Essays 391 - 420
(which could mean anytime between the early 1990s and today, Coetzees "spare" novel (as some critics have called it) concerns Davi...
that she had organized her wards to the utmost efficiency. At the same time, her best friend Jessica had written to her brother in...
plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...
them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...
benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....
an "observant Jew," which means that he is at odds with his own culture because "observant Jews do not paint at all" (Potok 3). H...
death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...
a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...
on a large truck, often driven by hired men they do not know. It is scary to have to leave everything one owns in one place and ha...
existence. Thus, he sees himself as something more than a victim. He simply has a less desirable fate than some of his peers. Yet,...
most masters tried to keep their slaves ignorant on this matter, as it was regarded as a sign of a "restless spirit" for slaves to...
75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...
entertain with his biting sarcasm. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting his audience to experience with him...
as her Gran, her brother and several aunt and uncles (Perez-Stable 24). When the Old Mistress in the house dies, Jacobs comes unde...
on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...
Both items are gone, never to be replaced. Each of the fruit and the lock of hair in and of themselves are of little or no conseq...
to promote his ideas being a printer and prospering in his business, his actions also promoted his ideal for constant improvement ...
a few is fed by the labor and poverty of the many, as well as the relative uselessness and corruption of these priveleged few)" (G...
"I Have a Dream" speech, in which King lambasted the United States for forbidding the Negroes to be free people (King). "We can ne...
they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...
be one of the social issues that Ross recognizes, but the ways in which corporations function in modern society are inherent to th...
The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...
hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...
be a slave (Schaub 86). He explained in a mater-of-fact way that since he knew no other life, the term slavery meant nothing to h...
through his loving he begins to see the fragile condition of life itself. However, these ultimate realizations take their time in ...
down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...
one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...
he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...
Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...
inferior didnt hold up in the light of his personal story. Equianos work showed the American slave owners and traders how hypocrit...