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- 921: Alice Walker
- ... Alice Walker writes through her feelings and the morals that she has grown with, she writes about the black woman's struggle for spiritual wholeness and sexual, political, and racial equality. Much of Walker's fiction is informed by her Southern background. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural town where most blacks worked as tenant farmers. At the age eight she was blinded in the right eye when an ...
- 922: Black Like Me
- ... a journal, a portrayal of Griffin's life as he experienced it as a black man. It was not meant to have symbolism or themes, however, it is important to evaluate the book as a fiction novel. This allows the reader to determine its symbolism and recognize its themes. It was assumed that if this book was intended to be read as a story, isolation would be the symbolic theme. In ...
- 923: To Kill A Mockingbird
- ... wives and daughters from danger that could come to them. Atticus even admitted once that he to wants to protect the virtue of the white southern womanhood as anyone else, but refuses to preserve "polite fiction" if it will cost a man his life. Even though Atticus presented a flawless case, Tom Robinson was still convicted for the rape because of the racism present in Maycomb. Tom Robinson's trial, though ...
- 924: The Catcher In The Rye
- By: Sasha THE CATCHER IN THE RYE The catcher in the rye is a work of fiction and a tragic comedy. In the book, the main character, Holden Caultfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of ...
- 925: The Chosen, By Chaim Potok
- By: Mary Foley The Chosen The Chosen, a fiction novel written in 1967 by Chaim Potok, is about two young Jewish boys and their friendship. It takes us along with them on their journey from adolescence to adulthood. They face many conflicts, and through ...
- 926: The Cast Of Amontillado
- ... attempts to revise the story and rehabilitate the life. Decadence and immorality, in the form of alcoholism, opium addiction, and his relationships with women, and prolific production, as a journalist, editor, poet, reviewer, critic, and fiction writer, have been emphasized as characterizing his brief life (Lent 3). Poes many writings were greatly affected by his problems in life and his experiences. One such short story is The Cask of Amontillado ...
- 927: Kurt Vonnegut
- ... former, the writer is an omniscient man who writes about the history of mankind on Mars and revises the Bible (Vonnegut, Sirens, 196). In the latter, the writer is Kilgore Trout, a relatively unknown science fiction author whose numerous stories get shelved with pornography. This is commonly seen as Vonnegut's fear of what he himself might become (Amer. Lit. Bio., 305). In the preface of a different book, Vonnegut states ...
- 928: Commanders Of The Army Of The
- ... these men did and did not do and how their actions impacted the future of the United States of America. Why did I select this book? After factoring in our preset guidelines of a non-fiction book with at least 250 pages and constraining that to the period of exploration through reconstruction I decided that what I would find the most interesting would be something from the Civil War. When visiting ...
- 929: Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his colleagues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
- 930: 20,000 Leagues
- ... ago, I decided to read Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne. I figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. In addition, it was science fiction, the one area that I was always interested. My assumption was only partially correct, for I only was to a degree interested in the piece of writing. When Jules Verne was writing this book, he ...
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