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Essays 1921 - 1950

American Horror Writing and the Influence of British Authors

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

Marriage and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

spouses, battered and emotionally wasted by the trauma of their loss of their children. While Sue, perhaps, takes on too much of t...

Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Nihilism in the Character of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

Vietnam Combat and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Violence

story we are offered a look at the power of searching for ones identity, the tentative hold we all have upon life, and the search ...

Educational Importance of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and the Development of Ishmael

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah, Joe Klein's Primary Colors, and Political Ethics

lesser of the two evils approach, but yet an approach that clearly illustrates how far the lack of ethics and morals in the politi...

Women's Relationships in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Toni Morrison's Sula

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

Sociological Perspectives on The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

Christ Like Tom in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Synopsis of Charles Dickens' Hard Times

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

Ethnicity in Paradise by Toni Morrison, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

is the daughter of a white mother and a black father. Although her father does not take an active role in her life his presence i...

Communism and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

World War I spanned a four year period between 1914 and 1918. Nearly ten million lives were lost. World War I, and in fact,...

'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and the Issues of Self Hatred and Beauty

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

'Eugenie Grandet' by Honore de Balzac

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

Steinbeck's Use of Foreshadowing in, Of Mice and Men

of the most blatant uses of foreshadowing is when Candy has to shoot his dog because it bit the Boss. Candy says that a man should...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Postcolonial Perspective

mans. He is unable to adjust to this changing social, political and legal climate, effectively rendering him weak to the oppressi...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Snow Crash by Neal Stephensonn and Technology's Effects

counterparts "brain-drained" (2). Because America was responsible for the technological fusion, it paid the greatest price with p...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the Fugitive Slave Act

examine the realities of the time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that J...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Commen Themes in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

the student rewrites this research for inclusion in his or her own paper, the student can , of course, reorganize the material in ...