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Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...

147). Marlows initial reaction is in keeping with the African environment and the darkness that has touched his life, as it did Ku...

childhood, as well as everything he hopes to achieve is best illustrated in an incident that occurs between Sammy and Al Manheim o...

her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

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

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

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

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...