Happily Ever After Happily Ever After Written in caustic response to an annoying academic, Nadine Gordimer supplies penetrating social commentary on South African apartheid in her short story, "Once Upon a Time." The author creates an underlying uneasiness and obvious irony while following the traditional style reminiscent of bedtime stories, with mo

Hard Times The novel “Hard Times” written by Charles Dickens is a reflection of the changing ideas established during his time. Dickens’ characters essentially are personifications of changing ideas in psychology and political thought. Each one of his characters represents a different principle and its relationship to the general public. Both Stephen Blackpool and Thomas Gradgrind, Jr.

Harlem Renaissance The essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes has many ties to the themes of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes wants black people to stop trying to be as white as they possibly can and to start realizing that being a Negro is a wonderful thing. He says that there is a mountain standing in the way of the true Negro artist. He wants to knock dow

Characters In The Maltese Falcon Arrangement of story the story is told from the point of view of Spade and makes us empathize with him and at the same time leaves us in the dark as to what Spade has planned. We never know whether or not he is lying, corrupt, in love, a jerk, or just a nice guy. The reader also has to piece things together throughout the story by the dialogue and Sp

Harriet Beecher Stowe Suzanne M. Coil’s Harriet Beecher Stowe is a biography of one of the most influential women of the 1800s. Well-written and organized, the book is enjoyable and informative to read, although it does not go into detail about any facet of Stowe’s life. Coil’s sources for her book come mainly from other materials that have been written about Stowe, although she does r

Harrison Bergeron In the short story, Harrison Bergeron, the author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. depicts an extreme egalitarian future for society based on the mistakes we are making today. In the story, the parents of Harrison, George & Hazel, spend the entire time watching and discussing what they see on television. Anytime a possibly intelligent thought begins to pop into George’s head, he

Harry Potter At some point in everyone’s life they have felt lost and helpless without anyone to turn to. We have all been picked on and wished that things could get better. Harry Potter always wished that things were better and one day they were. Harry Potter is a small and skinny eleven year-old boy that lives with his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. His parents were killed when he

Harry Potter Harry Potter And Sorcerer Stone By Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling is a children's novel about a young boy, Harry Potter, and his adventures at Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches. The novel is filled with humorous tales of exciting escapades in and around the school. There are many characters in the novel, and they d

Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was a film based on J.K. Rowling’s top selling novel. The novel and the film are very similar in content. The film however takes away from the reader’s own imagination of the way they want to portray each character and the events throughout the story. Even though the novel and film are very similar, there are a few differences; some a

Harry Potter 1) My first book I read over the summer was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which was written by J.K. Rowling. The Copyright date of the book is 1998 and the book contains 309 pages. 2) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is about a boy named Harry Potter who found out he was a wizard who as a baby drained the powers of the most dangerous wizard Voldemort. Potter

Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire I am reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. It is the fourth and last book in the series. I have only read one hundred seven pages so I will only be giving statements about the events to that extent. The book starts when Harry went to sleep after a long day. In the middle of the night he wakes up to the annoyance of the scar on his forehead.

Black Water: Voiceless Victims Voiceless Victims: A Woman in a Man's World Carol Oates invites readers to consider an issue many would rather avoid, because Kelly is someone easy to identify with; she could be our daughter, sister, or even ourselves. Kelly, a young, intelligent, woman, in Oates' novella, Black Water, explores the affect a male dominated society has on the upbringing,

Comparison Of Stories In both Alice Walker’s story “The Flowers” and William Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily,” the story’s ending exemplifies the type of change that takes place in the main character. Myop, the protagonist of “The Flowers,” undergoes a maturing, learning experience, while Emily, the protagonist of “A Rose for Emily,” undergoes a physical change, solely passive. Moreov

Desirees Baby Love is a very strong word. Desiree’s Baby is a sad love story. If love is suppose to conquer all, then why did Armand let his wife go' I think he loved her but didn’t realize the mistake he had done till the end. I bet he felt pretty stupid. I believe love can conquer all, even race. To begin with, the strongest conflict I found in this story was man vs. m

Hatchet Brian Robeson, a 13-years old boy, is in an airplane on the way to his father. His parents have split up, and in the summer he will live by his father. His father works at the oilfields in Canada. The pilot of the airplane says not much but he smells very at sweat. Than the pilot have a heart attack, and die. Brian tried to call for help with the radio, but it didn’t work. He tak

Gatsby Symbolizing the American Dream F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby examines the 1920s vision of the American dream. It shows how the American dream is corrupted by wealth and power. Gatsby is a firm believer in the American dream of self-made success. He has achieved this dream, but he also has a dream of being with Daisy. Gatsby is successful, but his succes

Bless Me Ultima “Bless Me Ultima” In the book “Bless Me Ultima”, by Rudolpho Anaya, there were two families represented, the Marez family and the Lunas family. These two families were very different, but were brought together by the marriage of Gabriel Marez and Maria Lunas. Through the eyes of their son Antonio one may see the comparison of the two. The differentiation of these two fa

Heart Of Darkness Heart of Darkness Response Paper “Heart of Darkness” is a very involved story, which takes place on a mission into the hearts of Africa. The use of imagery in “Heart of Darkness” gives the story another dimension of insight. Joseph Conrad’s use of imagery is so compelling because everything in the story symbolizes, alludes to, or allegorizes something in some way.

Heart Of Darkness Our Heart of Darkness Every individual in this world has a heart of darkness. Some keep it tucked away, never to be seen, while others use it as a model for living. Joseph Conrad uses this philosophy to show how man struggles to find the balance between good and evil everyday. Conrad conveys his message through his character, Marlow, a simple man who is proud of hi

Heart Of Darkness “Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge' He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision-he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!” What horror is Kurtz recounting as his final words' Truths lie inside the inner soul of all human being

Heart Of Darkness Heart of Darkness The Novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is an autobiography of his journey in Congo. The autobiography is represented by the narrator listening to a story spoken by a third person. However, this meta-narrative also denotes the tapping into one’s mind about a certain ‘darkness.’ This darkness is represented by the impenetrable wilderness and th

Heart Of Darkness Expressed By White In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad reverses the tradition by using the color of white as a symbol for darkness and mystery. Although some critics have viewed him as a racist, Conrad used the color white as a symbol of evil throughout the story to tell the readers of the white man’s power hunger and corruption in the colonized Africa. Symbols that a

Heart Of Darkness Quotes “The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires” (Page 2). This quote was said by Marlow. This quote exposes in a small part Marlow’s attitude towards many subjects. Looking at it in its context he is saying basically that empires are bad and unhealthy. Germs are commonly referred to as a sickness, an outside factor harming the host. Such

Heart Of Darkness: To Be A Man What it means to be man is a question that has been plagued since the beginning of mankind. In Heart of Darkness, Conrad explores the issue of what a man is in two main lights. Conrad explores two side of what a man is. One is the superficial side, or the more stereotypical side. The other is the deeper meaning or the heart and soul of a man. Conrad also ut

Bless Me Ultima In the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya the character Ultima represents good through her healing, her fight against evil, and her teaching and guidance. Ultima displays her act of goodness when she cures Maria’s youngest brother, Lucus Luna. “and finally Lucus had been cured.” Ultima cures Lucus with her healing powers and she does this because he was being atta

Heat Of Darkness /light And Darkness Heart of Darkness In just the opening pages of Heart of Darkness, Conrad’s ability as a writer becomes abundantly clear, for the subliminal nature of his writing is constantly sustained. Conrad begins Marlow’s journey into the heart of darkness on the Thames, on the yawl, ‘Nellie’ with a short prologue, which contains subtle use of imagery and a bri

Heaven’s Prisoner In a country that guarantees equal rights and personal freedom to all its citizens, the South Bronx is true evidence that the United States has not lived up to its promises. It is a place of desolation and despair, poverty and self-destruction, tragedy and mourning. As one South Bronx resident appropriately states in the novel Amazing Grace: “you don’t have to be in ja

Bless the Beasts and Children Bless the Beast and the Children, what was the point of this book' To show boys can go from immature: betwetter's, to cowboys. There were three main events that took place in Bless the Beast and children. The first one was at the beginning, when they decided to leave Box Canyon Boys Camp. Another was when they decided to steal a car. The last one is when the

Heidi Heidi The main conflict of the story is Heidi trying to figure out if she wants to go back home to live in the mountains with her grandfather or stay in Frankfurt with Clara. It is an internal conflict because Heidi is dealing with her feelings of friendship toward Clara and the feeling of love toward her grandfather. She has become such a good friend to Clara, who is in a wheel

Hemingway On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of Chicago. Both here and in Michigan, he could ex