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- 471: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Analysis
- ... want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us_. " Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a work of non-fiction, attempts to tell the story of the American West from the perspective of the indigenous population, The American Indian. That in itself makes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee an important work of literature as ...
- 472: Hobbit Essay
- ... communicate with humans and dwarves in the novel, which is not possible on our planet. Beorn, a human who is able to morph into other creatures at an instant, is an excellent example of such fiction. The dragon, Smaug, is the main adversary of the fourteen adventurers and is a type of creature that has long been used in fantasy writing. Although most of the characters' species are merely creations of ...
- 473: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... in paperback by Popular Library. In April, 1961, Miss Lee was awarded the Alabama Library Association Award. In May, 1961, she was the first woman since 1942 to win the $500.00 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition to its acclaim in the United States, To Kill A Mockingbird has received awards in foreign countries. For example, in Britain it was selected British Book Society Top Book of the Year. It ...
- 474: 1984: Summary
- ... this was not acceptable for Party citizens. This was part of the denial of pleasure. In order for the people to believe the Party's perversions of the truth, the Party had to make their fiction reality. The Party slaughtered people , burned books, shredded and altered documents in order to control information. Winston Smith's job was to alter old government documents, birth certificates and many other things. Winston was a ...
- 475: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... Tom's Cabin. “Was this only an “ event,” the advent of a new force in politics; was the book merely an abolition pamphlet, or was it a novel, one of the few great masterpieces of fiction that the world has produced?”(Wilson 24). The compromise of 1850 satisfied neither the North nor the South. The admission of California as a free state was regarded by Calhoun as fatal to the balance ...
- 476: Young Goodman Brown's Apocalypse
- ... Funk & Wagnall's Corporation, 1994. Hodara, Alan. "Some Thoughts On Young Goodman Brown." (26 Oct. 1996). Jones, Madison. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Short Story Criticism. Vol 3. Detriot: Gale, 1989. MaGill, Frank, ed. Critical Survery of Short Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salam Press, 1981. Martin, Terence. "Nathaniel Hawthorne." Short Story Criticism. Vol 3. Detriot: Gale, 1989. Mikosh, Bert A., "A View of Young Goodman Brown." (11-9-96). Segura, Gilberto. "The Allegorical Goodman ...
- 477: An Analysis of Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
- 478: The Grapes of Wrath: No One Man, But One Common Soul
- ... suffering would never occur again (Critical 1). Steinbeck shows in The Grapes of Wrath that there is no one man, but one common soul in which we all belong to. The subject of Steinbeck's fiction is not the most thoughtful, imaginative, and constructive aspects of humanity, but rather the process of life itself (Wilson 785). Steinbeck has been compared to a twentieth century Charles Dickens of California; a social critic ...
- 479: The Fall of the House of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
- ... Ungar Publishing company, 1984 Levin, Harry The Power of Blackness New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 Levine, Stuart Edgar Allan Poe: Seer and craftsman, Deland, Everett / Edwards, inc. 1972 MacAndrew, Elizabeth The Gothic Tradition in Fiction, New York, Columbia University Press, 1979 Neilson, Keith Master Plots; volume 4 Englewood Cliffs, Salem Press, 1985 The Norton Anthology of American Literature W. W. Noton and company, 1995 "Imagery of The Supernatural in The ...
- 480: Tribulation and Comedy in Lucky Jim
- ... holds true for any person. What better way to cope with adversity than a strong sense of humour. References Amis, K. (1953). Lucky jim. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Ltd. Bradford, R. (1989). Kingsley amis-(modern fiction). Great Britain: Edward Arnold. Gardner, P. (1981). Kingsley amis. Boston: Twayne Publishers. McDermott, J. (1989). Kingsley amis: an english moralist. New York: St. Martin's Press. Salwak, D. (1992). Kingsley amis: a modern novelist. Great ...
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