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- 2531: Little Women
- ... definitely a classic that will continue on through the ages. Everyone should read this book once before they're too old and hardened to appreciate it. This book set a precedent for how all good literature should be written. From this book I've learned how to pick up and get on with my life after something bad happens. If the Marches can carry on after the death of their sister ...
- 2532: Like Water For Chocolate - Movie Vs Book
- Laura Esquirels, Like Water for Chocolate, is a modern day Romeo and Juliet filled with mouthwatering recipes. It has become a valued part of American literature. The novel became so popular that it was developed into a film, becoming a success in both America and Mexico. Alfonso Arau directs the film. After reading the novel and seeing the movie, I discovered ...
- 2533: Langston Hughes
- ... 3) This poem shows that he has depths about as deep and fathomless as Africa itself. His poetry "echoes the voices of ordinary African Americans and the rythms of their music." (The Bedford Introduction to Literature 1101) The blues can be dected very easily in his poems, and throughout most of his works, each poem had a rhythm, and almost every title had a blues theme to it. From The Weary ...
- 2534: Jungle Book
- ... a bit more imagination could have been used in the description of the characters in this novel. Personal Reflection: I like this novel mostly because of the fact that it is a classic in our literature. The stories were easy to read and follow although much more excitement could of been added. The stories included in this novel are something which an every day person could whip up on a weekend ...
- 2535: Indigo
- ... able to express her emotions and the emotions of the people she pkayed for. She had been place in a box with a label on her. Much like the world tires to do to all literature, and people. Another intresting facet of this story is the challenge to linear structure. Shange in writing this challenges the readers idea of how a story should be placed together. In fdoing that hough she ...
- 2536: In The Skin Of A Lion
- ... that car trip started, so the tale backs up on itself. The novel constantly brings attention that it itself is a work of fiction. There are constant references to art, music, drama, film, photography, and literature, as well as devices used "You reach people through metaphor". It implies that it is a creation, "Only the best art can order the chaotic tumble of events.." and even "The first sentence of every ...
- 2537: In Flanders Fields
- ... its theme is one that could be understood by people of almost all nationalities. "In Flanders Fields" was an important Canadian contribution to one of the most distinctive literary forms of the twentieth century, the literature of war. His poem unified Canada when Canada needed a thread to string the young country together. Even the French Canadians who regarded the war in Europe as something foreign and that did not affect ...
- 2538: I Too Sing America
- ... to be was to be black. But this poem foretold the future where black is beautiful. The European Americans of today must live with the shame and consequences of the earliest discrimination. Poetry and other literature are our windows to the past present and future. This poem is a perfect example of that. This poem gives insight to the mind of the captive Negro. It shows the determination, will, and strength ...
- 2539: Huckelberry Finn- Censorship
- ... pen name, Mark Twain."(Lyttle pg.16) He was born in 1835 and died in 1910. Ever since The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published there has been a wide variety of objections about the literature found in the book which are represented as racist or hatred, because "Twain Attributed a stereotyped ^Negro^ dialect"(Cox pg.129). There has been acts of depriving children to read this great novel by removing ...
- 2540: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... are mentioned in the poems, the majority of his works being somewhat biographical. It is said that Allen Ginsberg was ahead of his time, but in fact he was just riding the wave of a literature revolution. The decade of the 1950s was a time of change. America and the world was experiencing a transition from innocence to a more knowledgeable society. Revolutions in all aspects of life were going ...
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