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brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...

friends-who were all at the same class at school-had the idea that war is glorious and noble, an attitude encouraged by their teac...

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

staff and the students (Diabolique). The camera perspective enters the school. It is break time and other characters make their ...

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

though that ideal does not exist. The society that Julian West leaves behind is capitalist; like modern society, its ugly, strati...

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

(1983) Religion and sexuality in Walker Percy, William Gass and John Updike: metaphors of embodiment in the androcentric imaginati...

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

of the school" are clear presentations of this perspective. Another powerful element in the story, and one that is mentioned onl...

it seemed to be the only way open to me" (Celestial 63). Mary wishes to avoid the "single narrow path" outlined by her parents liv...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

indictment of the British caste system and the exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2...

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

to drive to reach Las Vegas and they were both clearly feeling the affects of drugs, with the narrator claiming it would be hard t...

law to help people, deep down they knew they just wanted to make a lot of money. He is a man who sees that his life is going wron...

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...