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Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Comparative Analysis of Walter Mosley's Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and Devil in a Blue Dress

not be difficult to find for she is a white woman who is attracted to black men as well as jazz. In essence, Rawlins feels she wil...

Book and Television Production of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

In three pages this paper discusses the reception of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson in comparison ...

A Description of Millennium Hall by Sarah Scott

"letter" as an example to the public of the how virtue can be implemented (Scott 2). Ellison is accompanied on his journey by a fo...

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

Duncan Heyward in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

a natural hero because of his knowledge of and respect for the landscape. Heyward, on the other hand, establishes his ineptitude b...

Analysis of Joseph Heller's Catch 22

Yossarian watches as many slowly lose their grip on reality as they fly mission after mission. The Catch 22, then is that which wo...

Overview of the French Realist Period

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

Huckleberry Finn's Character

into the world and into society. He plays with different roles because he can in light of the fact that everyone thinks he is dead...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Five Patients by Michael Crichton

presented with a kind of awe and hope in terms of the medical industry. We are also provided with a look at interns and the ent...

Christine in Michael Dorris' A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

Choice and Society in The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Revenge

monster and the monster does as he promised, killing Victors new wife. "Victors ignorance towards his creation, leads to the monst...

Novel and Film Versions of The Rainmaker

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, Antigone, and Stubbornness

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, & the Advent of Gonzo Journalism

The journalist records events as they occur, but also incorporates those details of personal opinion, sensory impressions, and so...

Individual and the Effects of Culture, Environment, and Heritage

shocker. The Father is in actuality a nun who had been fleeing the sins of her past. She comes upon the body of the deceased Fathe...

Identity Search of Huckleberry Finn

scene that demonstrates the main thematic thrust of the story, Huck writes to Miss Watson telling her of Jims whereabouts. After w...

Satire and Candide by Voltaire

of all possible worlds" (Voltaire PG) illustrates how the author is using propaganda towards metaphysical optimism. Voltaire no m...

The Hot Zone by Preston

like tornadoes and earthquakes but also include diseases that can kill. The Plague for example took out many lives during the Midd...

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Their Autobiographical Elements

at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...

Analysis of Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

from this madness is to come up with a sentence that surpasses the one formulated by Nollop. By Octavia 19 (the islanders have t...

Social Commentary of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

understanding, Scout obviously feels that all people are alike everywhere so Miss Caroline (the teacher) should automatically unde...

Dreaming in Cuban/Cristina Garcia

notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted c...

Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding

In three pages this paper examines how a good man's virtues are represented in the novel by Abraham Adams and Joseph Andrews. Two...

Margaret Atwood and Albert Camus on Alienation

In a paper that contains five pages it is argued that Camus' Meursault in The Stranger and the unnamed narrator in Atwood's second...

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

This thesis paper examines this novel. Issues such as religion, revolution, morality and alcoholism are addressed. This five page...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Intertextuality

In five pages intertextuality is first defined and then applied to Bronte's novel, relating it to text by such authors as Lord Byr...

The Critical Reception of A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

the sheriff and the inevitable nightriders. As Gaines unravels the reasons why the old black men, as well as the young white woma...