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Novels To Read Essays and Term Papers
1984as an Anti-Utopian Novel A utopia is an ideal or perfect community. While some writers have created fictional places that embody their ideals societies, other writers have written satires that ridicule existing conditions of society, or anti-utopias, which show possible future societies that are ...
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The Surprising Aspect Of Sex In Heller's Catch-22Joseph Heller's humorist-war novel, Catch-22, has many surprising passages and themes. The part that is most surprising to me in Catch-22 is the amount of sexual connotation in a novel based around World War II. The question which has to be raised is, Is Catch-22 really about World War II? While ...
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All Quite On The Western FrontAll Quiet on the Western Front
One of the best war novels that is read by thousands of
high school students each year is Erich Maria Remarque's All
Quiet on the Western Front. This story depicts the life as a
solider in the German Army fighting against the Central Powers.
The solider, Paul ...
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The Different Conceptions Of The Veil In The Souls Of Black Folk"For now we see through a glass, darkly"
-Isiah 25:7
W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical
and historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and
their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and the
duality ...
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Arthur C. Clarkewas born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset. His mother was Nora Clarke and his father was Charles Wright Clarke. He had two brothers, Frederick and Michael and one sister, Mary. There were many events that helped to shape him and his writing style. The first major event in his early life was his ...
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Conjure WomanDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick, the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, was born in 1928 in Chicago, but he lived most of his life in California. During 1952-1982, Philip wrote 36 novels and 5 short story collections. ...
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Ernest Hemingwaywas born in 1899. His hometown was Oak Park, Illinois, which is by Chicago. He died in 1961 by suicide. Grace Hall, his mother was a musician. She was very good and took up opera. She stopped to raise a family, and from then on she was a music teacher and had a career. His dad was quiet and was a ...
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: SymbolismQuestions
1. Compare and Contrast Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Although Tom and Hucklberry Finn have many things in common and are very
good friends, they also live a life of two totally different lifestyles. Tom,
who is a dreamer, lives a life out of romantic novels, and can be amusing ...
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Tennessee Williamswas born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in
Columbus, Mississippi. As a child, he lived with his mother and grandfather.
When he was fourteen, Williams too first place in an essay contest sponsored by
a national magazine, The Smart Set. At the age of seventeen, his first
published ...
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M*A*S*HIt all started wit a book written by Dr. Ricard ornberger as e sat waiting for patients at is offices in Bremen, Maine. Using te allias Ricard ooker it was a fictional account of is years at te 8055 Mobile Army Surgical ospital in Korea. e based awkeye on imself (toug e said e never liked Alda's ...
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To Be, Or Not To BeAccording to Merrion-Webster Inc. Dictionary, a doppelgänger is a double, an often ghostly or evil counterpart to a character. It comes from the German language, doppel- double + -gänger goer. It might be asked, “What does a doppelgänger have to do with a paper on Joseph Conrad?” ...
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Red Sails To CapriThe book that I am currently reading is called , written by Ann Weil. This book was awarded the Newberry Honor. The main character in this book is named Michele Pagano (Mee-shell) (Pa-gan-o). Michele is fourteen years old. He lives at home with his parents, Signor Pagano and Signora Pagano, on ...
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A Comparison Of "The Handmaid's Tale" And "Anthem"The two novels, The Handmaid's Tale and Anthem, are both haunting,
first person tales of personal hardship in a closed and controlled society.
In this essay I will point out many important similarities and differences
between the two books, mainly the setting and the similarities between the
two ...
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Sylvia Plath Compare To EstherSylvia Plath was born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; she published her first poem when she was eight. Her father was a professor of entomology, when he past away he left psychological scars on Sylvia when she was eight. Her mother worked teaching in a medical/secretarial ...
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Book Review: NemesisName of Book: Nemesis
was three years of age, his family immigrated to the United States and settled
in Brooklyn, New York. Asimov turned to full time writing in 1958. This
accomplished writer is best known for his novels dealing with science fiction.
However, his works extend to other subjects. ...
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Little WomenLost Horizon is the story of four people who, while being evacuated from a war-torn city in Asia, were kidnaped and taken to a mystical and mysterious valley in the Tibetan mountains named Shangri-La. Shangri-La was a uncommonly strange place. It was isolated, it wasn't on any map and no one had ...
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Catch 22America has been involved in the cold war for years. The fear of communism is ruining lives. The country moves closer and closer to the Korean war. Joseph Heller’s is published. 1963- College students are seen wearing army fatigues with "Yossarian" name tags. Reports are being made ...
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Pride And PrejudiceJane Austen's , set in Nineteenth century England, is a novel about marriage. Austen's feminine writing and weaved storyline creates a novel which can be interesting to read and which women especially enjoy. The novel has a strong theme of marriage as a mother (Mrs. Bennet) desperately trying to ...
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The Blue HotelStephen Crane is a well-known author of variety of short stories. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a Methodist minister. After schooling at Lafayette College and Syracuse University, he worked in New York as a freelance journalist. His short stories and experimental poetry, also, ...
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Comparing The Works Of Richard WrightOne of America's most prominent black authors is Richard Wright writes mostly from the African American perspective. Both his novel Native Son and his short stories The Man Who Was Almost a Man (from the collection Eight Men) deals with young black men in their quest and struggles to become ...
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