Beloved Toni Morrison, in her novel, Beloved, uses plant life, such as trees, to represent sources of healing, comfort and life, in a world where it is hard to find hope. These images of trees are an escape from the brutal world of slavery that the characters of Sethe, Paul D and Baby Suggs faced in Beloved. For these characters, trees brought hope against the white men who brought on

Colonialism In Heart Of Darkness Descent into Darkness: The Fallacies of Colonialism Present in Heart of Darkness The European colonization of Africa was intended to bring the light of civilization and European society to the darkness of an unknown and poorly understood continent. Armed with technology and ignorance to the darkness that lies in the hearts of mankind, the colonists att

Haiti In the Haitian culture children are considered to be their parent’s property. In American culture children are conditioned to believe that they are free – even from their parents. The two philosophies regarding parent-child relationships causes conflict in cross-cultural families. In her short story, “Caroline’s Wedding,” Edwidge Danticat exposes the cultural struggle between mothe

So Far From The Bamboo Grove So Far from the Bamboo Grove So far from the bamboo grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins is about two sisters, a brother, and a mother in search of a safe place to live. The first sister, Ko, is a selfish, bratty girl who does not appreciate the good things in life until after they are gone. The other sister, Yoko, is a very strict teenager who is very bossy.

The House Of Mirth The novel, The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, is centered around the young Lilly Barton as she tries to rise in society and marry rich. Lilly Bart is an attractive woman but she is still not married at age 29. Ever since her mother died Lily began to live with her aunt, Mrs. Peniston. Although she is living at Mrs. Peniston’s house, Lily spends much of her time st

Age Of Innocence One critic has called the final chapter, “A sentimental endorsement of the tribal code.” Evaluate how effective you think Chapter 34 is as the concluding chapter of the novel. Wharton’s story of the upper classes of Old New York, and Newland Archer’s impossible love for the disgraced Countess Olenska, perfectly captures an era when upper –class culture and ‘society’

Age Of Innocence Look again at Chapter One, which presents Old New York coming under threat from the forces of change. Edith Wharton noted that she wished to establish, from the very opening pages of the novel, a sense of the certain ‘doom’, which faced her characters. On the other hand an early review of the novel argued that “The plot is unobvious” Evaluate how effective you think thi

Souls Of Black Folk The Souls of Black Folk 2- DuBois repeatedly makes reference to a veil that separates himself from the world when he is a child. DuBois’ childhood was in New England, which was a fairly liberal area due to its Northern location. He uses the idea of a veil as an allegory in which he can see through the veil, but it is dark when he looks through it. This is a very de

A Seperate Peace- Genes Growing Discontent With Finny Genes Growing Discontent with Finny Gene comes to the Devon School 15 years after he attended it and tells us the story when he was sixteen. In chapters 1-3 of John Knowles’ A Separate Peace, the characters Gene and Finny appear to be the best of friends. However, the names that Gene calls Finny, Gene’s resentment at feeling forced

Red Death Poe Question Paper Why does Prince Prospero believe he can shut out the “Red Death'” Why doesn’t he realize that by inviting in so many people, that someone is bound to have come in contact with the “red death'” Maybe he does know. Maybe he is just trying to “save face” to his people by acting like they will be saved from it. Why does he believe that “the external

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People Book Review on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People In this review you will read about the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, written by Stephen R. Covey. The book will talk about seven habits that are portrayed. These habits are believed to be necessary in order to go through powerful personal change to better oneself, and to he

Death Of A Fairytale Flick through any book of Fairy Tales, and you will be forced to confront the tragic extents to which the population of talking frogs, obese godmothers, and fairy princesses has plummeted in recent centuries. (And to qualify as a genuine fairy princess, one must be beautiful, sweet of voice and a sufferer of acute insomnia when in a five-mile radius of legumes. If yo

Great Gatsby Great Gatsby is a difficult book to interpret, particularly because of the style in which it is written. Not only must the reader differentiate between the separate views of Nick as the narrator and Nick as the character, but he or she must also take into consideration at what time period, relative to this story, are these views being expressed. After all, Nick the narrator

The Wicked Witch Of The West In Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West Gregory Maguire radically contradicts the world created by the Frank Baum in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. In the Wizard of Oz we are introduced to a magical world. Two forces, good and evil power this world, and it is very easy to distinguish between the two. Reading the two books is like going th

The Wife Of Bath In The Canterbury Tales Many people in society are associated with being “ahead of their time”. The recognition they receive when called “ahead of their time” can be a direct result of the way they dress, the way they act, or maybe even their point of views. In “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Wife of Bath is an overbearing,

The Yellow Wallpaper In The Yellow Wallpaper, originally published in 1899, Charlotte Gilman presents the internal dialogue of a woman diagnosed with “hysteria” and for whom total rest has been prescribed. In the short story, the patient is slowly driven mad by her cure, prescribed by her physician husband, and is cut off from any intellectual pursuits whatsoever. The misdiagnosis of d

Alice In Wonderland For my last reaction paper I have decided to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland which was written by Lewis Carroll. The story starts with Alice sitting outdoors with her sister when she notices a white rabbit with a pocket watch. Fascinated by the rabbit she follows it and soon finds herself falling down a hole. She then finds that she is in a long hallway full

Robbie ROBBIE This story begins with a little 8yr-old girl named Gloria, playing hide-and seek with her pet robot, Robbie. The two are incredible companions and Gloria loves him with all of her heart. However, Robbie tricks her while he is hiding and tries to get away but Gloria screams that’s cheating. So while Gloria hides, Robbie counts to 100 and goes searching but when he finds

Slaughterhouse Five The Communities of Slaughterhouse Five There are many dynamic communities in the book Slaughterhouse Five. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, is a member of several of these communities and plays a drastically different role in each one. In his hometown of Ilium, New York, Billy is seen as a pi

The Awakening At the beginning of The Awakening, Edna Pontellier alienates herself from society only on an emotional level. She felt as if “a certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, – the light which, showing the way, forbids it” (17). As the novel progresses, she voices her feelings and begins to put them into action. However, Edna must face the fact that her ideas are

Cycle Of The Werewolf Klause, C. Annette. Blood And Chocolate. New York : Delacorte Press 1997 Annette Curtis Klause was born in bristol, england and currently lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her husband and their cats. She is head of children's services at the Aspen Hill Community Library in Maryland. Annette holds a B.A. in English Literature and an M.L.S. form the Unive

Freedom Or Foe By means of self-discovery comes independence as well as solitude. In the late 1800s, women who were people in their own right were shunned, and tradition made female independence and solitude impossible. These also made individual expression almost impossible because women were not supposed to have their own ideas and opinions on important matters, but were expected to f

Eva Luna Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. Good! Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allende’s novels and I have to admit that in the beginning I had to struggle with the

Jekyll And Hyde The first scene consists of Mr. Richard Enfield's and Mr. Utterson walking along a street in London. Mr. Enfield has a recollection of a previous incident in which he witnessed an extremely unpleasant man trampling upon a small screaming girl while this man was running somewhere. A large crowd had gathered around and they saw the man, Edward Hyde. The crowd forced the ma

Pornography And Obscenity In The Media Pornography and obscenity is all we see and hear about today in the news, with no exception to most movies and even TV. As of 12 years old this issue strikes a bigger interest than in the past. When I flip through the channels and see the news or watch a TV show there is something always on that a younger child should not be watching or learning abo

The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about American lives amongst society in the 1920’s. American lives that are full of limitless possibilities of being everything they dream of. Materialistic values and the power of money mislead the characters throughout this novel. Fitzgerald presents the main character, Jay Gatsby, as a ro

The Rich Boy Analysis When reading Fitzgerald’s story “The Rich Boy” I realized that Fitzgerald does not believe that having money means that you will always be happy. You cannot just depend on money to make yourself happy, you need to go and do something or talk to someone in order to fell happy. When you look at Anson you see that he is very rich. But because of this he acts diffe

Fifth Business Fifth Business Guilt is defined as a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime or wrong committed. Guilt is a major theme in the novel Fifth Business. Dunny has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household which has encouraged him to feel guilt about many minor things. Even though Paul was not born at the time of the snowball incident, Paul Demp

Catch 22 I would have to say that Joseph Heller's Catch-22, was at least enjoyable to read. There were several aspects about it that made it good and bad at the same time. First, I think the most important thing aspect to look at, is that Heller makes death, a traditionally sickening topic, a humorous event. It is humorous because of the way he illustrates who is crazy. I assumed that Yo

Catch 22 When Heller began his writing career in the late 1940s, he turned his back on traditional methods of story telling. He seemed to resent the "realism" of the conventional mode of fiction with its rational structure, its assumptions of continuity in plot, situation, and character, and its neat attempts to draw well-defined resolutions. His own experience as an airman in World War