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Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People

tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...

A Comparison of The Man Who Would Be King and The Heart of Darkness

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

is clearly separated from the white world or the modern world. In Cocoas remarks she is illustrating that the "whole story...

The Past is the Future by Joy Obasan

that they were of Japanese ancestry. Less well-known is the fact that Canada did exactly the same thing. Obasan is the tale of t...

Defoe's Roxana and Richardson's Pamela

too closely: Roxana, for example, is written in a way which strongly implies that it is a true story, based on autobiographical el...

Chaim Potok's The Chosen

we meet the main characters, Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, two boys with similar backgrounds who meet at a baseball game. Dan...

Chapter Overview of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

of Hucks and Huck and Tom are often compared and contrasted. While Huck is intelligent and introspective, Tom is adventurous and ...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

rules. Dr. Jekyll was the perfect example of such a man, a man who did the right things, acted in the correct manner, and never st...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

Foreshadowing in “A Tale of Two Cities”

or around the bend. In Two Cities, Dickens uses a great deal of foreshadowing, and it starts with the very first line. "It was th...

Analysis: “In the Name of the Rose”

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Review: “The Sun Also Rises”

and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

Gulliver’s Travels by Swift

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

John Grisham’s Bleachers

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

his boyhood days. He meets Lolita and instantly desires her, doing anything he can to be near her, even agreeing to marry Lolit...

Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse'

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca

over other sleeping drunks as he tottered to the bars of the cell (Baca 2001). He father tried to take his hand, but his mother "y...

Interview: Alice From Nigeria

with the crops. JR: Did you ever attend school? Alice: When I was about 8 years old there were these missionaries who came to our ...

Munro’s Meneseteung

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

Alice McIntyre/White Talk

rationalize their own behavior. It is talk that serves to "insulate white people from examining their/our individual and collectiv...

Text and Illustrations in “Alice in Wonderland”

illustrations in the first chapter: the rabbit with the watch, Alice finding the door, Alice looking after the rabbit as he scurri...

Alice Munro's Fiction

perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into ...

The Heroic Alice Paul

heavily upon Paul for leadership and guidance. In this way, Pauls calling was apparent (About, Inc., 2004). From a young woman s...

What Being a Writer Means in Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

demonstration of Alice Munros unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women" (Codys Books). This illustrates that Munro i...

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Themes of Guilt and Grief

In four pages this essay examines how guilt and grief regarding 14 year old Susie's death is thematically depicted by Alice Sebold...

Photography of Lewis Carroll

albumen paper. It was a complicated process which meant that a penchant for picture taking wasnt the only requirement for a photo...

Classical and Biblical References Found in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue'

were to me To be refresshed half so ofte as he- Which yifte of God hadde he, for alle hise wyvys? No man hath swich that in this w...