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Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

“Huck Finn” and Creating Characters Who are Romantic and Real

most memorable stories and characters in American literature, and they remain popular to this day. This paper considers perhaps hi...

American Values Found Within The Scarlet Letter

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Material Wealth

own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...

The Importance of Baseball to the “Miko Kings”

during the summer of 2006, hidden in the walls of Lenas grandmothers house" (Meland, 2007). The spirit of Ezol begins to come to L...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Comparative Analysis of Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Title Character of Henry James' Daisy Miller

ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress and Racism

This research paper/essay examines a detective novel by Walter Mosley and whether or not an African American writer can examine co...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the author's perspectives on slavery as reflected in this great American novel. Five sources a...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and an Analysis of East versus West

illustrated in the frequent comparisons between the Long Island sections of East Egg and West Egg. As narrator Nick Carraway, a W...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Modernism

In 5 pages modernism of the 20th century is defined and then applied to this American novel by Ernest Hemingway. There are 3 sour...

An Analysis of Fitzgerald's Novel, The Great Gatsby

This paper analyzes F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, The Great Gatsby. The author argues that the work qualifies as an excell...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Religion

In 5 pages this paper examines the Christianity assumptions with regard to the structure of the American family as depicted in thi...

Catherine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie'

In five pages this paper considers the contents of this novel in terms of the topical issues it covers and the ways in which Nativ...

Values in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this research paper examines the changing of American values as represented in Fitzgerald's novel with Tom Buchanan ...

The American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

on The Great Gatsby, "As Puritan values gave way to an unrestrained craving for money, power, and other forms of gratification, th...

Corruption of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this report examines how Gatsby depicts a corrupted variation of the American Dream in Fitzgerald's classic 1925 nov...

American Dream and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In seven pages this paper examines the excesses of the American Dream and its criticisms signified by the characterization of Jay ...

Loss of the American Dream in Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In nine pages the loss of the American dream as Fitzgerald portrays it in the moral decline and incest themes in his novel is disc...

The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitgerald

based on alcohol. And yet, the story is both hilarious and heartbreaking. After all that modern readers have heard about Fitzgeral...

American Family and a Character Study of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper examines the Joad family matriarch featured in this classic American novel in a consideration of her role...

War Attitudes Expressed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...

Moral Issues as Presented in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In eight pages this paper examines 19th century moral values as they are represented by Huck's ethical evolution throughout this c...

Native American Ritual and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko II

In five pages this paper considers the customs and rituals of Native American culture and their influence on child development as ...

Myth and Its Importance in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In four pages this paper examines the importance of Native American heritage and the protagonist's desire to reconnect in the nove...

Honesty in Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

In ten pages this paper discusses how American clergymen reacted to Elmer Gantry, a novel by Sinclair Lewis. Ten sources are cite...

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

In five pages questions on imagination, metaphysics, and naturalism, and on the marriage of Swede Levov are answered within the co...