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- 1141: Literary Analysis Of The Woman
- Identity Crisis Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures, a female devaluing Chinese culture and influences by an American culture ...
- 1142: Foreshadowing Destiny(great Ga
- ... has begun." The beauty and splendor of Gatsby's parties masked the innate corruption within the heart of the Roaring Twenties. Jazz-Age society was a bankrupt world, devoid of morality, and plagued by a crisis of character. Jay Gatsby is a misfit in this world. He tries, ironically, to fit into the picture: he fills his garage with status, his closet with fashion, his lawns with gaiety, his mannerisms with ...
- 1143: A Domestic Dilemma By Carson M
- ... I drink a couple of sherries in the afternoon you’re trying to make out a drunkard” in a sharp, unforgiving tone(99). According to Roberta Caplan, some people may drink abusively during a personal crisis and then resume normal drinking (Groiler) which explains Emily’s “rhythmic sorrow” filled with “alcohol”(102). In addition, fear and worry for his wife an children make Martin feel uneasy. Returning from work a year ...
- 1144: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... story, including intimidation, guile, support, love, and even murder. Steinbeck wants to show that even a murderer still loves his mother. The mother after all, is holding his family together. (In all the families in crisis, the children look to the women for answers to their immediate survival: "What are we gonna do, Ma? Where are we going to go?") At one point in the story, Tom Jode considers leaving home ...
- 1145: Don Quixote
- ... but upon recovering the clarity of his mind, he loses his life. This idea is very realistic because of its modern day implications. It tells who becomes bored with his life and experiences a midlife crisis. He enjoys reading about chivalry and finds the idea so fascinating that he decides that he wants to experience it himself. Don Quixote is a character that is a part of all of us. Everybody ...
- 1146: Black Boy
- ... is a place of intense emotional conflict, and his family forces him to fight back constantly in order to be able to pursue his own path. But the family also offers support in times of crisis, for example, when his mother has a stroke. Many readers think the central focus of Wright's story is on his development into an artist and intellectual. From this perspective, the book is about the ...
- 1147: 20,000 Leagues
- ... tedious volume. When the story was introduced, Jules Verne described M. Aronnax, the main character, whose love for marine biology was more important than anything else to him did. This immediately led to the international crisis about a bizarre aquatic creature, which immediately dragged M. Aronnax into the action. Due to his expertise on the matter, the public expected Pierre to be the one to solve this mystery. M. Aronnax, under ...
- 1148: My Antonia
- ... a wonderful optimism. Cather expresses this in Jim's love of life and attention to imagery that is associated with Jim's happiness. This keeps the reader almost as naive as Jim himself, and each crisis, no matter how many there are still comes as a jolt of sadness. All of this culminates in the final shock of Jim and Antonia not eloping and living happily ever after. The reader is ...
- 1149: The Sixth Extinction
- ... is it coming and what is its cause? It is happening now, and we, the human race are its cause explains Richard Leakey. This phenomenon Leakey argues, is easily comparable with the big five biological crisis' of geological history, except this one is not being caused by global temperature change, regression of sea level, or asteroid impact. It is being caused by one of Earth's inhabitants. According to Leakey, humanity ...
- 1150: Report On Book Titled Black Li
- ... to know this wonderful man. To be a relative, to be his friend, and to of helped him somehow in his conquest. I feel that if I were alive then, whether I was Black, White, Asian, or a Purple People Eater, I would have done something to help him in some fashion. I think that I am more of a leader than a follower more of an activist. I stand for ...
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