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Hesse's "Siddhartha": Enlightenment through Pain

such as Buddhism, then it might well be said to be that attachment to the transient things of the world breeds discontent and suff...

Forgiveness and the Dew Breaker

through several short stories, including those of his victims and their families. In the novel we meet the Dew Breaker later in ...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Stockett/The Help, Character of Aibileen

Help, the character of Aibileen, who is loving, caring, insightful and maternal, is, by far, the most admirable person envisioned ...

Privacy and Adolescence

characters are rather boisterous and entangled in relationships. At the same time, they are private in their own way. They need th...

Sure Thing, a Play by David Ives

rapport between two people (Gaines F4). However, within the course of the play, Ives also makes a scathing reference to the blaze,...

Susanna Rowson Writes the Truth

more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...

Atwood/The Handmaid's Tale

purely in terms of their ability to create a child. Offred has been robbed of her identity and objectified because it is her socie...

The Day the Cowboys Quit

but is part of the town because of the members of the community, cowboys have long done most of the work. Those men who come in wi...

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton

This book review pertain to That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton, a young adult novel that pertains to two adoptive brothers,...

To Kill A Mockingbird, a 1960s Perspective

adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...

Wharton's "Ethan Frome" and the Concept of "Duty"

he was forced to abandon his studies in physics and engineering in order to carry out the duty of returning to his home in Starkfi...

Danticat and the Character of Haiti

"The Dew Breaker". This paragraph helps the student begin to explore the themes that dominate Danticats first novel, "Breath, Ey...

Comparing the Book and Film, Shaara's The Killer Angels

to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...

Narratives of Racism, Lee and Gaines

Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, like Harper Lees classic To Kill A Mockingbird, concerns the fate of an African American man...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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

Roberts' The Invisible Heart

is the title of Russell D. Roberts (2002) book and is subtitled an economic romance, and so it actually is a rather humorous title...

Steinbeck’s Concepts of Mercy and Justice

his goods will be forfeit as well. Having already said in court that he wants only his "bond," Portia has him on the ropes when he...

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...

Teen Alienation in Catcher in the Rye

delivered, uncompleted phone calls, overtures not taken up, appeals repulsed. William Faulkner, who praised the novel, said that w...

Self-Centeredness in Dorothea and Reverend Casaubon

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

Two Views of Siddhartha

that speaks intensely to many of its readers; they may remember it for years or for the rest of their lives. This paper uses addit...