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Changing Viewpoints in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming

In six pages this paper discusses how each novels make powerful use of shifting perspectives. There are no other sources listed....

Protagonist Parallels Between Go Tell It on the Mountain and Catcher in the Rye

are not all that uncommon for an adolescent. In fact, many teens feel they are alone and while Holden experiences a deep sense of ...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Themes of Responsibility and Self Worth

In 12 pages this paper discusses how character relationships are used by Steinbeck to develop themes of self worth and responsibil...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Themes of Bondage and Freedom

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

Openings and Closings of Nights Below Station Street by David Adams Richards, The Commitments by Roddy Doyle, The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler, and The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood

In 8 pages this paper examines the importance of beginning and ending passages of each of these modern novels. There are no other...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok and Religious Pluralism

In five pages this paper discusses religious pluralism within the context of Potok's novel and the religious patterns featured in ...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Arthur Hailey and his "Hotel"

know what hes doing in the room, Milne thinks fast, pretends to be drunk, and insists that its his room: "This s 614?" he slurs; t...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

In relationship to Kathy, it would be important to discuss her alcoholism and perhaps her past with her ex-husband whose delinquen...

Jewish Culture & Asher Lev

of four, Ashers mother encouraged him to make "pretty pictures," but Ashers father, even a this young age, saw the conflict betwee...

Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Characterization in "The Mill on the Floss"

(George Eliot: Biography). But Lewes remained with her until his death, and the union was apparently a happy one. Looking at thi...

Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...

Silver Skates by Mary M. Dodge

point, found a purse with money. He is faced with choosing what to do about the money. The student should pay close...

Animals and Animal Imagery in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...

And the Shadows Took Him by Daniel Chacon

simply going along with life in many respects until one day his friend, Ricky, tells him about a play he is going to try out for. ...

All Quiet on the Western Front & Iraq

by the reality of war. Their psyches have been reduced to the common denominator that is dictated by whatever has to be done in or...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

The Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

Glen Huser

winning competitions and his short stories were being published in Canadian literary magazines. Husers first novel, Grace Lake, ...

Glen Huser

A 3 page research paper that reports on the life and career of Canadian children's literature author Glen Huser. The writer offers...

Themes: Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury

or information that does not come from the system and as such they are clearly oppressed and forbidden to be human beings. From ...

Themes: To Kill a Mockingbird

one gets the understanding that bravery and courage had nothing to do with being strong in a violent sense. It had nothing to do w...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Gender Relations in "Middlemarch" and "Erewhon"

People who contract serious illnesses are "punished very heavily," but those who develop some degree of blindness or deafness afte...

Shammas: "Arabesques"

We make allowances for human failing-perhaps Jane remembers it as a sunny day when it was raining-but we dont expect them to lie a...

California and the 1992 Film Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...