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Cyberpunk Lit: “Neuromancer”

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Alexander the Great’s Successors & Hellenistic Culture

311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

The General in His Labyrinth (Book Review)

a short period of time, it should be said that what is distinguished is Bolivars story. The novel is biographical more than it is ...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Glen Huser

winning competitions and his short stories were being published in Canadian literary magazines. Husers first novel, Grace Lake, ...

Glen Huser

A 3 page research paper that reports on the life and career of Canadian children's literature author Glen Huser. The writer offers...

Kenneth Roberts/Arundel

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

The Tortilla Curtain

as will be seen, the Mossbachers have more than enough so they can afford to feed their pets well. The Rincons are a family from...

Culture and Generational Clashes

made him a little sad because he found that even in the 21st century, many men are still straitjacketed in stereotypes" (Dowd). He...

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin Biographical Literary Analysis

converted storeroom that features the angry sermons of the troubled preacher Gabriel Grimes, Johns father. According to critic Br...

Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage Examined

are happy to see him but he cannot bring himself to tell anyone that he ran. He simply says he got mixed up and ended up "over on ...

Religion and John Updike

This essay focuses on three works of John Updike, which are his novel A Month of Sundays and his short stories "Wildlife" and "Far...

The Cave by Jose Saramago

This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...

Ambiguity in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

time: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Written in during the last part of his life, Stevensons story was an immediate success. It ...

The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan

China. In the novel, the local peasant farmers have been ordered by the country officials to plan only one crop?garlic. Y...

The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

war, he also lost the only woman who ever loved him. Fuentes has him pay for his greed and love of power in that all of the subseq...

Analysis of The Guide by R.K. Narayan

attached to temple dancing that associated it with prostitution. Prior to his prison term, Raju was an actual guide, giving peop...

Beloved by Toni Morrison - An Analysis

play in the narrative, it is helpful to have an understanding of the overall plot and its major components. Plot Synopsis Altho...

Candide by Voltaire and 'Eldorado'

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this portion of Voltaire's classic novel is discussed as it relates to the whole and the Utopia a...

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

Another Ending for The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In 6 pages this paper proposes an alternative ending to this feminist novel in which Edna Pontellier does not commit suicide and i...

Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure'

A summary of this novel highlights this 5 page paper which also includes how Hardy's life is incorporated into the story through t...

'An Image of Africa' and 'Heart of Darkness'

This paper consists of 3 pages and considers the emotional elements that characterize these novels by Chinua Achebe and Joseph Con...

Artistic Mirror Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Although she may secretly yearn to be more like her sister Marianne, Elinor cannot help but maintain her rational outlook, inasmuc...

Honest Life in Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

In five pages this paper discusses Lucy's perspectives about life and internal emotions as revealed in the novel by Jamaica Kincai...

The Hour of the Star, Issues of Life and Death

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector offers a perspective on life and death. This paper is a critical analysis of that novel....

Biography and Writings of Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper discusses Hemingway's life and then examines how heroes are interpreted in the novel The Sun Also Rises a...