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Telling More Than a Good Story in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

but a poor teacher, and we learn this more and more as the story unfolds. We further see this important theme, that being which...

Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea and Orientalism

those forces and elements in the Eastern culture which are familiar entities in regards to Western society. In order to contain ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and Themes of Lovers and Love

by his friend Lieutenant Rinaldi who is determined to arrange for the two of them to meet up with some British nurses. At this poi...

The Theme Friendship in Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men

its likely that Lennie will never remember. During the readers introduction to them they come upon a water hole which Lennie immed...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Analyzing 'The History Man' by Malcolm Bradbury

British traditional literature tended more toward social realism and classical literary language (Bradbury et al). This awareness ...

Unique Voice of Sandra Cisneros

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...

Griffins and Carruths Compared

Alice "Start at the beginning and when you come to the end, stop." However, Griffin ignores this tradition and takes the reader b...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Faithfulness

we learn that she began to take an interest in Catholicism, but this opportunity to adopt a genuine faith soon gave way to a passi...

Fiction of Eudora Welty

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

An Analysis of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's El Colonel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba

the story it is without the elements of death and resurrection. It is through this simple connection to their son, to life, that t...

Comparing The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and The Sketch Book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...

Money in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey

entire romance between Catherine and Henry is based on finances as far as the powers that be are concerned. "Catherine is invited ...

Racial Elements in Twain and Stowe

dialogue that provides the reader with a strong sense of awareness regarding the speech and attitudes of those he was portraying. ...

Nurture and Nature in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

is there that she first experiences the Lintons. At first, it seems as if nature will be the victor in the constant sparring and ...

Ralph Ellison's Philosophy in The Invisible Man

standing and he is awarded a full scholarship to a prestigious black college. This of course doesnt last long, as through a serie...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

Female Protagonist Effectivenss in Oranges Are Not Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson and Beloved by Toni Morrison

from secondary characters to protagonists who were considered universal or genderless to those who were females yet were strong an...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Coming of Age in Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

and jockey, till his fine reputation for strength and good character finds him at age seventeen working as a footman to Lady Booby...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Pearl Buck's Dragon Seed

"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...

The Theme of Arranged Marriage in Fielding's Tom Jones

the father. Fieldings opposition to arranged marriages is largely dramatized through Sophias behavior in categorically refusing ...

Postmodern Techniques in Beloved by Toni Morrison

they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Puritan Beliefs

a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...

British Imperialism and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious...

Sociological Perspectives on Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For ex...