YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Three Young Adult Novels
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fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...
work. The author takes a particular approach, but other authors write about race in different ways. Barbara Jeanne Fields h...
was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...
heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...
Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...
extensively depicted in her early novels. Keller sharply points out that both the conservative subtext and the liberal text of Ric...
The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so...
has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...
and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...
artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...
novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...
face. The descendants of the Raja and Dr. McPhail worked collectively to make the island the best of all possible worlds, by combi...
in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...
like tornadoes and earthquakes but also include diseases that can kill. The Plague for example took out many lives during the Midd...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
to his inferior status. Tom laments, "That ar hurt me more than sellin, it did. Mebbe it might have been natural for him, but t ...
Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...
of all possible worlds" (Voltaire PG) illustrates how the author is using propaganda towards metaphysical optimism. Voltaire no m...
most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...
hopefulness here in Comala; instead, the air is heavy with an oppressive guilt that is positively stifling. It soon becomes readi...
soul, for cash? Throughout the work, the theme of money is inherent. She gets a job as an office worker. She wants to be on stage ...
is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...
own enjoyment so much as for the enjoyment of others, for the pride he could have when looking at what he achieved through the eye...
shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...
experiences with her stepfather, has a warped and hurtful view of her own sexuality. The very definition of love is foreign to her...
the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...
for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....