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Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Grendel by Gardner

of empathy or sympathy for mankind. He is not a man; he is a monster. And yet, he is a confused monster. "Ah, the unfairness...

Progress Disenchantment During the 19th Century

a weekend. Technology contributes to the state of constant activity that so many are used to and many elderly people remember a ti...

Literature and Domestic Abuse

boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy(Roethke). This is...

Women in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and in Boccaccio's Decameron

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

Communism and Darkness at Noon by Koestler

emblematic of the party as it was once again, ironically a life that was dedicated to the cause that tormented him. In some way, t...

Pessimism and Optimism in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

generation." This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. One aspect of this story that seems t...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

Character of Old Major in Animal Farm by George Orwell

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

William Faulkner's Narrative Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

Assassination of John F. Kennedy Portrayed in Libra by Don DeLillo

of certain social, political and economic strangulation that decreed all followers must abide by the same doctrines. Post-moderni...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and the Character of Hank Morgan

he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned...

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

In eight pages the author, his novel, and its critical reception are examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

An Analysis of The Rise of Silas Lapham

economic and social world of the Laphams. It is also important to note that the Laphams are people from wealth that was earned thr...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and Religion

the book was fundamentally Catholic and religious, but then would also claim that "There is no allegory -- moral, political, or co...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks' Film Version

In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...

Working Life in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

held a dance as a means by which to temporarily relieve their minds of the perpetual anxiety that intrinsically accompanies povert...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Intertextuality

In five pages intertextuality is first defined and then applied to Bronte's novel, relating it to text by such authors as Lord Byr...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Working Class

In 5 pages this paper discusses the contrasts between the affluent and the working class drawn by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel...

Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Mr. Earnshaw ever brings the boy home in the first place - who is "big enough both to walk and talk ... yet, when it was set on it...

Farewell To Matyora by Valentin Rasputin

This 5 page paper explores Valentin Rasputin's book Farewell to Matyora. The writer argues that Rasputin's novel explores levels o...

War's Depiction in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In five pages World War II as it is portrayed in Heller's novel is examined particularly in terms of they ways in which themes of ...

The Five Minute Marriage by Joan Aiken

In five pages this paper examines how 19th century English greed is portrayed in Joan Aiken's novel, The Five Minute Marriage. Th...

'Host of the Beast' and 'Host of the Lamb' in Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

viewed as a war hero and who, due to his simplistic patriotism, because the rallying point and father figure to the nationalist mo...

The Call of the Wild Still Calls

as he is "jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial" when a known and trusted human sell...

Love During the Age of Cholera

In a 6 page paper, the love qualities of the main characters in Gabriel Marquez's novel are compared with those in Robert J. Stern...

The Apostle, Wise Blood, and Cinematic Faith

In ten pages this paper examines the types of faith represented in these films along with a comparison with Flannery O'Connor's no...

Family Structure Theories and Clyde Edgerton's Raney

down the toilet, causing expensive plumbing problems. As...

Heroic Myth in Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

In 7 pages this paper applies Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell to the novel Prisoner of Azkaban in an analysis of how...