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- 1821: Janette Turner Hospital: 4 Vivid Female Characters In Her Two Novels
- ... own what they really want. Dave has noticed Juliet's " staring from the window of their house like a woman behind bars" , so has Emily mentions about her about her mother's " standing at the French window like a caged bird." Emily is aware of her uncertainty. Therefore, she decides to leave Dave for England. In her opinion she only wants to get away from complicated life to sort things out ...
- 1822: Evolution And Creation
- ... changes in the production or generations. The word evolution means The historical development of a biological group (as a race or species) (Webster s dictionary). The origin of the theory of evolution began with the French naturalist named Lamarck. This happened in around 1809. He said that the more an animal used its body parts the stronger they got. He also said that the less a animal used its body parts ...
- 1823: 1984
- ... stay free. After work one evening, he wonders into the prole end of London, and ends up near the store where he bought the diary. Follows man into pub and plans to ask him about revolution but man is incoherent. He leaves the pub and wanders. He ends up outside the little antique shop and decides to buy a glass paperweight. Mr. Charrington shows him a room upstairs and Winston dreams ...
- 1824: Kings Lear
- ... less than all. The younger rises when the old doth fall.16 Edmund plans to tell the Duke of Albany of the letter Gloucester has received and of his journey to inform Lear of the French forces coming to aid him. The information makes Gloucester look like a traitor in the Duke's eyes and Edmund realizes he will be rewarded with his father's lands since they will be stripped ...
- 1825: Moby Dick 2
- ... complete more works until his death in 1891. B. Herman Melville lived in a time period that would have a great effect on his writings. For instance, America during that time was witnessing the Industrial Revolution and felt that his country was slipping away from its founding fathers ideals. His feelings and thoughts towards his society of that day more than likely played an important role in his novels. Furthermore, Melville ...
- 1826: Harper Lee: Introduction to Harper Lee
- ... an area with large cotton plantations and small cities. Because of the necessity for cheap labor to pick and seed the cotton, Negro slavery took a strong hold there. At the outbreak of the American Revolution, there were over 500,000 slaves in this country, with by far the greatest number in the South. As time passed, plantation owners formed a landed aristocracy. The Negroes, though slaves, gained a measure of ...
- 1827: Mordecai Richler`s Solomon Gursky Was Here
- ... that Canada is a second rate nation. One character, in conversation with Moses, once said: "Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. The French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Chamberlain; Irish the famine; and Jews the black hundreds. Then there are the peasants from the Ukraine, Poland , Italy and Greece ...
- 1828: Jonathan Swifts Gulliver's Travels
- ... Mr. Pope on her back makes me queezy (198). A final indication that the Houyhnmns are not meant to be taken seriously occurs when the leader of the Houynhms visits Lilliput, where he visits the French Royal Society. He goes into a room in which a scientist is trying to turn wine into water (itself a prideful act that refers to the marriage at Gallilee). The scientist has been working hard ...
- 1829: The Significance of Food in "Like Water for Chocolate"
- ... into which this story pursues. Sex, food and magic are mixed in sparingly in the story, which revolves about Tita, third daughter of a Elena. The time is the early 1900's and the Mexican Revolution is raging, but in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on cooking. The family servant, Nacha, Tita's surrogate mother, teaches the her secrets and makes her the next in an ancient ...
- 1830: Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
- ... to be free of corruption. Even the good things in life, the good and honest acts, can be contaminated due to the wrong motive. Holden's motives pertain to those of Pascal, a 17th-Century French philosopher, who saw the human self as sort of a contradiction. Although Holden felt a need to isolate himself, he also had a need to love. He began to miss the people he knew, and ...
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