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Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi

from the beginning of the novel, the narrators mother expresses her basic disapproval of her daughter. This is why she wants the g...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia and the Cold War

In five pages this paper examines how the characters in the novel were affected by the Cold War between the U.S. and the Cuba of F...

A 'Howard's End' Marxist Interpretation

or weddings. They live on the compound or they may just visit. Howards End becomes a centerpiece for the story and is symbolic of ...

Shame by Salman Rushdie

these things, these realities, it is no wonder there is ultimate failure. Rushdies work is one that attacks the rulers and hist...

Technique, Theme, and Conflict in Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

but Smith utilizes it in a warped and disturbed fashion, making it a weapon against the totalitarian government rather than an act...

Comparison of Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

discoveries because he is curious. He refers to some alchemists of the past, indicating the inherent nature of humanity in relatio...

Development of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

out of the sea" (5,81). Simon is the only one who realizes that the Beast is not real, but is instead the savagery that lives ins...

Fools Crow

the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

Is Homeland Security an Effective Security Guard or an Example of 'Big Brother'?

obstacles, which suggests that this department is, at best, a "work in progress" (Lehrer, 2004, p. 71). The various bureaus that c...

Gringos by Charles Portis

disliked these anticipo payments. Much better that I should get behind in the rent, like everybody else, and be beholden to him" (...

Marketing Structure in The Grapes of Wrath

particular products or goods than other times of the year. In the novel we note this is the reality that rules the peoples lives f...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Class

read..." (Cervantes 71). And Sancho states, "The truth is...that I never read any history because I dont know how to read or write...

Images in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

to be a heroic character. From the many examples in Wide Sargasso Sea, one can argue that Antoinette is in fact the hero of the s...

Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables With a focus on Hepzibah

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

Complexities of The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

In five pages this essay presents a critical analysis of the complexities regarding The Crying of Lot 49 novel by Thomas Pynchon. ...

Anger of the Author Revealed in Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

In five pages this report discusses the author's anger and her spiritual strength and determination as they manifest themselves in...

American Farmer Letters and Characters

that this is a new country where breeding and birth rights are nit of primary concern in the formation of society, it is a land of...

Critical Analysis of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

a story that essentially revolves around the upcoming French Revolution, which is where we are presenting with the powerful change...

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende and Feminism

In five pages this paper, which also features a Spanish translation, discusses feminism within the context of this 1987 novel by I...

Romance in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper examines how romance is used by the author in this famous novel within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne...

Jazz by Toni Morrison and Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In five pages this essay considers how Steinbeck's novel supports New Deal political reform and then discusses other possible reas...

Central Themes of Time And Solitude in the works of Marquez

This paper addresses Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his ability to weave the themes of time and solitude into his novels in a mysterio...

Desire for Change in Theodore Dreiser's 'Sister Carrie'

This is a paper of 5 pages that interprets and analyzes Sister Carrie's desire for change throughout the course of the novel. The...

Shame in Between Tides by V.Y. Mudimbe and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

This research paper contrasts and compares how shame is used in these African novels in ten pages. Four sources are cited in the ...

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and Impressionism

In five pages this research paper argues that the narrative Crane employs in his novel was more reflective of the time period in w...