YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Novel Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Essays 211 - 240
In ten pages the life and works of Julia Alvarez are examines in an overview that includes a discussion of How the Garcia Girls Lo...
In 10 pages this paper discusses how virtue is depicted in the slave narratives Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A...
In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...
find "something she was good at" (Holmes PG). Much of the young Buchi Emecheta can be found in the female protagonist, Nnu Ego, i...
This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...
In five pages this paper examines the problems and challenges associated with women's roles within the context of Achebe's novel. ...
In six pages the title characters featured in eighteenth novels by S. Richardson and E.F. Hayward are compared in terms of these w...
The sad reality is that we are not, some of the overt gender bias may have changed but it is alive and well in most schools, and u...
In six pages this essay discusses how women's positioning in Umuofian society reveals much about its culture as represented in Ach...
some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...
are guards, and nothing is what it seems: "Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in her life: it was all ...
There is little affection shown between the couple and one gets the distinct impression that theres was a marriage of convenience ...
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...
tries to find out what happened to the White Rabbit, but then, later, she is more concerned with finding her way home. At the end ...
the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...
at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price o...
important character, the daughter eventually falls by the wayside. His daughter is of concern until we find out that the man she...
Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...
and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...
After two days with them, I felt sure I could stay with them forever. I remember the smells of their house, the ginger cookies,...
the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...
equally strong reluctance to leave the comforts of childhood behind. Her childishness is seen in the fact that she seems powerles...
Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...
in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...
trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...
she was nine years old, her father went to bring her back home in a forceful manner (Bender). She was taken from the only mother s...
of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...
who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...
two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...