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Sula by Toni Morrison and Childhood Homes

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...

Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Fictional Reflections of Contemporary China

this concept was combined with the idea that those with superior status would educate those who were lower in status through examp...

Feminist Reading of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurton and Spousal Abuse

who can take care of her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that ...

Monster Symbolism in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

"too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers" (Shelley NA). In this we see the slow develo...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Depiction of Women in Cercas' The Soldiers of Salamina

is perhaps ready to face. What the journalist finds out is that the escape of a right wing leader does not result in the leaders...

Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and the Theme of Love

with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of St...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...

Self Awareness and Environment in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."...

The Theme of Self-Reliance is found in Emma, Huck Finn and My Name is Asher Lev

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Religion

and ones heritage is not what it once was. This character is Samad. He is an intelligent and educated man but a man who has had to...

Analyzing the 1992 Film Version of John Steinbeck's Novel, Of Mice and Men

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

Money and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

that he wants to pay her for any liberties he has taken with her. We, the reader, clearly see this as something of a payment to a ...

The Role of Letters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice

his letter: "He must be an oddity, I think, said she. I cannot make him out.--There is something very pompous in his style.--And ...

Cinderella Contrasts and Conflicts in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

Introductions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flander

"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...

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...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Protest Literature

and takes him to New Orleans (Stowe). Tom and Eva become very close because of their devout Christianity (Stowe). In the parallel...

P.D. James Vision of the Future

either. Theo and Julian: Their relationship is very different in the film than it is in the book, so it depends on which one is u...

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 ...

Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse

Edward and the "good" vampires at odds with Victorias group. It should also be noted that Victoria is out for revenge because prev...

Chopin’s Awakening

lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation...The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace" (C...

The Things They Carried

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

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...

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...