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Cooper's "Deerslayer": View Of The Native AmericansJames Fenimore Cooper was born on September 15, 1789 in Burlington, New
Jersey. He was the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper, the twelfth
of thirteen children (Long, p. 9). Cooper is known as one of the first great
American novelists, in many ways because he was the first American ...
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Touch Wood: Rene"Touch Wood" is based on the author's own life when she was growing as a Jewish girl during the German invasion of France. In 1940, Renée and her family were living in Alsace, France, where nothing ever changed. No one expected anything unusual to happen. Then one day, a war with Germany is ...
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Huck FinnThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a story of a young man who finds himself in many unpredictable situations. In the novel, Huck is constantly
changing his setting. Either he is on the land, at the shore of the mighty Mississippi river, or upon a small raft floating downstream. ...
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The Crucible: Deteriorated Rational And Emotional Stability Of SalemThe trumped-up witch hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts, deteriorated the rational, and emotional stability of its citizens. This exploited the populations weakest qualities, and insecurities. The obvious breakdown in Salem’s social order led to the tragedy which saw twenty innocent people hung on ...
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Great Expectations: Pip's Life In The Upper Class SocietyIn Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," an orphaned boy, by the
name of Philip Pirrip, known as Pip, lives his life and find out the many
attributes life has to it. He finds how the society treats the different
classes and how money makes all the difference in the world of a High
class/Low ...
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The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall: Ellen WeatherwallIn “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” Katherine Anne Porter focuses on the main character, Ellen Weatherall. Porter breaks down Ellen’s relationship between birth, death, and motherhood. She gives the reader knowledge of her values, goals, hopes, dreams, and fears through these stages of her ...
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Sense And SensibilityIn Jane Austen’s the title is a metaphor for the two main characters. Marianne who represents Sensibility, and Elinor who represents Sense.
We find out early on that Elinor does not share her feelings. When Edward comes into the story there is an immediate attraction. Elinor tells no one of her ...
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Winter In The Blood An AnalysiWinter in the Blood, a Native American novel written by James Welch, takes place on a cattle ranch in Montana, around 1970. On the surface, this is a story of a Blackfoot Indian sleepwalking through his life, tormented by visions, in search of a connection to his heritage. Welch’s language ...
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Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, and spent the first nine years of his life living in Kent, a marshy region by the sea in the west of England. Dickens' father John was a kind and likable man, but he was incompetent with money and piled up tremendous debts throughout his life. When ...
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How Is Tension Built Up In “The Monkeys Paw”The success of any short story depends upon the skill with which the plot moves. The writer doesn’t have the time to develop ideas that he has in a novel, but at the same time all those elements must be present.
The unusual element in the “Monkeys Paw” is how much the plot depends upon ...
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Humor In Shakespeares The TempIn Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, the cast of characters are squeezed into some archetypal roles. Prospero is our noble hero, Miranda is the beautiful maiden, Antonio is the closest thing we have to a villain. It’s our temptation as readers to categorize these characters as roles and not as ...
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner-Darl's Section (p.128)
Most authors have certain styles that result in bringing across certain
ideas. In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner uses a subtle and discreet narrative
manner to bring forth important pieces of information that adds to the story,
and important themes. In one of the ...
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A Comparison Of Catcher In TheComparing Catcher in the Rye and Pygmalion and the Themes They Represent
In J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, muses at one point on the possibility of escaping from the world of confusion and “phonies” while George Bernard ...
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Crime And Punishment: The Importance Of The Funeral DinnerDostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment continually provides insight into broad issues of pride, poverty and suffering through specific scenes that reflect the character’s values, the societal values and how their combination adds meaning to the entire work. Katerina Ivanovna’s funeral dinner for her ...
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Cahill's How The Irish Saved CivilizationThomas Cahill opens his story describing Rome's fall, “For as the Roman
Empire fell, as all through Europe matted, unwashed barbarians descended on the
Roman cities, looting artifacts and burning books, the Irish who were just
learning to read and write, took up the just labor of copying all of ...
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Edgar Allen Poe And Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romantic Style Of WritingTwo authors best who typify a Romantic style of writing are Edgar
Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Both authors identify their characters
through the use of creative symbolism, colorful metaphors, and the use of
the supernatural in their works. Like many authors of the seventeenth
century Poe ...
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Eating DisorderA vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating
disorders and their causes. Many s have been proven to emerge
during adolescence and often serve as the foundations to more serious
problems like anorexia and bulimia. This essay will explore the development of
s in adolescent girls. ...
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Billy BuddBefore the Fall, Adam and Eve were perfect. They were innocent and
ignorant, yet perfect, so they were allowed to abide in the presence of God.
Once they partook of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil,
however, they immediately became unclean as well as mortal. In Billy Budd, ...
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1984: The Party's Methods Of Controlling PeopleThe State of Oceania was a place where society was controlled by
the government especially the lower class. Since the lower class didn't
really have a life and weren't educated, the government knew it would be
very easy to control them in three distinct but powerful ways. The Inner
Party which is ...
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Animal FarmEssay: The Significance of Squealer
The novel , by George Orwell, is an allegory portraying the dangers of a totalitarian government. It seeks to show how a society where all live completely equal has not been, and cannot be achieved. Orwell, through the use of the character Squealer, shows how ...
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Gatsby's DreamJay Gatsby, the central character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
symbolizes the American dream. The American dream offers faith in the
possibility of a better life. Its attendant illusion is the belief that material
wealth alone can bring that dream to fruition. Through Gatsby, ...
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The OutsidersINTRODUCTION:
"" by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile
gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers
and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is
a novel written in first person by a 14 year old Greaser, ...
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The Riddle Of St. LeonardsThis book is fictional, yet based on fact. It is an entertaining mystery by Candace
Robb. When Candace Robb was a child she loved books. She promised herself
that she would read all the books on the shelves of a library. She never did it, but
still read lots of books throughout her life. Her ...
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A Raisin In The Sun"" "" was written by Lorraine Hansberry. It has won her an award in 1959, at age 29, the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the black playwright to win the Best Play of the Year Award of the New York Drama Critics. This book of the play has been put in its entire form. The original play did ...
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