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"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...