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The Critical Reception of A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

the sheriff and the inevitable nightriders. As Gaines unravels the reasons why the old black men, as well as the young white woma...

Night Flight by Antoine de Saint Exupery and Leadership

leaders have taken humanity toward new horizons through the use of new technology. The airplane, as we know it today, was ...

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

her fate, whether it was quick, or lingering. Close to starvation, Jakob is discovered by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist who has...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and 'Catholic' Jake

In five pages this paper discusses that Cohn's Judaism is contrasted with Jake's Catholicism for emphasis in Hemingway's novel. T...

Comparative Analysis of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad and The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In three pages the protagonists and their stories featured in these two novels are contrasted and compared. There are no other so...

Historical Issues in Levathes' Novel, When China Ruled the Seas

This paper discusses the importance of trade and commerce on China's history as portrayed in Louise Levathes' 1994 novel. This fi...

Biography and Writings of Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper discusses Hemingway's life and then examines how heroes are interpreted in the novel The Sun Also Rises a...

Influence of Politics on the Characters in The Marrow of Tradition and Their Eyes Were Watching God

In five pages this paper discusses the political disadvantages experienced by Dr. William Miller and Janie Crawford in the novels ...

Clint Eastwood's Film Unforgiven and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote Compared

In three pages this film and novel are compared in terms of the sidekick's stature by comparing Ned Logan and the Schofield Kid wi...

Transition and Change in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this novel by John Steinbeck is summarized and analyzed as it pertains to the Joad family changes and a Depression e...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

In five pages these two African novels are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Concept of Quests in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages these two novels are compared in an analysis of how the concept of a quest is featured within each. There are no ot...

Hunted or Haunted Protagonists in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how Nathaniel Hawthorne's protagonists are either hunted or haunted in the novel The Scarlet Let...

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages the deceptive novel that is short on story but high on characterizations and vignettes discussing the neighborhood a...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

Sociological Analysis and Summary of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper summarizes Steinbeck's great American novel and then presents a sociological analysis that considers conc...

Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Ridley Scott's film and Philip K. Dick's novel are compared in terms of characterization and huma...

Comparative Analysis of Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew and Myriam Warner Vieyra's Juletane

These novels are contrasted and compared in 6 pages with the cultural impact on gender relationships, isolation, and interdependen...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Humanity

In three pages this paper examines the lack of humanity benefit from social changes as considered in the novel by Aldous Huxley. ...

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Homoeroticism

In five pages Joyce's novel is examined in terms of its thematic representation of homosexuality and homoeroticism. Two other sou...

Jazz by Toni Morrison and Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

Feminine Nature and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me" ...

John Irving's Cider House Rules and the 'Underdog'

was dyslexic before that particular learning disability had been identified by name - took Seabrookes, words as a kind of mantra. ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

A Review of the Novel World's End

The writer reviews the novel World's End by T.C. Boyle, which is set in the Hudson River Valley and spans many generations. The pa...

Kanthapura by Raja Rao

In five pages this report examines the 1938 novel that is widely regarded as the first English modern Indian literary classic. Tw...

Different Narrative Voices in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

This paper contrasts and compares how the author's narrative voices are used in each of these novels in 7 pages. Two sources are ...

Ernest Hemingway's Attitudes About Women

In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...

The Geography of Fiction California in the Writings of Kellerman and Mosley

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the way in which the geography of the state of California is repre...

Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil

In five pages this report examines Becker's 1975 novel with Wertmuller's 1976 film in a comparative analysis of the dark humor and...