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Even though the story is in second person, we understand that this is actually the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.

She is a flawed character who identifies herself only through her physical deformities, her glasses and her artificial leg, but remains ignorant of self until she is forced to confront the truth.

John Cheever's short story "The Reunion" is considered an initiation story because the protagonist of the story shifts from the viewpoint of a child to that of an adult during the action of the story.

Kino plans to travel to another city to sell this pearl, but his brother warns that the pearl is evil and he should just sell it.

In her novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent, the problem of remaking of identity of Arab Americans is depicted. It is important to mention that the problem of multiculturalism became a topical one in the end [...]

It is one of the main characteristics of the mockingbird includes its innocence and imitation of the songs of other birds in a loud voice.

The Tralfamadorian subplot includes a vision of the end of the world and the perpetuation of war, but these seem distant threats compared with the miseries of battlefield.

In contrast to many children, Dillard lived in wealthy family and had an opportunity to visit a private school. In sum, the unique childhood experience had a great impact on Dillard and her life views.

Tiger is one of the best students in spite of the fact that both of her parents are mentally ill.her grandmother is one of the best friends her helps and supports her.

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.

One of the delights of the novel is that technology aids both the tracking of some characters and the evasion of tracking by the same characters.

However, his observations of the clientele help him shape a view of the others in the community, and sadly, it is not an image that appeals to him.

Children's literature has long been a part of a child's early development and can trace its roots all the way back to the very first time in ancient history when a parent told a child [...]

All his books invariably deal with plots in the nature of conspiracies in one way or the other and in this regard, his two novels, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are very [...]

The narrative Incident of the Life of a Slave Girl depicts life troubles and hardships faced by a slave girl and her understanding of freedom and equality.

What Greene does not mention here is that Jesse is her adopted son from Bulgaria and so there is the added responsibility of setting an example of how to live in a society that is [...]

A person who is not aware of the date when the story "Our America" was written, will think that Jose Marti wrote the story, which is a speech in its format, in the 21st century.

Cohn states, that he is dissatisfied with his life in Paris, and he believes, that the change of the surrounding scenery would help him to fill the void that he feels in the life.

Our task is to show how this journey is viewed by some of the minor characters, how he or she perceives the notion of "American Dream", and how it reflects his world perception.

This scene is the one where the narrator and the attorney were giving a lift to a hitchhiker. Two of us were driving the car to Las Vegas when I saw a boy standing in [...]

In the pages of history and numerous literary canons in American experience there lies a terrain of societal upheaval and unrest that addresses the questions of segregation and racist philosophy underlying the mainstream dynamics of [...]

The article related to this short story, "Looking at setting and Atmosphere" analyses and demonstrates the importance of minor details in a short story. The author of the article is right that the story is [...]

Realizing this is the origin of his own poems, Whitman may have extrapolated this concept to all poets in the above statement, suggesting that the origin of all poems is in the lives of the [...]

The novel is aimed at disclosure of the principal problems faced by the working class in the 1930s and showing how ordinary people had to struggle for their rights. The flow of events presented in [...]

The narrator admits from the very beginning of the story that he is nervous about having a blind man in his house, suggesting that he himself is actually quite blind to the reality of the [...]

The book goes on to detail how Leopold gradually takes the entire lot of the Congo population in his grip, by making it in the nature of his private fiefdom to keep them in a [...]

The Age of the Enlightenment adored the samples of the classical art, in which it has seen the embodiment of intelligence.

The first works of the author are devoted to the writer's life experience and disclose the events and facts which were familiar to her that is why many of these works are autobiographical.

The book is broken up into key lessons, each of which is a representation of a facet or a feature of President Abraham Lincoln's style of leadership.

This appears to be the main motif of O'Brien's book and it is readers' existential mode that prompts them to look at "The Things They Carried" as literary piece that promotes an anti-war sentiment or [...]

It also goes against some of society and the state's outlook and is opposed to statism and collectivism which is that of conforming to the community and national goals.

The main characters of the story are the two girls, Roberta and Twyla and the ambiguity of their race is what the story relies upon.

The analysis of this genre focuses on the series of fiction works with the purpose of disclosure of unique qualities of fiction theory. The history of technology and science contributes to the formation of contextual [...]

The crush that happened in the game brings in the concern of the vividness of the two communities under the same roof.

Thesis: Edna's journey to the end of the sea at the end of the novel can be interpreted in two ways: the simplistic one being that Edna commits suicide and a deeper interpretation being it's [...]

The idea of the work lies in the fact that Aylmer, the main character of the story, has a fixed idea to remove a little birthmark from the face of his wife.

The point is that the jury, convicting the defendants does not even want to go into the details of this case. It seems, that for the overwhelming majority of people, this mans life is of [...]

In these lines, the author tries to emphasize the idea that this person was a respected member of the community and he seemed to be a man of honor in the eyes of the public.

Cotton Mather however does not forget to mention the fact that devil exists and he works in collaboration with the witches and uses them to achieve his goals and objectives of seeing that the world [...]

Hence, the decision he takes could explore his temperament and hence reading the themes of exile and escape in Hemingway's Soldier's Home is an interesting study of these sensitive concepts as caricatured in the protagonist, [...]

Contrary to the author's statement about the art of loss that she repeats in four stanzas out of six the point of the poem is that the art of losing is hard to deal with, [...]

In the modern short story tradition, the effectiveness of a short story depends on many aspects and one of the most essential elements that go into the effective narration of a short story is its [...]

The travel from the physical world of the body to the world of the spirits is symbolized by the gentle ride in a carriage shared with pleasant company.

The cadets insist that this is an integral part of the Citadel, that promotes the lifestyle that they want the cadets to follow one of trust in one's fellow man and the sense that everyone [...]

In the school in Ballou, we see that good performance is scorned and yet he is struggling to be a good performer.

Title of the Book: The Joy Luck Club Author: Amy Tan Main Characters: An-Mei Hsu Lindo Jong Waverly Jong Rose Hsu Jordan Lena St.

Taking into account the numerous means, which King uses to create the atmosphere of mystery and horror, it is impossible to enlist them all.

The style of the novel adds a sense of mystery to the story, which, combined with the representation of the various rituals and the extensive usage of the native language, makes the reading process more [...]

The book itself is the story about the characters that were created by the author of the book Thornton Burgess and that are the embodiments of the processes and things of nature, as well as [...]

The chronology of Pop' action after he left the hut was in the following manner: Went to Judge Thatcher and threatened him to give up the money.

This paper defines the term hunger, describes other forms of hunger, and finally tries to interpret Wrights form of physical hunger to find out if it is representative of something.

The central point of the story in concentrated on the concept of "pride" following the actions of Richard, the protagonist of the story.

The protagonist of the story is the man who "was a newcomer in the land, a chechaquo, and this was his first winter" and he is the prime tool at the hands of the writer [...]

In "The Storm", the major part of the story is the activities of Calixta and Alcee, the main protagonist, and one of her neighbors who was caught out when the storm arrived, which are described [...]

It is not a surprise that such a person is confined by the norms and expectations of society and looks for a way to break free.

Isaacs explains his belief that this portrayal of the American soldier in Vietnam is detrimental, saying that this contributed to the sense of much of the American public that the soldiers were responsible for the [...]

Moody, intimately entailed in the civil rights movement in the first half of the 1960s, created a memorable image of the inequities and aggression that featured southern community.

All for his association with a Black woman."Because I was used to white people by 1948" is a statement he made at the very beginning of the book. A racist who is a racist in [...]

They were Creators, who lived lives of spiritual waste, because they were so rich in spirituality-which is the basis of Art-that the strain of enduring their unused and unwanted talent drove them insane. Women, for [...]

This is the main conflict of the story and it is my belief that she chose to be happy at her newfound freedom while grieving for her husband a little.

In this paper, I am going to analyze the use of the above mentioned writing techniques by the famous writer and scientist Eric Schlosser who wrote the preview in Sinclair's book "The Jungle by Upton [...]

In his book "The Unredeemed Captive," author John Putnam Demos depicts a fascinating contest of cultures, featuring the English Puritan Protestants of New England, the Roman Catholics of France and the Native Americans against the [...]

For both Hester and for the townspeople, the mere presence of this letter appearing this one time on her dress is enough to mark her as something different from the rest of them and secluded.

The difficulty of this evolution is conveyed in the fabric of the narrative, in an ambiguous dependence on the pronoun "he" that occasionally confuses Sarty with his father, mirroring the process by which people are [...]

As she began to no longer "fit in" the description of the perfect child, she began to "fit in" the description of a social problem instead.

Through the eyes of a schizophrenic patient of the hospital named Chief Bromdens, the author traces the development of friendship between McMurphy and some of the people undergoing treatment, as well as shows the opposition [...]

The family adjusted to the codes of conduct in the camp, and Tom even managed to find a job picking fruits at a local farm.

In this piece of Wolfe's, "the right stuff" as it is referred to is what Wolfe believes is morally correct or prudent in terms of what our children and people of the world in general [...]

In asking her to perform this task, she places the white woman in a position of servitude that is assigned to African-Americans.

In today's literature, it is possible to observe the artistic, historical, social, and political value of literary work in connection with the social and political conditions of the definite epoch.

It is not difficult to realize that Hawthorne's intention in "Young Goodman Brown" is to force the reader to experience the temptations which Brown himself must endure and that he is made to see the [...]

A peculiar feature of the passage is that instead of revealing the distinctive features of African Americans, the author concentrates on the fact that the distinction between the races in the American society is dependent [...]

A writer, in his most abject and humane form, is serving the purpose of expressing his personal and intimate reflections of the world to the complete stranger who reads his works.

Her assumed insanity was to be expected after all the things she has endured the loss of a mother while growing up, the death of a father, the sudden loss of a charmed way of [...]

The novel "The grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is claimed to describe the lives of ordinary farm workers all over the United States of America who moved to California during the period of the [...]

For instance, in The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat the police arrive and stimulate a desire on the part of the narrator to confess his crime and undergo punishment from the state.

To emphasize the difference between the characters' political views the author chooses the country's portrayal through insider and outsider perspectives, on the one hand, showing the evocations of those who remained in Cuba and, on [...]

In the story Hawthorne pondered upon the three ways of making God's word clearer to people. The author himself and his main hero saw the mission of a clergyman in explaining the Bible to the [...]

It is clear that Brett and Jake's love is reciprocal when Jake tries to kiss Brett on the cab ride home: "'You must not.

A masterpiece, "One for the Road" ended a painful period of writer's block for Harold Pinter in a manner swift and strange and led to an explicitly political agenda of his subsequent plays, "Mountain Language" [...]

The lightning becomes the conflict inside her and the beating of the rain on her roof is the beating of her heart as she finally expresses her passion with Alcee.

The book's story of escape and a search for happiness despite all the sham and drudgery in this world is the topic of this paper.

Critics admit that Salinger's depiction of Holden Caulfield symbolizes the dilemma of the idealist in the contemporary world and shows the primary structural framework of a novel.

Finally, the destruction of the Usher's house can be explained by the fact that its base was not solid and the change in weather conditions caused it destruction.

Whitman on the other hand demonstrates the idea that we are all part of a large whole, he explains, "And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand and the egg of wren".

Getting a personal ticket to salvation is his main concern and he does not stop before imperiling the lives of his family.

It is clear that the narrator disapproves the way chosen by his younger brother."I did not like the way he carried himself, loose and dreamlike all the time...and I did not like his friends, and [...]

The paper provides a discussion of the short story and analyses the theme of emotion and depression that the main character Stetson Gilman undergoes and her advent into insanity caused by the wrong treatment given [...]

These assessments are made based upon the appearances of others, such as in her identification of the cotton print dress that is recognizable to Mrs. Through imagery and setting, O'Connor is successful in heavily lacing [...]

Sara is shocked at the turn of events and their mother is a mute spectator to her daughters' miserable lives. The harsh realities of life have made her a mature woman, a Jewish woman of [...]

Those running away are not sure of where they are going as Le Guin put it at the end of the story "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us [...]

A peculiar feature of works of this type is that the main characters, women, are not treated as they should be: they see numerous deaths of their dearest people, they are deprived of the fulfillment [...]

But if you look at the other side of the story this kindness shown to Bartleby is only the social responsibility of one person to the rest of the world.

Margaret Walker's Jubilee is a lyrical novel that captures and shapes the saga of the African American experience by using the lyrics of slave songs and spirituals that give testimony to the legacy of her [...]

In order for the writer to familiarize the reader with the setting of the story, she has succeeded in inviting the reader to be part of the story by describing in detail the setting, from [...]

The story focuses upon an unnamed narrator who struggles to find a sense of fulfillment in a world in which personal fulfillment is supposed to be accomplished through making the right purchases and having access [...]

As he stood beneath the lights of the strident room, the inhabitants beam him and make him replicate himself; an unintentional orientation to parity nearly damages him, but the whole thing terminates well and he [...]

One might find a lot of factors that led to it: the author's writing style, the lightness, and simplicity of depiction, the ordinariness of the topic chosen, etc.

The single act gives a glimpse into the investigation of the murder of John Wright, who is believed to have been killed by his wife, Minnie.

In the paper, the author will explore the validity of this suggestion at length while promoting the idea that Keegan's collection of essays holds the actual key to understanding the ongoing geopolitical decline of the [...]

However, as time progresses, the relevance of the story may become outdated, beginning a discussion on its presence in the Americana literary canon."Good Country People" deserves continuous recognition in the canon due to its brilliant [...]

Despite the presence of many opportunities and positive dreams and goals, most of them fail to be realized due to misleading values and aims set by surrounding society; this idea is present in almost all [...]

Lack of directions and information that people with disabilities face when they find themselves in that condition is one of the problems that the author raises in the first part of her book.

However, what the reader should acknowledge is that the author manages to present a wholesome and clear image of the issues and occurrences that defined the United States throughout the 1920s.

At the same time, Gladwell argues that, when applied to the areas such as business and economy, the blink may save the world due to the opportunities that it provides.

Based on Alexie's short story evaluated in this paper, as well as the general theme of his book, there are several key criteria to evaluate the existing conditions of Indians with: Drugs and alcohol usage;

In "Babushka Baba Yaga" this is translated through the transition from a positive change in the main character, while in the other book the author introduces hardships of life to illustrate the need to be [...]

The indigenous population of Inuit that inhabits the Arctic territories of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland has been historically subjected to neglect and disregard from the majority of nations that came to explore their lands.

Maika, a teenage girl from the world in the state of war, is different from other characters of the book due to some of her physical features and an unconquerable will.

In the US, the concept of blackness is the key idea that defines the social, political, and cultural position of African-Americans, both in past and present periods of history.

The unusual character of these events resulted in the creation of the book Into the Wild by Krakauer, who tried to repeat the same way and explain the main causes of the main character's actions.

The first task is the identification of the initial syllable followed by the production of a word or words with a similar syllable, which in this case is 'cl' in click and clack.

In conclusion, Bonnin's "Impressions of an Indian Childhood" belongs to the canon of a college survey course of American writers for a number of reasons.

Such a dominant ideology, perceived as the dream-goal for the majority of the US citizens in the 1920s, was a special modification of the "American dream" in the era of post-war economic "prosperity".

The power of horses describes the story of an Indian girl, Marlene, whose family has many horses, but they have to sell them.

Nevertheless, its message is powerful and clearly delivered, and so it remains a classic and lends the name to a famous science fiction concept.

It is apparent that Dick draws parallels to the ships that traveled between Europe and America in the early days of the colonization.

The situation is indicative of the overall condition of a significant part of humanity, and the boy's foremost desire is to escape the situation.

It is possible to say that the author significantly contributed to the development of the comprehension of the Vietnam War in the American literature.

Burgess, which is the name of the main character, plays a trick with the citizens of Hadleburg, involving them in lies, thus ruining the virtuous reputation of the town.