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Discusses Jean Toomer's short stories.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses Jean Toomer's short stories. The book as a reflection of social attitudes toward racial matters. Issues of assimilation and multiculturalism. Marginalization of blacks. Race as a separator of groups in society. Toomer's stories "Becky" and "Blood Burning Moon" on the issue of miscegenation.
Paper Introduction: Jean Toomer's book Cane reflects social attitudes toward race and racial matters and so can be linked to the statement by W.E.B. DuBois that "the problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color line." Race itself becomes a source of social and cultural marginalization for many black people and has done so since blacks were removed from Africa and brought to this country as slaves. Once slavery ended, many may have thought blacks would be assimilated into society over time, and while this has occurred, it has not been rapid enough and has not meant that they do not feel marginalized in a society that rewards some groups and leaves others by the wayside.
Americans do share a common national identity at some level, but at the same time, different groups in American society have somewhat different perspectives on the degree to which
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Analysis of the main character in the Theodore Dreiser novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of the main character in the Theodore Dreiser novel. Clyde Griffith's objectification of women, and the world at large. His sexism. His self-centered view of the world. His character traits. Connection between his ambition and fantasies of women. Women as a means to achieve a goal, or a hindrance to be rejected.
Paper Introduction: Clyde Griffiths, the main character in Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy, is a self-centered young man whose relations with women are such that he could be classified as a sexist. He seems to seek and love women, but in fact he only uses them for his own ambitions and desires and has little sense of them as individuals or human beings. They are instead projections of his own self-centered view of the world. This attitude on his part begins in his childhood and continues to his death. He murders one woman, but even she is not killed as a human being but as an obstacle to be removed, something standing in the way of what he wants. He objectifies women, but in truth he objectifies the world at large as well, for he sees everything in terms of how it will gain him an advantage or prevent him form gaining an advantage.
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Analysis of the Jack London short story.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of the Jack London short story. Fire and warmth as the primary action motivator of the story. Fire as a reality and a symbol operating on several levels. London's use of the omniscient point of view, that involves the reader with the basic elements of fire. Story's setting in the harsh Klondike.
Paper Introduction: SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRE IN "TO BUILD A FIRE"
The life-saving importance of fire which is something that most people in civilized societies do not think about, or at best take for granted, is the primary action motivator in "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. "To Build a Fire" continuously expresses the main character's fading warmth as he travels along the Yukon trail to meet "the boys." As a symbol, the concept of fire operates on many levels in this story. First is the simple physical action of building the fire itself, a challenge in an area where the availability of fuel is slight. On another level, the symbol of fire is used by London to emphasize the human concept of hope. We assume that the man's fate will be better when he gets to the camp. Because of that, we assume that once he gets the fire built, he will live long enough to actually g
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Discusses the symbolism of Zadie Smith's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the symbolism of Zadie Smith's novel. Multigenerational explication of history and lives of two families. White teeth symbolizing the roots that anchor and hold families together, that can also poison intimate relationships. Various storylines of the novel. Role of truthfulness, friendship, secrets, compassion and honesty.
Paper Introduction: White Teeth
Zadie Smith (2000), the author of White Teeth, presents her readers with a multigenerational explication of the history and lives of two families, the Jones and the Iqbals. The novel deals with a variety of issues on several levels, including the ethnic and familial, the cultural, the historical, and the etymological. This brief essay will offer an explanation of the title of the novel, arguing that “white teeth” symbolizes the roots that anchor and hold families together, but which also have the potential to fester and poison intimate relationships.
The idea of “white teeth” in Smith’s (2000) novel appears to be largely symbolic. However, Clara, a young Jamaican woman married to Archie Jones, has had her front buck teeth knocked out of her mouth. Consequently, she wears dentures that are gleaming, white, and perfec
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERARY CHARACTERS. Term Paper ID:30760
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Discusses theme of alienation in two novels.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses theme of alienation in two novels. The characters of John Smith in Sherman Alexie's INDIAN KILLER, and Abel in N. Scott Momoday's HOUSE MADE OF DAWN. Various levels of alienation experienced by the characters (from family, from self, from society). Problem of maintaining cultural ties in an oppressed subculture. Setting & plot of novels.
Paper Introduction: The characters of John Smith in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and Abel in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn are each alienated from their society, an alienation that actually takes place on several levels--alienation from family, alienation from Indian society, alienation from the larger society of America, and even alienation from the human race. The process of alienation for begins in childhood for John Smith and becomes acute for Abel when he returns from army service in World War II. In both cases, the difficulty of maintaining cultural ties in a subculture that is dominated and oppressed by the white majority.
In Alexie's murder story, a serial killer is operating in Seattle and leaving behind scalped corpses decorated with owl feathers. This leads to a good deal of antiIndian rhetoric
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Discusses pacts made by two literary characters.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses pacts made by two literary characters. Faustus in Christopher Marlowe's play "Dr. Faustus," and Alymer in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark." Summary of both plots. Motivating forces of both characters. Comparison of Faustus and Alymer; their need to control their lives and world. Their pursuit of abolute knowledge. Their ultimate loss.
Paper Introduction: Introduction
The deals or pacts that are made to obtain the ultimate happiness are as new and recent as miracle creams sold on television to enhance beauty and health and as old as the Garden of Eden itself. This is a story retold in many forms about the price that is paid for what one considers may be the ultimate happiness. However, after one has paid that price, one suddenly realizes that the prize was not as great as what one gave up to obtain it. This is how it turns out when one makes bargains with the devil. This is also what happens to Dr. Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s play, as well as to Aylmer in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark”. This paper will compare the two bargains made by the gentlemen in question, paying particular attention to the nature of the pacts made by the two of them.
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Discussion of Jess Mowry's novel about Oakland, California gang members.... More...
3 Pages / 675 Words
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discussion of Jess Mowry's novel about Oakland, California gang members. Plot of rival ghetto gangs set up against each other. The major characters and their cultural conflicts. Themes of invisibility, acceptance of violence as a way of life, alienation of youth. Indifference of media and police toward young black kids.
Paper Introduction: Jess Mowry's novel Way Past Cool focuses on young Oakland, California gang members with compassion and insight. It's a violent, compelling and sad picture of gang culture which depicts 12 and 13-year-old boys who are coming of age under the most dire circumstances. This paper will discuss the novel's major characters and their cultural conflicts as well as how invisibility is reinforced.
In Ralph Ellison's 1962 novel The Invisible Man, the author uses the title of his book to emphasize the struggle of African-Americans for identity in White America. The title of Ellison's book suggests that what the power structure sees in Blacks, especially poor Blacks, is what they want to see, and therefore Blacks are invisible because people refuse to see them. "When they approach me they see only my surroundings themselves, or figme
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Analysis of Rebecca Harding Davis' 1861 novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of Rebecca Harding Davis' 1861 novel. Her realistic portrayal of the horrific life of a factory worker. Author's purpose and views. The historical context. Her solution that spiritual awakening is the only way out of the misery faced by iron mill workers. How her solution holds up against modern research.
Paper Introduction: Introduction
Early American life was based in an industrious, mostly agrarian society where the cultural myth that the new United States of America was the place to go for opportunity was already firmly established. Although iron works were already at work by the 1700s, the first cotton mills in the U.S. did not come into being until after 1789, when Samuel Slater reached the U.S. with the plan for a water frame memorized (Tichi 17-19). By 1845, however, as the economies in places such as Ireland and Germany became depressed through political and social unrest, immigrants began coming to the U.S. to seek the opportunity that it was already famous for (Dinnerstein 12). Between 1845, when the labor organization the Industrial Congress of the United States was established (Tichi 28), and 1854, three million immigrants
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Analysis of John Okada's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of John Okada's novel. Discusses the protagonist's refusal to serve in the U.S. Armed Forces after the Japanese attach on Pearl Harbor. Internment of Ishiro and his family in California's interment camps of World War II. Consequences of his refusal. Conflict between his Japanese familial heritage and his own acculturatin to the U.S.
Paper Introduction: Ideology and Action: The Case of No-No Boy
John Okada’s story of a young Japanese-American boy’s struggle to survive the infamous internment camps of the World War II era and to subsequently become reintegrated into American society speaks to one of this nation’s most humiliating episodes. Ichiro, the “no-no boy” of the novel’s title, refuses conscription into the American Armed Forces after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and is interned with his family in a California camp. He refuses to take the loyalty oath to the United States, and in his own words, therefore “ruined my life for you, for Ma, for Japan" (Okada, p. 115).
In other words, the protagonist of this story finds himself trapped between his Japanese familial heritage and his own acculturation to the United States. The argument that is advanced by
EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON LITERARY CHARACTERS. Term Paper ID:30539
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Discusses the characters of two Chicano novels.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the characters of two Chicano novels. Sandra Cisneros' THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and Tomas Rivera's AND THE EARTH DID NOT DEVOUR HIM. How both novels use the environment to establish the tone. Compares and contrasts differences of the novels in terms of such characterstics as geography, people and time.
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As local Latin novels, Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street and Tomas Rivera’s And the Earth Did Not Devour Him both present the effects of environment on the characters and illustrates how environment can be used to establish the tone of a novel. Although these two novels share many similarities with respect to ethnicity and its effects, they differ in terms of such characteristics as geography, people, and time. This report will compare and contrast these elements and will argue that a critical difference between the two is that Rivera focuses on the environment in which Mexican-American migrant workers of the 1940s and 1950s lived while Cisneros positions her story in an urban barrio.
Rivera’s story takes place within the context of the experiences of the Chicano migra
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Analysis of Stephen Crane's novel as one of the most foremost literary achievements of the modern era.... More...
6 Pages / 1350 Words
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of Stephen Crane's novel as one of the most foremost literary achievements of the modern era. Its powerful images of the Civil War. Ethical aspects of war. Crane's theme that American rugged individualism was replaced with a new spirit of competition and industrialization. Realistic depiction of protagonist. Many quotations.
Paper Introduction: Once the line encountered the body of a dead soldier. He lay upon his back staring at the sky. He was dressed in an awkward suit of yellowish brown. The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent in one the dead foot projected piteously. And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.
The ranks opened covertly to avoid the corpse. The invulnerable dead man forced a way for himself. The youth looked keenly at the ashen face. The wind raised the tawny beard. It moved as if a hand were stroking it. He vaguely desired to walk around and around the
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Discusses the theme of oppression examplified by two fictional characters.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the theme of oppression examplified by two fictional characters. Pecola in Toni Morrison's THE BLUEST EYE, and Gwendolen in Buchi Emecheta's THE FAMILY. Analysis of the characters are violated and oppressed on three levels: socioeconomic, raciism, sexism. Rape of both characters. Male oppression of females. Different endings.
Paper Introduction: Pecola and Gwendolen, the protagonists in two novels, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Buchi Emecheta's The Family (also known as Gwendolen), are characters violated and oppressed in various ways by men and by the society and institutions which uphold the patriarchy. As black females, Gwendolen and Pecola are doubly oppressed--first, as blacks, and second as females. In addition, they suffer the oppression of two cultures, black and white. Morrison and Emecheta focus on poor, black female characters, which means characters who suffer on the three levels of socioeconomics, racism, and sexism.
In The Bluest Eye, Morrison explores the theme of male oppression of females in the contexts of racism, capitalism, and a world run by and for white people, especially white people with power and property. Black people, especially poor black people,
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Discusses the inter-relationships among the women in Toni Morrison's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the inter-relationships among the women in Toni Morrison's novel. Theme that black women gain strength from each other is where hope for the future lies. Analysis of major characters. Broad range of variety of women depicted in the novel. The tragedy of Pecola; her brutal life and self-loathing of her looks.
Paper Introduction: In The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison suspends her tale of a young girl's pursuit of misguided transcendence from a web of interrelationships among women. She does not idealize this elaborate framework and the women in her story are as fallible and subject to the influence of their environment as people are in real life. But Morrison extends the reach of this net of relationships into the future through the narrator, Claudia, and her sister Frieda and suggests that the strength that some women draw from others is where the hope for the future lies. Claudia and Frieda are not terribly remarkable girls--they are subject to envy and childish errors just like anyone else. But they have a far better moral grasp of the world that comes in large part from their mother's influence and enables them to sort among the examples offered by other women in order to make correct choices.
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Analysis of Sherman Alexie's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of Sherman Alexie's novel. Centers on character of John Smith, a man caught between two worlds: the Indian and the White and not at home in either world. Issue of John's intolerance; his suffering, alientation and violence. Negative impact of intolerance of white society and co-workers. Author's message.
Paper Introduction: John Smith, the protagonist of Sherman Alexie's novel Indian Killer, is a man caught between the white world and the Indian world, and at home in neither. He is a full-blooded Native American Indian, but was raised by whites, and knows little about his Indian roots. As a result of these circumstances, and the fact that he is a man who appears to be an Indian in a nation of prejudice against Indians, he is a man without an identity. With respect to the issue of intolerance, one could say that John has become a man without the capacity for tolerance at all, including tolerance for himself and his confusing situation in life. In other words, he has been shaped by an unforgiving and intolerant culture which does its worst in creating human beings who are such victims of intolerance that they practically do not even exist. They have been made invisible by intolerance. In fact, John is certainly mentally ill to some degree, and it is clear from the book that his madness is a direct result of living in an intolerant society which tries to take away his history, identity, cultural roots and his very humanity at every turn. It should come as no shock that in his suffering and alienation and madness, he turns to
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Discusses the character of Lily in Bebe Moore Campbell's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the character of Lily in Bene Moore Campbell's novel. Her central role in the intolerance that takes the life of an African American teenaged boy. Role of the white Southern patriarchy. Lily as a pawn of racist culture. Her desire to find freedom from the oppression of her sexist husband.
Paper Introduction: The character of Lily in Bebe Moore Campbell's novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine plays a central role in the process of intolerance that takes the life of a black teenager, Armstrong Todd. Lily is not an especially intolerant person herself, although she has been raised in a culture and an area where intolerance reigns. She is white and uneducated, as many intolerant racists are, but she is more the victim of her intolerant sexist husband than an intolerant racist herself. However, she is in a culture which sooner or later forces every person to take a stand for or against intolerance. Ironically, it is because she is deprived by her socioeconomic position in society and by her sexist husband that shed is put in the position that leads to the boy's tragic murder.
Of course, this is not to say that Lily is responsible in
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Discusses theme of intolerance in David Guterson's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses theme of intolerance in David Gutterson's novel. Internment of Japanese Americans during World War Two. Role of intolerance in murder investigation and townspeople's percenptions of Miyamoto. The outsider as foreigner and victim of hatred. Examples of intolerance in Miyamoto's murder trial, in the life of the town, and in the judgments of Miyamoto.
Paper Introduction: Kabuo Miyamoto in David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars is a victim of intolerance and that victimization has helped shape him as a man. He was placed in an internment camp, along with other Japanese-Americans, on the basis of racism and nothing else. He, along with the others, was seen as an enemy of the nation on the basis of his racial heritage, his skin color, his facial features, his name, and for no other reasons. Intolerance and fear dictated the public policy which treated American citizens of Japanese heritage as enemies. There was absolutely no evidence that Miyamoto had committed any crime against the United States or posed any danger to the United States, but he was placed in an internment camp nevertheless, based solely on racial prejudice and intolerance.
With respect to the murder of Carl Heine, even that evidence
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Examines the character of Delaney in T. Coraghesson Boyle's novel.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Examines the character of Delaney in T. Coraghesson Boyle's novel. Argues that the character is a stereotypical racist who is intolerant of the differences between himself and Mexicans and Mexican Americans who interfere with his Southern California Yuppie lifestyle. Features of his intolerance. Depicts Delaney as a man whose intolerance overrides his conscience.
Paper Introduction: The character of Delaney, in T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel Tortilla Curtain, is a stereotypical racist intolerant of the differences between himself and the Mexicans or Mexican-Americans who interfere with his wealthy, yuppie lifestyle in Southern California. They interfere, first, by simply existing, because their existence, to Delaney, brings with it many undesirable qualities and habits:
There wasn't a trail in the Santa Monica Mountains that didn't have its crushed beer cans, its carpet of glass, its candy wrappers and cigarette butts, and it was people like this Mexican or whatever he was who were responsible, thoughtless people, stupid people, people who wanted to turn the whole world into a garbage dump, a little Tijuana . . . (Boyle 11).
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Analysis of Bobbie Ann Mason's novel as a coming-of-age story.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of Bobbie Ann Mason's novel as a coming-of-age story. Aspects of the Vietnam War that inform the plot and characters. Discusses novel's 18-year old protagonist who needs to exploe her past to make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Role of popular culture in the novel.
Paper Introduction: Bobbie Ann Mason’s novel In Country is a war novel in that it deals with many aspects of the Vietnam War including the legacy of Vietnam. The novel, however, is more a coming of age story than a war story. Set in the summer of 1984 in a small Kentucky town, the novel’s protagonist is an 18-year old high school student named San (Samantha) Hughes whose father was killed in Vietnam before she was born. Sam lives with her uncle Emmett, a Vietnam vet suffering from flashbacks, has a boyfriend she no longer likes, a pregnant friend she is trying to help, and basically is faced with growing up, making the transition from adolescence to adulthood. She is at the stage where she has to make choices about her future as well as deal with the present. Her solution is to explore the past, to try to understand the Vietnam War and the father she never knew. Like
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Explores the issue from a black feminist point of view.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Exploes the issue from a black feminist poiunt of view. Uses Alice Walker's novel POSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY as an example of women achieving greater justice if they work together. Focus on novel. Male fear of women's sexuality. Brutality against women as a transnational issue. Personal stories of the book.
Paper Introduction: In the Black feminist literary tradition, gender has become an important transnational issue. In other words, the same problems which confront women in one nation affect women in all nations. Those problems focus generally on the exploitation of women by men, by whites, and by the patriarchal systems which control most countries, their governments, and their socioeconomics. Accordingly, as in Alice Walker's novel Possessing the Secret of Joy, addresses problems in a global context, recognizing that women, especially black women, will be able to achieve more justice if they work together, transcending national and cultural borders.
Walker's novel focuses on male brutality against women across cultural lines, specifically in the act of the "circumcision" of the clitoris. This is an act which is an
NATURALISM MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE. Term Paper ID:30277
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Describes Naturalism, its principles and methods.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Describes Naturalism, its principles and methods. Influence of natural science. Comparison with Realism. Applies the literary style to work of Jack London. Uses his 1908 short story, "To Build A Fire" as an example. Views on heredity and biological determinism giving rise to simple characters dominated by strong passions.
Paper Introduction: Usually in the realms of literature and the arts each major movement can be seen as a rebellion against whatever came before it, so Romanticism upstages Classicism, only to be done in in turn by Realism as people weary of the excesses of one style only to rush headlong into the excesses of its opposite. But sometimes it happens that one style is replaced by an even more extreme version of itself, as was the case when Realism in literature and the visual arts was replaced in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries by Naturalism, a movement that was inspired by adaptation of the principles and methods of natural science, especially the Darwinian view of nature. One of the most perfect examples of this movement is Jack London’s short story “To Build A Fire”, published in The Century Magazine in 1908 with its themes of the fragility of human survival and the ways in which we as
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Discusses the magic realism literary style of Cristina Garcia's novel DREAMING IN CUBA.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the magic realism literary style of Cristina Garcia's novel DREAMING IN CUBA. Traces concept of magic realist to Cuba and Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Critical review of characters, and their interaction in Cuba and New York. Themes of family, politics, love, dreams, visions, memory. Author's attitude toward magic realism.
Paper Introduction: It is altogether fitting that Cristina Garcia should plunge us into a world defined by the always shifting definitions of the world of magical realism, for Garcia’s books are essentially Cuban, and the concept of magical realism itself was born in Cuba. Although this style of writing is perhaps best known through the work of Argentine writers like Jorge Luis Borges, the term itself and the literary style that this sometimes elusive phrase refers to were the children of Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier. Carpentier was seeking for a literary style (and concept) broad enough to accommodate both the events of everyday life as he saw it unfolding before him in the years after World War II in Cuba and the fabulous nature of Latin American geography and history (Zamora and Faris, 1995, p. 36).
Carpentier’s ideas about the kind of writing that could span such
SEARCHING FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM. Term Paper ID:30230
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Analysis of themes and motifs in the 10 connected stories of DROWN by Junot Diaz.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of themes and motifs in the 10 connected stories of DROWN by Junot Diaz. Cultural and cross-cultural experiences of Dominican Republic family members searching for the good life in the USA. Experiences of poverty, abandonment, sexual abuse, drug addiction and emotional insecurity of major character Yunior. Relationship with father.
Paper Introduction: In Junot Diaz= collection of short stories, ADrown,@ the main character, Yunior grows up in a poverty stricken environment, surrounded by filth, sickness, physical and emotional abuse and neglect inflicted upon him by his father and mother. His mother works long hours to feed and house the family and doesn=t have the energy to parent her children. She is barely surviving herself. She sends the children to their aunts when she is unable to take care of them, hence abandoning them like their father has done. They live in a barrio with rats and suffer from intestinal worms. They have no choice but to choose between food and medicine. They have to reduce their food intake in order for their mother to be able to afford medicine to eradicate the worms. Yunior lost a safe, secure childhood and suffered for it as an adult. His father went to New Y
PURITAN AMERICAN INTERPRETATIONS OF FAITH. Term Paper ID:30183
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Discusses the writings of Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the writings of Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Concepts of God & His will on the world. Bradstreet's belief that marital happiness is a sign of eternal bliss in Heaven. Mather's writing on Witchery & detecting evil. Rowlandson's account of her kidnapping by Indians as the will of God.
Paper Introduction: In the writings of Puritan Americans Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, we find detailed descriptions of experience which shine a light on the relationship between those details and the authors' belief in God and his will in the world. This study will examine that relationship, and will consider alternative explanations to the authors' religious interpretations.
In the poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," Bradstreet employs her faith to move from an examination of the joy of her marriage to an appreciation of her belief that that marital happiness is but a sign and a beginning of what will be eternal bliss with him in Heaven;
Then while we live, in love let's so persever,
That when we live no more we may live ever (Bradstreet
IMPACT OF UPTON SINCLAIR'S "THE JUNGLE." Term Paper ID:30158
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Discusses the role the 1906 novel played in getting federal legislation passed to regulate the meat industry.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses the role the 1906 novel played in getting federal legislatioin passed to regulate the meat industry. Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food & Drugs Act. Socialist themes of the novel. Themes of social welfare, social control, religioius values, work ethic, the underclass, noblesse oblige. Plot, Characters. Sinclair's political views.
Paper Introduction: Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel The Jungle had an unprecedented, powerful impact on the United States. The same year the book was published, federal legislation was passed to help remedy the problems Sinclair's novel brought to public attention. Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drugs Act. As reported in the New York Times on May 26, 1906, "The disclosures made in Upton Sinclair's novel, 'The Jungle' which led to the passage of the measure astounded President (Theodore) Roosevelt when he read the book." From a literary point of view, the novel is better viewed as a political novel rather than great literature; Sinclair's major purpose was to document the inhumane treatment of workers in Chicago's meat industry as well as the lack of safety standards for meat and the workers.
Because Sinclair was a socialist, he was also interested in promo
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Analysis of Don DeLillo's novel as an extreme portrayal of a typical American family.... More...
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of Don DeLillo's novel as an extreme portrayal of a typical American family. Theme of corruption of the American family and the American Dream. Disappearance of spiritual hope & and pre-eminence of the material things of modern consumerism. How the Gladney family depicted in the novel differs from sitcom families.
Paper Introduction: The Gladney family, in Don DeLillo's novel White Noise is an extreme portrayal of the "typical American family." DeLillo's portrait takes typical features of the American family--such as their lack of communication and their obsession with materialism
--and then, through hyperbole and irony, distorts them to sometimes barely recognizable extremes. DeLillo is not after a straightforward picture of the American family, but the radical portrait he offers rather wants to draw attention not only to the degree the purity of the family has been corrupted but also to the extent of the general corruption of the American Dream.
The bewildered and lost American family the author depicts is a part of a bewildered society which has lost its way. It is a family lost in a world of confusion and "white noise," and, especially, in the material things of modern consumerism. God and
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Theme of redemption in her fiction.... More...
4 Pages / 900 Words
5 sources, 20 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Theme of redemption in her fiction. Gives brief biographical informatin to explain her attitude toward life as demonstrated in her fiction. Discusses short story " A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND" as example of her religious beliefs. Relationship between actions of her family & Catholic Church. Confrontation between godless man & character of grandmother in the story.
Paper Introduction: Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah Georgia, but grew up in Milledgeville, Georgia. She went to parochial schools and was raised a devout Catholic, then furthered her education by earning an M.F.A. at the School for Writers at the University of Iowa, in 1946. Although she dwelt briefly in an artists colony in Saratoga Springs, New York and later in New York City, she spent most of her life in Milledgeville, Georgia. When O’Connor was 25 years old, she discovered she had lupus erythematosus, the same autoimmune disease that had crippled and killed her father ten years before. Both her life threatening illness and her Christian belief greatly influenced her attitude toward life and was demonstrated in her writing (class text, p. 1228). She summarized this relationship once, “I see from the standpoint
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How protagonists face death & horror in three stories.... More...
10 Pages / 2250 Words
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: How protagonists face death & horror in three stories. Examines Edgar Allan Poe's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, H. P. Lovecroft's THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE, Stephen King's THE RAFT. Poe's use of atmosphere to creat a sense of horror. Lovecroft's use of color as a character to build the tone of horror. King's use of gore in telling his story.
Paper Introduction: All fiction is fantasy and takes place in the realm of the imagination. Fantasy and Science Fiction, however, as genres of fiction, contain themes about quests that take the reader farther abroad in the realm of imagination as the protagonist travels through fear and impending death to the goal of his/her quest. In Dark Fantasy (also known as Horror), a sub-genre of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the quest is about the confrontation of the protagonist with fear and death (Roberts, 2001, p. 31). The protagonist does not always survive this crisis. This paper will explore how Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips (H. P.) Lovecraft and Stephen King describe the quest of the protagonist through death and horror in their short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Colour Out of Space,” and “The Raft.”
Poe uses atmosphere, rather than gore, to create a visceral
ANALYSIS OF HENRY JAMES' NOVEL "WASHINGTON SQUARE." Term Paper ID:30096
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Discusses plight of women in the 19th Century.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
7 sources, 15 Citations,
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Discusses plight of women in the 19th Century. Their limited choices and opportunities. Subordinate role of women to the male. Doctrice of separate spheres. Character of Catherine as an upper-class, placid, passive woman controlled by her father. Harsh view of male head of household. Catherine's relationship with Townsend. How she becomes hardened and gains control over her own life.
Paper Introduction: Henry James's short novel Washington Square presents the story of Catherine, a young woman who lives with her father, a doctor, and who is dependent on him for her livelihood. Her story represents the plight of women in the nineteenth century, dependent on men and able to escape from one situation only if they find another man to take care of them. The woman had less choice in this matter in the nineteenth century than women do today. Her choices were limited first by social standing and economic realities, and second by decisions made by the paternal figure watching over her before she was betrothed. The novel addresses gender issues James saw in his own time and suggests that women should be given greater freedom. Catherine becomes stronger in the course of the novel, and though she remains alone, she has made a choice that is entirely her own, asserting
"FAHRENHEIT 451" AND THEORIES OF PERCEPTION. Term Paper ID:30089
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Analysis of the cool medium of Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel in terms of two theories on cause & effect in terms of changes in perception.... More...
7 Pages / 1575 Words
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of the cool medium of Rlay Bradbury's science fiction novel in terms of two theories on cause & effect in terms of changes in perception. Marshall McLuhan's theory of perception altered by technology. David Abram's theory of everday perception as the primary perception. Bradbury's vision. How characters in the novel illustrate the theories. Problem of objective truth.
Paper Introduction: One of the key theories of Marshall McLuhan is that technology and the way we relate to and view technology shape our way of thinking about the world. In his discussion of phenomenology, David Abram suggests something similar in that he finds that language shapes how we view the world. Both see a connection between our subjective perception and the objective world we perceive. Both would also agree that our perceptions are neither completely subjective or completely objective. We might think they are subjective, but McLuhan says we are shaped by the technologies we use and by the way those technologies extend our perceptions outside the body. Abram follows the phenomenology of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and accepts the notion that perception is participation. If this idea is extended to consciousness as such, it could lead to the
CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY DEPICTED IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Term Paper ID:30080
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Analysis of several poems and stories that reflect how individuals seek to assert themselves in their society.... More...
8 Pages / 1800 Words
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Read this research paper. Paper Abstract: Analysis of several poems and stories that reflect how individuals seek to assert themselves in their society. The works of writers include E.A. Robinson's RICHARD CORY, William Faulkner's BARN BURNING, Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO, Ralph Ellison's THE INVISIBLE MAN, Langston Hughes' HARLEM and Claude McKay's IF WE MUST DIE. Theme of class differences.
Paper Introduction: A major conflict in society and in literature is that between the individual and the group, between the individual and his or her society. Many writers delve into this theme in different terms, but often the conflict can be discerned in terms of class differences. It is true that Americans like to think we do not have social classes, but in fact we do, shaped less around questions of birth as in Europe and more around economic distinctions, racial differences, and even the job one has. These sorts of distinctions are important in the way the individual seeks to assert him or herself and the way society wants that individual to be in several stories and poems to be discussed below.
One of the major poems suggesting first that there is a sense of social class in America and second that the hierarchy
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