YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
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to come. It is, as noted, a relatively simple story. But, at the same time, without the deep psychological reading she is...
in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...
Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...
overall philosophical tone of the work. Whatever the reasons, the James Whale 1931 film is meant to frighten audiences, and it wor...
as much more fluid and changeable than most people can accept or are comfortable with. The passage under consideration begins wit...
in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...
like tornadoes and earthquakes but also include diseases that can kill. The Plague for example took out many lives during the Midd...
is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...
at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
to his inferior status. Tom laments, "That ar hurt me more than sellin, it did. Mebbe it might have been natural for him, but t ...
Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...
of all possible worlds" (Voltaire PG) illustrates how the author is using propaganda towards metaphysical optimism. Voltaire no m...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
would come -- a tall man...with yellow hair, and lead them" (OHagan 21-22). Red Rorty did well among the Shuswap as was accepted ...
journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...
are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...
experiences with her stepfather, has a warped and hurtful view of her own sexuality. The very definition of love is foreign to her...
the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...
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....
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...
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...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...
demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...
that specified that a concern for ones own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rationa...
possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...
atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...
shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...
most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...