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became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...

contended to be a reflection of the culture in which he was purported by Bram Stoker as existing, so too are the women presented i...

work which stands as the most famous of his novels. Not surprisingly, "Hawthorne came from a Puritan family of declining fortun...

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

It is interesting to note, however, that Molieres inspiration did not come from Corneilles comedic tendencies, but rather upon the...

were incapable of having the same feelings, the same needs, the same emotional attachments to loved ones that white people maintai...

experience of slavery (Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) By Olaudah Equiano bvbooks.asp?Bo...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....

not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...

with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

separately and then are followed by a discussion about their similarities. The novels discussed are "Madame Bovary," "Pere Goriot,...

through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...