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Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Analysis of Joseph Heller's Catch 22

Yossarian watches as many slowly lose their grip on reality as they fly mission after mission. The Catch 22, then is that which wo...

Overview of the French Realist Period

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

Huckleberry Finn's Character

into the world and into society. He plays with different roles because he can in light of the fact that everyone thinks he is dead...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Education

who do not know how to live life and are brainwashed by books and academia" (Chan). In essence, the professor understands the more...

Medieval Norms, Politics, Religion Aspects

This paper refers to Penny Schine Gold's The Lady & the Virgin, Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-Century France and Ken F...

Family Roles in Wegscheider-Cruse

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Wegscheider-Cruse and her theory of family roles. These roles are mapped to the Bro...

Role in Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird

This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...

Great Expectations - Key Passages

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at Great Expectations. Five critical quotes from the novel are analyzed. Paper uses one ...

King and Eliot

this essay utilizes a quote by F.R. Leavis to argue that T.S. Eliot's Waste Land and Stephen King's novel Misery qualify them as t...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Los Premios by Julio Cortazar

Lucio and Nora, and so forth until all of the players in the drama have been introduced. In addition to the teachers, there is Med...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and the Theme of Domesticity

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiongo

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child, Maryse Conde's Crossing the Mangrove, and Storytelling

will take place when the news is heard of Sanchers death: "While he strode in haste towards his parents house, the men, forgetting...

Medieval Literature/Marie de France & Chaucer

appears to be that this text afforded him a superb creative pallet, not simply for creating memorable characters, but also for pr...

The Critical Reception of A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

the sheriff and the inevitable nightriders. As Gaines unravels the reasons why the old black men, as well as the young white woma...

Poetry of Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

process that connects her physically and symbolically with the past. She states that while machines are helpful, its "comforting" ...

Night Flight by Antoine de Saint Exupery and Leadership

leaders have taken humanity toward new horizons through the use of new technology. The airplane, as we know it today, was ...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and 'Catholic' Jake

In five pages this paper discusses that Cohn's Judaism is contrasted with Jake's Catholicism for emphasis in Hemingway's novel. T...

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels

her fate, whether it was quick, or lingering. Close to starvation, Jakob is discovered by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist who has...

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

In three pages this paper examines how a good man's virtues are represented in the novel by Abraham Adams and Joseph Andrews. Two...

Margaret Atwood and Albert Camus on Alienation

In a paper that contains five pages it is argued that Camus' Meursault in The Stranger and the unnamed narrator in Atwood's second...

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

This thesis paper examines this novel. Issues such as religion, revolution, morality and alcoholism are addressed. This five page...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Intertextuality

In five pages intertextuality is first defined and then applied to Bronte's novel, relating it to text by such authors as Lord Byr...

Literary Stylistic Differences Between On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the authors' styles of writing in these two novels. Six sources are cited in the ...

Siddhartha and Descartes

and space-- the factual historical figure and the imaginary Eastern mystic. Descartes criticism of Siddhartha One can imagine t...