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

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

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

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...

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

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel by John Toole called A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes an examination ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

ways. At the beginning of the novel, they follow a Cain and Abel dichotomy. Gabe is the good and obedient child, "the son who is q...

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

to these men, as this would not only offer them security, but would allow them to establish relational bonds with their co-workers...

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

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