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The Male Gender in Achebe and Eliot

close examination of life in an English village in the 19th century; Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebes look at life in an Africa...

Huck Finn and Sound and Fury, A Comparison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

The Cider House Rules/John Irving

are complex works, as this narrative relates strongly held beliefs on the controversial issue of abortion. While the student resea...

Franny and Zooey

a pursuit is meaningless, just like she thinks everything is meaningless. Obviously she is in a deep depression and cannot seem to...

Great Expectations

It seems that no matter what biography you read about Dickens the primary point, in relationship to his childhood, was that he was...

The House of Seven Gables

seems to fall on incredible bad luck. It is noted, in relationship to the house and the street outside the house, that,...

Orwellian Overtones in V for Vendetta

People, in theory at least, travel about at their leisure and enjoy what seems to be certain freedoms. On closer inspection, howe...

Overview of Carrie by Stephen King

In three pages this paper examines Stephen King's horror novel with an analysis of how the supernatural is presented along with at...

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

In five pages this novel and the issues it features are examined with prejudice and race among the topics discussed. There are no...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

In three pages these novels are contrasted and compared in terms of how the plot movement is generated by the characters. There a...

Abandonment in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses the theme of abandonment in Shelley's classic novel and her life. This five page paper has nine sources lis...

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

In four pages this novel is analyzed through the use of literary elements of protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, conflict, and...

Journey in The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

In eight pages the journey motif in terms of self discovery quest is examined within the context of this novel by Eudora Welty tha...

An Analysis of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 15 page paper analyzes Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, about the meat packing industry in Chicago in the early 1900s. The ...

Book Review of Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth

In three pages this paper analyzes the bittersweet novel that describes a summer fling between a wealthy and pampered sexually act...

"Madame Bovary" and the Act of Reading

the morality of anyone who read the work, particularly women (Leonard 2010, p. 10). Such a fear stemmed from the then-popular conc...

Tom Jones by Fielding

out of necessity for many and Allworthy and Bridget seem content to go without marriage, although Bridget was once married. They r...

Struggling Upward by Horatio Alger'

In five pages the ways in which ethical conduct follows examples established by role models and family as depicted in Alger's nove...

Social Implications of The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You by Dorothy Bryant

In five pages Bryant's utopian society as it manifests itself in her novel in terms of the sociological implications of physical a...

Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler'

This novel is compared with Tyler's Ladder of Tears and also specifically analyzed in terms of theme, plot, and characters in this...

Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Moseley

complicity exists in a form based both in professionalism and in the role of individuals as an extension of this community. It ...

Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and the Detective Fiction Genre

In six pages this paper examines the detective genre as represented in this critical assessment of Walter Mosley's novel. There a...

Men in the Life and Work of Edith Wharton II

In four pages this paper discusses how the men in Edith Wharton's novels Summer and Ethan Frome reflect the actual men in her life...

Winter in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the...

Entrapment in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

In ten pages three main characters are examined in terms of how they reflect Wharton's theme of entrapment in the novel. Five sou...

Atwood/The Handmaid's Tale

purely in terms of their ability to create a child. Offred has been robbed of her identity and objectified because it is her socie...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

The Jungle

Introduction Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle was a novel he wrote in the hopes of making people aware of the evil nature of capi...