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the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

prominently into Elizas later life. The first part is also when Eliza falls in love with Joaquin Andieta, who dreams of ending th...

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

retrospective, written as a memory of event that had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, ...

to these men, as this would not only offer them security, but would allow them to establish relational bonds with their co-workers...

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

In the case of Charity she is prone to lying in the fields and feel her sexuality become alive, as she feels the earth...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...

arrived in America to enter a new life, a life which differs greatly from that she lived in Antigua. In America she will be an na...