Where Twain and Buffalo Bill's writings deal with the emergence of the Anglo-American hero, John Ford deals with the manifestations of that hero in his film The Searchers. John Wayne, in his anti-heroic role as a bigot and intolerant, is a tragic, lonely, morally-ambiguous figure who is doomed to ...
In two of early America's greatest works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, readers are exposed to the vision of two great authors of the 18th and 19th centuries and while it is possible for one to simply read and enjoy the plot of these stories, it is impossible to overlook the similarities in their greater thematic issues. ... You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft" (Twain, 338). ... Twain seems to almost capture the same sense of uncharted adventure that must have been felt by Lewis and Clark ...
If 10 is the time to step out in the world, Mark Twain captured the age perfectly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, based on Twain's own recollections of that period of his life. ... "They know for sure who is really good at math and can feel that they're not going to magically get better at it," says Michael Thompson, a child psychologist and co-author of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. ... Nonetheless, says former NBA forward Bob Bigelow, author of Just Let the Kids Play and perhaps the most pointed provocateur in the lively debates over youth sports, "Many ad...
Tragic events such as fires, natural disasters, and wars impact the way society functions; this can affect the gridlines of a city, the government, and society. Fires, in particular, have done their part in reshaping America, and one of the most infamous fires was the great Chicago fire of 1871 that...
Evil Macbeth EVIL MACBETH Darkness in our society is indicative of evil. For instance, a black cat, a dark night, a dark place are all symbols of evil. There are only a few good people out there today. In Macbeth William Shakespeare proves to us that there is evil in all of us but in the end the...
The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and in their effects, momentous changes on a global scale: this kind of worldwide effect is a phenomenon of the century. ... Hardy was a prolific poet, author of some 900 poems with an extensive range of feelings and attitudes. ...
