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a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...
clearly in the beginning of the novel, before she meets Ninny, in the following lines from Flaggs novel: "This morning, as they dr...
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...
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....
us, but only enlighten us. In Kogawas novel we note that Naomi is very deeply hurt by her mother, without really understanding ...
(Anonymous E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970), 2002; forster.htm). She eventually believes that Azis sexually assaulted her bec...
ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...
presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...
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 (...
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...
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...
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...
from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...
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...
living sisters, felt trapped between the obligations imposed on her by the world of her parents and the conflicting concepts prese...
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 ...
All the women are intrigued with Darcy and the potential marriage material he represents, however he is nonplused by what he consi...
At the time that Harding insisted volunteering to be in the performance, Secret Service agent Jack Griffin did not like the idea ...
powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...
on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...
the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...
critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...