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Secondary Characters in “Ferdydurke” and “The Stranger”

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...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Reaction: “The Bonfire of the Vanities”

(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...

Toni Morrison’s Sula: Moral Ambiguity

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

the novel as it pertains to Phoebus. Phoebus is a military man and Esmerelda is quite taken with him. She feels he is a real man a...

Toni Morrison’s Sula

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Pleasantville and The Giver

are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. ...

Madame Bovary as Naturalism

carried in the pockets of her apron...They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, pos...

Summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus

The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...

Steppenwolf and Personalities

and identities within himself. But, he fails miserably at truly becoming more than he is and this is a problem. As noted, his prob...

A View of Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

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...

An Analysis of “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

age: "To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and th...

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...

Five Market Structure Examples Featured in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath:

these farmers in the characterization of a single family, the Joads. From what was left of their Oklahoma homestead to their jour...

Renault: "The Persian Boy"

man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...

“Up the Down Staircase”: An American Classic

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...

“Martin Eden” by Jack London

the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

The House on the Lagoon by Ferre from a Racial Perspective

In five pages this paper discusses the novel in terms of how narrators Quintin and Isabel reflect racial prejudices and difference...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Director James Whale's 1931 Film Interpretation

In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

precision of mathematics and the natural sciences to answer questions. Indeed, the members of this philosophical movement simply ...

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Metamorphosis of Jim in Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

In six pages this paper discusses Jim's metamorphosis within the context of the novel. There are no other sources listed....

Identity, Maturity and David Copperfield

This essay offers discussion of the issues maturity and identity in regards to "David Copperfield," the classic novel by Charles D...

American Values Found Within The Scarlet Letter

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the story The Scarlet Letter. This paper includes how the theme and parts of the novel refl...