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- 1941: Huckleberry Finn Essay 2
- Character Analysis: Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn is one of the many milestones in modern literature. It stands as a testament to the genius the world knows as Mark Twain. Through clever use of "local color" and other literary devices, he is able to weave not only the entertaining tale of ...
- 1942: Hemingway And Camus
- One of the fascinations of reading literature comes when we discover in a work patterns that have heretofore been overlooked. We are the pattern finders who get deep enjoyment from the discovery of patterns in a text. And true to the calling ...
- 1943: Huckleberry Finn
- ... animals. The word 'nigger' was the normal word for a black person. That is why this book is so controversial today. In any case Huck Finn is a good story, and a great example of literature from that time.
- 1944: Great Expectations 2
- In life, symbolism is present all around us. Whether it is in the clothes we wear, the things we do, or what we buy, everything has a meaning. Symbolism is also present in literature and it is shown in Charles Dickens Great Expectations. The symbols of isolation, manipulation, the tragic hero, and wanting to be someone else are seen throughout the book through the characters of Estella, Magwitch, Miss ...
- 1945: Grapes Of Wrath 3
- ... Wrath By John Stienbeck Review By Nic Sherlock This book was published in 1975 but written in the 1930's. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the author also won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is a story of the Joad family, and their trip to California. It tells of the migration of thousands of homeless families from Oklahoma to California. It follows the Joad family, who, evicted ...
- 1946: Great Gatsby 5
- ... Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work. Ed. Alfred Kazin. (1962):89-92. Rpt. In 20th Century Literary Criticisms. Ed. Dennis Paupard. Vol. 14. Detroit: Gale, 1988. 147-149. Wilson, Edmund. Letters on Literature and Politics: 1912-1972 Ed. Elena Wilson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (1977):121-122. Rpt. In 20th Century Literary Criticisms. Ed. Dennis Paupard. Vol 14 Detroit: Gale, 1988. 147-149.
- 1947: Good Country Irony-good Countr
- Good Country People by Flannery O Connor is an excellent example of irony in literature. From beginning to end it has a steady procession of irony, much of it based on the title of the story: Good Country People. In the beginning of the story we meet Mrs. Freeman, wife ...
- 1948: Gatsby 2
- A great lecturer once said, ³Man is so caught up in his own recklessness that he does not notice the values of life.² The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing.
- 1949: Fyodor
- ... and abhors in human personalities. At the age of seventeen he left home to study engineering in a military school, Leningrad, in St. Petersburg. He was miserable there, because he was really more interested in literature, than in what he was taking up. He was incredible poverty plagued in his student life, like Raskolnikov. Often hungry, he knew all about pawnbrokers as a poor man's only source of money . He ...
- 1950: Frankenstein- Can Comfort Be F
- In the Romantic period of literature, nature was often associated with isolation in a positive way. Throughout the novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley, there is a strong symbolic relationship between loneliness and nature. However, Shelley uses the relationship ...
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