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Within the book, the audience will find a logical and coherent argument written in chronological order and leading the reader through the main events of the history of the United States.

The novel is a stylistic delight that deftly moves between Sutter's meandering existence and versions of John Henry's focused attempt to beat the machine'.

As a journalist and a columnist, the author employs a style that appears to be a paradox to bring out the characteristics of the American nation.

The value of the composition lies in the progressive moral it brought to the world of literature as well as social views, redirecting the social mind from the old patriarchal foundations to the recognition of [...]

The purpose of this paper is to explore the main characters of this book, define the types of obsessive love proposed by the author and evaluate the knowledge this book can give to its readers.

Life was not fair to a little Anne the chapters about her childhood are alike to a chain of unfortunate events that happened to her and her relatives.

In her article, Tsing Loh employs irony, satire, and sarcasm as the main rhetoric devices that help her apply to the readers' emotions such as sympathy and compassion since the subject of her writing is [...]

The two literature pieces under consideration in the following paper can be acclaimed as a strong attack to the motives of those participating in the World War II along with the use of powerful irony.

The main characters of the story observe and relate to others through judgment leading to their perceptions and blind belief in certain ideas to be fundamentally challenged.Mrs. The arrogance and judgment of Mrs.

In the story, the author portrays the inner nature of each of the characters via the symbolic features of the things carried by them.

One of the examples of the American literary canon is Rappaccini's Daughter, since it is distinguished by its innovativeness, features of the narration, and themes, but has universal values at the same time.

The theme and problem of woman's rights looming over the society of that day is demonstrated as the main issue at the core of the story.

In a tale about a young girl meeting a hunter, the author touches upon the subjects of the relationship of humans and nature, the feelings of attraction, and moral judgment.

The Devil is trying to persuade the main character that the world as he sees it through the moral lens is an illusion.

Secondly, it is worth noting that the librarianship is quite a general issue to talk about and it goes without saying that that amount of books that has been given to the usage of a [...]

Consequently, the cat and the crow agreed to be friends. One day, the cat and the rat worked in the garden.

It is very unfortunate that instead of her enjoying the company of the man while waiting for the train, she feels he is a bother to her and deserves to keep silent.

A literary work that was inspired by one of the most crucial periods in the history of the country was "Democratic Vistas" by Walt Whitman, which was written in 1871 or the period after the [...]

Among the literature discussing of slavery as one of the blights on the history of the U.S., Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” takes an important yet controversial place.

First of all, the story plot of the book should be taken into consideration to understand what scientific facts may be put in requisition in it."Ender's Game" relates the story of a six-year Ender Wiggin [...]

On the day of the carnival Montresor goes looking for Fortunato and finds him a bit tipsy and it is then that he tells him of how he had acquired a rare kind of amontillado [...]

An individual needs to understand that the word landscape does not only refer to having the knowledge of names and identity of everything in the landscape but also perceiving the relationship between different elements in [...]

Keeping Cool in Middle School" describes the life of the girl in the Middle School. Agnes Parker is glad to be in the Middle School.

The second step in the block building approach to critical thinking is the importance of the study of the play and the impact on the readers.

The title is, in itself, ironic, for anthems have always meant to sing praises about grand things like love and patriotism, and so at first glance the poem seems to praise the damnation of the [...]

To illustrate, Rose and Ted disregard their parents' race-based objections to the couple's proposed marriage, thus depicting fate and wrong decisions jointly facilitating the characters' downfall.

The next day roles are changed: the children with brown eyes have privileges, and the kids with blue are eyes are in the position of minority.

This essay seeks to investigate the History of Americans in the colonial era, the ways of life and the interrelationships between the colonial subjects and masters.

The African American are described to be living in distress and real poverty based on the description of the housing the environment and the lifestyle they lead.

The changes in Emily's life can be largely attributed to Emily's father and her perception of change. Emily's father is the only man in her life for the better part of her life.

In the world of Sartoris, violence is a basic feature of manhood and this is a thing he comes to know from staying with his father.

In his book "the fire that Changes America", the writer explores the social problems that faced the American people in their social settings.

Even though most Americans consider him a traitor, he is regarded as one of the greatest boxers in the world."Redemption Song" by Mark Marqusee is a book that describes the cost of the choices that [...]

The way she describes the wallpaper is symbolic of the evolution of her psychological problem: she gets to see herself through the wallpaper.

The effect of this well-structured rhyme on the tone of the poem is evident upon recitation as it gives it a musical sound.

Tim Wise, one of the best speakers in the United States of America, says that even though the President states on the colorblindness society and he is sure that racism is combated and there is [...]

We know that the setting is in the American South because of the use of the names Andrew Jackson a famous general of the U.S.

This is indeed a can spark the minds of young readers and be a source of motivation to them to learn through the life of Anne.

Hitchcock's books and essays have been of great admiration by most of his readers throughout the years in America and all over the globe. His skills in presenting American culture and romance are quite admirable; [...]

However, in the novel the experience of Billy is more of a lesson that tries to teach readers against war through the manner in which Billy is seen to perceive war.

The neighbors who heard the scuffle that ensued and went to the ladies house gave evidence to the police, and in as much as most of them agree on a great extent to the events [...]

The concept of his role is to highlight the fact that it's never too late to do what you have always wanted to do.

The conflict in the story is brought about by the reaction of the main character towards the news of the death.

Since the beginning of his speech, David Foster Wallace indicates that the speech is going to be informal and tries to break the ice between the audience and himself by using such words as "bullshitty" [...]

The "discerning Eye" that sees through society's "Madness" is certainly the poet's and, implicitly, belongs to certain other naysayers as well."I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" articulates a state of consciousness that follows the [...]

According to Dawley in class in community, wrote of the tremendous changes in the life of the shoemaker 'S" as the shoemaking industry moved from a cottage industry to the factory system.

Hem and Haw somehow did not notice that the supply of cheese was slowly dwindling, until one day, when they arrived at Station C, they found out that all the cheese was gone.

In the book, Bernays explains how he employed propaganda to manipulate the public when he was the head of the United States Department of public information during world war I.

The power that the people have on their rulers is minimal and this is one of the factors that have impeded the development of the values of self governance in this country.

However, it is this kind of utopian society that existed in Jerusalem that shaped the views that this author had. The story of the island of utopia is a satire on the complicated society that [...]

In it Rosenblatt says that the whole of a written text is a combination of what the writer produces and what the readers infers.

In the novel "The Adventures of Huck Finn", the writer portrayed the theme of 'racism and slavery' in South America during the end of civil war.

This implies that he had started valuing the presence of other people in his life and the aversions that he had towards his parents started to wither after realizing that he had to share his [...]

The agony and the ecstasy is the work of Irving Stone who is an American author. The cardinal instead fails to suggest a specific topic for his work and even after months of waiting for [...]

The characters of the story are linked to the political scene of the mauve decade. The explanation was based on Baum's experience in the field of journalism before the publication of the wizard of OZ.

It is evident from these words that the actual intention was to emulate the philosophical concept of the time but the situation and the intention was completely materialistic in nature.

To him, it sounded like the culture was just a way of enriching oneself, like in the case of Mars Dugal, and this could not deter him from exploiting the potential the land had.

In what is a parallel to Marx's philosophy and attack on the exploitation of the workers by the capitalists; and therefore a call for a revolution, the farm animals are inspired by the counsel of [...]

The evidence from the plot of the book that supports the position taken on understanding the underlying factors of behavior is the realization that the bear had killed the goose due to the feelings of [...]

The topic chosen from the story for analyzing is 'To what extent is the protagonist of the story you have chosen responsible for the conflict or predicament he or she faces'.

Positive attitude towards the challenges of life and the real joy found in the numerous adventures of the book's characters are the things that Elizabeth Enright wants every person to have, and in this paper [...]

However, it is not the reaction of the children to the sociology lesson that is the most important, but the reaction of the reader instead.

The important literary device used to depict Holden confronting the pressure of the society and the corruption of the adult world is characterization, as the main character calls people he meets "phony" and refers to [...]

The Novel, Unpardonable Sin written by Hawthorne is a detailed criticism of the way of life of the Puritan. The various examples of Jesus in His dealing with those who commit sin is relevant as [...]

As a result of his boasting, a great deal of what his family knows about Willy is based upon the image he feels he must portray of himself in order to bring himself in line [...]

The protagonist of the story, Jack Hawthorne, is considered to be the example of the person seeking consolation in horn music because of the brother's death; the death is showed as the way to something [...]

The reference to the fact that the priest who lived in the house before them had left the furniture of the house to his sister, suggests that the family could have used the furniture had [...]

The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.

Even though Cruz is finding it difficult to cope with life here, the more she stays here the more she get as adapted to this environment.

The narrative description of the elegy expresses the narrator's undying love for 'Annabel Lee' detailing a love which had originated many a year ago in the unidentified 'kingdom by the sea'.

It's an indication of the misuse of the people by the leaders in a bid to bar them from enlightenment and also keep them in manipulative positions.

The character of Belisa Crepusculario is introduced in the first line of the short story because she is the main character and the action unfolds around the woman.

The first is changes in the scope and uniqueness of the main sectors technology, information, and industry. In sum, the term and concept of "technoculture" reflect the essence of modern society and its overdependence on [...]

The short stories Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman are the examples of the innovative, not traditional approach to the topic of the Holocaust.

The atmosphere of fear and poverty forced the families to break the rules and to overcome the frontier in the pursuit of welfare.

In the book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman, the author shows such cultural dilemmas by telling the story of the struggles of Hmong family and the girl Lia Lee, [...]

Hot, Flat and Crowded is a much anticipated follow up to his earlier books and is a plea to the policymakers of the world to wake up to the reality of global warming and the [...]

She imagines that if she could have gained the attention of Jim O'Connor in high school, her life would be much different.

As Stella entered the cave, her flashlight's beam fell on a splatter of blood, and the scarlet stain gleamed against the backdrop of moss that covered the wall like a green carpet.

It goes without saying that the main topic to be explored in the course of comparison is the impact of science on human life and its part in the overall course of events described. The [...]

This was the third summer after the outbreak of the Civil War and the fight would come to be known as the Battle of Gettysburg as also the bloodiest and fiercest battle fought in America.

After reading this text I strongly felt the necessity to communicate with the nature, as it is an integral part of any of us!

However, to accept it he must first assure the white men that he knows his place and that he would never use a phrase like "social equality".

The true story is about the family, which lived during the Great Depression on the South and who had to live a lot of times in order to find some source of income and be [...]

While "Ten, Nine, Eight" relaxes children with the predictable pattern of the story, "Where The Wild Things Are" elicits many emotions that may both excite and frighten children before they settle down to a "feel [...]

In this way, Thoreau uses intimacy with the landscape to talk about larger ideas that continue to apply to the modern world and thus links the landscape of his experiment with the "continuing narrative of [...]

The novel became very popular and created the idiom of monkey wrench in referring to the sabotage activities that damaged machines and led to violence in America in order to protect natural habitat and conserve [...]

One of the books that raised his popularity in America as well as among other readers of the world was his collection of books published under the Rabbit series.

It was also Poe, as the master of the form, who illustrated the tremendous degree to which symbols might be employed in the telling of a story to heighten the intended effect of the author.

Metamophically Rip's nagging wife is the British petticoat governor in the colonial era, and Rip's reunion with his family symbolizes the American Revolution. They both held to the belief that Rip's character was an antithesis [...]

He says that there is no justice in reference to poor people in the government, as "doing the best you could make no difference to government; hard-luck stories did not go when it comes to [...]

As for me, the main theme which the author persecutes in the story is the problem of racial peculiarities of American people and the Indians in particular.

Afghanistan has not produced a lot of books in the past and it was an achievement for Khlaed Hosseini to be able to come up with a best seller in a western setting.

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.

She wants to run and hide, but realizes, as Arnold points out the weaknesses of her house, that there is nowhere for her to run.

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.

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.

Andre Dubus is the author of the short story "Killings" published in the year 1979; this short story was converted to a film in the year 2001 a Todd Fields Direction.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Martin Luther King Jr was a hero for he decided to fight for the rights of the black person in the American society.

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]