YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
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of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious...
section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For ex...
the end. What the story explains is that when a man leaves his community and the community changes while the man does not, the two...
allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...
"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...
the father. Fieldings opposition to arranged marriages is largely dramatized through Sophias behavior in categorically refusing ...
they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...
the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...
and jockey, till his fine reputation for strength and good character finds him at age seventeen working as a footman to Lady Booby...
forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...
and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...
In five pages tis paper evaluates the author's presentation of his uncle and grandmother's stories in the 1999 novel Resumo de Ana...
His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...
British colonials who ruled that nation. The Mau Mau rebellion actually began in 1952 in highland Kenya, a British colony where w...
because he is not at all athletic. In fact, he is rather pudgy and homely himself. He claims to like parties and social gatherin...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...
manner by which Garcia Marquez achieves this objective is through magic realism. In a world that combines fantasy and reali...
portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...
they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...
fails to align sex and love. Does that mean he is a misogynist, treating women solely as wither virgins or whores, or does it mere...
two different personalities (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). It has been said that the "first version of Robert Louis Stevensons Strang...
or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...
heard that Carl Jr. was going to reacquire his familys farm, he went to Carl Jr. to try to negotiate for the purchase of he seven ...
purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...
trouble from the start. Upon seeing another ship which he believes is in trouble, he decides he must go and offer his help. Inst...
up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...
complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...
An analysis of the social implications of the novel and film versions of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit are e...