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Edward Jones/The Known World

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

The Message in Slaughterhouse-Five

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...

Written on the Body, The Color Purple

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

Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy

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

Coupland’s Generation X

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

The Little Horse That Could

entirely different media. It is unfair of movie audiences to expect a director to put their favorite book on screen, scene-for-sce...

Unsable Personality in Orphan Pamuk’s the White Castle

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

Andrew Holleran/Grief

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

Butler & Eliot

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

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

Themes in "Things Fall Apart"

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

"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

"Huckleberry Finn" and the Rebuke of Racism

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

Dumas and Life Influences on the Nove The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Alexandre Dumas's most well known and popular novels. The writer looks at the way that the au...

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

Faulkner's "The Unvanquished" - Discussion Questions

assume the role of Confederate General Pemberton in their games, dividing the role between them "or [Ringo] wouldnt play anymore" ...

Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Light vs. Dark

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

Moby-Dick, Discussion of Quotes from the Novel

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

Dystopian Future of Technology

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how the future may be influenced by technology. This paper includes a reflection of the nov...

Ordinary People and the Kubler-Ross Model of Grief

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at Guest's "Ordinary People". Kubler-Ross's model of grief is used to analyze the novel...

J.M. Coetzee/Disgrace

This essay focuses on the character of Lucy Lurie in J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. Three pages in length, only the novel is cite...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

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

Multiculturalism & Mexican-Americans

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

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

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

Sun Also Rises/A Banned Book

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

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: Reform

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...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Nabokov & Use of Language

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