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Jonathan Edwards' Narrative and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

In three pages Rev. Edwards' ecclesiastical focus is compared and contrasted with Franklin's individual focuses in their autobiogr...

Guy Chapman A Passionate Prodigality

The writer describes the Guy Chapman book A Passionate Prodigality, which is an extremely emotional autobiographical account of th...

Voice of the Witness in Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

In six pages this paper examines the author's calm witness voice in describing Auschwitz oppression by the Nazis in the autobiogra...

Chinese Changes Affecting a Family in Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

the mean-spirited jealousy of her husbands concubines and family. We now take up the story of Bao Quin, who grew up to marry a ha...

Civil Rights' Activist Anne Moody

Moody's autobiographical text Coming of Age in Mississippi is the subject of this analysis of five pages in which the author's own...

An Overview of Roots by Alex Haley

In a book report that contains five pages Haley's 'autobiographical fiction' is discussed. There are no other sources listed in t...

The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill

In six pages this play by Eugene O'Neill is examined in terms of its autobiographical elements with a concentration of Larry Slade...

The Defense is Ready by Leslie Abramson

to subjugate her personal perceptions to what she knows she must do as a lawyer. Abramson begins with describing her defense of ...

Performance Art and Autobiography

In five pages the aspects of autobiography as they manifest themselves in performance art are considered in a discussion of Holly ...

In My Mother's House by Kim Chernin

In five pages this paper examines the 4 female generations presented in this autobiographical memoir by Kim Chernin. There are no...

Autobiographical 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

hunger and pain on a visceral level. One sees that Wright was oppressed not only by racial issues, but also by issues of gender. W...

Chapter Summaries/I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Plot: After a brief prologue that introduces the reader to Maya, aka Marguerite, the first chapter fills in the reader on her back...

White Gloves Creating Ourselves Through Memory by John Kotre

In five pages autobiographical memory is considered within the context of this book written by a respected psychologist. There ar...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's 'Journey To The End Of The Night'

In 4 pages, this paper argues that the main character Bardamu is representative of an anti-hero as well as an autobiographical por...

Behavioral Organizational Theory and Rivethead by Ben Hamper

In five pages this research paper applies the Getting to YES organizational theory to this autobiographical text by Ben Hamper. T...

Alice Walker's Sudden Trip Home in the Spring

In six pages this paper analyzes the background and meaning of this autobiographical story and the importance of symbolism. Six s...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou

through Angelous eyes. While Angelou speculates that it would take living in total despair, hopelessly oppressed to fully comprehe...

Life of John Updike in 'A and P' and 'Pigeon Feathers'

In ten pages this paper examines how autobiographical glimpses of author John Updike can be seen in these stories. There are 15 s...

Dark Child by Laye

In five pages this paper discusses this autobiographical memoir in terms of African society and the argument that the Europeans we...

Harry Mulisch's 'The Assault'

A 5 page paper that frames the argument that this is more of an autobiographical exorcism of the author's demons as well as a tale...

Political Criticism in Blackberry Winter by Margaret Mead and Exile's Return A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s by Malcolm Cowley

In five pages this paper examines how political criticism is represented in these two autobiographical texts. Six sources are cit...

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

a society that is unlike anything most people have ever experienced. It is true that society has been struggling to overcome cent...

Poverty Theme in Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was p...

The Development of Autobiographical Memory

after having given birth to several children, the events which occurred at one birth may blur into the others, so that it is diffi...

Comparative Analysis of Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood and Elizabeth Fernea's Guests of the Sheik

In a paper consisting of six pages Abouzeid's autobiographical account of the French colonial Morocco of her childhood is compared...

Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus

result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...

Angela's Ashes Film Version Creation

In five pages transforming Frank McCourt's autobiographical text into a screenplay is examined in terms of necessary elements and ...

Romanticism in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

In five pages this research paper examines how Romanticism enabled Douglass to present a strong antislavery argument in his autobi...

Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude

a sense of machismo (Paz 31). Throughout the work, various observations are made, which provides the reader a sense of who the Mex...

Dorris’ Broken Cord/A Theoretical Perspective

layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...