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- 1011: Grapes Of Wrath 7
- During the Dust Bowl, hundreds of thousands of southerners faced many hardships, which is the basis of the novel called The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinback wrote this fiction novel to portray the harsh conditions during the Dust Bowl. However, is the portrayal of the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath valid? When one considers the merit of this novel, one thinks, how ...
- 1012: George Orwells 1984
- ... minor characters is Julia. She was a 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 ...
- 1013: Gender Issues In Lysistrata, A
- ... takes place while Rosalind is disguised as a man, calling herself Ganymede. Rosalind-as-Ganymede persuades Orlando to pretend that Ganymede is his beloved "Rosalind. In her male disguise, Rosalind takes over roles within the fiction of the play that, in its time, were exclusively male, such as the role of choosing her own mate and directing his courtship of her. These sorts of roles would conventionally belong to her father ...
- 1014: Ernest Hemingway
- ... with Agnes who left Henry for an Italian Army officer. It seems to me that the differences between the two men were only surface differences. They allowed Hemingway to call the novel a work of fiction. Had he written an autobiography the book would probably not have been well-received because Hemingway was not, at that time, a well known author. Although Hemingway denied critics' views that A Farewell to Arms ...
- 1015: Greenspan - The Case For The D
- ... person. When two police officers re-create a false scene for the jury, the reader begins to understand why the author ponders upon different moral questions and creates circumstantial, yet fruitful answers. Like a detective fiction novel, Greenspan proves without a doubt that there is more than meets the eye in accepting and defending a client. As witnessed in the chapter Hi Mom, Guess Who's In Jail, the reader learns ...
- 1016: Heart Of Darkness - Ignorance
- ... His book has all the trappings of the conventional adventure tale - mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on the other hand, is undoubtedly one of the great stylists of modern fiction and a good story-teller into the bargain" (Achebe 252). Yet, despite Conrad's great story telling, he has also been viewed as a racist by some of his critics. Achebe, Singh, and Sarvan, although ...
- 1017: The Great Gatsby - Analysis Of
- ... in Nick because he is very much a fallible storyteller. When an author unsettles an accepted convention in the art of storytelling by creating a narrator like Nick, it draws attention to the story as fiction, as artifice. Ironically, in doing this, he has created in Nick a figure who more closely resembles an average human being and thus has heightened the realism of the novel.
- 1018: The House Of Seven Gables - Sy
- ... of symbolism in his work. Overall, Hawthorne did not just write a story, he wrote a classic that has stood the test of time. Works Cited Abel, Darrel. The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthornes Fiction. Indiana: Purdue UP, 1988. Arac, Jonathan. "The House and the Railroad: Dombey and Son and The House of the Seven Gables." The New England Quarterly volume LI (1978) : 3 - 22. Colacurcio, Michael. "The Sense of ...
- 1019: The Power Of One By Ernest Hem
- ... old eye injury. So he then volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, and in 1918 he was badly wounded. After the war he settled in Paris, France, where he began to write fiction. Later in life Hemingway was a war correspondent in Spain, China, and Europe during World War II.5 It was during those years in the United States and the other countries where Hemingway developed his ...
- 1020: The Yellow Wallpaper - Journey
- ... wrong, and, since she knew he couldn't tolerate hysteria, to drive him away. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper." 1892. The New England Magazine. Reprinted in "Lives & Moments - An Introduction to Short Fiction" by Hans Ostrom. Hold, Orlando, FL 1991.
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