YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
Essays 4021 - 4050
these farmers in the characterization of a single family, the Joads. From what was left of their Oklahoma homestead to their jour...
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"...
man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...
and her parents. She says that her mother "never attempted to Canadianize her thinking," as she dried fish on the front lawn and v...
because of the gruesome nature of the experiments, he has to be very circumspect about where he lives-another broad hint that he s...
cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...
that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...
of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...
Bone and Henry Yewbeam, who arrives mysteriously at Bloors via the Time Twister, are related to the legendary Red King. In fact, r...
grabs the handles of the box can see Mercer, who is shown to be an old man trying to climb a hill while other figures throw rocks ...
accompanied the commencement of an enterprise who you have regarded with such evil forebodings" (Shelley, 1999, p. 25). He is in P...
bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...
also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
humanity and all things simply improve, although there is still the belief that time and history will end with the coming of Chris...
a great array of dysfunctional lost souls in a European society. Without their culture, their history, their mystical beliefs, the...
"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...
own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...
He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...
central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...
(Wolfe 10). But all McCoy wants to do is get out of the place for a few minutes; in fact, he wants to go and see his mistress, and...
16th century Italian artist and sculptor who was famed, among other things, for his goldsmithing. His exquisite work is world-famo...
and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...
promised he would make but did not. The Cardinal also argues that if Christ should have given in when Satan tempted him, and thr...
whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...
and quite different from the well known dystopian view of Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, which was written more than a decade ...
his store, shed find him behind the counter, "bulky and waistcoated, his voice with its Scots burr prompting me when I forgot, and...
the tender age of 10 to help support the family by pasting labels on bottles of shoe polish at the Warren Blacking Company.5 The r...
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...