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is just one example, but he is still an example of a writer who characterized a generation. Swifts humor and sarcasm demonstrates ...
part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...
father, raised in Hong Kong and working as a journalist in London, Mr. Mo knows the conflicts from experience" (Anonymous Confucia...
Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...
standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...
The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...
he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...
character is testified to by the fact that so many movies have been made which were inspired by it. Within each, regardless of ho...
quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...
we learn that she began to take an interest in Catholicism, but this opportunity to adopt a genuine faith soon gave way to a passi...
the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...
Alice "Start at the beginning and when you come to the end, stop." However, Griffin ignores this tradition and takes the reader b...
born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...
conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...
"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...
British traditional literature tended more toward social realism and classical literary language (Bradbury et al). This awareness ...
from secondary characters to protagonists who were considered universal or genderless to those who were females yet were strong an...
of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...
entire romance between Catherine and Henry is based on finances as far as the powers that be are concerned. "Catherine is invited ...
dialogue that provides the reader with a strong sense of awareness regarding the speech and attitudes of those he was portraying. ...
is there that she first experiences the Lintons. At first, it seems as if nature will be the victor in the constant sparring and ...
journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...
ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...
the stage for the entire story. Leroi is sent off to the military rather than prison, and we note a sense of understanding that cl...
7). In the third section of the novel, Patrick, the boy from the first section is now twenty-one years old and arrives in Toronto....
Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...
her quickly into a world which is dictated by the whims of the men who surround her, both her father and a potential lover....
us, but only enlighten us. In Kogawas novel we note that Naomi is very deeply hurt by her mother, without really understanding ...
the structural characteristics of "The Notebooks". The protagonist of "The Notebooks" is Malte Laurids Brigge. Brigge is of Dani...
a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...