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Essays 1861 - 1890

River's Significance in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...

In Custody by Anita Desai

nature of Indian nationalism that was formulated during the colonial period (Rege, 1996). To understand the relationship between...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Jazz Age Lifestyle in Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...

Comparison of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Emma by Jane Austen

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

Pranks of Tom Sawyer at the End of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hucks scheme as being "too blame simple" (323). Instead, he proposes the lengthy chore of digging Jim out, which will take about ...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

Sibling Relationship of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man

Charlie Babbitt The character of Charlie Babbitt is established early in Fleischers novel and Bass and Morrows screenplay of the ...

Heinrich Mann's Man of Straw

ever spent money on another human being" (Mann 15). Next, the student will want to comment on the economical ways in which Mann p...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and a Literary Criticism of a Particular Passage

to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed ...

Linguistics Analysis of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Pavlovna is having a party where Prince Vasily, Prince Andrei, Pierre and others are gathered to enjoy the evenings festivities. H...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and the Theme of Domesticity

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

To Kill a Mockingbird Content Analysis

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Morality Past and Present

her husband who did not reside with her. As such she could not deny that she had an affair with someone. However, she would never ...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

'Eugenie Grandet' by Honore de Balzac

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

Steinbeck's Use of Foreshadowing in, Of Mice and Men

of the most blatant uses of foreshadowing is when Candy has to shoot his dog because it bit the Boss. Candy says that a man should...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Postcolonial Perspective

mans. He is unable to adjust to this changing social, political and legal climate, effectively rendering him weak to the oppressi...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Snow Crash by Neal Stephensonn and Technology's Effects

counterparts "brain-drained" (2). Because America was responsible for the technological fusion, it paid the greatest price with p...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Fugitive Slave Act

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

Commen Themes in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...

'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and the Issues of Self Hatred and Beauty

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Appeal

for the institution so melodramatically described"(Anonymous 1094). The storys popularity was such that, when introduced to Stowe...

Money, Society, and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Lilio's Play London Merchant

in the play, the audience is shown how "honest merchants...contribute to the safe of their country as they do at all times to its ...