One of the most convincing elements of Sister Carrie is the realism used in describing commerce and money. ... When Sister Carrie was first published, the public was appalled at Dreiser's work. ... At the time Sister Carrie appeared before the public, fiction seldom touched upon the darker side of human endeavors and relationships. ... Dreiser wrote Sister Carrie with the image of his own siblings in mind. His sister, Emma, who had run away with her married lover, served as a model for Carrie. ...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The novel "Sister Carrie" takes place around 1889. ... Carrie Meeber takes the train from Columbia City and set for Chicago to start a new life with her sister. ... Them she realized Chicago wasn't going to be easy she had to live with her sister and her husband. ... Carrie did not go out looking for work in order to help their family out as much as possible instead Carrie wanted to go out and make something of her. ... Tired and disappointed with her early days at a low paying hard work Carrie chooses to leave her sister and goes off with a Drouet, a man she just recently met on the trai...

• Word Count: 662
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In my essay I bring into discussion issues arising from the pursuit of this dream by examining the lives of the protagonists of two important American literatures: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and The Great Gatsby by F. ... In the early stages of her stay in Chicago, Carrie resided in the home of her sister Minnie and her husband Hanson, a taciturn and stern family man. ... It is worth mentioning and explaining here that the relationship between males and females in the capitalistic world of Sister Carrie is that of chauvinism, tangled and supported by duplicity and a web of lies. ... In ...

• Word Count: 7760
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his fictional writing of Sister Carrie, the character Hurstwood was an example of a failed man for not being able to give Carrie the materialistic lifestyle that she desired. ... Sister Carrie provides evidence making it known that it revolves around naturalism. Sister Carrie is a text with groundings of realism, but takes an interesting shift towards naturalism. ... Carrie moves to Chicago with her sister and brother-in-law, and it enthralls her and she constantly wants to buy things. ... Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser provide excellent content regarding Naturalism in their writings of...

• Word Count: 1142
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

Christopher was closest to his younger sister Carrie. ... He had both parents, each with stable jobs, and a sister. Carrie recently released a book, The Wild Truth, that shows us more about him and his family. In her book Carrie tells us that Walt was an abusive father who would physically abuse not only his wife but also his children. ... Meaning that Christopher and Carrie were both bastards. ...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin describes language as a "political instrument," that connects with the public and reveals are private identities. He also describes how one language may be comprehensive to us but then be incomprehensible to someone else, just as Richard Wright experienced and depicted in his autobiogr...

• Word Count: 338
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

A very important and insightful book from this time period, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, accurately depicts the roots of these changes. ... It suggested that women, like men, could now be identified by their careers, and pursue personal fortunes, for Carrie had landed a job in the newly developed retail outlets. ...

• Word Count: 2026
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some of some famous novels were "The Origin of Species", "Le Roman Experimental", and "Sister Carrie". ... Theodore Dreiser's best works were Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), and An American Tragedy (1925). ...

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A senior at Fort Collins High School, Bobby has shown his friends and family that hard work pays off. With his talent and determination, he is a positive influence to his teammates and anyone else who gets the chance to meet him. Since he was young, swimming has always been a big part of Bobby's ...

• Word Count: 827
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie was a book that involved preoccupations with wealth and class. ... His sister Lizzie said of the song, " his own "Melungeon Man", its title referring to a mysterious strain of folks scattered through the mountains" (104). ...

• Word Count: 1178
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Sarah and her sister, Angelina, witnessed the mistreatment of slaves as children. ... The Grimke Sister's progress soon captivated and brought about many other women to the focus of anti-slavery and feminist's causes. ...

• Word Count: 2702
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sarah and her sister, Angelina, witnessed the mistreatment of slaves as children. ... The Grimke Sister's progress soon captivated and brought about many other women to the focus of anti-slavery and feminist's causes. ...

• Word Count: 2704
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The God of Small Things received England's 1997 Booker Prize making Arundhathi Roy the first Indian citizen to ever win the honour. This book has become a rapid Indian Best seller. It's the author's first novel and has been acclaimed as a masterpiece ever since it became famous. This is the ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Al Pacino stars as the Cuban refugee, Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. ... The plot is generally the same as the original, including the implied incestuous relationship with his younger sister. ... One less sexually charged than the relationship between Montana and his sister Gina (Mastrantonio), but unsurprisingly for a Stone-scripted film, the boys tend to have all the fun; partying, spen...

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• Approx Pages: 7

Ruth's sisters persuaded her to take care of them, and other family members provided housing and financial support for the King family in Durham. ... But as luck would have it, Tabitha, rescued it and persuaded him to continue and in 1974, Doubleday published Carrie, which became a bestseller and a hit 1976 movie, directed by Brian De Palma and starring Sissy Spacek. ...

• Word Count: 1741
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The women rights women started back in the late 1700's and 1800's, which set the stage for the rise of the women's movements. The reason for this is that many women grew increasingly dissatisfied with the limitations society had placed on their activities. This was known as the age of reason ques...

• Word Count: 1880
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

African American Music By 1945, nearly everyone in the African American community had heard gospel music (2). At this time, gospel music was a sacred folk music with origins in field hollers, work songs, slave songs, Baptist lining hymns, and Negro spirituals. These songs that influenced gospel music were adapted and reworked into expressions of praise and thanks of the community. Although the harmonies were similar to those of the blues or hymns in that they shared the same simplicity, the rhythm was much different. The rhythms often times had the music with its unique accents, the speech...

• Word Count: 6204
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School