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Fitzgerald’s Novels and Landscape

America in the 1920s" (Gibb 96). Gatsby is, in many ways, the epitome of new growth and renewal and thus of a metaphorical landsca...

Film & Graphic Novel/Diabolique & Persepolis

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

Literary Devices in Three Novels

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

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

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

Rabbit Novels of John Updike

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

Tomson Highway's Novel Kiss of the Fur Queen

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

Social Isolation and Women in Anne Tyler's Novels

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...

2 Novels on Utopia

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

Review of the Native American Novel The Light People

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

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

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

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

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...

Comparing The Time Machine Novel by H.G. Wells and 1960 and 2002 Film Versions

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

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Novel Summary of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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...

Overview of the Novel Passing by Nella Larsen

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...

The American Novel

slavery and freedom. The main character is Huckleberry Finn and he simply wants to help out his friend, the runaway slave. But, ...

Characterization in The Blue Max: The Novel and Film Compared

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

Two African Novels.

is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...

Symbolism in Two War Novels

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

The Realistic Novel: Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons

beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...

The Modern Novel: Austen, Eliot, Joyce

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's Novels Light in August and The Sound and the Fury

of the Compson family, the offspring of the pioneer Jason Lycurgus Compson" (Classicnotes [1]). Within the family we see a very Fa...

The Furies Construct and Toni Morrison's Beloved in Novel and Film Form

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

The Role Of Food In Carol Shields' Novel "Swann"

kitchen, ultimately expressing the inherent fortitude that comprises the female spirit. Beyond the gender element of food in Shie...

Novels Featuring Russian Society and Culture

story we have "Yevgeny Vassilyitch Bazarov, a nihilistic young medical school graduate and Arkadys closest friend. Arrogant and ru...

'Beat' Novels of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs Contrasted and Compared

and logical, while Dean is his complete opposite. These two men also indicate the fallen state of mankind attempting to find himse...

Final Lines of the Novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

they go on another trip, but Lolita runs away with another man. Humbert finds her years later, when she is 18 and married and preg...

Magical Realism in the Novels of Isabel Allende

Beth E. Jorgensen defines magical realism as the "use of the literary devices of hyperbole, oxymoron, personification, flashback a...