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of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...
what a person is willing to do with money and what is valuable to someone is not valuable to another. Another important point is t...
university-trained expert in his field. And yet he finds that intellectual learning is not very important in this world, whats nee...
Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...
where he is given the nickname "the black Englishman" (Salih, 1970, p. 54). In London, however, Saeed becomes something dangerous ...
about the characters thoughts and motivations. So we are going to read the story and see what happened through Nicks eyes, which m...
seems to truly keep such plot lines out of the novel completely. The innocent reader would easily just see this novel as a mystery...
no means ironic. It refers to the characters of Tea Cake and Janie for the most part and the title of this book comes to life in a...
manly man, who appears before the boy, a man who is "a big balding six-footer with a rough, manly face" (Capote 4). This is then s...
of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...
romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...
than half an hour from the bridge, if that is possible.... How are you called? I have forgotten. It was a bad sign to him that he ...
of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...
"There are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in ice-cold cellars with a quarter of an inch of ...
creature that can enter and exit this afterlife while many can only go one way, from life to death. It seems that in a culture whe...
that never completely heals. She was humiliated by her slave master, who raped her, impregnated her, and beaten by his wife who t...
the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...
even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...
this concept was combined with the idea that those with superior status would educate those who were lower in status through examp...
well known novelist, would have called authorities. Annie does no such thing. Rather, she keeps him captive. During the time that ...
job turns into one where Clarice is no longer just interviewing serial killers such as Lecter, but she is told to use Lecter to ga...
harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...
to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...
made him a little sad because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes" (Dowd). He...
other side. He had claimed "Id fight them if they were a million" (Foote 25). For the most part this section deals with Metcalfes ...
to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...
immoral and crazy, but it is the character of Yossarian who constantly goes out of his way to avoid his duties, trying to get out ...
suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...
for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...
demented that he becomes a vessel for their agenda. Beginning with the setting, King has executed a masterful scene of susp...