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Social Mobility and Death in Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The name Thaw for instance, in this work, can be indicative of the fact that his character is in a state of flux at times. One can...

Characteristics of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

heroes had a faithful sidekick. Through the inspired use of satire, Cervantes creates a character that reveals the ridiculousness...

'Pet Cemetery' by Stephen King and the Acceptance of Death

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime

two of his real-life characters, Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty, who once met Emma Goldman, the revolutionary, who informed ...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

Real Courage and Its Essence in 1984 by George Orwell

his life -- and that of everyone elses, as well -- had become a mere mockery of human existence. "Winstons body dealt with his fr...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees from a New Historicism Perspective

gas in Taylorville, Illinois" (Anonymous The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver bean_trees.asp). A small abandoned Cherokee child es...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling and Protagonist Harvey Cheyne

direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Stephen Ambrose's Nothing Like it in the World The Transcontinental Railroad

people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

Mark's Gospel

was neither a hearer nor a companion of the Lord; but afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who adapted his teachings as ne...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Conflict of Love vs. Money

is to truly examine our lives. It may seem that living a life of wealth would be easy and would negate the necessity of deeper ex...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

Imperialism As Either Supported or Opposed by Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness

"Heart of Darkness" about Marlows river journeys in the Congo, questions of the inhumane treatment of Africans began to surface. T...

The Mayor of Casterbridge and Character Destiny

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...

Destiny and Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago

that stands out in the novel as the most meaningful, however, is the poet, philosopher, physician, and political prisoner Yurii Zh...

Jane Austen on Human Nature and Social Values

large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...

Analyzing The Call of the Wild by Jack London

up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...

Life's Message in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...

An Overview of Hooks', Feminism is For Everybody

had ceased to be for everyone. This is where the movement failed she suggests. Brooks puts forth a type of clarion call for wome...

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

us with a red sorghum field. This section presents the readers with a look at the region prior to the war. It is a story of a youn...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Its Issues

that is a powerful tragedy, it is a truth that has happened throughout time, over and over, as one culture envelopes another. Okon...

Lying in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

town drunk and taught him to steal chickens whenever the opportunity availed itself. In other words, Twain quickly establishes tha...

Callenbach's Ecotopia

The novel takes the form of a series of newspaper articles and journal entries by Weston; the society is therefore observed from t...

Good and Evil Humanity in Billy Budd by Herman Melville

(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...

Ian McEwan's Atonement

a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...