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Griffins and Carruths Compared

Alice "Start at the beginning and when you come to the end, stop." However, Griffin ignores this tradition and takes the reader b...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

that the feminine sphere, i.e. the domestic sphere, is nurturing and fulfilling, an area where women have control and can be creat...

Fiction of Eudora Welty

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

Elements of Gender and Sex in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

to various circumstances lends logic and reason to her themes in Frankenstein, which seem to embrace the delicious ambiguity of li...

Significance of Women in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom

important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...

Nature as a Theme in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

character is testified to by the fact that so many movies have been made which were inspired by it. Within each, regardless of ho...

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Building of Mystery, Suspense, and Horror

quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

the story it is without the elements of death and resurrection. It is through this simple connection to their son, to life, that t...

Comparing The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and The Sketch Book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Ralph Ellison's Philosophy in The Invisible Man

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

to the bed and lay on it with my eyes closed. Now there was ice and darkness inside me. I could feel the cold darkness moving sl...

Comparative Analyis of Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain's Hank Morgan in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

Reality and Disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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

Anita Diament's The Red Tent

speak of history and these are powerful conditions spelled out in the fictional work of Diamant. Through her book we see parts of ...

Comparative Analysis of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

through an overhead connection powered public transportation to enable people to enjoy more flexibility in their lives and in thei...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Theme of Lying

goes on to note that he never met anyone who didnt lie and that presents us with an incredibly strong, yet also powerfully subtle,...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Conflicts

after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched with her tongue for any broken teeth...and that on th...

Morton Thompson's The Cry and the Covenant

began to question the administration of the hospital why it was that women who gave birth in the street were healthier than those ...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Themes of Power and Gender

All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...

Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

owe it to my contemporaries not to ruin my legend" (89). He doesnt even like the cheese anymore, but he continues to follow his r...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and Location

(Anonymous E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970), 2002; forster.htm). She eventually believes that Azis sexually assaulted her bec...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Realism

Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Toms Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in ...

Baggage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje and Race

great deal of material to examine in terms of race and culture. We know that New Orleans is a place that seems to be incredibly in...

French Romantic Literary Works and Their Similarities

separately and then are followed by a discussion about their similarities. The novels discussed are "Madame Bovary," "Pere Goriot,...

Arguments of Henry Hazlitt

so on until that $250 is keeping everyone in business. The hoodlum who broke the window becomes an instrument of spreading busines...