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and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

that what is white is beautiful, lovable and normal, while black facial features, skin color and everything else associated with b...

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

is, its probably Elizabeth, a young mother of six who, more than most, seems to have one foot in the strict Kirshner sect and the ...

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

now wealthy and has achieved all he set out to do. In this chapter we see many different things which tell us that Jay is nothing ...

it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

his civilized life. The plot, other than Huck running away, involved Huck running and coming in contact with Jim, a slave he kn...

disliked these anticipo payments. Much better that I should get behind in the rent, like everybody else, and be beholden to him" (...

London societys most important government agency was Hatcheries and Conditioning, and its Director seemed to wield more power than...

ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

of the Knights of the Round Table and the legend of King Arthur is achieved by Twain in that he juxtaposes the times and belief sy...

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...

from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

newspaper correspondents (Molloy 317). One letter writer to a newspaper at the time voiced an opinion that the book was a "wallow ...

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

may be that he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peas...

on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...