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Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Dialect

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

Journal Project on The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

to his sister, the only one he believes is young and innocent, will give him comfort. When he knows that she will not give him com...

Sula and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

This 10 page paper analyzes the Toni Morrison story Sula and then discusses it with reference to her novel The Bluest Eye. There a...

Beauty, Art, and The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

In seven pages the ways in which Wilde's novel explores the meaning of beauty and art are discussed. There are no other sources c...

The Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

lives as they struggle to hold together the fabric of society and their authenticity. It is the sacred, discovering that it has a...

Gothic Author Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...

Women's Sexuality Changes in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In five pages this paper discusses how women's sexuality is represented in this nineteenth century novel and then contrasts it to ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Symbolism

In five pages the novel is examined in an overview with symbolism the primary analytical focus. There are no other sources cited....

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

characterizations and an interesting and imaginative plot, and not simply the fantastical setting. These features are exemplifie...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and the Effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

Comparative Analysis of Mama Day and Mama Lola

spirits" (Brown, 2001, p. 49). The things we learn about Haitian culture can be disturbing (for instance, children go to work e...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Significance of the Work Concept

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Dickens appears to introduce Charles Darnays mother for the sole purpose of establishing her as the source for Darnays personal in...

Narrator in Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

1994, p. 15). That really is his biggest problem: he is seeking answers to the problem of being black in America, but hes lookin...

Janie Crawford's Freedom Through Self Knowledge in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

to have such a crowd enjoying themselves in her house; its apparent that she enjoys it. We know because she says that shes sorry ...

Analyzing a Passage from Anna Karenina

and Anna is propelled in the middle of a controversy. The passage noted provides a great deal of information that is rather unusua...

An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and the Revenge of Heathcliff

stables, no longer a real member of the family, Catherine still roamed the hills with him, being his companion, and he really her ...

Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker

of these characters. Particularly insightful, Demirturk sums up the novel by stating that Tashi sacrificed her gender identity to ...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Man of the Hill

he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...

Relationships in Denise Chong's 'The Concubine's Children'

to insure a good life back in China. The strain between the two begins to show, however, as May-ying criticizes Chan Sam when he ...

Chapter XXXIV of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dialogue and Narrative Voice

are futile and are only keeping her from seeing the truth. One author, in reviewing a book about Austens work, notes that...

The Notebook Film Psychosocial Analysis

Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

Review of Animal Farm by George Orwell

could have happened when the intentions were so noble. In other words, this novel/fable is a "must read" for anyone trying to unde...

Psychoanalysis and Feminist Theory

concepts and insight to issues that previously were only of interest to analytic philosophers. Analytic feminists want clarity an...