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Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...

Literary Interpretation and Analysis of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

the modern world was a study in contrasts between interior and exterior, so too was modernist literature. There was often the con...

Dialect Significance in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In twelve pages this research paper presents the argument that a greater appreciation of Hurston's classic novel can be acquired t...

Slavery Ideology and Practice in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

Relying Upon Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko as a Historical Source

In seven pages this paper examines Silko's novel from a historical context in an analysis of what Ceremony reveals about the latte...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, Henry James' The American, and Subliminal Religion

In 6 pages this paper examines how subliminal religion is represented in these two American novels. There are no other sources li...

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In ten pages this paper presents the argument that this first romance novel of the American frontier reflects in its characterizat...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

Canadian Aboriginal Culture and Family Relationship Changes

In a paper consisting of seven pages sibling relationship changes in Canada's Native American cultures are examined through the us...

The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt

In five pages this novel is analyzed that offers a realistic depiction of race relations and African Americans. There are no othe...

Marxist Ideology in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper analyzes how John Steinbeck featured Marxist ideology in his classic American novel The Grapes of Wrath. ...

Premarital Sex and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of premarital sex in these two Latin American novels. There are no ...

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and the Generation Gap

In 10 pages this paper analyzes the novel by Amy Tan in terms of how it presents the Chinese mother and Chinese American daughters...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Mark Twain's Use of Dialect

In five pages Mark Twain's use of regional dialects in his classic 1884 American novel is examined with its intentions often being...

Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

Walter Mosely's American Dream Reflections in Devil in a Blue Dress

In five pages the author's reflections of the American Dream in characterizations of the novel such as that of Easy Rawlins are ex...

“Huck Finn” and Creating Characters Who are Romantic and Real

most memorable stories and characters in American literature, and they remain popular to this day. This paper considers perhaps hi...

Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

his civilized life. The plot, other than Huck running away, involved Huck running and coming in contact with Jim, a slave he kn...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Modernism

In 5 pages modernism of the 20th century is defined and then applied to this American novel by Ernest Hemingway. There are 3 sour...

American Dream in Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby

as "The Jazz Age." When not numbing themselves with superficial pleasures, young people were pursuing the American Dream, as tran...

Four Novels and the American Dream

girl who is rejected by nearly everyone. In fact, so too is her family as the lot of them is cursed with ugliness and rejection. ...

Review of the Native American Novel The Light People

the serious topics addressed. Above all, this is a story about a search for family. As Okinaway goes through life, he does seem t...

Contemporary American Novel

Penn Warren, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton. All of these novels ...

American Tragedy in the Novels of John Steinbeck

In five pages this paper discusses how the American tragedy concept is thematically manifested in the writings of John Steinbeck. ...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

African American Forms of Narrative

wish to purchase his children," but this was never allowed (Jacobs 11). Her life changed forever when she came into the ownership ...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and the Sci Fi Novel's Issues

In five pages this paper discusses religious and social issues as they pertain to this 1993 novel by Octavia E. Butler. There are...

Colonialism and the New Testament

Puritans saw themselves a turning away from a thousand years of established religious teaching so that the "truth" of the New Test...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...