YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The American Novel
Essays 1501 - 1530
leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...
had on the rural peasants, and his social reforms introduced the hitherto unknown concept of womens rights. The propaganda of the ...
away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...
reason, and his virtue is merely appearance" (Galloway). In relationship to the Lilliputians we note that a great deal of pride...
he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...
mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...
had ceased to be for everyone. This is where the movement failed she suggests. Brooks puts forth a type of clarion call for wome...
that is a powerful tragedy, it is a truth that has happened throughout time, over and over, as one culture envelopes another. Okon...
The novel takes the form of a series of newspaper articles and journal entries by Weston; the society is therefore observed from t...
town drunk and taught him to steal chickens whenever the opportunity availed itself. In other words, Twain quickly establishes tha...
(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 ...
shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...
The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...
man. Lennie is a simpleton and needs someone to protect him from ranch owners that would take advantage of his slow mentality. Thi...
first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...
In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...
predicted in his Communist Manifesto that the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat would first succeed in a ...
family and they come to be grateful for what she has done for them" (ClassicNotes). In the end of the story we are told, by Dicken...
movement of Naipaul from newcomer to departing visitor. The first part of the book shows Naipaul as he comes to England to experie...
activities. Sometimes this encouragement is overt but sometimes it is very covert and they receive it from practically everyone th...
merely oppressed and used the natives. Kurtz is a man who is very diverse and very intelligent. He is a powerful speaker, a poet, ...
There is also a skewering of the notion that the acquisition of wealth makes all problems disappear and ensures eternal happiness....
are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...
African Americans, the Latin Americans and the Native Americans) away into the foreground the white man, so to speak, could feel t...
economic and social world of the Laphams. It is also important to note that the Laphams are people from wealth that was earned thr...
the book was fundamentally Catholic and religious, but then would also claim that "There is no allegory -- moral, political, or co...
generation." This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. One aspect of this story that seems t...