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"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

"Huckleberry Finn" and the Rebuke of Racism

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Light vs. Dark

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

Comparing The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith and Martin Eden by Jack London

In five pages these two novels' themes are contrasted and compared. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Grisham's A Time to Kill and Racism

This research paper/essay examines Grisham's novel A Time to Kill and also offers a brief overview of the author's life in order t...

Alfred Lord Tennyson and His Poems on Death

In five pages Tennyson's views of death are considered with an examination of his poems 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Ulysses...

Face of an Angel by Chavez

In five pages this novel's protagonist is the central focus with comparisons to the depiction of Latin American culture to America...

Comparative Analysis of Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad and The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In three pages the protagonists and their stories featured in these two novels are contrasted and compared. There are no other so...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and the Marlow Characterization

In 6 pages the novel's narrator characterization is analyzed in a consideration of Marlow's imperialism support and cultural bias ...

China Boy by Gus Lee

In eight pages this paper analyzes the novel's Chinese American boy's struggles in a consideration of masculinity as defined by th...

Thomas Pynchon's V. and Gender Issues

Pynchon's first novel is addressed in the context of this well written paper. This author treated characterization for the women q...

Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence and Renunciation

In 5 pages this paper examines how renunciation is thematically depicted in the novel's 3 major characters and within the featured...

The Themes of Change and Aggression in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In a paper that contains 5 pages the ways in which these themes manifest themselves in the characterizations of Okonkwo, Nwoye, an...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Men and Understanding Life in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea

In six pages this paper examines these novels' male protagonists and their ability to accept the brutality of life. There are no ...

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot and Its Conclusion

In five pages this paper argues in support of the inevitability of the novel's conclusion because of the emphasis on Maggie and To...

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creation of Terror

In six pages Tolkien's science fiction fantasy is examined in terms of how the author generated terror throughout the novel. Seve...

A Review of the Novel Bone and its Relationship to Multicultural Family Therapy

This 6 page essay explores the novel by Fae Myenne Ng in relation to Multicultural Family Therapy. The Chinese American family fe...

Styles of Poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning

human emotions or actions to nature or inanimate objects. Porphyrias Lover (Robert Browning) We might label this dramatic monolo...

A Man for the People by Chinua Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages Achebe's political critique is examined within the context of the novel's story that is eerily...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

The Accurate Portrayal of Ancient Egypt in Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie

In a report consisting of twelve pages the setting of Christie's fiction and the portrayal of families remarkably similar to those...

Abeng by Michelle and Confusion Resulting from Clare's Obsession

Clare is searching and there are reminders along the way that this is a good thing. That said, there are also ideas to denote the ...

Subtitle Significance of 'The Modern Prometheus' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

understand the consequences of what he has done, and this is reflective of Prometheus who also had no idea what he was really doin...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

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...

A Review of The Thief Lord

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...

A Review of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

Temporality and Lord Byron

and writers in his extensive travels (Lutz 23). Linking him to traditions that span back to Odysseus, Harold is essentially in sea...

Okonkwo and the Minor Characters in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it was meant to preserve" (Achebe 33). Ezeudus point is that customs do change and that the practice was consciously altered by th...

Robert Brock's Criticism of Albert Camus' Stranger

in order to emphasize his points concerning capital punishment. Brock is particularly persuasive when he argues that Camus places ...