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The Novel Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

the determinedly conventional housewife role that her best friend, Naomi, so enthusiastically adopts and righteously defends. The...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Boys and Girls by Alice Munro and Doe Season by David Kaplan

In five pages the themes of these works are contrasted and compared regarding gender differences, sexuality, and coming of age. T...

Alice Munro's Hired Girl

In five pages Munro's book is summarized in a discussion of its setting, theme, plot, and characterization. There are no other so...

Cultural Identity and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

level best to blend as quickly as possible into the melting pot of American culture. When this happens, it is very difficult for t...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

birth of her child, she describes his outburst in legal terminology: "Then he launched out upon his usual themes, - my crimes agai...

Place in Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather

In five pages the representation of place with regards to the time period's social hierarchy is discussed and includes an explorat...

Language Uses in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Toni Morrison's Sula

rejection, cause the child to turn away from the conventions of society and to avoid even the trauma of her own emotional reaction...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Family Ties

In five pages this paper considers the impact of slavery upon family ties. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very pressure it places upon youth. Thr...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and the American Patriarchy

In five pages this paper discusses how gender slavery is the byproduct of the American patriarchy with references made to this 186...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

In a paper consisting of six pages this book is examined not only in terms of its reflection on Munro's career and style but how i...

A Cultural Perspective of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

In five pages this paper argues that language is used metaphorically by the author to represent cultural assimilation. There are ...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and History

This was the condition of slavery for women. They were often seen as breeding machines that were good for little more than produci...

Symbolic Interaction in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

true, but there will also be certain established parameters which must not be crossed. To do so marks the individual as deviant in...

Lai's Novel Salt Fish Girl

shelf. Even boxed and locked into storage should the need arise. But, of course not. Childhood isnt a book and it doesnt end. My c...

Lessons From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Awakening

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

Book Review of The Artificial Silk Girl

soul, for cash? Throughout the work, the theme of money is inherent. She gets a job as an office worker. She wants to be on stage ...

Boys and Girls by Munro and the Blood Motif

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Developmental Identity

the eyes of a child. Something too old lurked in their centers. . . . She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Comparison of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Octavia Butler's Kindred

perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Editor's Review of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so...

The Slave Girl by Buchi Emecheta and the Nigerian Woman's Role

Ojebeta with charms to keep away tempting spirits from the land of the dead, and she was cherished and marked with special tattooe...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...

Feminist Theatre as Reflected in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...

Author's Intentions and Objectives in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

as the defining characteristic of an unmarried woman. In other words, according to the cultural definition of femininity a "good" ...

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane and Irony

parents who were drunks and irresponsible, their children have grown up to live lives that are fraught with insecurities, hardship...