YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The American Novel
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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...
heroes had a faithful sidekick. Through the inspired use of satire, Cervantes creates a character that reveals the ridiculousness...
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...
two of his real-life characters, Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty, who once met Emma Goldman, the revolutionary, who informed ...
the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...
his life -- and that of everyone elses, as well -- had become a mere mockery of human existence. "Winstons body dealt with his fr...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...
gas in Taylorville, Illinois" (Anonymous The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver bean_trees.asp). A small abandoned Cherokee child es...
direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...
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...
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...
was neither a hearer nor a companion of the Lord; but afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who adapted his teachings as ne...
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...
Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...
"Heart of Darkness" about Marlows river journeys in the Congo, questions of the inhumane treatment of Africans began to surface. T...
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...
that stands out in the novel as the most meaningful, however, is the poet, philosopher, physician, and political prisoner Yurii Zh...
large family and its members extraordinary lives gave her much company and entertainment (one brother married their cousin, the Co...
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...
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...
had ceased to be for everyone. This is where the movement failed she suggests. Brooks puts forth a type of clarion call for wome...
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...
that is a powerful tragedy, it is a truth that has happened throughout time, over and over, as one culture envelopes another. Okon...
town drunk and taught him to steal chickens whenever the opportunity availed itself. In other words, Twain quickly establishes tha...
The novel takes the form of a series of newspaper articles and journal entries by Weston; the society is therefore observed from t...
(Melville 2435). The crew were drawn to Billy Budd like a moth to a flame, and Melville wrote, "They all love him... Anybody will...
a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...