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- 461: The Pearl: A Review
- The Pearl: A Review The Pearl is a story about an Mexican Indian man and woman, set in the early to mid-1900's, in Bolivia. It was written by John Steinbeck as a short fiction book that tells of the family's life just before, during, and just after find a great pearl. The book was an amazing and discussed many different ideas. The main idea discussed is whether or ...
- 462: The Major Years: Isolation and Emily Grierson - A Deadly Combination
- ... show them she was not someone to be taken lightly. BIBLIOGRAPHY Backman, Melvin. Faulkner: The Major Years, A Critical Study. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966 Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy. New York: Harpers Collins, 1991. Pp. 24-31 Gwin, Minrose c. The Femenine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1990 Morris, Wright ...
- 463: Huckleberry Finn Learns He Must Grow Up Fast If He Wants to Survive Life
- ... a tedious level. They have their highs and lows, but mainly life is not all it is cracked up to be. For Huck, he must experience having a horrendous father who beats Huck to a pulp any time he is sober. And for Jim, the fact that his family is not considered human by society but rather chattel that can be bought, sold or even traded at the slightest whim. Together ...
- 464: Heart of Darkness: Ignorance and Racism
- ... 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 ...
- 465: Literary Paper of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
- ... burden of her dreams and selfishness. Until she experienced the self fulfilling pleasure of helping someone else and realized that sometimes helping someone else can be more rewarding. It is said that this story is fiction, an invention of the human mind, but to a great degree it is true. The lives of so many people were tractored off the land. Survival forced them to accept their fate and to battle ...
- 466: David Copperfield
- ... the Wellington House Academy where he fell in love with Maria Beadnell but her father opposed the marriage and nothing became of it. David Copperfield is more of a biography of Dickens life made into fiction than of just a regular story about a boy. Dickens writing skills are apparent as he ties chapters together in an easy to understand novel where the writing seems to move along swiftly. Dickens work ...
- 467: The Last of the Mohicans: Summary
- ... by Michael Mann. The last of the Mohicans is an epic adventure as well as a heart-warming romance portrayed in the wilderness of the Adirondack region of Colonial New York. This work of historical fiction was set during the third year of the last war between England and France over possession of a country that ultimately would belong to neither party. The story has many interesting characters. The main character ...
- 468: Wright's Black Boy: Intolerance
- ... I formulated, Wright vocalized his concluding words in a dignified way to further nourish that his coming of age is saturated with multifarious discriminatory conducts and bombarded with este em-lowering tormentors; therefore, defining this fiction as the repercussion to both a transcription of Wright's coming of age and his morally devious attack on the racial South. With the humanistic affirmations of such a conclusion that Black Boy was written ...
- 469: Ignorance and Racism in Heart Of Darkness
- ... all the themes that make the book an adventure story- mystery, exotic setting, escape, suspense, an unexpected attack. Chinua Achebe concluded, "Conrad, on the other hand, is undoubtedly one of the great stylists of modern fiction and a good storyteller into the bargain" (Achebe 252). Yet, despite Conrad's great story telling ability, he has also been viewed as an ignorant racist by some of his critics. Achebe, Singh, and Sarvan ...
- 470: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... when he moved to Random House he might have a good shot at winning the rights to publish the entire manuscript. Menaker agreed and on June 26, 1995, The New Yorker printed in its special fiction issue the cave passage that was in the original manuscript, but omitted from the first printing. This enticed America's interest in the new material and made the manuscript appealing to publishing houses all over ...
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