YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works
Essays 211 - 240
down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...
was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...
he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...
through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...
At the same time, however, the stories which are presented to not necessarily unfold in a clear chronological pattern. Instead va...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...
all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...
DIEGO: ...excesivamente honrado,...
quietly, knowing something is coming her way, some feeling, some understanding, some epiphany. Then, it comes. It tells her she is...
what governs their overall behavior. Conspicuously absent in this story is the weak and fragile persona; instead, Hurstons ...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...
tendency when one embraces a cause. In Bless Me Ultima the struggle is generational in nature. The older people in the village hav...
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...
black children. For example, in chapter 1, Kunjufu cites a study that shows that from infancy through three-years-old, black chil...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
does so in a most subtle way. It is as if O. Henry plays on the expectation of a terrible demise, then, at the last moment, as a s...
themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...
the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...
the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...
then that Of Love and Shadows takes place in a Latin American country that is suffering under a brutal dictatorship. Irene Beltran...
be permanently altered when Thompson ran afoul of the law (Medenhall, 2004). A series of arrest would eventually land him...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
stories and poems in notebooks" (IPL Kidspace). In this interview she also noted, "My books have varied in content and style. Y...
to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...
and asks his mother why that happened. His mother says "The white man did not whip the black boy...He beat the black boy" (Wright ...
fictional historical account, as the author uses a host of unusual situations and characters to dramatize historical interpretatio...
In fourteen pages early literacy and language development are considered in terms of adult literacy, the policy of Welfare to Work...