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volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...

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...

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...

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

novel. He would go on to not only write other, more compelling best selling novels, but he would also become involved in televisio...

that he was born to ordinary means. The book to some extent busts through the myth that one has to be born into royalty in order ...

1824-1827 he was a "day pupil at a school in London" (Cody). But the year in the blacking factory "haunted him all of his life" t...

portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...

comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...

As such he makes a very good narrator. He also cares about people, which also makes him a reliable narrator. This is good because ...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

style. It is with this strength and power that Walkers women are able to cope with extreme situations and make their lives more w...

wiser than I was before: / Master, Doctors what they call me, / And Ive been ten years, already, / Crosswise, arcing, to and fro, ...

between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...

the boy to play at the wealthy Miss Havershams mansion. Her uppity niece Estella immediately dismissed the blue-collar boy as com...

de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

through most novels, there are changes within the characters. Here, the main character or protagonist, is Santiago. At first, he ...

The reader meets Snake as he rationalizes mugging a patron at the movie theatre where he works. Snake assaults a man who is so sto...

populations is such an important objective to pursue. Coulombes primary intent with expounding upon the concept of convergence as...

she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

theological thought (Moritz). Some of the fundamental thoughts within the texts maintained that women should be kept meek and subm...

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...