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Willa Cather: “My Antonia”

in the grass and Antonia begins to ask Jim to tell her the English names of things; she is quick and alert and seems very much a p...

Today's Military Actions and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

The fact that indeed the boy will get used to being in mortal danger on a daily basis is troubling, but is that how life in war re...

Hawthorne's Symbolic Use of Mirrors in, 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...

'Leaf By Niggle,' Tree and Leaf by J.R.R. Tolkien, and Language Meaning

In five pages this paper examines the meaning of the language used in this story and novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Four sources are ci...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

Movie Blade Runner

Cyberpunk literature focuses on these people, and often on how they turn the systems technological tools to their own ends. This i...

Confession or Accusation in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper argues that the novel is representative of both accusation and confession regarding its First World War p...

Watership Down by Richard Adams and Home

In eight pages this paper considers how home is transferred from a physical to philosophical sense in this postmodern novel. Ther...

Inner Evil and The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In five pages this paper discusses Mr. Hyde's inner evil and how while Dr. Jekyll may not have had control over he chose when it m...

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creation of Terror

In six pages Tolkien's science fiction fantasy is examined in terms of how the author generated terror throughout the novel. Seve...

Tragic Figure of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In 5 pages the concept of tragic hero as defined by Aristotle is examined within th context of the novel by Gustave Flaubert and c...

Cars and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In 5 pages this paper examines what the car symbolized in this classic novel by John Steinbeck. There are 5 sources cited in the ...

An Analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper analyzes various elements of Shelly's classic novel. This seven page paper has no additional sources listed in the bib...

Poetry of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

process that connects her physically and symbolically with the past. She states that while machines are helpful, its "comforting" ...

The Lingering Effects of War in 'Snow Falling on Cedars'

This is a 5 page essay that considers the lingering effects of World War II and its impact on the novel particularly in the charac...

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and Tensions of Gender and Race

In 5 pages this paper examines how Forster portrays 1920s colonization of India through the race and gender tensions of his novel....

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick

life and feels herself to have been socially conscious. She has with her a daughter, Magda, who has been nurtured and protected b...

The Victim by Saul Bellow

In a paper consisting of five pages Bellow's novel is examined in terms of its employment of moral values. There are no other sou...

River Lessons in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

In five pages this report considers the life lessons taught by the river in terms of discovering unity and increased awareness ove...

Film Adaptation of Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

In five pages the novel and film are contrasted and compared. There ar no other sources listed....

A Review of Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck

A 5 page essay detailing the interaction between husband and wife that preoccupies this novel. The wifes struggle to carve out he...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Working Class

In 5 pages this paper discusses the contrasts between the affluent and the working class drawn by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel...

Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Mr. Earnshaw ever brings the boy home in the first place - who is "big enough both to walk and talk ... yet, when it was set on it...

The Five Minute Marriage by Joan Aiken

In five pages this paper examines how 19th century English greed is portrayed in Joan Aiken's novel, The Five Minute Marriage. Th...

'Host of the Beast' and 'Host of the Lamb' in Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

viewed as a war hero and who, due to his simplistic patriotism, because the rallying point and father figure to the nationalist mo...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks' Film Version

In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...

Working Life in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

held a dance as a means by which to temporarily relieve their minds of the perpetual anxiety that intrinsically accompanies povert...

Farewell To Matyora by Valentin Rasputin

This 5 page paper explores Valentin Rasputin's book Farewell to Matyora. The writer argues that Rasputin's novel explores levels o...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Intertextuality

In five pages intertextuality is first defined and then applied to Bronte's novel, relating it to text by such authors as Lord Byr...

The Call of the Wild Still Calls

as he is "jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial" when a known and trusted human sell...