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Philip Ardagh's A House Called Awful End

Because the parents are sick they send Eddie to go live with his Mad Uncle Jack and his Mad Aunt Maud. They assault him with fish ...

Dominick Character Analysis in I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

Feminism and Symbolism in Shelly's Frankenstein

a whole has revolted against. The primary perpetrator of this situation in Mary Shellys "Frankenstein" could be identified as Dr....

How Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Media is Reflected in Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

Social Status and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Emma by Jane Austen, and Beloved by Toni Morrison

do not possess social status, a reality that makes for a tragedy waiting to happen in her efforts to match Harriet with someone be...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf and the Nature of Individual Identity

that takes individual characteristics far from their origin but then allows them to flow back. At the same time, that identity fus...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Bulgakov even includes this rejection in the book with the reaction of the authorities when one of the characters in the novel wri...

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander Smith and Principles of Ethics

(p. 180). The message here is that the people of Botswana find being with people and interacting with them to be the natura...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

Enlightenment Attack of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

frightening lack of individuality. This is also exemplified in society today. Was he correct? Is the world turning the people into...

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and Henry Fleming

yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he sees things differently: "His busy mind for him large pictures extravagant in c...

Comparative Analysis of the Film Stand By Me and the Texts The Giver and The Chocolate War

only way to do things, or that individuality is just as important as prosperity, then the whole structure falls apart. The secret ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Uses of Black and White

come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually fi...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Sympathy for the Protagonist

keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...

The Character of Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and in Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptation

primary theme within the whole novel, as well as the film, is that which asks us to look at ourselves, and our society, and see ho...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

Overview of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Dreams

man. Lennie is a simpleton and needs someone to protect him from ranch owners that would take advantage of his slow mentality. Thi...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

Mr. Death Film and The Picture of Dorian Gray

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

Karl Marx and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Creature

predicted in his Communist Manifesto that the inevitable overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariat would first succeed in a ...

Sissy and Louisa in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

family and they come to be grateful for what she has done for them" (ClassicNotes). In the end of the story we are told, by Dicken...

V.S. Naipaul's Enigma of Arrival

movement of Naipaul from newcomer to departing visitor. The first part of the book shows Naipaul as he comes to England to experie...

Kindred by Octavia Butler and the Influences of the Past and Present

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

Battling Racism in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

to Jim. There are other issues as well but this is the predominant one. So then, the question is whether or not Twain was actual...

Sula by Toni Morrison and the Relationship Between Nel and Sula

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...

Gender Differences in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

"Scout" Finch as she reflected on her Depression-childhood. It is Scouts father, respected local attorney Atticus Finch, who dare...

Shusaku Endo's Deep River

just like their travel mates. As the plot unfolds, however, we find that these four have much more in common than they would care...

Cotter's England by Christina Stead

be at odds with the prevailing stereotypes concerning lesbians at this time. In the same letter, Stead writes, "I detest Lesbians;...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...