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Esperanza. Her family cannot afford to buy a home, so they are forced to live in a dilapidated and overcrowded tenement on Chicag...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...
Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...
and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...
man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...
on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...
being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...
As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...
him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...
This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...
In five pages these two novels' themes are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper reveals the novel's greatest sinner as Hester Prynne, the wearer of 'the scarlet letter.' Three sources ...
fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...
In 5 pages this paper examines the novel's depiction of heroism within the context of characters Wiggins and Jefferson. Two sourc...
In five pages this essay examines this Japanese novel's narrative with an emphasis on the character of Himiko, the girlfriend of t...
In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...
In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...
In 5 pages this paper examines how renunciation is thematically depicted in the novel's 3 major characters and within the featured...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...
In eight pages this paper analyzes the novel's Chinese American boy's struggles in a consideration of masculinity as defined by th...
In a paper that contains 5 pages the ways in which these themes manifest themselves in the characterizations of Okonkwo, Nwoye, an...
Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...
it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...
Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...
In four pages this paper examines how this novel's characterizations reflect the impact of modernization in the Latin America of t...
of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...
educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...