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isolation in the woods comes into contact with the more traditional culture of the people from the nearby town where she is taken ...

Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

147). Marlows initial reaction is in keeping with the African environment and the darkness that has touched his life, as it did Ku...

childhood, as well as everything he hopes to achieve is best illustrated in an incident that occurs between Sammy and Al Manheim o...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...

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

educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

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

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the boy some cookies. Marlow meets one of the men from his company, on the street and joins him in his hut office, but after a sh...

why it has that affect. In this paper we will consider the last two paragraphs of Mores work giving an opinion on the affect it...

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...