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of his academic learning in demonology and witchcraft. However, he begins to question this duty when Danforth begins to indiscrimi...

the desire for power possessed by the officers in a way that is very defining. With an understanding of the importance of this c...

denigrating to himself as he comforts John R. Isidore, a "special," that is, someone affected by the omnipresent radioactive dust,...

entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fa...

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...

no problem taking their wages to support himself, even as the rest of the family scrimps and saves and slips further into poverty....

decide to go out on his own and catch a fish so that he was not unlucky any longer. He is also a very old man. In these respects o...

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...

capacity for sublimation. . . Soon afterwards philology followed this method and began to measure linguistic configurations as phy...

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility" (42). As this suggests, an ...

situation that is changing at that time. Bono asserts that times have changed and Troy just came along "too early." To which, Troy...

that Scout understands is that she saw, and responded to, familiar faces in the crowd. We, however, are aware that it is this iden...

Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...

to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

movement of Naipaul from newcomer to departing visitor. The first part of the book shows Naipaul as he comes to England to experie...

There is also a skewering of the notion that the acquisition of wealth makes all problems disappear and ensures eternal happiness....

the townspeople, although they dont agree with him being Tom Robinsons legal counsel, respect his integrity and honesty. He repre...

the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...

twice the size of me" (Kesey 17). As this suggests, Bromden perceives the idea of the "big" man quite literally and sees the force...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Aziz is a doctor who is living in India as the novel opens. His wife has died and he is raising his three children. Dr. Aziz makes...

about them that is unknown to pagan literature (Byfield 2). This is true not only for the book authored by Tolkien but also for th...

(Hugo). As this demonstrates, the only effect that nineteen years of mistreatment has had on Valjean is to turn this kind-hearted ...

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

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...