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Alice Walker Like Her Character Meridian
855 wordsIn this compelling novel by Alice Walker, Meridian, the main character, grows up through the eyes of the reader. The author shows us the emotional, physical, and psychological stages of resistance that Meridian goes through during the height of the civil rights movement. In fact, if one looks at the life of Alice Walker, the author of the novel, similarities undeniably exist between the two women. First let us examine the early signs of resistance in Meridian. One of the first obvious examples o...
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Ivan And Dmitry
3,265 wordsBook Report on Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov " CHARACTERIZATION The main characters of Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov are, as the title suggests, the members of the Karamazov 'family,' if it can indeed be called such. The only things that the members of this family share are a name and the 'Karamazov curse,' a legacy of base impulses and voluptuous lust. References to this tendency towards immorality are sprinkled heavily throughout the novel; phrases such as 'a brazen brow and...
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Greenspan's Book
565 wordsGreenspan - The Case for the Defense My fascination with the Judicial System Structure of today's society was furthered and strengthened after reading and analyzing the works of Edward Greenspan. The superbly written biography recollecting past cases and important events in Greenspan's life allowed myself, the reader, to learn more about Jurisprudence and the Criminal Code. The entire casebook revolves around several main themes including the balance of Positive and Natural influences in the cou...
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Attack During Red Storm Rising
1,474 wordsIf you ask people 'Have you heard of Tom Clancy?' many just shake their head in bewilderment. But when you mention some of his novels, such as Red Storm Rising or Rainbow Six, they know - if not for the novels then for the movies. There are many fictional books written to be enjoyed for their contents. However, the interest of the reader in the contents of a book is sometimes affected by the realism with which the plot is introduced. Tom Clancy is an author of many books concerning the military....
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Picture Darren And Steve
986 wordsBook Evaluation Cirque du Freak The book I read was called Cirque du Freak The Saga of Darren Shan. This is a quick and easy to read thriller for the whole family. Darren Shan tells this 266 page "true story" about his life as a child wonderfully. This story is an attention grabber and once you start, it will be hard to put down. The setting itself is pretty simple. It starts in what I assume is about a fifth or sixth grade classroom and then falls into the circus. Of course, this is no ordinary...
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Daniel Defoe's Classic Novel Moll Flanders
1,575 wordsMoll Flanders: Sinner or Saint There are many reasons why Daniel Defoe's classic novel Moll Flanders is still studied today. One of the reasons that it is still so widely studied is that there are significant reasons to doubt the sincerity of Moll's repentance at the end of the novel. Her conversion is attained rather easily, perhaps too easily. Moll herself is supposed to be narrating this text after her conversion, yet her newfound morality is not apparent in her discourse. It seems, at times,...
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Social Basis For The Kukuanas
1,311 wordsHenry Rider Haggard sets out to create an epic tale of courage, a breathtaking drama that attempts to capture, within its limits, the universal spirit of adventure. He appeals in particular to the proverbial young male that seeks an audacious inspiration in life by which to model his own. He entices his readers because his motives lie simply in his desire to entertain, to delight, and to enthrall anyone with a prolific imagination. However, this purely entertaining account of an eclectic and adv...
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India In The Moonstone
2,052 wordsWhat role did 19th Century popular serial novels such as Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone play in British understandings of India? When Wilkie Collins first wrote The Moonstone in 1868, it was not published in the form available today, but was published in instalments in a popular Victorian magazine, All the Year Round. Upon its first publication it was eagerly read by the general British public, for its readership not only included the ruling and upper classes, but the cost and availability meant ...
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Novel Macabea
1,913 wordsLatin Literature Research essay on Clarice Lispectors, The Hour of the Star. As Clarice Li spector was writing what would become her last literary creation, The Hour of the Star, little did she know that while her body was plagued with the devastations of cancer, her mental struggle for peace and grace in death would inspire her most renowned novel. Perhaps it is because of those circumstances, she created a novel with intuitive reflections on both life and death, as seen through the life of the...
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Ending And The Plot Of The Novel
709 wordsOne of the first signs in the novel of the impending doom Ishmael will face is the name of the owner of the Spouter Inn: Coffin? Spouter? Rather ominous in that particular connexion, thought I (18). The chapel where people were worshipping the dead and the two trees that looked like a gallows near the Try-Pots Inn add to the mounting number of signs telling Ishmael to back away. However, Ishmael is an educated man; despite these rather peculiar premonitions, he will not be deterred from his cour...
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Long Book
764 wordsSet in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age. They live in a world shaped by passivity. The place lacks feeling and hope. Three high school buddies, 2 male and 1 female, venture down very different paths after graduation. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern College and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege. In this immoral world every...
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Virginia Woolf Captures In A Way
822 wordsReading To the Lighthouse was more than just another literary experience for me. Virginia Woolf wrote in such a way that challenged my mind, spoke to my emotions and in essence she shut me up and made me listen. Listening was not hard seeing that she had much to say and a unique way of saying it. I found a sensitivity in Woolf's work that I appreciated as it is not a style seen in the work of today. I am only afraid that due to its subtlety, it may go unnoticed by some of my generation of reader...
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Separation Of Classes And The Greed
846 wordsWritten in 1899, Frank Norris novel, McTeague serves as a view of societal factions of his time period. Norris illustrates the stratification of society in this San Francisco community by using the concept of Social Darwinism. He gives detailed accounts of the inner workings of society along with the emotions of the time. Through his characters, Norris shows the separation of classes and the greed that grew abundantly during the late 19th century. He also gives a grim picture of survival in his ...
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Hero Villain Look
2,158 wordsWriting for the Medium Entertainment is a major focus in our society. Nothing can interest us more than watching a good movie, television show, or a great comic book. Many people have interests outside of these mediums, but you would have to go pretty far to find someone who has not seen a fictional work in the visual form. At one time I thought that television shows and movies worked straight from books in novel form, I was wrong. They could start out in novel form, but they end up in screenpla...
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Humor In Catch 22
1,628 wordsThe classic anti-war, anti-establishment, anti- (insert current debatable issue / action here) novel, Catch-22, follows the life of Yossarian, the main character, and his fellow Army Air Corps officers, stationed on an imaginary island off the coast of Italy, through a period during World War II. The book is classified under the genre of tragicomedy, yet some people see it as one extreme or the other of tragedy versus comedy. Both tragedy and comedy are very prevalent throughout the book, howeve...
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Involved Mr Wormold And His Friend Hasselbacher
1,455 wordsOur Man in Havana by Graham Greene is an espionage mystery novel. Graham Greene was born in 1904 and educated at Berkhamsted School, where his father was headmaster. In all he has written forty novels, entertainments, plays, children's books, travel books, and collections of essays and short stories. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1966, and was given the O.M. in the 1986 New Year's Honours List. The setting is Havana, Cuba in 1958. This was just before Fidel Castro became president of Cuba...
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Lacey And A Killer
497 wordsMary Higgins Clark has delivered to readers the fifteenth of her bestselling suspenders. In the starring role this time is Lacey Farrell, a big-wheel real estate agent. Lacey sells luxury condos in New York City and becomes friends with one of her clients, Isabelle Land. Their conversations are centered around Isabelle's daughter, who died a couple of years ago in a car crash; however, the mother is terribly disturbed because she does not believe that it was an accident. She is convinced that th...
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Lady Marguerite Blakeney
1,473 wordsThe historical novel entitled The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic and truly deserves this prestigious title. The author of this enthralling 267 page book is Baroness Emma Orczy and it was published by Dodd, Mead & Company in the year 1964. The scene is set in the terrorized Paris of revolutionary France in the 1800's. During this time period nobody was safe from the horrifying grasp of "Madame la Guillotine" which claimed hundreds of lives every day. But a few brave men headed by a courageous per...
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First Section Of The Novel
500 wordsThis novel is very strange. The book begins in pre-historic times, telling about the man-ape's experience with the monoliths in Africa, and suddenly jumps to the space age people and their experience with the monoliths on the moon. The book is packed with a lot of themes, such as: ? No matter how good you are, there is always something better? , and? You can? t sacrifice the reliability of the human mind for a machine? The first theme, ? No matter how good you are, there is always something bett...
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Connection Between Anthony Sward And His Name
2,054 wordsA study of characters in "Hot Gossip' by Deborah Lawrenson In her novel "Hot Gossip' Deborah Lawrenson makes her characters lively, involving and intriguing; she uses her unique style to capture her reader's attention. Lawrenson uses an interesting and humorous plot combined with complex characters to write a satire on the fantasy world and outrageous antics of the rich and famous as seen by the gossip columnist who's job is to broadcast other peoples lives while keeping their own quiet. At time...
