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Change in Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

loose fiber in the patchwork of society. Carrie represents more than merely a single woman who harbors no trepidation with regard...

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

is possible to think of Defoe as using Moll as his mouthpiece. He had strong personal opinions about the potential and options av...

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the author depicts the 20th century Jewish male coming of sexual age in this amusing and in...

E.M. Forster's Howard's End

In five pages a socioeconomic analysis of Forster's novel is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Understanding Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel in terms of generating greater understanding in a consideration of psychology and symb...

Protagonist David Copperfield

In five pages the protagonist in Charles Dickens' novel is examined in terms of his childishness and self centered ways. There ar...

Totalitarianism Indictment in Animal Farm by George Orwell

a committed socialist. And yet, Orwell might have been the only one who considered himself to be a socialist. However, because of...

Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa

Nothing is quite what it appears in this novel, least of all the characters or the plot. For example, the main character, Police...

Themes in Dostoevski's Notes From Underground

warped psychology and near incomprehensibility of a character both affected by and revolting against the ramifications of philosop...

Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

In six pages this Chinese novel from the 18th century is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Conflict Between Good and Evil

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and the Ideological Competition Between Capitalism and Socialism

In six pages this paper discusses how ideologies compete in this 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair. Seven sources are cited in the bib...

The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

In five pages this paper examines blackness as it is featured in this novel by James Weldon Johnson. There are no other sources l...

Hawk by William Wallis

only three and doctors are only able to save one eye. He spends months in the hospital, which proves to be a grueling experience t...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

The Theme of Self-Reliance is found in Emma, Huck Finn and My Name is Asher Lev

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

A Dysfunctional Family: “Bee Season” by Myla Goldberg

what they possess in the marriage. But, as the years go by it seems she is less and less interested in any intimacy with him. When...

J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”

because Holden cannot seem to figure out how to grow up, how to become an adult he would admire and respect. He is frightened of g...

Humanity in "Frankenstein"

if not love, to have some sort of regard for him. But Frankenstein, who is not as admirable in the book as he is usually made to a...

How the Diamond Age Contributes to the Philosophy of Technology

social class ended up in the hands of a poor girl. It was actually stolen by her brother who associated with a bad crowd. It is im...

Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki

strange character who is the protagonist of the book. The narrator first sees the man he calls Sensei at the seashore in the compa...

Spain: “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway

people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...

Howard Fast's April Morning

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...

Lord of the Flies & Social Order

Ralphs group is Simon, who is sensitive and spiritual in nature. At one point in the novel, Simon hallucinates and images that t...

Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

Realization of Two Women Characters in Mrs. Dalloway

this errand for herself rather than having someone do it for her. A few lines later we read "What a lark! What a plunge!" (Woolf 3...