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a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...
clearly in the beginning of the novel, before she meets Ninny, in the following lines from Flaggs novel: "This morning, as they dr...
own view of human nature was that it was filled with darkness at virtually every level. Layers Upon Layers Multi-layered storytel...
7). In the third section of the novel, Patrick, the boy from the first section is now twenty-one years old and arrives in Toronto....
Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...
her quickly into a world which is dictated by the whims of the men who surround her, both her father and a potential lover....
us, but only enlighten us. In Kogawas novel we note that Naomi is very deeply hurt by her mother, without really understanding ...
ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...
face. The descendants of the Raja and Dr. McPhail worked collectively to make the island the best of all possible worlds, by combi...
novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...
a natural hero because of his knowledge of and respect for the landscape. Heyward, on the other hand, establishes his ineptitude b...
artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...
Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...
of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...
to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so...
most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...
hopefulness here in Comala; instead, the air is heavy with an oppressive guilt that is positively stifling. It soon becomes readi...
(Woolf, 2002). Written for a largely female readership over a hundred years after Wollstonecraft, Woolf can afford to be more cri...
soul, for cash? Throughout the work, the theme of money is inherent. She gets a job as an office worker. She wants to be on stage ...
were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...
is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...
negative force. In essence, Esperanzas disillusion with her identity clearly demonstrates the unbalanced stature of class that of...
Sometimes, however, they were simply viewed as a criminal element or as a political radical (Hay, 2001). Consequently, American i...
extensively depicted in her early novels. Keller sharply points out that both the conservative subtext and the liberal text of Ric...
at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...