Essays on Literary Genres

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Drawing Important Conclusions by Comparing Reading a Novel to The Pursuit of a Woman

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In Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, we see how Calvino attempts to compare the reading of a novel to a man pursuing a woman. In this text, the reader takes on the role of a male protagonist attempting to read a...

Novel Postmodernism

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The Theme of Friendship in Immortal

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Right from the start, children have been taught to make friends. As they slowly grow up, people begin to really treasure and appreciate their friends, and understand the true meanings of friendship. In the novel Immortal by Gillian Shields, Evelyn “Evie” Johnson arrives at a...

Novel

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Dualistic Nature of Love in Proust's in Search of Lost Time

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The classical love story, the timeless tale of pairs whose only destinies are to be together, is an abhorred notion to Proust in In Search of Lost Time. Love stories in this Roman-fleuve are not be all, end all events; rather, they are temporary and...

Novel

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Describing a Hero According to Robert Cormier in I Am The Cheese

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“Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.” – Joss Whedon Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Although the...

Adult Novel

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Examining Racism in if He Hollers Let Him Go

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World War II had a profound impact on American culture. Essentially every person in the country was affected in some way, but the war’s impact of African Americans was unique. Although African Americans were indeed Americans they were often treated like the enemy on the...

Novel Postmodernism

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The Role of Style in Creating a Link Between Reader, Author, and Narrator

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So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don’t recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had...

Novel Postmodernism

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A Rivalry Between Fate and Control Over Destiny in I for Isobel

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“I thought I could make my life into a room and choose what came into it.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay While influenced by others at...

Fiction

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I for Isobel is a Proof that Fantasy Provides a Safe Haven for Harsh Reality

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Isobel’s wildly vivid imagination serves as a powerful survival tool throughout a traumatic childhood and subsequent tumultuous transition into adulthood, providing escapism from an agonizing and often humiliating reality, and comfort that she cannot receive from anyone or anything else. Her love for and reliance...

Fiction

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The Cause of Isobel's Emotional Isolation in I for Isobel

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Isobel’s emotional isolation is a complex tapestry woven from the threads of her tumultuous childhood, primarily shaped by her mother, Ms. Callaghan. The profound impact of Ms. Callaghan’s cruel and sadistic behavior forced Isobel to retreat into herself, ultimately leading her to develop a defensive...

Fiction

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The Importance of Realizing a Sense of Belonging as Demonstrated in I for Isobel

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For a large portion of the novel, Isobel drifts through life believing intensely that the key to her happiness is belonging- that if she is a part of a crowd, if she is accepted, she will be “normal,” and it is this goal on which...

Fiction

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The Theory of Theodicy as Portrayed in The Book of Job and The Animation South Park

2 pages / 931 words

The presumption of a benevolent and omnipotent God makes the existence of evil problematic. This dilemma, known as theodicy, is often used to prove the lack of a God. The Book of Job as well as the South Park episode “Cartmanland” explore this theme, but...

Drama God Literature Review

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In Pursuit of Authority in Hunters in The Snow

3 pages / 1168 words

“Hunters in the snow” is the story about three friends named Tub, Kenny and Frank. They are friends and they decide to go hunting outside Spokane, Washington. The fail to get any game and Kenny shoots a dog that belongs to an old farmer. Kenney...

Short Story

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A Study of Tree Girls

2 pages / 905 words

“A sex symbol’s currency lies in her youth, her curves, in the suggestion that a sexual encounter lurks around the next corner.” (Sharon Krum, The Guardian) The power struggle between genders in society is something that can be seen every day, particularly in the media....

Homosexuality Short Story

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Means of Creating Satiric Effect in House of Mirth

2 pages / 1107 words

In The House of Mirth, Percy Gryce is a rich young eligible bachelor upon whom Lily, one of Wharton’s central characters, sets eyes on. Gryce is used by Wharton as a vehicle to convey the shallowness and brutality of the New York high society, often...

House of Mirth Novel

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Hrafnkels Saga: Teaching Responsibility

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Legality, although often intertwined with morality, is not to be confused with it. In Hrafnkel’s Saga, Hrafnkel is a chieftain who makes an oath to slay anyone who rides his beloved Freyfaxi. He generously provides Einar with a job, only asking that he not ride...

Poetry Vikings

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The Role of Alienation in The House of Mirth

4 pages / 1762 words

In Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, the cold and unforgiving world of New York’s high society never favors the perspective of the outsider, or the looker-on. But the author seems to award a great deal of credit to those characters who adapt to this...

House of Mirth Novel

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The Degradation of Lily Bart in The House of Mirth

3 pages / 1305 words

The Gilded Age of the late 19th century saw the rise of extravagant hats, hairstyles, and high society. Subsequently, the Gilded Age was also host to an increasingly treacherous gap between the rich and the poor and stifling social restrictions against women as suffocating as...

House of Mirth Novel

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The Artistic Role of Weather in "The House of Mirth"

9 pages / 4060 words

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton uses weather in a variety of ways that provide symbolic significance along with a vivid setting. Wharton uses weather, climate, and the change of seasons to foreshadow events in the immediate future and to reflect Lily’s emotional state...

House of Mirth Novel

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The Image of Home and Its Impact on The Fate of Main Characters in Robinson’s Housekeeping

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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson portrays the life of its narrator, Ruthie, alongside her sister Lucille as the two grow from mere children to young women while being surrounded by the confusion of shifting guardians, as well as the influence of transiency. Once the final guardian...

Fiction Novel