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Novel Essays and Term Papers
Tolstoywas one of the great nineteenth century realists. Realism was a revolution about liberating the individual. In a realistic novel you find real names, a unique individual, and a lot of description. Very specific detail on everything is found in a realist novel. For a specific character there ...
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Virginia Woolf Creates Interesting contrast within the character of Clarissa Dalloway using stream of consciousness narration in her novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa’s inner thoughts reveal a contrast between her lack of attraction to her husband due to her lesbian feelings and her fear of loosing him as a social stepping stone. ...
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The Works Of Sinclair LewisLewis, (Harry) Sinclair (1885-1951), American novelist, whose naturalistic
style and choice of subject matter was much imitated by later writers. He
replaced the traditionally romantic and complacent conception of American
life with one that was realistic and even bitter. Lewis was born in ...
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Connecticut YankA ee in King Arthur's Court is a complicated novel that fundamentally deals with the concept of the human experience. Hank Morgan is a nineteenth century mechanic who is transported back thirteen centuries to medieval Britain, during the time of King Arthur. After his initial shock, he becomes ...
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All Quiet On The Western FrontThe Sorrows of War and the Glorious Lies
Is it really worth it? Is the simple order by a superior officer enough for someone to spill the blood of innocent soldiers? In , a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a group of soldiers learn the hard way about the realities of war. They encounter trench ...
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The NightIn the book , written by Elie Wiesel, a quote that made me realize the horror people went through in the Holocaust was, "For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes. And we had to look him full in the face. He was still alive ...
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The Symbolic PearlMost novels usually have a main symbol, which teaches a character, or the reader, a very important lesson or moral. This is true in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter, where Hester Prynne’s daughter Pearl serves as the most extensive living symbol in the entire novel. ...
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Critical Review Of 1984 By Geo1984 by George Orwell is a story of a man's strugle against a totalitarianstic government that controlls the ideas and thoughts of its citizens. They use advanced mind reading techniques to discover the thoughts of the people and punish those who show signs of rebellion against the government. The ...
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All Quiet On The Western Front: The War Against DisillusionmentIn the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, the theme of disillusionment is seen and stated over and over by the experiences that Paul and his classmates encountered from their graduation day to the end of World War One. Disillusionment is to lose or lack any faith, hope, or belief in ...
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Stephen Coonts' "Flight Of The Intruder": SummaryThis week I read Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts. I read from
page 1 to page 437 for a total of 437 pages.
The book is about an A-6A Intruder (a naval bomber) pilot named Jake
Grafton. In the first few pages Jake's best friend and B/N
(Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese ...
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Johnny Got His GunnThis anti-war novel is written from the point of view of an injured World War I infantryman (Joe Bonham). As the plot progresses we realize how severe the injuries are (most of his face has been blown away and eventually his arms and legs must be amputated--leaving a faceless torso) and why the ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God:Zora Neale Hurston, in keeping with themes dealing with personal relationships and the female search for self-awareness in Their Eyes Were Watching God , has created a heroine in Janie Crawford. In fact, the female perspective is introduced immediately. "Now, women forget all those things they ...
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John Jake's Homeland: A ReviewHomeland, John Jake's formidable novel about the final explosive
events of the nineteenth century, in the first in a series that will focus
attention on a new "Jakes" family, the Crowns.
Multiple characters and settings at the norm for Jakes; however,
this story rivets primary attention on Paul ...
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Great Expectations And Oliver TwistDuring his lifetime, Charles Dickens is known to have written several books. Although each book is different, they also share many similarities. Two of his books, , are representatives of the many kinds of differences and similarities found within his work.
Perhaps the reason why these two novels ...
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Beloved: American Experience With SlaveryBeloved is actually a quintessentially American story. Its topic slavery however may not seem to be a traditional one in American literature. The novel written by Toni Morrison is an American survivor’s tale, which depicts the collective experience of slavery defined by the identity of the black ...
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The Effects Of Sin On Hester Prynne
Nathaniel Hawthorne believed his task was to analyze the effects of sin, whether thought or committed, on the human heart and mind. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, deals with many themes, the most powerful being sin. In this novel, Hester Prynne becomes a highly respected person in a Puritan ...
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To Kill A MockingbirdIn Harper Lee’s book, , there are many examples of racism and injustice. During this time in history, racism was acceptable, and injustice was a problem in which everyone faced. Nobody likes to suffer from injustice, yet they do it to others. Racism and injustice were key themes in her ...
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Book Report On The Forbidden CThe book The Forbidden City is written by William Bell and contains 299 pages. The theme in this serious, fiction adventure novel is about a seventeen-year old boy named Alex Jackson, his father, a CBC news cameraman, and their adventure in China and how they survived the worst of times during ...
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Great Gatsby - Comparison Of NIn the novel, The Great Gatsby, Nick first sees Gatsby as new rich, neighbor, that parties and wishes to live in East Egg. He becomes friends with Jay and gets to know him as a guy that thinks you can always turn back time. He dreams of Daisy, his Golden Girl, and tries to make things the way they ...
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