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anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

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

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...