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Love Themes in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

the position of the wound. He has been wounded in a way that precludes his ability to have sex and this seems to serve as the trag...

Analyzing Another Country by Mary Pipher

old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...

Christine in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

How the Divine Was Represented in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

with not only Odysseus but with the other characters as well" (Athena, the Goddess). For example, "At the opening of the book, Ath...

Linda Gordon's 'The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction'

they packed up the children and set off on a very long trip out West. Consider that in 1904 the only mode of transportation woul...

Analyzing The Swindler by Franciscoe Queuedo

many interesting things about this book, one of which is the method by which Quevedo tells the story. Simply put, this story is a...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

Pedringano in The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

Marshal of Spain. Lorenzo and Horatio captured Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, during battle. The King of Spain has...

Crow Nation and a Review of Frederick Hoxie's Parading Through History

is the fact that he does not cry foul on behalf of the beleaguered Native American. In fact, this has been overdone and now serves...

'The Wedding Knell' by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Themes

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

Education in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

they are adults who can understand issues at his level. By the time Scout attends her first day of school she is highly literate,...

Madness Theme in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

servants. She physically attacks him and bites his arm. Convinced of her madness, he takes her back to England where she is locked...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

'The Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth Explicated

elements used by the author. The work begins as follows: BEHOLD her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reapi...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

Time and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

beyond the confines of her era to see how future generations might view it. Her poetry speaks to many topics such as, love, loss,...

James McBride's The Color of Water and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...

What is Plato's Republic Really About?

is great interest. Plato looks at all of these things in his book The Republic. In Book I, justice is discussed and it is deemed ...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Themes and Criticism of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...

An evaluation of the film Gattaca

boring, routine job he despises because he might develop heart problems. Its likely that he will, but there is no guarantee of tha...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

The Theme of Self-Reliance is found in Emma, Huck Finn and My Name is Asher Lev

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Heroism in the Epic of Gilgamesh

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Elements in Plato's Republic

fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

Theme of Success in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...