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in an internment camp and two years in prison. It charts his efforts at reintegration into American society. From this perspective...

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

the structural framework of the novel, as it demonstrates the authors reliance on dialogue, both between characters and also the i...

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

staff and the students (Diabolique). The camera perspective enters the school. It is break time and other characters make their ...

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

(1983) Religion and sexuality in Walker Percy, William Gass and John Updike: metaphors of embodiment in the androcentric imaginati...

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

of the school" are clear presentations of this perspective. Another powerful element in the story, and one that is mentioned onl...

it seemed to be the only way open to me" (Celestial 63). Mary wishes to avoid the "single narrow path" outlined by her parents liv...

to drive to reach Las Vegas and they were both clearly feeling the affects of drugs, with the narrator claiming it would be hard t...

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

though that ideal does not exist. The society that Julian West leaves behind is capitalist; like modern society, its ugly, strati...

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

indictment of the British caste system and the exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2...

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 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...

Center say Mattie (Hattie in the book) was bizarre. She had a witchlike laugh, recalls Christensen. She didnt laugh much, but when...

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

this novel is located in the inner city of New York, within Harlem, where the education is not up to the standards of the rest of ...

of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he c...