YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Popular American Novels
Essays 2791 - 2820
speak of history and these are powerful conditions spelled out in the fictional work of Diamant. Through her book we see parts of ...
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...
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...
began to question the administration of the hospital why it was that women who gave birth in the street were healthier than those ...
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...
Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...
presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...
Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...
die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...
death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...
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...
that group of people "who, merely by existing, tended to violate laws that solid citizens never even thought about, like how long...
chocolates. However, whether he realizes it or not, he is still a hero for trying to the utmost of his ability to correct a situat...
with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...
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...
the end. What the story explains is that when a man leaves his community and the community changes while the man does not, the two...
allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...
story we can see this as Huck states that "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the wi...
the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...
Pilot and the Passenger (1956), vernacular language carries democratic social value" (Review). As difficult as it has been for A...
narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...
"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...
the father. Fieldings opposition to arranged marriages is largely dramatized through Sophias behavior in categorically refusing ...
they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...
forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...
the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...
and jockey, till his fine reputation for strength and good character finds him at age seventeen working as a footman to Lady Booby...
said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...