The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Religious Roles in the Narrative The narrative of Olaudah Equiano is truly a magnificent one. Not only does the reader get to see the world through Equiano's own personal experiences, we get to read a major autobiography that combined the...
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THE LITTLE PRINCE In the eyes of a child, there is joy, there is laughter. But as time ages us, as soon as we flowered and became grown-ups the child inside us all fades that we forget that once, we were a child. The story begins about drawings of closed and open boa constrictors. Later, the...
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?When confronted with aggression one can fight or retreat. In what ways are reactions to aggression presented in the work you have studied? Emotions are easier shown than written. Every action has its equal and opposite reaction, and to portray this, a great deal of detailed observation and a sack...
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass 1. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is one the most influential anti-slavery works written by a former slave. The narrative, which was written entirely by Douglass himself, described his life as a slave, and his road to freedom. The novel...
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That modern audiences still often find Hermann Hesse’s experimental novel “The Steppenwolf” groundbreaking and unique illuminates the intense individuality with which Hesse pursued the novel’s composition and themes, as well as the apparent longevity of his technical advances in narrative, many of...
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Burkhead, Cynthia. Student Companion to John Steinbeck. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002 Cynthia Burkhead's book is a comprehensive discussion of John Steinbeck and some of his more well-known writings. The book begins with a brief description of Steinbeck's career as a writer and his...
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"The Remains of the Day", winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, was written by Kazuo Ishiguro in 1989. Ishiguro had a typical English education with an immersion in Japanese culture. His fictions are remarked as “deal[ing] broadly with themes of self-deception, truth and the clash of public and private...
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Struggling for the Dream in A Raisin in the Sun Set in a cramped apartment in poverty-striken Southside Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry, through realistic slang, accounts the struggles of five black family members battling against racism to attain middle-class acceptance during 1959. After Walter...
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The love story –sweet and daring for some, sordid and offending for others-- between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky is compelling and tragic. Anna and the Count have an affair, causing an uproar in society. Because of the double standards of the time, while Vronsky may still hold his head high in...
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The desire for love and the need for acceptance can create more than a feeling of rejection. In East of Eden and The Kite Runner, many characters find the task of love daunting and insufficient to their expectations. Love presents itself in every aspect of both novels and therefore is a major theme...
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? Book Review of The Hatchet by Mihail Sadoveanu The Hatchet by Mihail Sadoveanu is an epic about a mountain woman named Vitoria Lipan who goes on a long and arduous journey to find her missing husband, Nechifor Lipan. Nechifor had gone to Dorna in the summer to buy sheep and by fall, he has still...
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Voltaire's Candide seems to display a world of horror, one filled with floggings, rapes, robberies, unjust executions, disease, natural disasters, betrayals and cannibalism. Pangloss, the philosopher, has a constant optimistic view throughout the entire novel even despite all of the cruelty in the...
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Herman Hesse, the author of Steppenwolf has incorporated his theory that everyone has multiple personalities throughout this reading. By writing this, Hesse fragmented himself into three different people: the author, the acquaintance and Harry Haller. Herman Hesse’s main theory was that “there are...
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A thought that is ‘seeded’ into an author’s mind is outputted in his or hers work. That ‘seeding’ of thought could be initiated by the ‘system’ in which the author lives or lived. That is, the author observing the environment, persons, events etc, he/she faced will ‘interpret’ it in written forms...
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A Contained Country Searching for Freedom “It was too late. Too many of those who had at least tolerated the Shah's rule had been lost. Demonstrations continued. ” (“The Pahlavi Monarchy Falls” 2) In Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, the country of Iran undergoes a series of governmental changes...
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John Steinbeck’s contribution to American literature is cemented in the works of East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. His use of regionalism and his simplistic characters with everyday problems has gained him the reputation of one of the greatest writers in American history. The...
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The Remains of the Day – thematic analysis How does history function in the novel? In the novel, The Remains of the Day, Stevens’ self deceptive and partial narration corrects the past, not only his own personal past but also the historical events. This allows him to forget what hurts him and...
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“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...” — — “I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I...
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Character Analysis Have you ever found yourself worried sick about money to the point where you can no longer think straight? Or have you ever thought that if you had a million dollars, everything in your life would be absolutely perfect? The fact is, a million dollars isn't reality for the...
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Progress is “the development of an individual or society in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level (Dictionary. reference. com)”. Anna Karenina, written by Leo Tolstoy, is a book filled with tragedy, love and choices. This novel can be...
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Sharmeel Bhatti Ms. Ciufo ENG-3U1 Wednesday, April, 28, 2010 Life of Pi: Correlation between Science and Religion One of the most important dichotomies that exist amongst today is Science versus Religion. A dichotomy that started in the renaissance era, a period when people started questioning...
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The Reality of Growing Up While growing up I was influenced by everything around me. The media, my peers, my family etc. surrounded me and constantly guided the decisions I made. Although influenced by many outside forces, I still held on to my morals and values that my parents had always taught...
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The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolism February 28, 1997 The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great...
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The Remains of the Day- How to Deal with Regret and Loss The novel The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is a first-person narration of an English butler named Stevens. He recalls the past thirty-four years he has worked as a butler at Darlington Hall in England on his road trip. He is going to...
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An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad, in his long-short story, "Heart of Darkness," tells the tale of two mens' realization of the hidden, dark, evil side of themselves. Marlow, the "second" narrator of the framed narrative, embarked upon a spiritual adventure on which he witnessed...
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Like Water for Chocolate, a Mexican romantic epic authored by Laura Esquivel which had a film adaptation focuses on a young woman by the name of Tita De La Garza who learns that her cooking has supernatural upshots. The smitten Tita is cruelly upset, and her misery has great impact that it...
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The aim of any true satirical work is to poke fun at a certain aspect of society, while also inspiring reform to that very same aspect in one way or another. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Chaucer satirizes the Medieval Church and those associated with the church. Medieval society was centered...
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CHARACTERS: The narrator- a pilot stranded in the desert The Little Prince- from asteroid B-612 who meets the narrator in the desert The Rose- The Little Prince's 'friend' on his planet The Fox- my personal favorite of the characters you meet in the book who teaches that only the heart can see...
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Remains of the Day Written Assignment A conversation between Stevens and Mr. Graham on the noble matter of dignity: It is nearing the end of the evening, I have already turned in for the night, but sleep is non-forthcoming. So, I began to ponder upon the matter of dignity, and find my asking the...
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One of the interesting things about literature is that comparisons can often be drawn between different works based upon prevailing themes in those works. In the case of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God, important correlations can be...
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The Transformation of Marlow - Conrad’s Explication of Europe’s Colonial Practice in Africa In “Heart of Darkness” Conrad introduces his protagonist Marlow, his journey through the African Congo and the “enlightenment” of his soul. With the skilled use of...
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Laura Esquirel's, Like Water for Chocolate, is a modern day Romeo and Juliet filled with mouthwatering recipes. It has become a valued part of American literature. The novel became so popular that it was developed into a film, becoming a success in both America and Mexico. Alfonso Arau directs the...
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In their life, at one point or another, people deny to themselves and others what they really feel and what really happened. Some people go on living their entire lives denying their true emotions. In Toni Morrison’s novel Sula, characters constantly denied their feelings and their actions. Sula...
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John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Carloads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a...
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The Remains of the Day Discuss the themes of loss and regret in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. The story The remains of the day, by Kazuo Ishiguro is filled with both aspects of loss and regret. The term Loss is an amount that one suffers due to an event and the term regret means to feel...
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Janie grew up to find herself through each of her relationships. Her subdued lifestyle with her grandmother, her subdued and rather painful existence with her first husband Logan, her disillusionment after her initial enchantment with her second husband Jody, and her unfortunate killing of the...
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Written by Sherwood Anderson in 1919, Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of short stories, allows us to enter the alternately complex, lonely, joyful, and strange lives of the inhabitants of the small town of Winesburg, Ohio. While each character finds definition through their role in the community, we...
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Just as on the title, Candide, or Optimism, Optimism is also used as a major theme. Voltaire's satire of philosophical optimism is one of the major issues of Candide. Throughout the story, satirical references to 'the best of all possible worlds' contrast with natural catastrophes and...
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ISHIGURO'S THE REMAINS OF THE DAY Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day is an intimate portrayal of an utterly English butler through his methodical ruminations on the subjects of greatness and dignity. Stevens, the aging butler of Darlington Hall, performs his job with selflessness and a...
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Brief Introduction Zora Neale Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God is a very important piece of literature written in the late 30’s which told the story of a woman and her struggle and quest as a black person, a woman and most importantly, a human being with unique goals and desires. The...
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Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio deals with the understanding of human nature and its faults. In each short story the character is increasingly oppressed by his inability to express himself to those in his society. They are all desperately trying to make contact with someone outside themselves...
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East of Eden: John Fontenrose Response The basis for the story of good and evil is most often the Christian biblical stories in the book of Genesis. The classic battle of good and evil with good always triumphant over evil often stretches farther out and into our many cultures. This archaic tale...
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An Analysis of Satrapi’s Persepolis Persepolis presents the Islamic Revolution in Iran through the point of view of a child who questions the most fundamental practices and assumptions of Islam. Growing in a household that frowns upon the dictates of Islamic fundamentalism at a time when there is...
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Toni Morrison's "Sula" is a novel about the history of the black race in America. The novel deals with a variety of themes but perhaps the major theme portrayesd throughout the novel is ? Good Versus Evil", that is, the choice between right and wrong. This theme is brought into light on numerous...
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Connor Grennan: An Ordinary Man Creating Extraordinary Changes If one were to take a survey and ask people around a single question like, “How was your day? ” “Good”, can be the most popular answer one would hear in response. One would wonder how many of them, really had a satisfactory day. Many...
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?The Remains of the Day “The evening is the best part of the day. ” This simple sentence represents that the best part of like should be old age where one can look back upon their life with a sense of fulfilment and satisfaction. ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Kazuo Ishiguro follow the journey of a...
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essay: A Raisin in the Sun It is a common notion that money doesn’t buy happiness. Or does it? The classic play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry seeks to reflect on this idea. The play recounts the story of the Youngers, a poor African American family, who are awaiting the arrival of...
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Anna Karenina is not the ‘villain’ that other characters describe her to be, but merely a victim of the social and economic circumstances of his time. To what extent would you agree with this statement? Anna Karenina is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair...
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Women’s place in the status quo has gone a long way since the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston, author of the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, experienced the harshness of the reality that awaits the color of her skin by the time she was writing the piece. Apparently, that connotation...
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Joseph Wooten Ets101 Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 to 12:20 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, was the first of the three autobiographies that Frederick Douglass wrote himself. It’s a story about slavery and the meaning of freedom of the antebellum America. According to...
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