

A Character Analysis for Heart of Darkness and Typhoon

(Anonymous Joseph Conrad 47.htm). In the beginning we Marlow as a very energetic and eager young man who wants adventure and excit...

Marquez's No One Writes the Colonel

His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...

Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Minor Characters in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...

Emotional Maturity and Independence in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

A Review of Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

and pure mystery in the boy when he states that "Any time Grandpa had something to say, it was something you couldnt wait to hear"...

Simmons and Gaebelein's A Question of Character

can have a salient effect on the way in which a whole community perceives itself and its behaviour, and consider the question of n...

A Review of Dreaming in Cuba

A 5 page overview of Christina Garcia's novel. This paper focuses on the character Celia, detailing her family relationships and ...

Love and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

In five pages this paper discusses the characters of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley featured in Hemingway's novel The Sun Also ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Minor Characters' Significance

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Character Esther Summerson

In six pages a character analysis of Esther Summerson is presented within the context of Dickens' novel. Eight sources are cited ...