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H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

humanity and all things simply improve, although there is still the belief that time and history will end with the coming of Chris...

Shamanism

a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...

The Tortilla Curtain

caring about people (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008). But, in reality he is just as narrow-minded and presumptuous as those power...

Response Essays to Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Atonement

person, from the view of the victim as some authors might, the story would not have been told in a non-linear manner nor would it ...

A Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Analysis)

even when told in an interesting manner, it might take quite a while to reveal the entire plot. Even with foreshadowing, telling a...

The Trial of Tom Robinson: America in the 1930s

in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...

Crane/Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Naturalism

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

Critical Response to Brave New World

Aldous Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book" (Watt 16). Critic Wyndman Lewis agreed with Wells, and ref...

Ubik: the social and political culture of the 1960s

than a drug culture. The Cold War was continuing, with western fears of the "red menace" exacerbated by events such as the Soviets...

Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

Tree Symbolism in “A Separate Peace”

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

A Feminist Perspective on “Frankenstein”

"varied and prolonged dependence on others" that follows the birth of a normal human (Yousef 197). The creature himself associates...

Significance of Jesus Christ’s Death and Resurrection as Decay and Renewal in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

“The Grand Inquisitor”

promised he would make but did not. The Cardinal also argues that if Christ should have given in when Satan tempted him, and thr...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Foreman: “Toehold”

16th century Italian artist and sculptor who was famed, among other things, for his goldsmithing. His exquisite work is world-famo...

Oliver Twist and Historical Context

the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...

A Comparison Between Herland and Brave New World

and quite different from the well known dystopian view of Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, which was written more than a decade ...

“The Stone Angel”

his store, shed find him behind the counter, "bulky and waistcoated, his voice with its Scots burr prompting me when I forgot, and...

Book Report: “Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”

Bone and Henry Yewbeam, who arrives mysteriously at Bloors via the Time Twister, are related to the legendary Red King. In fact, r...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

How the Reader is Positioned in “Cloudstreet”

that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...

The Morality of Frankenstein

because of the gruesome nature of the experiments, he has to be very circumspect about where he lives-another broad hint that he s...

Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café/Chinese-Canadians

and her parents. She says that her mother "never attempted to Canadianize her thinking," as she dried fish on the front lawn and v...

An Analysis of “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

age: "To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and th...

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...

Monkey's Spiritual Journey

Monkey is on a journey not just for the sake of travel, but also to actually accomplish something great. In some way, the journey ...

Dreaming in Cuban/Cristina Garcia

notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted c...

Feminist Reaction to Frankenstein by Shelley

as one, writing about a man. She was raised by her father and surrounded by many intellectual and literary men and it just makes s...