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Novel Essays and Term Papers
NothingTHE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES
William Faulkner once said that The Sound and the Fury began with a picture in his mind. Four children, a girl and three boys, are playing in a stream near their house. They have been told to stay outdoors, although they don't know why. In fact, their grandmother, who has ...
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The Adventures And Maturing Of Huckleberry Finn"My new clothes was all greased up and clayey, and I was dog-tired." Mark Twain uses these words to help create the character of Huckleberry Finn. Twain uses dialogue and dialects to show the reader the adventures of a young, rambunctious boy. Huck paints pictures for his readers with his ...
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Symbolism In The Scarlet LetteSymbol is a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. "Symbolists believed that direct statements of feeling were inadequate; instead they called for new and striking symbols to evoke complexities of mood and meaning", says a 11th ...
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The Scarlet Lettertakes place in the mid-seventeenth century Boston, which had a small population by English standards, and a large one by colonial measures. The town, based on historical records, had a very devout puritan population. These people formed their lives about the church, which also was the ...
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The Great GatsbyIn 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 nor ...
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Oedipus The King And Things Fa"Oedipus the King" and "Things Fall Apart"
The poem "Oedipus the King" and the novel "Things Fall Apart, there is some differences between these two stories. These two stories were very famous in the ancient time. "Things Fall Apart has won the following awards: Nigerian National Trophy, ...
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The Time Is Night By LuidmilaThe Time is Night is a short novel by Liudmila Petrushevskaya. It is one of the few stories that I enjoy reading over and over again. The reason is that each time I re-read it, I perceive it in a slightly different way. The complicity of characters and the style of the novel is what I would ...
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Fried Green TomatoesMy first impression of at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a “woman’s” novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a “chick flick”. To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people ...
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The Name Of The RoseIn the title of the novel, , by Umberto Eco, the ‘rose’ can signify many ideas. By making this the title of the book, Eco has attracted the attention of a reader because it suggests a number of things. A rose can be all of nature, the most beautiful of it, a girl, etc. Just as the ...
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The Innocent AdventureThe Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger are two distinct realistic novels portraying adventurous characters. The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the ...
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The Dark HalfIn the last month, I have read the novel by Stephen King. I have read it cover to cover and think it is a good book, but Stephen King has written better. Some of the book was very exciting while other parts bored me. I would say it is good but not great.
This book is, in my opinion, written ...
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. HydeIn the novel , by R. L Stevenson, a story of
mischief and selfishness occurs. It's like this, there is a man called Dr.
Jekyll he doesn't like who he is so one day he thinks of a potion that makes his
good part split away from his bad part. That is when Mr. Hyde comes into the
picture, he is ...
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The Great GatsbyDeath of American Dream In ‘’
Francis Key Scott Fitzgerald “” is one of the greatest revolutions in American literary history. It depth-ness still fascinates the literary experts and readers alike. The book examines several contemporary themes during the turn of the ...
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George Orwells 1984George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four takes us through Winston Smith's life in the period of a year. Winston lives in a world made up of three main states: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. In this visionary novel, Oceania is run by a totalitarian government under the leadership of a dictator named ...
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The Junglewas fact. Upton Sinclair visited Chicago in November 1904 to do
research for the book. Sinclair lived in a neighborhood called
Packingtown for seven weeks. While in Packingtown, Sinclair
interviewed workers, lawyers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and social workers.
The book deals with the greed and ...
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American PsychoEntrails torn from the body with bare hands, eyes gouged out with razor blades, battery cables, rats borrowing inside the human body, power drills to the face, cannibalism, credit cards, business cards, Dorsia, Testoni, Armani, Wall Street; all of these things are Patrick Bateman’s world. The ...
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A Farewell To Arms: Experiences And Their InfluencesSome experiences cannot be accomplished in our own lives but with the help of literature, readers are able to participate in those experiences and expand their understanding of the world and it’s surroundings. Literature also allows the reader to comprehend the thinking, feelings and ...
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Work Of A MasterpieceHarriet Beecher Stowe carefully planned her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, to change the mindset of her readers that would in turn change culture. She accomplished this feat by capturing the reader's sympathy toward the characters, both black and white, and evoking compassion with the dramatic story ...
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Themes Of FrankensteinThere are many different themes expressed in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. They vary with each reader but basically never change. These themes deal with the education that each character posses, the relationships formed or not formed in the novel, and the responsibility for ones own actions. ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontErich Maria Remarque’s , a novel
set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on
one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque’s
protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a
hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More ...
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