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Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

A John McGahern Fiction Ecocriticism

(Glotfelty; Fromm, 2003). It invokes thoughts of whether men and women write differently about the natural world, thus presenting ...

Fact or Fiction with Regard to Racial Profiling

a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...

Cyril Connelley on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Southern Fiction and The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty

death) (Welty 9). Tied to a surviving woman and his only surviving child, Musgrove is pushed into the wilderness by the Indians, w...

Chicano Family Relations in the Fiction of Rudolfo Anaya

In five pages this essay discusses how family relations are portrayed in Zia Summer and Heart of Atzlan by Rudolfo Anaya. There a...

Communist China and Fiction

This paper discusses 3 literary examples of how the Maoist regime is metaphorically criticized in 9 pages. Four sources are cited...

Robert Brawer's Fictions of Business Hero's Journey in the Business World

In five pages this research paper examines how the author illustrates principles of management through the use of classic literatu...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Short Fiction of Raymond Carver

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Southern Fiction and Manners

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

Fiction and Fate

were viewed as chance (Fate). Other religions view fate in pretty much the same way; in the Koran, for example, fate is based on G...

Fiction and Film in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In a paper consisting of six pages Austen's novel and the film adaptation are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

Fiction or Truth in the Works of Joseph Wambaugh

flawed heroics. Wambaughs first nonfiction book, The Onion Field (1974), about two young cops fateful encounter with two young ro...

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...

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Postmodernism

In three pages this report analyzes the postmodern characteristics of these 1992 and 1994 films by director Quentin Tarantino. Th...

Fact and Fiction Regarding the Great White Shark

In six pages this paper discusses separates the facts from the myths regarding the great white shark and considers solutions to th...

Two Views of African Women from Fiction Works

In this essay consisting of three pages the dramatizations of African women as depicted in Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen a...

Narrative Fiction and the Portrayal of Female Characters

This paper considers how prose, drama, fairytales, and religious narratives portray female characters in 9 pages. Eleven sources...

Fact, Legend, and Fiction of King Arthur

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...

Parents in the Fiction of Guy de Maupassant

In five pages this paper examines the French author's short stories 'Mademoiselle Fifi' and 'Boule de Suif' in terms of how they r...

Reeva S. Simon's The Middle East in Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper presents a review of this text. There are no other sources listed....

Aspects of Detective Fiction From the Nineteen Hundreds

This paper examines six detective novels from the nineteen hundreds, and addresses common themes seen throughout each. The author...

Historical Fiction of Benito Perez Galdos, Realism, and Romanticism

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how techniques of romanticism and realism are employed by Benito Perez Galdos in his Episodi...

Contemporary Detective Fiction and Homosexuality

This paper consists of three pages and examines how homosexuality is subtlely presented in 'The Bootlegger's Daughter' by Margaret...

Communication Lacking in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...