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Read the Book First

unfold slowly and with care. That is a shame, because when films delve into character and do it well, its a revelation. The camera...

Yorick's Interaction with Women in "A Sentimental Journey"

the others live, and he "did it with so simple a grace-and such an air of deprecation was there in the whole cast of his look and ...

Loren D. Estleman: Writing Style

on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...

Sexual Behavior in "The Godfather"

the Mafia Don, his close knit family who are also in the "business"; the women who are decorations, not people - are crude, they a...

Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun: Dreams

dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

In relationship to Kathy, it would be important to discuss her alcoholism and perhaps her past with her ex-husband whose delinquen...

Jewish Culture & Asher Lev

of four, Ashers mother encouraged him to make "pretty pictures," but Ashers father, even a this young age, saw the conflict betwee...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

Arthur Hailey and his "Hotel"

know what hes doing in the room, Milne thinks fast, pretends to be drunk, and insists that its his room: "This s 614?" he slurs; t...

Healthcare: The Death of Ivan Ilyich

unnecessary, and the look of importance which implied that if only you put yourself in our hands we will arrange everything - we k...

Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...

Characterization in "The Mill on the Floss"

(George Eliot: Biography). But Lewes remained with her until his death, and the union was apparently a happy one. Looking at thi...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Narrative Structure in For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway

than half an hour from the bridge, if that is possible.... How are you called? I have forgotten. It was a bad sign to him that he ...

Abraham Cahan/Yekl

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

Corruption in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

"There are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in ice-cold cellars with a quarter of an inch of ...

Stephen King's Misery

well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...

Silence of the Lambs (Book Report)

job turns into one where Clarice is no longer just interviewing serial killers such as Lecter, but she is told to use Lecter to ga...

Strength of Love and Tim McLaurin’s Woodrow’s Trumpet

to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...

Culture and Generational Clashes

made him a little sad because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes" (Dowd). He...

Naming Conventions in "Beloved"

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

The Evolution of the Comic Book

public in the 1890s. (History, 2007). In the United States, early comic strips "were published exclusively as weekly features in ...

Melville’s Typee

foreshadows many of the themes that would appear in subsequent works such as Moby Dick" (Proyect). It is a novel that clearly make...

Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Research Statement and Annotated Bibliography

up with some sort of thesis. Perhaps the thesis could be that Twain was only writing about his society, writing an entertaining st...

Freedom and The Handmaid's Tale

in the United States. The people recognize the failure of capitalism and see socialism as a solution. Within Marxs paradigm, there...

"Kavalier & Clay"

dizzying masterstroke, that picture is also the cover of the book itself. The iconic figures in the book within a book include th...

Shiloh by Shelby Foote

other side. He had claimed "Id fight them if they were a million" (Foote 25). For the most part this section deals with Metcalfes ...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...