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Gonzaga, spending the rest of his life in Mantua, where he directed virtually all artistic activity. Giulios most important work ...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

section, the reader comes to know Rimanelli as "a lover of words" (Tamburri 473) and also as a "free collector of paper joy and pa...

teachings of his devout mother. Through this relationship, he establishes his own identity as an African American, and comes to r...

on whether or not to invade Italy; its quite another to read about the meeting between FDR and Churchill, the dickering that took ...

was at the center of Western Civilization since very early in the countrys history. The Renaissance was a particularly important f...

Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

childhood, as well as everything he hopes to achieve is best illustrated in an incident that occurs between Sammy and Al Manheim o...

has the reputation of being "the paragon of Renaissance thinkers, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and having brought...

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

prominently into Elizas later life. The first part is also when Eliza falls in love with Joaquin Andieta, who dreams of ending th...

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...