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The Red Badge of Courage Aspects

easy. She tells him "Watch out, and be a good boy," and he leaves. But he turns back at the gate to see her kneeling "among the po...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

1920 and 1992 Cinematic Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

Juan Rulfo and Alexander Pushkin on the Supernatural

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry's Styles of Writing

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

Critical Reviews of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

of the struggles in Afghanistan (p. 148). According to Professor Noor (2004), "As far as the Afghan conflict is concerned, we get...

The Use of Utilitarianism in Dickens' Hard Times

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

Harp of the South by Ruth Park

newspaper correspondents (Molloy 317). One letter writer to a newspaper at the time voiced an opinion that the book was a "wallow ...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

The 'Brave New World' of Aldous Huxley

is too tired and busy to have sexual relations with her husband can take a pill. In the first example, some people...

To Kill a Mockingbird and the Theme of Courage

Kill A Mockingbird"). The Radleys would ultimately play a very important part in the novel, and in this humble beginning which ill...

Protagonists’ Voyages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

A Consideration of Gender in “Brown Girl in the Ring”

was all but foreign to them before the citys fall. This makes for an interesting study of how individuals choose their path in li...

Overview and Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

Thomas King/Medicine River and Canadian Literature

the bearer of Native Canadian culture. For example, the novel opens with Harlen inviting Will to lunch at 10 a.m. and talking abou...

Hemingway’s Techniques Described in “Hemingway: In Love and War”

"association of love with life, and the consequent indissolubility and self-sufficiency of the relationship" (Tyler). However, lov...

Secondary Characters in “Ferdydurke” and “The Stranger”

He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...

Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café/Chinese-Canadians

and her parents. She says that her mother "never attempted to Canadianize her thinking," as she dried fish on the front lawn and v...

Afghanistan and America in The Kite Runner

cannot bring himself to intervene (Hosseini). His inability springs not so much from cowardice, though he is badly outnumbered, as...

Review and Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

and resume business as usual. This was the America that greeted an injured young soldier named Ernest Hemingway. The place he lo...

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine

humanity and all things simply improve, although there is still the belief that time and history will end with the coming of Chris...

Mercerism and Electric Sheep

grabs the handles of the box can see Mercer, who is shown to be an old man trying to climb a hill while other figures throw rocks ...

A Psychological Examination of Sethe, from “Beloved”

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

“The Grand Inquisitor”

promised he would make but did not. The Cardinal also argues that if Christ should have given in when Satan tempted him, and thr...

Herman Melville’s Message in Moby-Dick

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

Foreman: “Toehold”

16th century Italian artist and sculptor who was famed, among other things, for his goldsmithing. His exquisite work is world-famo...

Book Report: “Charlie Bone and the Time Twister”

Bone and Henry Yewbeam, who arrives mysteriously at Bloors via the Time Twister, are related to the legendary Red King. In fact, r...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

Economics Terminology, Market Structures, and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

cents isnt enough to get for a good plow. That seeder cost thirty-eight dollars. Two dollars isnt enough. Cant haul it all back...