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“How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Alexie

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Alexie’s “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel”. An explication is carried ...

Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel" - A Post-Colonial Criticism

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at Alexie's "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel". The harmful American charact...

Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Impact of Family

In six pages this essay compares these two literary works in terms of family impact and protagonist alienation. There are no othe...

'What You Pawn I Will Redeem' by Sherman Alexie

he says, that our protagonist was assigned by his parents. The name in itself is an ironic reflection of the impact of the white ...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

N. Scott Momaday, Sherman Alexie and Alienation

In five pages Alexie's Indian Killer and Momaday's House Made of Dawn are analyzed so as to compare and contrast how alienation le...

Alexie: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”

an infant and was given little chance of survival. And heres what Junior says of himself: "I was born with water on the brain. OK,...

Life and Writings of Sherman Alexie

of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals'

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...

Plains Indians' Tipi

plains. Their mobile lifestyle necessitated mobile housing. The tipi was the result. Sometimes misspelled as "teepee", the tipi...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Writing Style of Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter

In nine pages this paper examines the writing style featured in this novel in a consideration of characterization structure and de...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Establishing Writing Connections and the Native American Writers Sherman Alexie and N. Scott Momaday

spotted horse grazed on the plain, and there was a dark wildness on the mountains beyond. The land was still and strong. It was ...

Thomas A. Bailey and the Trail of Tears

as noted above deserves some further expansion so that we know how to respond to it. When he discusses Baileys remarks, Peloso is ...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

3 American Authors and Perspectives on Forced Cultural Assimilation

family depicted in this book after all represents a rather blas? view of America. On closer consideration, however, it becomes ap...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Analysis of Mona in the Promise Land by Gish Jen

In five pages this paper examines and analyzes this Chinese American novel first published in 1996....

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

Loren D. Estleman: Writing Style

on a fateful September day. The aftermath of this watershed moment - inclusive of the ever-present criminal lures that only capit...

Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai

In eleven pages this research paper applies this Indian novel to Indian nationalism's historical development during the colonial e...

Pushkin/Moor of Peter the Great

the thirteenth century and a Prussian nobleman who came to Russia that time (Driver 21). Therefore, if the familys claims are corr...

American Indian College

Two American Indian scholars, David, Risling, Jr. and Dr. Jack Forbes wanted to establish D-Q University that was designed especia...

Jane Tomkin/"Indians"

Indians, but rather how scholarship can lead an historian to this answer. What is her conclusion to this overriding issue? Over...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...