The Awakening The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a fiction book that tells the life story of Edna Pontellier, a southern wife and mother. This book presents many questions and very answers. In 1899 this book was banished from its publication because at this time in history, women did just what they were expected to do. They were expected to be good daughters, wives, and mothers. A woman wa

The Awaking The Awakening Kate Chopin 1899 Historical Prospective: The Awakening was published in 1899. The Nineteenth Century was ending. Industrialization, urbanization, and changing social norms were coming in to play. Darwin’s theory of evolution was being debated, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement was continuing. These social and economic factors play a large role in the w

The Client The Client AUTHOR: John Grisham. OTHER INFORMATION: The book was first published by Century in the United Kingdom in 1993. The story is told by an omniscient narrator who shifts in the point of view. The story contains fory-two chapters. TYPE: novel SUBJECT: The story takes place in Memphis and tells about an eleven-year-old boy, Mark Sway, whom a secret is told w

The Color Of Water The Color of Water, an autobiography by James McBride, tells the story of Ruth McBride, the two men she married, and the 12 children she raised. Ruth is a Polish Jew who immigrated to America 2 years after birth. As an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and Jewish faith behind in Virginia to escape the life she was living. I think this was a good idea

The Chaser The Chaser The Chaser, which is a short story by John Collier, shows prerequisite of love ironically. In the story, the main character Alan loves a girl named Diana. To realize his wish, which is to be with Diana, Alan visits an old man to buy a love potion. The old man shows him a “life-cleaner” as well as a love potion. The reason behind this is that the old man knows th

The Corporate Mystic The Corporate Mystic The book that I chose to read is The Corporate Mystic by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D./ Kate Ludeman, Ph.D. I decided to read this book based on the phrase on the cover of the book that reads: A GUIDEBOOK FOR VISIONARIES WITH THEIR FEET ON THE GROUND. This caught my attention right off the back and led me to choose it. I am glad that I did because

The Crucible Have you ever had to do an assignment in school that you didn’t want to do but actually enjoyed. For me it was reading The Crucible. When I heard about the plot, I thought to myself “man is this going to be boring.” Boy was I wrong. The Characters actually had some depth to them. The one character that really caught my eye however was John Proctor. He is the most develo

The Crucible THE CRUCIBLE by Andrew Lawrence The witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the early sixteen hundreds was a time of uneasiness and suspicion. Anyone could easily turn in his or her neighbor on the ground of witchcraft. Someone could merely say their neighbor's spirit had attacked them during the night, which no man can prove. Nevertheless, as a God-fearing community, they

The Crucible In Arthur Miller’s, “The Crucible,” many themes are expressed throughout the play. Themes are the undertone of the story. A theme of a book usually sets the mood and describes what is happening during the time that the story is written. “The Crucible” has many themes that show how everything was and how everyone acted in the year of 1692, in Salem, Massachusetts. Mass hyster

The Crucible The Communist “witch hunts” of the 1950s prompted Arthur Miller to write about the mass hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials in his play, The Crucible. Miller captured the paranoia and hatred of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials and made a controversial reference to his own society’s Witch Hunts during the 1950s. Miller told us the stories of the lives of John Proctor, Elizabeth Pr

The Crucible In the Crucible written by the famous play write Arthur Miller lying was an enormous obstacle many characters dealt with throughout the story. The one character that stood at most to me was Abigail Williams. There were three incidents that I noticed Abigail’s unreliability being shown through her actions and words. One of the ways Abigail’s unreliability was shown w

Anne Lister:I Know My Own Heart In the book, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791-1840, offers the diaries as a fascinating story of the “everyday” life led by an early 19th century lesbian. The diaries were found in the 1980’s and deciphered by Helena Whitbread. There are a few diaries, but this one focuses on the period from 1817 – 1824, which was the most emotionally d

Suicide In the Internet based text entitled “If you are thinking about suicide, read this first” I aim to discover and analyse the techniques used to persuade the reader. The author, in the first paragraph of the text explains that she is not a professional, instead, a normal person who “knows what it is like to be in pain.” This colloquial, less removed approached may help the reader c

The Bell Jar By Sylvia Plath Analysis of an American Novel The Bell Jar The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, tells the story of a gifted collage student, Esther Greenwood, for seven months of her life from her time as a student guest editor at a famous fashion magazine to her return home to the suburbs of Boston, and the progressive downfall of her mental state. There are many differen

The Darkness Of The Congo The Darkness of the Congo Joseph Conrad’s story, Heart of Darkness is one that deals with many different aspects of nature and man himself. Conrad often associates the nature of man as an offset of Mother Nature. The complex role of the setting, including the jungle, pervasive darkness, and the London frame setting are all examples of man’s innermost fears

Northanger Abbey The Characterization Of Catherine Morland And Details Of Her Experiences As Criticism Of The Gothic Novel Jane Austen consciously refers to and comments on the standards and conventions of the gothic genre in her novel Northanger Abbey. Throughout the entire narrative she portrays her main character, Catherine Morland, as ordinary and the opposite of the heroines custo

The Characterization Of Three Women Characters are the people that an author creates in a story, novel or writing. We determine the characterization of those individuals through their physical description, the characters words, actions and thoughts, and what the narrator or other characters may say about them. For this paper we will use the following short stories: “A Rose for Emily” by

The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky The Characters And Setting In “The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky" On November 1, 1871 Stephen Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey. In 1898 Crane’s book The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure was published. In this book is one of Crane’s most popular short stories called “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky.” It is a strange tale of Jack Potter, an insecure ma

The Collector - Opening Paragraph Analysis THE COLLECTOR – OPENING PARAGRAPH QUESTION: Identify the characteristics of writing and comment on the tone and style of the piece and the effects achieved by the writer. How does the writer make the reader want to read on' Having not read the entire book and only having the opening paragraph to work from it is difficult to establish in w

The Color Red In Ethan Frome Throughout Ethan Frome, author Edith Wharton uses red as a symbol of the passion Ethan longs for but never receives. Red is the color of blood, ruddiness, good health, and liveliness. Zeena, Ethan’s wife, has none of these qualities, yet Mattie Silver, Zeena’s cousin, has all of them. In the harsh white landscape of Starkfield, red stands out just as Matti

The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye tells the sad story of Pecola Breedlove, a poor prepubescent black girl, who wants to be loved and cared for by her family and society. She is a very dark skinned black girl and is ridiculed, and hated by her community because of this. She idolizes images of blond haired, blue-eyed white girls like Shirley Temple. She bel

The Bones Of Plenty George Custer was Both the Victim and Villain of his own Hardship The American dream - to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave-the land of opportunity. The dream was to live the way you wanted, to strike it rich and retire early. This dream was always there, but many faced a very rude awakening when the Great Depression struck first the f

The Color Puple Alice Walker’s The Color Purple presents the life-long struggle of Celie, a black Georgia woman, who yearns to obtain confidence and self-esteem. During the early stages of the novel, references to wagons are made, signifying the “old days,” whereas towards the end of the work automobiles surface. Though Walker never discusses any specific time or place where the story ac

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee, written by Dee Alexander Brown, is a great novel that shows the attempted genocide of Indian nations. Many of the young Indian children were stolen and forced into slavery. Most of the children died along their journey. At the battle of Wounded Knee almost four-fifths of Native lands were taken and most of the native people

Ella Enchanted Ella was given the gift of pure obedience at birth by a fairy, Lucinda. This means Ella must obey any given command; this is told be a curse. Ella lives with her mother (Lady Eleanor), her cook (Mandy), her father (Sir Peter), and the rest of her servants. Ella’s father is a nobleman who is always away and knows nothing of the “curse”. Mandy is more like family than the co

Ellen Foster In most novels every struggling character has someone by their side to help guide them along. That person gives them insightful information, encouragent, and sometimes even love. In this novel Ellen Foster, there are three characters that push Ellen forward and do not let her give up. Her art teacher, new mother and friend Starletta all have their own ways of helping Ellen.

Emma There are two basic arguments I would like to bring up. One of those arguments is “why or how is Emma marrying her brother-in-law'” The other argument I would like to bring up is a line between Mr. Knightly and Miss Taylor. The line is “I am sure you always thought me unfit for the office I held.” “Yes,’ said he, smiling. ‘You are better placed here; very fit for a wife, but not

Emma Bovary’s Relationships With Men In Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Charles Bovary is betrayed by his wife Emma. She commits adultery with two men, in which she pursues long-term relationships. She has an idea of what a perfect man and love affair should be from reading many novels, including Paul and Virginia. Madame Bovary’s relationships with men fail due to her ideas about pas

Enders Game We Are All Manipulated! I feel that all people are manipulated all their lives, from the moment they are born till the moment we pass on into death. As infants, we are taught to speak certain languages, how to crawl and walk, and even how to eat. For example, take learning how to speak, no one knows how to talk when they are born, instead, they are taugh

Mary Tallmountain Mary Tallmountain is considered one of the greatest writers amongst the Native American community. Although she really didn’t gain much recognition nationally until the early 1980’s when she won the Pushcart Prize. She is mostly known as a spiritual and cultural writer for instance the poem, “There Is No Word for Goodbye.” In this poem she shows the conversation betwe