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Concepts: John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Henry Fonda, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, Dust Bowl, Great Depression, Okie

The Problem of Conformism in Age of Innocence

“Ah, don’t say that. If you knew how I hate to be different!” (Wharton 69). Ellen Olenska in Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is, to Newland Archer, the perfect example of an exciting rebel to the mores of society in the New York aristocracy. He...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence 6 Pages

What Is Music Capable Of: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

The Power of Music in Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man In Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, the narrator is able to marry the two halves of his musical identity in a way that he is unable to do with his racial...

American Literature Music Racism The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 3 Pages

The Grapes of Wrath: Why the 25Th Chapter Is Essential?

Chapter Twenty-Five is central to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Besides containing the title of the book, this chapter clearly, forcefully, and elegantly drives home Steinbeck’s central message the injustice of life in the Depression-era American west. Without doubt one of Steinbeck’s strongest attributes...

American Literature Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath Theme John Steinbeck 2 Pages

What Societies Depicted in the Good Person of Szechwan and Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Have in Common?

Literature often presents itself in different themes and messages for audience members. These themes may be reoccurring or even opposing at times between different texts. The play The Good Person of Szchecwan by Bertolt Brecht and Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson...

American Literature Racism The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 4 Pages

The Impact of Music on the Life of Civil Rights Activist in A Privileged Spectator

In James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, the narrator presents the story of his life as a black man passing as white, and the different stages he progresses through while doing so. In both his life and the lives of many black...

American Literature Music Racism The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 4 Pages

Decimation Through Isolation

Devastation through Segregation Did you know that the state of Mississippi did not officially abolish slavery until February 7th, 2013? Although slaves have not worked the fields of Mississippi since the Civil War ended, evidence of racial prejudice has far from disappeared. On a recent...

American Literature Racism The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man 2 Pages

Faulker and O'Connor: Representatives of the Southern Gothic

In a certain Nobel Prize acceptance speech delivered in Stockholm in 1950, William Faulkner famously declines to accept the end of man. Elaborating, Faulkner goes on to promise that “man will not merely endure: he will prevail.” This faith, he insists, has its roots in...

American Literature William Faulkner 4 Pages

Response Regarding Images and Fiction

Looking back on the mountain-view that was described as the main character’s of Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers caught sight of Templeton, their hometown, in the distance, Elizabeth, the primary female character, “felt as if all the loveliness of the mountain-view had vanished like the fancies...

American Literature History 2 Pages

Confronting the Public

“It’s worth everything, isn’t it, to keep one’s intellectual liberty, not to enslave one’s powers of appreciation, one’s critical independence?” (164). Questioning the concepts of true freedom and liberty, the overall theme presented throughout Edith Wharton’s masterful novel, The Age of Innocence, is the abstraction...

American Literature Novel The Age of Innocence 8 Pages

The Quiet American - Greene and the Cold War Mindset

Set during the throws of the Cold War offensive and the threat of the domino theory in Asia, Graham Greene’s fiction annexes his experiences as a war correspondent in Indochina during the years 1951 – 1954 into his works, impart reasoning and voice into a...

American Literature Novel 2 Pages