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Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus

in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...

Protagonist Parallels Between Go Tell It on the Mountain and Catcher in the Rye

are not all that uncommon for an adolescent. In fact, many teens feel they are alone and while Holden experiences a deep sense of ...

J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as a Personal Narrative

This research paper/essay discusses the journey of personal discovery that is described in Salinger's famous coming-of-age novel. ...

William Faulkner's Narrative Perspectives in As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury

own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...

Understanding and the Supernatural in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gloria Naylor's Mama Day

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

Spielberg/Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale issued a statement on his companys web site that explains his perspective on the literary design of both his book a...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

Coming of Age and Maturity in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...

Heartless Women in the Works of Henrik Ibsen and Charles Dickens

quite clear that Edith has just cause to feel alienated from her husband and her marriage from its inception. In the first half of...

Character Development in The Things They Carried

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling and Protagonist Harvey Cheyne

direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...

Coming of Age in Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

and jockey, till his fine reputation for strength and good character finds him at age seventeen working as a footman to Lady Booby...

Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

This face is made clear when the author writes about the remoteness of Uncle Angus cabin from other signs of human civilization. L...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

The Literature of Black America

has been missing in his life and that his values and priorities are backward and unfulfilling. For example, by the time Milkman jo...

Characters of Bertha and Clarissa Dalloway in Katherine Mansfield's Bliss and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...

Themes of Good and Evil in Stowe's Novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin

There can be no doubt that Stowe intended her novel to be more of a religious than sociopolitical text. It includes close to 100 ...

'Presidential' Edith Wilson

Petticoat Presidency? 2003). Edith Wilson was a woman who had grown up in a happy home, with protective parents who adored her (E...

Bildungsroman in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

life of misery which was to befall me" (Defoe). Crusoes defiance of his father relates also to his willfulness toward God, who, ...

Book and Television Production of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

In three pages this paper discusses the reception of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson in comparison ...

Jazz Age Lifestyle in Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...

Comparison of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Spike Lee's 1992 Malcolm X Film

into the life of his protagonist. That beginning, the slow burning of an American flag until nothing is left but a red, white, an...

Film Comparison of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves

realistically with the rise of Fascism in Italy, as well as with the war itself and with the social problems that it left behind"....

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

A Comparison of the Films Harold and Maude and Blue Velvet

in money, or in finding Harold a nice young woman. Harold, however, is a young man fascinated with death. This is, of course, p...

October Sky Film and Rocket Boys Text Comparison

Creek Missile Agency as an homage to their hero Dr. Werner von Braun of the Army Ballistic Agency and built their first missile ou...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...