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Guilt As Reparation For Sin In

The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a novel about a Puritan woman who has committed adultery and must pay for her sin by wearing a scarlet “A” on her bosom. The woman, Hester Prynne, must struggle through everyday life with the guilt of her sin. The novel is also about the ...

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Hemingway's Soldier's Home: Hemingway's Personal Experiences

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home,” Hemingway’s personal experiences from the war are evident. Hemingway’s life and the life of the main character, Krebs, are very similar. When Hemingway is describing Krebs life it is almost like he is describing his own life. Krebs was a ...

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Biblical Allusions And Imagery In Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

John Steinbeck always makes it a point to know about his subjects first hand. His stories always have some factual basis behind them. Otherwise, he does not believe that they will be of any value beyond artistic impression. Therefore, most of his novels take place in California, the site of his ...

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Kosovo Crisis

As this paper is being written, across the Atlantic Ocean, in Kosovo, there are missiles being fired, houses burning, and people dying. But to understand this senseless war, one must look at how it started. As was seen in the U.S.S.R and Checkoslovakia, due to different nationalities, regions of ...

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Canterbury Tales

In Chaucer’s day women were thought of in lesser regard than men. Their positions in the community were less noble and often displeasing. The , written by Chaucer, is about a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Along with the narrator (Chaucer), there are 29 other Canterbury pilgrims. Not surprisingly, only ...

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How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room

"The Red Room" is a short story that identifies fear and the power of suggestion. The story focuses on how the power of suggestion can cause fear, and how the setting of the story or of a place can cause fear even if the main character is cynical and is not initially ...

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The Cathedral

The narrator in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is not a particularly sensitive man. I might describe him as self-centered, superficial and egotistical. And while his actions certainly speak to these points, it is his misunderstanding of the people and the relationships presented to him in this ...

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In Contempt By Christopher Darden: A Review

This report is based upon the book In Contempt, written by Christopher A. Darden with Jess Walter. This book is published by Regan Books an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers and is copyrighted 1996 by Christopher A. Darden. Introduction of the Author The book In Contempt was written by ...

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Edgar Allan Poe And The Raven

“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.” The writer of these words was enchanted by darkness...thrilled by death. What sort of person would spend their whole life linking hands with Death and her counterparts? Quite possibly a literary genius by the name of ...

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The Longest Memory

Whitechapel is the focal character of D’Aguiar’s novel, however, the author has used a great many other characters whose stories also stand-alone. Why has D’Aguiar structured his novel in this way and how does it lead the reader to an understanding of the impacts of ...

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Evolution And Creation

 The theory of are the same and different in a lot of ways. Lamarck was the first person to come up with a theory for evolution. There are a lot of different creation stories in the The theory of evolution means that all plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary ...

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Real Ghosts - What Are Ghosts

I have chosen to do my book report on a book called... Real Ghosts. what is a ghost suppose to look like? First you may think of something in a white sheet with holes for eyes, you may think of a ragged figure dragging chains and moaning. Or an idea of a ghost may be a figure you can see through, ...

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Kurt Vonnegut

, Jr. is a contemporary American author whose works have been described by Richard Giannone as "comic masks covering the tragic farce that is our contemporary life" (Draper, 3784). Vonnegut's life has had a number of significant influences on his works. Influences from his personal philosophy, his ...

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In Our Time

The Nick Adams stories were my favorite of the collection because I got to know Nick through the reading. I started to understand Nick and I could anticipate the actions and feelings that he was feeling. I am not sure if this is because I became familiar with Nick or because I have done many of ...

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Blind Idealism In Twain's "War Prayer" And Howell's "Editha"

Mark Twain and William Dean Howells are friends and contemporary authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In addition, the authors embrace the similar, yet unpopular, stance of opposing the idealistic philosophy, promoting imperialism, that is prevalent in American society ...

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Stranger In The Kingdom Vs. Sn

When I first read Howard Frank Mosher’s novel Stranger In The Kingdom I was astonished that something like that took place in Vermont. I have always been under the misconception that racism isn’t extremely prevalent in our local culture today. Once again my white American’s ...

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Although Short, John Updike's "A & P" Is Big On Enjoyment

I enjoy stories that are long and involved. However, the short story "A & P" by John Updike is a wonderful exception to this rule. Updike writes the story from a viewpoint of what I believe to be a younger, more contemporary person. The story contains many other enjoyable attributes, such ...

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William Faulkner

's Yoknapatawpha County, with Jefferson as its county seat, is both a mythical and actual place. Yoknapatawpha county is 2400 square miles in area and has a population of 15,611 persons. Jefferson has an actual jail, town square, old houses, and Old Frenchman's Place, even a railroad. ...

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Frankenstein Biography, Settin

Most people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in ...

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Scarlet Letter 2

Similarities in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The Ambitious Guest is a short story bye Nathaniel Hawthorne that presents deadly irony. Residing in a notch in the mountains of New Hampshire, a cottage sits on the side of a steep mountain. In the house lives a family whose contacts with the rest ...

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