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The Lover by Marguerite Duras

This essay pertains to Marguerite Duras's "The Lover," a novel that is highly autobiographical in nature. The writer discusses the...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

Structure of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Closing Passage of Le Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac

formula for success. Eugenes aristocratic name soon opens some doors for him. Madame Beausant is a member of high society and a ...

“Frankenstein” and the Idea of Responsibility for One’s Actions

abrogated his personal responsibility on two levels. First, he has given up his responsibility to educate, nurture and care for th...

Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw

ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann p...

A Character Study of Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes characterization and the theme of abandoned ethics seen in Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The a...

The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

Twenty First Century Analysis of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In eight pages the twenty first century perspective is applied to this novel first published in 1899 in order to determine its mes...

The Bonds Between Mother and Daughter in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

In an essay consisting of five pages the ways in which the novel considers the connections between mothers and daughters through t...

A Character Analysis of Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The way in which Victor Frankenstein is presented in the first few chapters of the novel and whether he is depicted sympatheticall...

Friendship in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This 7 page paper examines the friendship between Huck and Tom in Twain's classic novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and ar...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Chapter Overview of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

Defoe's Roxana and Richardson's Pamela

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

John Grisham’s Bleachers

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

this novel within an American historical time frame it would have been published while some were embroiled in the Civil War, and o...

Ford: “Michael’s War”

This 3 page paper discusses the novel “Michael’s War,” about the IRA. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

Economic Institution of Slavery in Beloved by Toni Morrison

as we can see from works such as Toni Morrisons Beloved, slavery was a moral and psychological evil whose effects were felt -- and...

Foreshadowing in “A Tale of Two Cities”

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

Silko: “Ceremony”

it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...

Analysis: “In the Name of the Rose”

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

Goodman: “Kaaterskill Falls”

is, its probably Elizabeth, a young mother of six who, more than most, seems to have one foot in the strict Kirshner sect and the ...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...