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world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

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

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

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...

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

survived and were content with that. The little girl, however, was not happy with such a life. She wanted more. But, she never c...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...