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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Food and Drink

psyche which he has not yet lost. The book did not reach as high a level of commercial success as further books such as Farewell t...

Kindred by Octavia Butler and the Influences of the Past and Present

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

Battling Racism in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

to Jim. There are other issues as well but this is the predominant one. So then, the question is whether or not Twain was actual...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Biblical Imagery in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

journey. Immediately, the reader is shocked by Ahabs assertion and assumption that he is like God, that he holds the ultimate po...

Michael Ondaatje's The Skin of the Lion and the Film Monsoon Wedding in Terms of Ethnicity and Gender Representation

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....

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

her quickly into a world which is dictated by the whims of the men who surround her, both her father and a potential lover....

Structural Style in Rainer Maria Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

the structural characteristics of "The Notebooks". The protagonist of "The Notebooks" is Malte Laurids Brigge. Brigge is of Dani...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and the Characters Evelyn and Ninny

clearly in the beginning of the novel, before she meets Ninny, in the following lines from Flaggs novel: "This morning, as they dr...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Guy Johnson's Standing at the Scratch Line

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...

Joy Kogawa's Obasan, Pain and Suffering

us, but only enlighten us. In Kogawas novel we note that Naomi is very deeply hurt by her mother, without really understanding ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Symbolism

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Theme of Lying

goes on to note that he never met anyone who didnt lie and that presents us with an incredibly strong, yet also powerfully subtle,...

Comparative Analyis of Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain's Hank Morgan in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

Solitude and Isolation Themes Expressed by Violence in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

the imaginary town of Macondo in Columbia. The characters experience a cyclical pattern of revolutions and exposure to outside con...

Anita Diament's The Red Tent

speak of history and these are powerful conditions spelled out in the fictional work of Diamant. Through her book we see parts of ...

Karen Van Der Zee's 'A Secret Sorrow'

else who contrives to tell the tale. This is part of the use of language by an author. The other influence on voice, it can be sai...

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and Location

(Anonymous E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970), 2002; forster.htm). She eventually believes that Azis sexually assaulted her bec...

Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

owe it to my contemporaries not to ruin my legend" (89). He doesnt even like the cheese anymore, but he continues to follow his r...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Conflicts

after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched with her tongue for any broken teeth...and that on th...

Morton Thompson's The Cry and the Covenant

began to question the administration of the hospital why it was that women who gave birth in the street were healthier than those ...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Realism

Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Toms Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in ...

The Red and the Black by Stendhal and the Characters Mathilde and Julien

him in a more manipulative and frequently hypocritical light....

Baggage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

Review of Flora Nwapa's Efuru

Adizua cannot be found for the funeral and it is then that Efuru finds out that Adizua has married another woman in another villag...

Comparision of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

modest eyes" (Hardy, 2002). As this suggests, Sue was highly conflicted over gender roles from the time she was first aware them. ...