Essays 421 - 450
those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...
expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...
capacity for the others hyper-intellectualization (Peavier 100). La Maga is completely devoted to Oliveira. However, possibly be...
the novel is laid in the first five paragraphs of Chapter 1. The opening paragraph reads almost like a newspaper article (Dickens...
some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...
This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...
confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...
describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...
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....
fall apart, the truth is laid open for the reader to see. In reality, it is the women who are silently stoic because theirs is the...
in which the term nigger is used. Today this is a derogatory term, but it has to recognised that when Mark Twain grew up it was in...
Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...
of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...
In four pages this paper examines how this novel's characterizations reflect the impact of modernization in the Latin America of t...
Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...
educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...
concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...
it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...
happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...
the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...
eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...
Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...
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...
is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...
this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...
in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...
it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...
as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...