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The Bean Trees: Symbols And Hidden Meanings

The Bean Trees by Barbara Kinsolver is a book that discusses many of the problems in today's society. I found it to be over all insightful yet a little boring at time. There are many hidden meaning and symbols too many to mention so I'll look at just a few. One of the main symbols appears right ...

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Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred

The creation of Offred, the passive narrator of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, was intentional. The personality of the narrator in this novel is almost as important as the task bestowed upon her. Atwood chooses an average women, appreciative of past times, who lacks imagination and ...

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Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man Lord Of The Flies And Julius Caesar

Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar If you delve into the content of almost any novel, there is almost always some kind of struggle for power. It could be for rightful integration into society; power over an island; ...

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Jack Kerouac-On The Road

Jack Kerouac's 'Great American' Novel, On the Road "…because the only people for me as the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow ...

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Silas Marner: Eliot's Manipulation

Silas Marner, written by George Eliot, covers a time span of more than thirty years; however, emphasis is limited to three relatively short periods. The first period opens the book, showing Silas living his lonely existence at Raveloe, which leads to a flashback to fifteen years earlier when he ...

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The Great Gatsby: Nick Carroway Was A Good Narrator

In today society, many people like to follow the current. They want to catch the wave. Which mean, it does not matter if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just follow and do them without any thinking. Therefore, there are not too many people would like to be a normal, thoughtful ...

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Nevil Shute

Zach Poucher Nevil “Shute” Norway was born on January 17,1899 as the son of Arthur Hamilton Norway, a writer of travel books, in Ealing, Middlesex, England (Locker 396). Nevil Norway spent his early years during the early parts of the Sinn Fein Rebellion, where he helped served with the Red ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: Scout's Development

"Select a novel studied by you where at least one of the principal characters is a young person. Discuss what you consider to be the most important influence in the novel in helping that young person to develop." Jean-Louise Finch (Scout) is the main character in Harper Lee's "To kill ...

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Tom Clancy's Genius

The Cold War and post Cold War eras have brought with them many interesting aspects. New technologies initially meant for mass destruction filter down into the civilian world, making current lives easier. One example of this is the anti-lock braking systems of today’s cars. Originally designed to ...

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The Great Gatsby: Nick - A Good And Neutral Narrator

In today society, many people like to follow the current. They want to catch the wave. Which mean, it does not matter if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just follow and do them without any thinking. Therefore, there are not too many people would like to be a normal, thoughtful ...

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Kerouac's On The Road: Living In Clip

"The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in ...

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Babbitt: Conformity

In the Sinclair Lewis novel Babbitt, the character of Babbitt is completely controlled by the power of conformity. Conformity is so powerful that even after babbitt realizes the stifling nature of the society in which he lives he is powerless to change his fate as a member of conformist ...

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The Adventures Of Huck

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be,"- Voltaire. This quote could no better sum up the quest for freedom in leberry Finn by Mark Twain. "Freedom in this book specifically means freedom from society and imperatives. Huck and Jim seek freedom not from a burden of individual guilt and sin, ...

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Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry...

In the novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry many characters took risks the two that stick out in my head the most is of papa and TJ. TJ didn’t study for a test so he wondered his eyes about until he saw some answers on a nearby classmates answer sheet. He could of suffered the consequence of ...

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Fahrenheit 451 - Symbolism

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is a futuristic novel, taking the reader to a time where books and thinking are outlawed. In a time so dreadful where those who want to better themselves by thinking, and by reading are outlaws as well. Books and ideas are burned, books are burned physically, where ...

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The Joy Luck Club: Cuture Gap

There are numerous conditions in human life that mold people into who they presently are. A person's identity and way of thinking are influenced greatly due to their family's surroundings, and relationships they are involved in. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, the characters are generic, in the ...

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Emma 2

Pride and Prejudice The title of the novel Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, can be interpreted as a theme running through the novel. Pride, observed Mary, . . . is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature ...

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Morrison's Jazz: Characters' Actions

The novel Jazz by Toni Morrison is an extremely well written account of black life during the mid 1850's to the late 1920's. Morrison manipulates the three main character's personas while analyzing their lives to show the effect that a person's history has on their present day life. The most ...

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Grendel Vs. Grendel

In the epic poem Beowulf, Grendel is seen as pure evil and nothing more. He brings bad things and he kills loved ones. The epic poem just shows him as a monster who needs to be killed. In John Gardner’s novel, Grendel, the monster is showed as bringing good things through his evil, like ...

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Ethan Frome

The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel with much symbolism. Throughout the novel several characters represent other ideas. One of the most complex and misunderstood characters in the novel is Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. Pearl, throughout the story, develops into a dynamic ...

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