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In the end, Hu never managed to overcome his cultural shock and safely returned to China only due to a lucky turn of events.

Hu's actions were more of a threat to Foucquet; he obviously holds on to culture and values that differ from the European culture.

The history of literature began in the Bronze Age with the invention of writing in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. In Egypt, hieroglyphs and the similarity of drawings were used for writing.

It presents the reader with the serious question of whether the beast is savage or whether the humans who brought the animal to the verge are.

While the main theme of Death of a Salesman is the inhumanity of progress, and the main theme in The Lesson is the inequality of American culture, the minor theme of living separated from other [...]

Even though Frances Harper and Robert Hayden enjoy American liberty and accept the blessings of the nation, they would seek the real meaning and existence of various terms such as freedom, liberty, love, and equality [...]

It further assesses the impact of the mode in which the information in the books is arranged compared to if it were set in a sequential manner.

The author presents challenges faced in the society as a result of the mixture racial and gender discrimination that a young black girl goes through in search of her dream and personal identity.

It is imperative to realize that the purpose of the paper is not to carry out a critical analysis of the plays but to carry out a comparison of the attributes in which they relate [...]

Believing the traveler and following him, Goodman crosses The Threshold that separates The Special World from The Ordinary World and signifies Brown's commitment to the adventure.

The grief that followed the passing of her mother and the subsequent disintegration of her family provides an important background to her vulnerability to substance abuse.

The conclusion of this stanza suggests that this mixing of their blood inside the flea is not a sin and is more than what he and the woman did.

The author states that reflecting on the significance of the themes developed by Milton in "Paradise Lost", there can be no other conclusion about the value of this work as the conclusion, that it is [...]

She was well aware of the fact that, when it comes to dealing with clients, it is the matter of foremost importance to ensure that these clients would be playing by agent's rules of a [...]

By analyzing the styles of different artists, one can draw attention to the works of John Berger, the writer and critic, and Walker Percy, the writer specializing in philosophy and semiotics.

It is of interest to compare and contrast the expression of the topic of alienation in the works of the aforementioned writers in order to understand the common features and differences in the perception of [...]

Though Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust" were published in 1915 and 1939, the theme of alienation is present in both of them, which meets the cultural context of [...]

In the modern world, there is a constant evolution of society's views on the perception of men and women in the world.

In a way, the narrator serves as a guide in the made-up city that seems utopian until the readers find out about the child suffering in the basement and guaranteeing the happiness of everybody else [...]

The key similarity of both stories can be seen in the fact that the authors wrote a tragedy for Hercules in order to explore the role of violence in his acts of heroism.

The narration of On the Golden Porch is presented in the first person. The scene of the book is placed in the Soviet Union not long before the end of communism, which was not an [...]

The narrator soon found herself observing the patterns of the yellow wallpaper of the room she stayed in. Eventually, the narrator began to perform the same behavior she observed from the women in the wallpaper.

Each book has its synopsis which is very much reflective to different background orient, the first book which is a children book about the morals of friendship is much contrary, to the last book analyzed [...]

The role of the setting is very important as far as it helps the writers to present their characters fully and pass the main idea to the reader.

Although the reader is not informed about the outcome of her life it seems that she is too weak and innocent to survive in this city.

The major intention of his writing was to appreciate the engineering work that allowed the completion of the canal, the intercontinental railway as well as the fixation of the Atlantic wire/cable.

The story by the same name as the book, Birds of Paradise Lost, tells the readers about the friendship of old men and the aftermath of the suicide of one member of the group.

However, as explained in a "pivotal" narrative, the author is presumed to be a man from the selection of diction and style.

The central character in Hawthorne's story courageously takes her step of seeking a witch's help even though she was to die.

Frame describes the tribulations of an old widow and the courage that encourages her to live. The main character is afraid of her weaknesses and does not want to face and solve problems.

In the story of the little red riding hood, the girl was warned against leaving the path that led to her grandmother's place. In this story, both the girl and her grandmother were the victims [...]

This kills the educative purpose of books, which is to expose students to a diversity of cultures and occurrences. Stories about other cultures and places, both real and fiction empower one to think outside the [...]

The problem of homeless people that became Dumpsters is discussed in Eighner's essay and the novel written by Walls, providing a deeper insight into the matter and triggering a need to address it.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss two stories to find the main differences, which have a greater impact on the attitude of the main characters towards their childhood.

The marshal is illustrated as a positive person."He, the town policeman of Yellow Sky, was a man known, liked, and feared in his community".

The analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper focuses on the feminist perspective, underlining various symbolisms, social subtexts, and emotional tensions that the story is meant to relay to the reader in the context of feminine literature, [...]

In fact, Zora was the one to take up the challenge of showing that a black person is a human, first of all.

Farquhar is symbolic of the slave confederate states that sought to secede from the United States, whereas, the soldiers represent the might of the union.

The way the characters of the main protagonists are revealed in the novel is one of the most important things in every piece of literature.

Both pieces of literature depict the themes of journey and wilderness, and for this reason, this research will carry out an analysis of the two genres of writing and make a comparison.'The inward morning' presents [...]

The research introduces the authors' symbolic concepts of strangeness which address alienation and desire and, which happen in the unconscious state of the creator's Victor and Dr.

It is remarkable that the language of The Story of An Hour speaks for the feelings of protagonist and the plot uncovering.

The link in the styles is analyzed showing the connection in both stories. Linking the two styles, dialogue and narration help in the flow of the story.

Considering the above realities, the following essay compares the loves depicted in two of the most amazing short stories of all time, namely Love is a Fallacy by Max Shulman and The Gift of the [...]

He has managed to compose several novels and short stories like The Hindenburg Crashes nightly, the Harper's Magazine stories like the Green World, a finalist short story for the National Magazine Award in the fiction [...]

The poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are written by William Blake while the poem "lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" is written by William Wordsworth."The Lamb" appeared in Blake's songs of innocence [...]

This situation resembles the one found in Plato's Allegory of the Cave discourse whereby the prisoners fixedly stare at the wall.

The main position in the book is that the educational, moral, and spiritual progress of African American women is a key tool for improving the general position of the entire African American community.

But in reality, the reference was meant to encourage Connie and not belittle her. His father Baba was the biological father of both Amir and Hassan respectively.

Even in the 20th century, it is not surprising to note that the roles that are assigned or predetermined to be played by women in society have remained the same with few women taking up [...]

For instance, Jason makes a decision to divorce Medea and tie the knot with the princess of Corinth. It is important to keep in mind that the cause of all Medea's rage is love.

It is very interesting how the author outlines the attitudes of parents and their children, being raised in two different social groups, towards digital media.

Raymond Carver's short story, "Cathedral," often inspires the reader to consider as an example of metafiction and the author permits the reader to experience the afflictions of isolation in the modern world.

There are certain commonalities between the artistic and symbolic representations of both writers/directors, especially in their representation of the madness and paranoia that exists in the world when people are placed in isolation and the [...]

The stories, The Third and Final Continent and Mrs. There are different degrees of separation in the two stories.

The judge goes to the extent of taking the boy's father in his own home to help him reform his drinking problem. The father then decides to visit the house of the widow during which [...]

According to Aristotle, the tragedy of the hero is as a result of his weakness becoming superior hence, he shows frailness in his judgment.

Despite this fact, both King and Thoreau had a common goal to expose the unjust laws that govern a society of civil resistance to unjust laws It should be stressed that both King and Thoreau [...]

The author starts her narration with reminding about the Bonnard's painting, The Bathroom, and then keeps the line of matching the matters of art to the story of her mother's life and finding expressive analogies.

The essay intends to look at the life of Oedipus who is the main character of the book and how the gods were responsible for his downfall after the struggle he had gone through to [...]

The poems The Painter's Song and Full Moon are the brightest examples of modern English poetry, which demonstrate to the reader all the beauty of the verse and involve in the atmosphere described in the [...]

It is not but before the first few lines of each piece in which the author establishes a personal foundation for the rest of the article to be built on.

The girl was influenced by the adults' views and shared their opinion concerning the place of the woman in the society.

To compare the role of parents in the stories, we must first get a brief background of the parents in both stories.

The theme of insiders and outsiders and their effect on life of children is very popular and one of the most interesting and controversial in modern and classical literature.

The interactions of the characters, in that regard, are neither sufficient to explain the purpose of the author, nor to connect it to the purpose of the story.

As if supporting the general trend of the time towards emancipation of women, men take advantage of the situation and load the woman with both the housework and the role of the main breadwinner in [...]

In Kipphardt's play, it is possible to pursue the development of Oppenheimer's outlook on the value of the invention of the nuclear weapon.

The meaning of a myth in this book is just the same as that of an Indian mythology book as a sacred narrative.

The shadow of pride haunts Hooper in his entire life and the author remarks that all people have been wearing the mask of the sin in the world.Mr.

This essay seeks to explain that in order to have a successful marriage, the husband and wife should work together as a single unit in which the husband and wife play their respective roles without [...]

Jane tells her story as explicitly as she can and yet much of the substance of that story is given in the descriptive passages where she uses natural symbolism to convey the mysteries of her [...]

The villains in both "Othello" and "The Crucible" are unique in their proficiency in the use of language for manipulating others and their ability to use the current setting for achieving their goals; Abigail is [...]

First, it is of the vital importance to pay extra attention to the author and particularly to the peculiarities of his or her character.

They illustrate the inhumane nature of the people who keep the captives and the conflicting cultures of the two groups. The turn of effects and the life of the captives are unique.

An important shared element of both of these stories is the shared setting in which the farm is no longer capable of supporting the needs of the family.

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis is a powerful novel that explores the life of a young college student, building on the nightlife that is almost the prerogative of the cities.

There are a great number of different pieces of literature, which became to be the works representing significant value to the world of literature, literary critics and people fond of the enormous world created by [...]

In "Sure Thing" it can be said that the relationship between sexes is the basis of the play, where actions can be seen as one of the interpretations of the different versions of the lines.

In King Lear and A Thousand of Acres, the destinies of both King Lear and Larry Cook encounter unfair attitudes toward daughters and death, as a result. Lear and Larry are in despair because of [...]

In the second story, the symbol of the past and something that had long gone is the woman's path that implies the historical events of the past the value of life.

Consequently, the work is aimed at the analysis of the interconnection of the way of expression of the themes and content of the poems with the form and figurative language of the poetry.

The poem starts with the description of how the two parked near the lake, the grass was white, and the moon was rising.

On the island, Robinson did not forget the Word of God believing that it is the only way for the salvation of soul and mind.

An the introduction to the book, the author traces back at some of the events in the past about the rise of some of the developed nations.

The thanksgiving dinner for the family reunion is also one case in point that represents religious as well as social morals for the Clutter family.Mr.

During the first half of the 19th century the governess became an important figure, both in literature and in life, because they were part of a small group of women who were middle-class, independent, educated [...]

The essay that we are going to analyse here, "Perfect Aggression", has as primary intention to show that aggression is more than that.in the lines and pages to come we will try to critically evaluate [...]

The question of animals' rights can hardly be taken seriously in modern society; the world of literature represented a clear philosophical and theoretical view on the role of wild and domestic creatures in human life. [...]

The first one, Henry Lawson's "The Drover's Wife," is set in the Australian bush, as is the second, "The Chosen Vessel" by Barbara Baynton; and the third story is set in the American South, Flannery [...]

The importance of literature in our lives is impossible to exaggerate, partly because it represents the accumulated knowledge of the best minds of mankind through the whole course of human history, partly because it is [...]

To say that "All conflict in literature is, in its simplest form, a struggle between good and evil" is to describe a specific type of literature such as fairy tales, but in the short story [...]

In his poem "Dream Deferred," Hughes provides a succinct description of the constrained self that is thus equally applicable to the position of women as expressed by Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily" and [...]

The authors of the works managed to underline their perception and vision of American identity and race in the modern world."Unguarded Gates" is a poem written by Thomas Aldrich disclosing the theme of protest.

It follows the story of the narrator Dante and his friendship with his schoolmate Johnno in Brisbane in the 1940s and 50s.

The texts under consideration picture the events of different periods of time and have absolutely different settings, but both Frankenstein and Blade Runner express the desire of a human to have powers of God.

To begin with, the credibility of the sources chosen for the comparative analysis in this work is asses in different ways by scholars and the ordinary readers.

For instance, one of the works of the 19th-century literature, "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" by Stephen Crane, focuses on the relationship between marital responsibility and maturation of boy-men and shows the triumph of [...]

The dysfunction of the relationships in this sense is more evident in the book as the imagery is more indicative of the concept of dysfunction, however in the movie this takes on a more personal [...]

The works studied each portrays some aspect of love, and while many of these aspects are different in the stories, both the main underlying principles with regards to love seem to be the same while [...]

The narration style in the both novels is different, wherein "Moby Dick" the merging of the narration and the main character of the novel is achieved during the first person narration in which there are [...]

The overdetermination of trouble in Sinclair's narrative creates a jungle of disjunctions and contradictions, aptly represented by the novel's repeated images of bodily disintegration - of the loss of fingers, the loss of feet, the [...]

The Jewish American experience is one of the key matters of the world Jewish community, as it is one of the largest Jewish communities in the world.

It is his meeting, or rather the witnessing of the meeting between the good woman and his companion, that first opens Young Goodman Brown's eyes to the idea that the people he has considered so [...]

Altogether Mann succeeds to convey his messages through the character of the boy, the artist, and the other objects in the story.

Also, it is difficult for her to come to terms with the fact that her mother spends a lot of time with people on their deathbeds.

The novel follows Tita throughout the course of her life and shows how she is tormented by her mother. From Tita's birth, which took place on a table in the kitchen, to where she spends [...]

The work of art reflects the reality of life and hardship experienced by people: "The vision seemed to enter the house with me - the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the [...]

At the turn of twentieth century, more and more educated White people were finding themselves being deprived of psychological qualities that allowed their ancestors to build and to maintain civilization they were becoming increasingly incapable [...]

It is stated, that the poem is based on the paradoxes and opposites: The first and the foremost is the discrepancy between the urn with its frozen images, and the dynamics of the life, which [...]

This statement will serve us as the main thesis for this paper, because in it, we will aim to prove that, even though Don Quixote and Orgon seem to be out of this world, it [...]

There can be no doubt as to the fact that Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" and Francis Coppola's movie "Apocalypse Now" significantly differ from each other, in terms of plot's composition, geographical settings, and [...]

Bernardo and Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" and the tradition of the American in Europe by D. The early versions of that story put Jig and the American man on the train for which they [...]

However, Okonkwo is helpless once he finds British colonization creeping in and destroying the traditional parameters of the village and their culture as a whole along with the ramification of their religion with the invasion [...]

Next to the curriculum committee, the teachers and parents are responsible on the selection and decision of the study material. The characters in the story are country folks and the setting of the story is [...]

It was Wordsworth's belief that Nature has the power to subdue the human heart and to mould the moral life of man, thereby emphasizing the influence of natural objects upon a superstitious soul and the [...]

The stories My Mother's Gifts by Judith Claire and Fifteen by William Stafford have very much in common. The story My Mother's Gifts by Judith Claire abounds in different expressive means and stylistic devices.

As literature in this way or another is a reflector of human life, dress and appearance fulfill here the same functions of presenting the characters or events, revealing the characters' inner worlds or the crucial [...]

Wilde's community, though apparently very customary and firm, is essentially quite worried about being destabilized by strangers: Lady Bracknell even evaluates Jack's being found in a purse with "the worst immoderation of the French Revolution" [...]

Analyzing and comparing "Ashes" by Sedaris and "Silent Dancing" by Cofer the reader is enabled to understand the course of relations in two different families and to undertake the idea of two different life paths [...]