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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."...

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...

A Novel Method of Eliminating Organized Crime from the Illicit Drug Trade

This essay lays out a novel and unique plan for eliminating organized crime and subsequently much of the violence from the illegal...

Multicultural Literature Education and Gender

This carefully researched paper looks at this topic using various perspectives. Should gender be a part and parcel of a course on ...

Paper Life of Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages the ways in which Hemingway's real life mirrored his characters and fiction are examined within the context of vari...

Settings in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In three pages the ways in which Fitzgerald employs settings and how they influence characterizations and affect the overall novel...

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

Her oldest daughter, Lourdes, has no patience with her mothers attitudes or her commitment and is determined to make...

Pip Characterization in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Pip and his racial significance especially given the practice of slaver...

Moral Conscience and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

This essay consists of three pages and discusses Huck's moral conscience which shapes the choices he makes throughout the course o...

Winter in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

they first met, I could just imagine the cold and brutality of the winters in Starkfield. Within the story though, Ethan finds the...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers and Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress

In three pages these novels are contrasted and compared in terms of how the plot movement is generated by the characters. There a...

Overview of Carrie by Stephen King

In three pages this paper examines Stephen King's horror novel with an analysis of how the supernatural is presented along with at...

Book Review of Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth

In three pages this paper analyzes the bittersweet novel that describes a summer fling between a wealthy and pampered sexually act...

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger II

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel within the thematic context of 'the human heart in conflict with itself.' Three sourc...

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...

Plot, Florida, and Literary Quality of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In seven pages this paper examines how 1930s' Florida life is presented, literary aspects, and plot significance of Zora Neale Hur...

Review of Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie

In five pages this research paper reviews the 1996 novel by Sherman Alexie. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

In three pages Trumbo's novel protesting war is discussed with a consideration of the importance of the social perceptions he incl...

Literature and the Creature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...

Comparing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein To Other Frankenstein Stories

up killing him for revenge and blaming the crime on another. Therefore, while we can clearly see this demon doing wrong, murderin...

Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and the Characterization of Madame Defarge

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

Victorian Women's Fallen Status in the Works of Charles Dickens

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

Imperialism Critique of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

suspend his judgment. Ironically, what Kurtz has discovered horrifies Marlow and it seems to haunt him. He went in search of him...

Identity Search of Huckleberry Finn

scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...