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the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...
tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...
The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...
is better. We note some of his pride when we see him at the party where he quickly dismisses Elizabeth, stating "She is tolerable;...
and harshness of war and the brutality of his life now. Two scenes in particular tend to stay in ones mind long after it is read...
sad position of a young girl who is oppressed in every possible way. Her sister, however, becomes far more educated and travels wi...
The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...
nonsense poem is to not try to understand it at all. In other words, reading the poem outloud, rather than reading it to oneself, ...
The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...
through different characters" (p. 268). While this theme is worked out principally through Newland Archers yearning for the "free"...
butchery of the horses to try and rip off chunks of horsemeat to take back to feed his family....
Center say Mattie (Hattie in the book) was bizarre. She had a witchlike laugh, recalls Christensen. She didnt laugh much, but when...
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...
in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...
her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...
is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...
in. . .evening dress required? hell no! The vivisection of the wounded!. . .Thats it! so much art, centuries of so-called masterpi...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...
kitchen, ultimately expressing the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. Beyond the gender element of food in Shie...
of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...
that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...
The film has Malcolm being lured to the island by millionaire John Hammond, the mastermind behind the development of the dinosaurs...
be taken by another and gets married. Yet, it is suggested that she marries more for money than love and this brings up a curious...
of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...
any sense, which is the case in the novel. One similarity regarding the novel and the film involves the main characters fascina...
There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...
begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...