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Nabokov & Use of Language

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

“Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”: Rebellion Against Patriarchy

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

The Depression as Backdrop

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

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

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

Wier/Tehano

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

Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

Coupland’s Generation X

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

The Message in Slaughterhouse-Five

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

Written on the Body, The Color Purple

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

Question on Grapes of Wrath

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...

Gender Narrative in "Midnight's Children"

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

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

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

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

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...

Relationship of Structure and Theme in Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"

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

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

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

Dreams and Authority in “The Great Gatsby”

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Sexuality in the Work of Crane and Wharton

In the case of Charity she is prone to lying in the fields and feel her sexuality become alive, as she feels the earth...

Analysis of Anthem by Ayn Rand

rather than "I." As he has always been taller and smarter than his peers, he has been criticized throughout his life by his teache...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

In five pages the novel is analyzed in regards to the role chance plays in the life of a soldier and also examines how the novel w...

Analysis of the Character Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In seven pages this paper analyzes both the novel's 3rd person narrative as well as the main character Okonkwo. Six sources are c...

1984 by George Orwell and the Motto 'Ignorance is Strength'

In 5 pages the totalitarian state is examined within the context of novel contained within Orwell's futuristic novel, 'Ignorance i...

Donald Duk by Frank Chin

In five pages this paper examines the novel's representation of the Chinese heritage as perceived by an eleven year old boy. Ther...

Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

In six pages this paper discusses how the struggles of Indian women are reflected in this novel's female characterization. Eleven...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

An Epistolary Novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways in which the novel's format represents a series of letters that have been written ...

Comparing and Contrasting The Wedding by Dorothy West with Jazz by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts two novels, The Wedding by Dorothy West and Jazz by Toni Morrison. The novels are the onl...