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Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney,

This essay discusses characteristic features of Bright Lights, Big City, a novel by Jay McInerney. Three pages in length, no othe...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...

Faulkner: “The Reivers”

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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 ...

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

Review of Animal Farm by George Orwell

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

Narrator in Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

characterizations and an interesting and imaginative plot, and not simply the fantastical setting. These features are exemplifie...

Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist

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...

Comparative Analysis of Mama Day and Mama Lola

spirits" (Brown, 2001, p. 49). The things we learn about Haitian culture can be disturbing (for instance, children go to work e...

Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat

"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...

Analyzing a Passage from Anna Karenina

and Anna is propelled in the middle of a controversy. The passage noted provides a great deal of information that is rather unusua...

Janie Crawford's Freedom Through Self Knowledge in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

to have such a crowd enjoying themselves in her house; its apparent that she enjoys it. We know because she says that shes sorry ...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Interpretation of a Specific Passage

Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Man of the Hill

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...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Chief Bromden

no real understanding of the heroic realities of the novel. Chief, and all his complexities, are indispensable in Keseys novel. ...

Philip Marlowe and The Long Goodbye

toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says...

'Do-Gooder' Satire in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

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 ...

Thematic Analysis of The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

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...

First Four Chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Nature versus Nurture Debate

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...

Overview of the Novel Passing by Nella Larsen

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...

Economic Imperialism and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

objective to amass a fortune while at the same time rule with an iron fist, author Adam Hochschild (1999) illustrates how one of t...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and Family

strong in any respect, and there is no indication that the bonds are tight within this family. This changes when Caddy really app...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

The 'Brave New World' of Aldous Huxley

is too tired and busy to have sexual relations with her husband can take a pill. In the first example, some people...