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Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

Narrator in Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...

Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat

"J" tells his readers that he doesnt know why he should be made to suffer so, but he has been a martyr to the disease from earlies...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Significance of the Work Concept

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...

An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and the Revenge of Heathcliff

stables, no longer a real member of the family, Catherine still roamed the hills with him, being his companion, and he really her ...

Janie Crawford's Freedom Through Self Knowledge in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

to have such a crowd enjoying themselves in her house; its apparent that she enjoys it. We know because she says that shes sorry ...

Analyzing a Passage from Anna Karenina

and Anna is propelled in the middle of a controversy. The passage noted provides a great deal of information that is rather unusua...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Man of the Hill

he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Interpretation of a Specific Passage

Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the Character of Jake

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Comparative Analysis of Silence of the Lambs Book and Movie

and Banks 109). Theatrically trained and critically acclaimed screenwriter Ted Tally impressively translated Harriss text onto ce...

First Four Chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Nature versus Nurture Debate

child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...

Analysis of a Pop Culture Inventory

seem to be indicative of a fad. While perhaps hip hop is now viewed as a fad, or short term influence, one can see that that wide ...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

'Do-Gooder' Satire in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know ...

Freedom Losing Out to Democracy in 2014 America

has been solicited by the government in return for security. The US has seen a fear that associated with Islam, it has suited the ...

Self Assurance in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston

unimportant, appearing merely as part of the background and playing not real role in Janies life. In her introduction to the no...

Thomas Bell's 'Out of This Furnace'l

may be that he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peas...

Philip Marlowe and The Long Goodbye

toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Chief Bromden

no real understanding of the heroic realities of the novel. Chief, and all his complexities, are indispensable in Keseys novel. ...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

Review of Animal Farm by George Orwell

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

Psychoanalysis and Feminist Theory

concepts and insight to issues that previously were only of interest to analytic philosophers. Analytic feminists want clarity an...

Opening Section of Part III in Toni Morrison's Beloved Analyzed

need for all women, especially of color, to assert themselves and claim their individual identity. This narrative adds texture to...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Buzzards

intelligent. She is made to remain aloof from all people in this relationship. The buzzards at this point could well be related to...

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

Isabelle Allende's House of Spirits and the 1993 Film Version

fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...