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- 2631: A Post-Modern Age
- ... and the end of the Thirty Years' War; while even still, it could have begun during the American or French Revolutions of 1776 or 1789; or even the rise of "Modernism" in fine arts and literature. How we ourselves are to feel about the prospects of Modernity depends on what we see as the heart and core of the "modern, and what key events in our eyes gave rise to the ...
- 2632: Allegory Of American Pie By Do
- ... nroll after Buddy Hollys death and the heathenism of rock that resulted. Although McLean himself wont reveal any symbolism in his songs, "American Pie" is one of the most analyzed pieces of literature in modern society. Although not all of its secrets have been revealed, many "scholars" of the sixties will agree that the mystery of this song is one of the reasons it has become so successful ...
- 2633: Mary Shelleys Self-help Guide to Life
- ... as self-help manuals, to reprioritize their lives and transform the way that they are living. A plethora of self-help manuals exist today, yet a hidden array of guidance can be exposed in classical literature. Mary Shelley uses her novel, Frankenstein, to convey her own standards and values for life. The readers are influenced as they adapt to her principles through the use of several techniques to bring to light ...
- 2634: Reverence
- ... at one time or another have played on it." The guard responded, "No, Miss, Paderewski was here two years ago but said he was not worthy to touch it." An example of this virtue in literature is when the distinguished jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "I have in my hear a small, shy plant called reverence; I cultivate that on Sunday mornings." This sentiment would no doubt have won the admiration ...
- 2635: The Catcher in the Rye: Now and Then
- ... novel. Today the subject of sex is loosely discussed in many books and novels. This was a new step that Salinger took in this novel, that had not been mentioned a considerable amount previously in literature. Another big change in society is the crime rate. Here again, the difference in the forties and fifties and present day is rather large. Today, one in six teenagers knows or knew someone who has ...
- 2636: Catcher In The Rye: Holden A Victim of Society
- ... in the Rye, first appeared in 1951. Jerome David Salinger created a literary masterpiece by fabricating the adolescent Holden Caulfield into a victim of society. This modernistic category of hero delights nearly all modern English literature supporters. Holden Caulfield explains to his psychoanalyst a four-day flashback in the manner a of a "confession" throughout The Catcher in the Rye. The narrative commences as Holden fails another private school and prepares ...
- 2637: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Father
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Father Another person who tries to get Huckleberry Finn to change is Pap, Huck's father. Pap is one of the most astonishing figures in all of American literature as he is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. Pap is a mess: he is unshaven; his hair ...
- 2638: 1984
- 1984 George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the Totalitarianism State, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. (DISC) "I ...
- 2639: 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- 1984: A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the Totalitarianism State, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. (DISC) "I ...
- 2640: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Society and Nature
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Society and Nature Contrasting places are often used in literature to represent opposed forces or ideas which are central to the meaning of the work. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel which tells the story of a boy named Huckleberry Finn and his ...
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