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James Joyce's The Dead and Themes of Memory, Politics, and Death

In five pages Joyce's short story is examined within the context of these 3 themes with imagination and memories retaining the gre...

Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Setting

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

Comparing Salinger's Catcher with Lee's Mockingbird

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...

Film Analysis of Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine

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

Overview of Modernism in Literature

In five pages literary modernism is defined and then illustrated in such works as James Joyce's 'The Dead' from Dubliners, 'The G...

Mrs. Mooney in 'The Boarding House' of James Joyce's Dubliners

Mr. Mooney because of his atrocious act of violence. One must conclude that Mrs. Mooney was not only in fear for herself, but als...

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

In five pages Danticat's novel about the coming of age of a young Haitian girl is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cite...

Cinematic Comparative Analysis of Rushmore and The Graduate

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the similarities and differences of these movies and how they represent the 'comin...

1995 Film By John Singleton, Higher Learning

In five pages this report examines the 3rd film effort by director John Singleton in a discussion of content, prejudice, and issue...

James Joyce's 'The Lestrygonians' and 'Circe'

In five pages Chapters 8 and 15 of Joyce's classic Ulysses are analyzed. One source is cited in the bibliography....

The Killers by Ernest Hemingway

(281) - is the response. Hemingway, a man who chooses he words as though he is picking the last ripe fruit in the world, repeats...

'The Dead' by James Joyce

In five pages this essay analyzes James Joyce's short story and the meaning of 'dead' within the characterization of Gabriel. The...

A James Joyce Brief Biography

In two pages a biographical overview along with reviews of Joyce's short story collection Dubliners is presented. There is a bibl...

Poetically Viewing Women

In five pages Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach is compared with James Joyce's Araby and Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to disccus the co...

Ulysses by James Joyce

In 5 pages this paper examines the complexities of this great 20th century novel and considers how it serves as a biography of the...

Author's Style and Insight Revealed in A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

which is a feat not always easily accomplished. The fact that Joyce is completely able to represent his characters in such a fash...

Civil Rights' Activist Anne Moody

Moody's autobiographical text Coming of Age in Mississippi is the subject of this analysis of five pages in which the author's own...

Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time'

offered by A Wrinkle in Time is that the power of love can overcome just about any of lifes obstacles. When one confronts the dar...

Missed Communication in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

In nine pages this paper discusses missed communication within the context of this coming of age novel. Five sources are cited in...

Home Quest in Ulysses by James Joyce

feminist critics charge that this work frames women in houses that the men in the story avoid. "Throughout Ulysses women often rem...

James Joyce, Carson McCullers, and Themes of Identity, Commitment, and Love

In four pages this paper examines how these themes are represented in McCullers' A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud and Joyce's Eveline. The...

Multicultural Literature and Class Struggle

In five pages class struggle is considered as presented in multicultural works Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Inem, Mahasweta Devi's Bre...

Samuel Johnson's Literature Observation and the Works of James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway

In five pages this paper discusses Johnson's notion that literature cannot withstand the test of time in a comparative analysis of...

Two Literary Portrayals of Racism and Oppression

This paper offers a discussion that answers the question of whether or not a caste system that is racist in nature can be perpetur...

Bildingsroman Aspects of Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

In seven pages this paper discusses the bildingsroman characteristics of Lakota Woman, which metaphorically depicts a Native Ameri...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

magazine contest whose prize is the opportunity to work in New York City for a month. She is a sensitive and highly intelligent wo...

Huck and Tom's Maturation in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 15 pages this paper examines how these boys mature throughout the course of Mark Twain's coming of age novel. There are no oth...

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

In seven pages this paper analyzes how the author depicts the 20th century Jewish male coming of sexual age in this amusing and in...

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler

In five pages this Canadian male coming of age novel and the relationships it explores are analyzed. There are no other sources l...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Boys and Girls by Alice Munro and Doe Season by David Kaplan

In five pages the themes of these works are contrasted and compared regarding gender differences, sexuality, and coming of age. T...