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

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...

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

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

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

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

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...

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...

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

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...

nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...

anyone who has read the book, there are some disturbing scenes in the book that are so powerfully written and detailed that the re...

work of fiction to which Alvarez brings her skills as a novelist in creating characterization for each sister. The book is divided...

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 ...

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

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

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