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Solitude and Isolation Themes Expressed by Violence in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

the imaginary town of Macondo in Columbia. The characters experience a cyclical pattern of revolutions and exposure to outside con...

The Red and the Black by Stendhal and the Characters Mathilde and Julien

him in a more manipulative and frequently hypocritical light....

French Romantic Literary Works and Their Similarities

separately and then are followed by a discussion about their similarities. The novels discussed are "Madame Bovary," "Pere Goriot,...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Realism

Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly -- Toms Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in ...

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje and Race

great deal of material to examine in terms of race and culture. We know that New Orleans is a place that seems to be incredibly in...

Reality and Disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

from such a cultured youth. This is a very symbolic disguise and one that establishes how Huck is searching for his identity throu...

Anita Diament's The Red Tent

speak of history and these are powerful conditions spelled out in the fictional work of Diamant. Through her book we see parts of ...

Karen Van Der Zee's 'A Secret Sorrow'

else who contrives to tell the tale. This is part of the use of language by an author. The other influence on voice, it can be sai...

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and Location

(Anonymous E(dward) M(organ) Forster (1879-1970), 2002; forster.htm). She eventually believes that Azis sexually assaulted her bec...

Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

owe it to my contemporaries not to ruin my legend" (89). He doesnt even like the cheese anymore, but he continues to follow his r...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

Carter Beats the Devil by Glenn David Gold

At the time that Harding insisted volunteering to be in the performance, Secret Service agent Jack Griffin did not like the idea ...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...

Don Quixote Character Analysis

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

Innocence and Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye

Antolini, a man who is not innocent. In presenting this examination we will illustrate how Holden is innocent in the face of exper...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

Great Expectations and Charles Dickens

conditions within the factories were terrible. Unfortunately, it can be said that they same disgraces that Dickens saw during his ...

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

chocolates. However, whether he realizes it or not, he is still a hero for trying to the utmost of his ability to correct a situat...

Ionesco's The Rhinoceros, Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Politics and Laughter

part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...

Journey of Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

father, raised in Hong Kong and working as a journalist in London, Mr. Mo knows the conflicts from experience" (Anonymous Confucia...