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- 2181: Grapes Of Wrath 6
- ... novel Steinbeck attempts to display the tensions between the Okies and the Californians. This display can be closely compared to today s tensions between citizens born in the US and the Immigrants. Great pieces of literature are timeless in the lessons they teach and the controversy they portray. The tensions between the Okies and the Californians were heated, as are most tensions dealing with land and immigration. The Okies wanted only ...
- 2182: Good Vs. Evil In Treasure Isla
- Throughout many works of literature, a prominent theme has been Good vs. Evil . Many authors base the plot of their novels around good guys fighting the villain .Robert Louis Stevenson contrasts good and evil through many of the characters thathe ...
- 2183: George Orwells 1984
- ... bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. She also works in the Ministry of Truth for the Fiction Department. She helps to write pornographic literature that is sold to the lower society; this is ironic because she wears a red sash around her waist to signify her commitment to the Junior Anti-Sex League. She is actively involved in many ...
- 2184: Gatsby S Sacrifice
- ... New York, 1925. Gindin, James. "Gods and Fathers in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Novels." Modern Critical Views: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. McQuade, Donald, ed. The Harper American Literature. Harper & Row Publishers: New York, 1987, pp. 1308-1311.
- 2185: Futures Truth
- ... his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the future world, scared that it may be rendered useless and discarded. But one theme that both Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 use in common is the theme of individual discovery by refusing ...
- 2186: Ernest Hemingway
- ... game. Though Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid and to forget things. He became obsessed with ...
- 2187: Stephen King
- ... not until college that Stephen King received any kind of real recognition for his writings. In the Fall of 1967, King finished his first novel, The Long Walk, and turned it into his sophomore American Literature professor for review. After a couple of weeks and a couple rounds around the department, the English professors were stunned. They realized that they had a real writer on their hands. From then until he ...
- 2188: The American Dream In Self Rel
- The American Dream remains viewed as the success which one obtains. The American Dream has had a great impact on literature as well as an impact on the changing of time periods. The 19th century Transcendentalists idea of the American Dream focuses on reaching ones goals by honest, hard work. On the other hand, Gatsby ...
- 2189: The Book Of Sand By Jorge Luis
- ... he expresses in The Other). In his fifties, Borges becomes blind, but continues to lecture in colleges and conferences around the world. During his lifetime, Borges was nominated several times for the Noble Prize in Literature. He wrote alot of short stories, literary reviews (based on books that never existed), poems and more. Although he passed away on June 14, 1986, his writings live on to be shared with all generations ...
- 2190: The Good Earth
- ... I also felt that the book was a little drawn out and should of ended when O-lan died. The story was highly acclaimed and won both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for literature. I would recommend this book because it helped me to understand how my own family traditions were developed and cherished by my family today. Wang Lung's life was masterfully portrayed by the talented author ...
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