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From Disillusionment to Values in Great Expectations Character of Pip

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

An Analysis of Giovanni's A Memoir Of War

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

Comparative Analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Tay John by Howard O'Hagan

would come -- a tall man...with yellow hair, and lead them" (OHagan 21-22). Red Rorty did well among the Shuswap as was accepted ...

Commitment in Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring

about them that is unknown to pagan literature (Byfield 2). This is true not only for the book authored by Tolkien but also for th...

Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City Presentation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

together, ties up all loose plot ends, and eventually takes the story full circle. The participating narrator/protagonist appeale...

'Montana 1948' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

that Scout understands is that she saw, and responded to, familiar faces in the crowd. We, however, are aware that it is this iden...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

Multiple Genre Uses in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

critics stated that her shift from sentimentality to gothic elements was the sign of an immature writer (and a woman), it has to b...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Theme of Innocence/Catcher in the Rye

answers both in the affirmative and negative to this question, primarily due to Holden reactions towards Jane (Takeuchi "Salinger...

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...

"Kavalier & Clay"

dizzying masterstroke, that picture is also the cover of the book itself. The iconic figures in the book within a book include th...

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

other side. He had claimed "Id fight them if they were a million" (Foote 25). For the most part this section deals with Metcalfes ...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Catch 22: Yossarian

immoral and crazy, but it is the character of Yossarian who constantly goes out of his way to avoid his duties, trying to get out ...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

Melville’s Typee

foreshadows many of the themes that would appear in subsequent works such as Moby Dick" (Proyect). It is a novel that clearly make...

Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Research Statement and Annotated Bibliography

up with some sort of thesis. Perhaps the thesis could be that Twain was only writing about his society, writing an entertaining st...

Freedom and The Handmaid's Tale

in the United States. The people recognize the failure of capitalism and see socialism as a solution. Within Marxs paradigm, there...

The Evolution of the Comic Book

public in the 1890s. (History, 2007). In the United States, early comic strips "were published exclusively as weekly features in ...

Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...