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Worldviews Clash in the Fiction of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor

In ten pages this paper compares the worldview clashes featured in the short stories of John Updike and Flannery O'Connor in an a...

Edgar Allan Poe's Fiction and Theme of Death

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...

Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Two Female Characters in U.S. Fiction

5 pages and 2 sources used. This paper provides an overview and a comparison of the lives and characteristics of two central fema...

Communication Lacking in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

Thomas Hardy and George Moore's Victorian Fiction and Naivete

In five pages this research paper examines the naivete of the protagonists in Esther Waters by George Moore and Far From the Maddi...

Fiction Comparison of Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed

In five pages The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is compared with Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed in terms their very different tragic an...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

Fiction and the Portrayal of Management Leadership

In nine pages this paper examines the leadership of characters depicted in 'The Moviegoer' by Percy, 'Shooting an Elephant' by Orw...

Fiction or Truth in the Works of Joseph Wambaugh

flawed heroics. Wambaughs first nonfiction book, The Onion Field (1974), about two young cops fateful encounter with two young ro...

The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Conformity and Appearance

IN ten pages the author's contention that conformity interferes with self understanding is examined within the context of three st...

Taiwain and the Fiction of Freedom of the Press

In ten pages ths paper examines whether or not publications in Taiwan enjoy rights of freedom of the press. There arer 4 sources ...

'The Cask of Amontillado' Fiction and the Real Life of Edgar Allan Poe

In seven pages this paper discusses how Poe's real life experiences can be connected to the short story 'The Cask of Amontillado.'...

Samoan Culture in the Fiction of Wendt and Figel

!Sia Figiels Where We Once Belonged Figiels Samoa is a vibrant, animate place where "sharks bite the moon, and a pumpkin might as...

Eight Works of Literary Fiction and the Influence of Social Position

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

A John McGahern Fiction Ecocriticism

(Glotfelty; Fromm, 2003). It invokes thoughts of whether men and women write differently about the natural world, thus presenting ...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Fact or Fiction with Regard to Racial Profiling

a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...

Cyril Connelley on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction

family that was better off than his own. In order to make something of himself he began to write articles for various magazines. H...

African Americans and Their Evolution in Fiction and Nonfiction

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

A 'Pulp Fiction' Marxist Analysis

pick of meat as well as salad ingredients that can also run up a bill. Food is expensive and can be considered as something that e...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

Separating Fact from Fiction in an Overview of Hypnosis

their brains even in the fully awake conscious state of mind (Choudhury 2004). In fact, many have agreed that as much as seven-eig...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Fiction of Eudora Welty

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

Crime Fiction and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...

Southern Fiction and The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty

death) (Welty 9). Tied to a surviving woman and his only surviving child, Musgrove is pushed into the wilderness by the Indians, w...

Jefferson and Hemmings, Fiction or Fact

conception for the birth of all of those six children. There are no records that she was elsewhere during those times, or records ...

Southern Fiction and Manners

that manners and formal politeness will overlap: the way in which white Southern gentlemen treated white Southern ladies, for exam...

Fiction and Fate

were viewed as chance (Fate). Other religions view fate in pretty much the same way; in the Koran, for example, fate is based on G...