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Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Main Theme in Flight by Sherman Alexie

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

The Dystopian World of P.D. James

cousin, who has taken the title of the "Warden of England" (James). The title is apt, because England (and one must presume other ...

Anzia Yezierska and Her Novel Bread Givers

no problem taking their wages to support himself, even as the rest of the family scrimps and saves and slips further into poverty....

The Exception

group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...

Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Racism and Criminality in Native Son

many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...

The Great Gatsby, the Novel and the Film

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

implications about the similarities and differences between religious faiths. The heated debate between the wise men illustrates t...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Coming of Age and Maturity in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

An Analysis of The Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

young woman chafe, to say the least, and would cause a great deal of social alienation should she ever seek to breach the social c...

Comparative Analysis of Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

Cross. In both novels Patterson used similar techniques of details, settings and emphasis to adequately involve the readers in the...

Code Hero in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises

story revolves around an American news correspondent, Jake Barnes, who lives and works in Europe, as well as his assorted friends"...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the Pride and Prejudice Themes

ClassicNote on Pride and Prejudice a.php?a=n001001182). In this we are given a subtle, yet very powerful, foundation for the unfol...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

Destiny and Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago

that stands out in the novel as the most meaningful, however, is the poet, philosopher, physician, and political prisoner Yurii Zh...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

Life's Message in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I couldnt ever feel any hardness against them any more in the world. It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cru...

Mark's Gospel

was neither a hearer nor a companion of the Lord; but afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who adapted his teachings as ne...

The Beggar's Opera and the Criminal World of Moll Flanders Compared

them. There was no such thing as government agencies in those days that would provide help for these children. In this novel, Mo...

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony Tayo's Process of Healing

and a generation of the Pueblo men have been damaged by their participation in the war (Austgen). While Tayo and his two friends, ...

Global Violence Explored

set in other nations they affect us, the United States, as well. Admiral Jack Shanahan has stated that "American Security is depe...

Red Storm Rising, The Hunt for Red October, and the Cold War

authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest Featured in Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

Aspects of Storytelling in Erdrich's Novel, Tracks

he blackens his face, seeks counsel in dreams, and draws on a broad repertoire of power songs to "sing a burnt child back to healt...

The Dream of the Red Chamber and Gender

men have very similar qualities to one another and the women also share similar features but may be split between two prototypes a...

Universal Confusion and Evil in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

be credited to each authors belief in the universality of evil and disorder, an evil and disorder which often as not can be relate...