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In five pages this text on fourteen year old Magda's coming of age in the politically turbulent Uruguay is summarized and the focu...

In five pages the way in which Prince Henry is depicted is evaluated with such issues as power transition and coming of age also d...

brutally and perhaps unfairly with death. The work is moving. Uncle Antoine, carefully acted by Jean Duceppe, is a pathetic char...

cultural heritage decides to leave. That in and of itself is rather brave. Thus, one sees a very painful growth into womanhood as ...

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

the touching but depressing mood of the work. First, portraying 1950s America in such a dark light may be difficult for modern au...

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

are not all that uncommon for an adolescent. In fact, many teens feel they are alone and while Holden experiences a deep sense of ...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

life of misery which was to befall me" (Defoe). Crusoes defiance of his father relates also to his willfulness toward God, who, ...

In four pages this book that concerns 1940s British Columbia and the conflicts that arise from the coming of age is discussed. Th...

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

sexuality of the individual. However, FGM is far more drastic and damaging than male circumcision. A more appropriate analogy woul...

This face is made clear when the author writes about the remoteness of Uncle Angus cabin from other signs of human civilization. L...

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

the conditions of life. If he were a young boy with no responsibilities he would have been focused on his environment in a very im...

direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...