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Robert Penn Warren’s Night Rider

individuals and even commit murders. They become the Free Farmers Brotherhood for Protection and Control. At the same time Munn, w...

Mature Style of William Faulkner

it is encompasses self-sacrifice, pity and compassion for others, who are also suffering through lifes hardships. Essentially, thi...

The Things They Carried

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

The Hairy Ape

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...

The Color Purple

about life, meeting Shug who is her husbands lover. She grows stronger and more intelligent as the story progresses and in the end...

Mrs. Wilcox and Margaret in Howard's End by E.M. Forster

family, she does not fit in with the typical representation of such a lifestyle; indeed, it can be argued that she fits in more re...

The Artificial Nigger by Flannery O'Connor

In nine pages this paper examines antiracist redemption as it is symbolically represented in this novel by Flannery O'Connor. Fiv...

Comparison of Contemporary Poverty and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Nineteenth Century Poverty in Hard Times

rather than the shameful exception" (Trevelyan, quoted in Johnson, 274). But even more dramatic was the change in attitude towa...

Concepts of Questing and Conforming in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...

Supernatural in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

This paper consists of five pages and considers how the supernatural manifests itself in this novel with the only hope of the love...

Joseph Heller's Catch 22

In five pages the ways in which death is portrayed in Heller's novel are examined in hopes of determining the identity of 'the ene...

Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje and Immigration Implications

who comes in on their conversation in the middle and has to strain to follow what is going on in the story (421). The scene shifts...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and Realism

for the tiny haven for the worlds most socially-prominent families: "There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tour...

Violence and Power in The Third Life of Grange Copeland and The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In this paper that consists of twelve pages the predominant thread of violence that keeps the power hierarchy intact in these nove...

Love Exploration in North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

This paper considers love within the context of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel and the influences of psychological, economic, and socia...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Culpability of the Individual, and Postcolonialism

In 8 pages this paper analyzes the novel in terms of postcolonialism and individual culpability. There are 4 sources cited in the...

Literary Stylistic Differences Between On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the authors' styles of writing in these two novels. Six sources are cited in the ...

Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In seven pages this paper examines the significance of Ma Joad in Steinbeck's classics novel in an analysis of her character and w...

Beloved by Toni Morrison - An Analysis

play in the narrative, it is helpful to have an understanding of the overall plot and its major components. Plot Synopsis Altho...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse

Edward and the "good" vampires at odds with Victorias group. It should also be noted that Victoria is out for revenge because prev...

Chopin’s Awakening

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

Demetria Martinez Speaks the Mother Tongue

her heritage is (Diaz, 1999). Because she is still wandering, Jos? Luis represents something wonderful to her: a man who is commit...

Finding Love and Meaning in the Mother Tongue

Luis, and it is foreshadowed from the first sentence of the book. Mary is at the airport to meet him, a refugee from El Salvador t...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and 'The Horror! The Horror!'

In three pages the famous line from this novel is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan

China. In the novel, the local peasant farmers have been ordered by the country officials to plan only one crop?garlic. Y...

Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

seen that Gide identifies this novel as a psychological parable. By dramatizing the evil that lurks within Roberts psyche, Hogg of...