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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...

Response Essays to Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Atonement

person, from the view of the victim as some authors might, the story would not have been told in a non-linear manner nor would it ...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Women in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and in Boccaccio's Decameron

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

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 Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

from this madness is to come up with a sentence that surpasses the one formulated by Nollop. By Octavia 19 (the islanders have t...

Social Commentary of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

understanding, Scout obviously feels that all people are alike everywhere so Miss Caroline (the teacher) should automatically unde...

Nonconformity in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

terns of physical size. He explains to McMurphy, who is in reality shorter than Bromden, that he sees McMurphy as bigger than hims...

Symbolic Interaction in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

true, but there will also be certain established parameters which must not be crossed. To do so marks the individual as deviant in...

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...

Five Patients by Michael Crichton

presented with a kind of awe and hope in terms of the medical industry. We are also provided with a look at interns and the ent...

Christine in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

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...

Choice and Society in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

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...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

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...

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...

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"...

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 ...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

John Locke on Working and the Working Condition of Ned Williams in Stud Terkel's Working

Ned Williams It becomes quite obvious in looking at the story of Ned Williams that he was searching for nothing of value in his ...

Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

her quickly into a world which is dictated by the whims of the men who surround her, both her father and a potential lover....

Comparative Analysis of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

through an overhead connection powered public transportation to enable people to enjoy more flexibility in their lives and in thei...

Baggage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

Push Novel by Sapphire and the New York Public School System

this novel is located in the inner city of New York, within Harlem, where the education is not up to the standards of the rest of ...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...