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of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

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....

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

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...

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...

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

and represents his coming of age as a painter, with the Anglo influence evident in the works "polish and refinement" (Parker, 1938...

concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

is constantly being reminded of the process of construction, whilst being involved in the construct itself in the form of the text...

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

He steals so that he can make sure the boys get enough to eat and get clothes. At one point in the story there is a pawn shop o...