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The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

in words, never in deeds. In actuality, Carnegie was totally ruthless in his business practices, coldly treating the workers as if...

childhood, as well as everything he hopes to achieve is best illustrated in an incident that occurs between Sammy and Al Manheim o...

147). Marlows initial reaction is in keeping with the African environment and the darkness that has touched his life, as it did Ku...

Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

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...

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

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

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

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

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...

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

In this novel, Rudy "Chato" Medina, the fourteen-year-old protagonist narrates the story of events that occur during his familys l...

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

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

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

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...