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- 291: The Bluest Eye By Toni Morriso
- ... the emblems of that for which Pecola yearns. The same racism that underpins the standards of beauty under which Pecola and her mother, Pauline, suffer, is also at the root of Pecola's father's alcoholism and violence. After he impregnates Pecola and she is beaten by her mother for it, Pecola (with the treachery of Soaphead Church, a "faith healer") goes mad, believing she has obtained her blue eyes. By ...
- 292: The Future Of The Race
- ... might be called the gangsterization of everyday life, characterized by the escalating fear of violent attack, vicious assault, or cruel insult, we are witnessing a pervasive cultural decay in American civilization Increasing suicides and homicides, alcoholism and drug addiction, distrust and disloyalty, cold-heartedness and mean-spiritedness cheap sexual thrills and cowardly patriarchal violence are still other systems of this decay. In so grim an era, West concludes, only a multi ...
- 293: Jay Gatsby And Dick Diver
- ... almost friendless lives. Gatsby and Diver are both intensive socialites, even if in a kind of reclusive manner, and certainly in Dicks case, the excessive like leads to his demise through, among other reasons, alcoholism. There are also other mentions of ridiculous behaviour which went on at Gatsbys parties, but it would be unfair to say that in these two novels Fitzgerald was simply writing cautionary tales concerning the ...
- 294: Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also
- ... Rises is impotence. Not only Jake's physical impotence, but also the powerlessness of the bull in the face of its imminent cruel death, the characters' barrenness of emotion and lack of sensitivity, their ineffectiveness, alcoholism, and failure to work out some sort of meaningful "personal philosophy" and an "exhausted cynicism . Hemingway shows war wounds as the destroyer of love: Jake pursues love without sex and Brett pursues sex without love ...
- 295: Censorship In Mark Twains Nove
- ... of depriving children to read this great novel by removing it from most school libraries. "The book is a rich, deep text on many important issues: not only race and slavery, but violence, child abuse, alcoholism, and many other problems still relevant to American society. At the same time, it is an inventory of essential values, such as kindness, courage, and the need through moral choices" (Koster pg.159). Throughout the ...
- 296: I Heard An Owl Call My Name
- ... primitive community, which was starting to be swallowed into the white man's world. Then he had to help preserve the old culture of totems and salmons from being replaced by a new culture of alcoholism and residential schools. A few Indian youths went to a school in Vancouver, to which the elders disapproved because they knew the young people would never return to the village. In the end, he did ...
- 297: In The Lake Of The Woods
- ... be. John was full of admiration for his father, yet he found it difficult to understand the hurtful and remorseless remarks his father would make about his weight and his report cards. His fathers alcoholism also troubled John badly, and he would spend hours in front of the mirror in the basement, living out the fantasies that he so dearly hoped would one day become reality.
The mirror made the ...
- 298: Intertextualilty - The Mocking
- ... story is about the bond between father and son and Albie struggling to make sense of the lack of that bond between another father and son. "A blow, A kiss" also has underlying references to alcoholism and family values and the effects alcohol has on the family unit. The themes in Harper Lees novel however evolve differently, The underlying theme resides about the inclusion of racism and prejudice within society ...
- 299: Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre An
- ... their sense of identity18. This was particularly relevant in Rhys case, who felt alienated by England. This unhappy experience and continual dissatisfaction with England and Europe left her isolated, lonely and vulnerable. I believe her alcoholism and loneliness in the twilight of her life, fostered a need for cultural and emotional closure. Rhys recognised in Jane Eyre, or more specifically in Antoinette or Bertha, the victim of the same misrepresentations and ...
- 300: Carvers Realism From Fires
- ... them on himself. This can be seen in the story Where is Everyone? The narrator of the story is a self-proclaimed alcoholic and through the course of the story confronts the many vices of alcoholism. This struggle also plagued Carvers life, and one that he also succumbed to. More than once Carver has been criticised for condescending to his characters, or dealing with them ironically. He flatly denies this stance ...
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