YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
Essays 3721 - 3750
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...
age: "To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and th...
time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...
these farmers in the characterization of a single family, the Joads. From what was left of their Oklahoma homestead to their jour...
and identities within himself. But, he fails miserably at truly becoming more than he is and this is a problem. As noted, his prob...
are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. ...
carried in the pockets of her apron...They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, pos...
The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...
how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...
lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...
the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...
blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...
abrogated his personal responsibility on two levels. First, he has given up his responsibility to educate, nurture and care for th...
arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...
man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...
or "Do you have home room all year?" Kaufman throws the reader in at the deep end by not using quotation marks, or telling us whos...
the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...
in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...
than a drug culture. The Cold War was continuing, with western fears of the "red menace" exacerbated by events such as the Soviets...
multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...
standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...
"varied and prolonged dependence on others" that follows the birth of a normal human (Yousef 197). The creature himself associates...
Aldous Huxley has no right to betray the future as he did in that book" (Watt 16). Critic Wyndman Lewis agreed with Wells, and ref...
play in the street amuse themselves with a dangerous pastime: jumping onto the freight as it rumbles down the street (Puzo, 1998)....
about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramat...
on the other hand, believes strongly in not using pesticides or otherwise strongly interfering with nature, although she also does...
Social stability, in Huxleys nightmare vision, depends on making "[S]tandard men and women; in uniform batches" (Huxley). It turns...
Amber begins to grow up and learn and see the world in a very kind way, thinking more about others than herself in the end. She is...
is probably much closer to Wildes intent that these expressions of love and beauty be considered in a much more abstract way: Gray...