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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...

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 "...

Catch 22: Yossarian

immoral and crazy, but it is the character of Yossarian who constantly goes out of his way to avoid his duties, trying to get out ...

Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

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...

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...

And the Shadows Took Him by Daniel Chacon

simply going along with life in many respects until one day his friend, Ricky, tells him about a play he is going to try out for. ...

The Great Gatsby: Gatsby and Daisy

example, Gatsby is showing her through his house and he shows her his silk shirts: "Theyre such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her ...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

Themes: Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury

or information that does not come from the system and as such they are clearly oppressed and forbidden to be human beings. From ...

Themes: To Kill a Mockingbird

one gets the understanding that bravery and courage had nothing to do with being strong in a violent sense. It had nothing to do w...

Shammas: "Arabesques"

We make allowances for human failing-perhaps Jane remembers it as a sunny day when it was raining-but we dont expect them to lie a...

Gender Relations in "Middlemarch" and "Erewhon"

People who contract serious illnesses are "punished very heavily," but those who develop some degree of blindness or deafness afte...

Theme of Innocence/Catcher in the Rye

answers both in the affirmative and negative to this question, primarily due to Holden reactions towards Jane (Takeuchi "Salinger...

California and the 1992 Film Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

Silver Skates by Mary M. Dodge

point, found a purse with money. He is faced with choosing what to do about the money. The student should pay close...

Animals and Animal Imagery in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

the wind like a plume" (Hurston , p. 2). She is walking down the street of her hometown under the disapproving eyes of the townspe...