YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
Essays 1291 - 1320
This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...
This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...
1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...
of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...
characterizations and an interesting and imaginative plot, and not simply the fantastical setting. These features are exemplifie...
ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...
spirits" (Brown, 2001, p. 49). The things we learn about Haitian culture can be disturbing (for instance, children go to work e...
"J" tells his readers that he doesnt know why he should be made to suffer so, but he has been a martyr to the disease from earlies...
and Anna is propelled in the middle of a controversy. The passage noted provides a great deal of information that is rather unusua...
to have such a crowd enjoying themselves in her house; its apparent that she enjoys it. We know because she says that shes sorry ...
Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...
She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...
he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...
no real understanding of the heroic realities of the novel. Chief, and all his complexities, are indispensable in Keseys novel. ...
toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says...
Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know ...
sadness perhaps about the image, for it is presented in the season of autumn which is, for some, a time of dying as nature sheds i...
child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...
her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...
objective to amass a fortune while at the same time rule with an iron fist, author Adam Hochschild (1999) illustrates how one of t...
strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...
the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...
is too tired and busy to have sexual relations with her husband can take a pill. In the first example, some people...