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The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

at a bar before moving on and a Native American woman deposits a three-year-old girl in her car and begs her to keep the child. ...

Samoan Culture in the Fiction of Wendt and Figel

!Sia Figiels Where We Once Belonged Figiels Samoa is a vibrant, animate place where "sharks bite the moon, and a pumpkin might as...

Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century and Humanism

Tales" reflect the fact that these stories were written during a time of tremendous transition in England. As the opening lines of...

The Harlem Renaissance and the Literature of Black America

of Education, which occurred a month after his death. Locke is considered to be an intellectual. He had no illusions about color...

Victorian Literature Characters

comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...

The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

Survival, Religious Faith, and Family in 'Go Tell It on the Mountain' by James Baldwin and 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright

to be a human being. These representations illustrate how and why a person acts the way he or she does, how moods, feelings and e...

Perspective on Slavery

Louis Hughes in his autobiography, Thirty Years a Slave (Hughes, 2001). In his account, he discusses how he was separated from his...

Renaissance Themes

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

Literature and Class Conflict and Gender Themes

In five pages this paper discusses how class conflict and gender themes are featured in Goodbye Columbus, The Fox, and Old Mortali...

An Examination of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Medieval Literature and Common Themes

is a serious offence. But Ganelon, the man who is held, has a friend who challenges his accuser to a match and the friend loses. T...

Journeys in Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'Odyssey'

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and Collective Theme of Class Hate, Guilty Conscience, and Redemption

mud hut where Hassan lived with his father" (Hosseini 6). While there was certainly hatred both expressed and suppressed among th...

Theme for English By Langston Hughes

This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...

A Review of Dancing at Lughnasa

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

Revenge as a Theme in Literature

thou noble youth, / The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown." Ham. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle?" (I, ...

Iris M. Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference and Susan M. Okin's Justice, Gender and the Family

home. Labor divisions are held in check by the marriage contract and the historic or traditional nature of the family. 2.In Chapt...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Literature and Themes of Power and Race

In five pages this paper considers power and race as they are portrayed in the short stories 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin, 'Bat...

Thematic Analysis of 'The Lamb' by William Blake

In three pages this paper discusses creation's divinity as an important theme of the poem 'The Lamb' by William Blake....

'The Day of Doom' by Michael Wigglesworth

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of primary themes as well as its social and religious connotations....

After the Season by Jack Hodgins

In five pages this tutorial essay examines the text in terms of the relationship that exists between theme, setting, and character...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

Early Feminist Literature - An Examination of Themes

to emerge in the stories to be analyzed. The first major theme to emerge in the stories to be analyzed is the effect of power ineq...