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the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...

person or another, manipulate this situation or another, all in an attempt to ensure her birth. Through all of these mysterious ti...

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

In five pages these works are considered in terms of their dual protagonists' commonality in the characters of Dana and Rufus in K...

perspective. Furthermore, the perception of people as human chattel is examined, as is the role of a patriarchal American Souther...

This is a paper that looks at the elements of empowerment and trauma in Kindred by Octavia Butler and Before Night Falls by Reinal...

rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

In five pages this essay discusses how Butler and Byron perceived marriage in a comparative analysis of Butler's The Way of All Fl...

small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...

reader feel as if he or she is sitting in some small caf? and OBrien is telling you his personal recollection of his time in Vietn...

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

that may speak of a lack of hope or direction. The reader does not really need to know what the poem is...

ran brothels (The Christian Institute, 2002). "Her speciality was procuring young girls to work in brothels. Rebecca knew all abou...

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure of Butler's short story....

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

totally true (p. 89). The sole criteria that OBrien supports for telling a "true" war story is this: "It comes down to gut instin...

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

drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...