In the hot dry location where they lived, Kim's skin was "burned black as any native. ... Early in the novel, Kim is captured by British soldiers. ... Kim asks himself at several points in the novel, and although the plot has a loose picaresque structure, being held together by a journey, making it a kind of 'road novel', the theme of Kim's need to find himself seems to be the backbone of the story ( ClassicNotes ). By birth Kim is white, an Irish boy, whose father ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Finding the purpose of the novel is a challenge, because the initial reaction is one of shock and dismay. ... I found that the novel revealed to me an existence that I had never considered before. ... I read Black Boy in high school and was fascinated at how new and alien the books perspective was, and wished that I could get a deeper understanding of the theme. ... The representation of Bigger as the whole of the black people is still rejected by Bradley. ... By murdering Bessie, a black woman, he further alienates himself by drawing the wrath of his own people on himself. ...

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He also began to question why blacks' accepted Christianity. ... He supported himself by performing a variety of odd jobs: handyman, porter, elevator operator, office boy, factory, worker, dishwasher, and a file clerk. ... In his novels he suggested that whites, as well as blacks, suffer in a racist environment. ... Although he wrote in favor of blacks, he was often put down by black critics for being biased and one-sided. ... The novel became controversial because he was one of the first black writers to discuss homosexuality in a novel. ...

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This idea occurs throughout Achebe's novel. ... Author and critic, Biodun Jeyifo, voices her concerns about the sexism in Achebe's novel. ... He raised, nourished and loved the adolescent boy. ... Once again, Okonkwo did not listen, although he loved the boy very much. ... The boy says, "My father, they have killed me!...

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Climax: The climax of this novel is when Pip finds out who his benefactor is. ... In the story Magwitch states, "Yes, Pip dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you! ... This changes the whole novel because Pip thinks that Ms. ... Characterization Character Description: Pip: At the begginning of the story Pip is a young boy boy with fat cheeks and he is small and weak for his age. ... He had glittering eyes - small, keen, and black - and a thin wide mottled lip. ...

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The officer tells the boy that his ship has come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle. ... After the war, Golding resumed teaching and started to write novels. ... Much of the novel is allegorical, meaning that the characters and objects in the novel are infused with symbolic significance that conveys the novel's central themes and ideas. ... They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group. Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 is a very deep, complex, and demanding novel, requiring the wide breadth of knowledge. One of the most fascinating aspects of the novel is Pynchon's choice -- or rather, invention -- of the names he gives the characters and organizations described in the novel. ... Sigmund Freud took the legend of Oedipus as a metaphor for the wish of every small boy to get his father out of the way so he could have his mother all to himself. ... In this chapter, the novel seems to take a deliberate turn toward the absurd. ... Oedipa's withdrawal and fin...

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MCing, Grafitti, D-Jaying, and B-boying, were all created in the Bronx. ... I remember the lead character Lee, being idolized by a lot of cats, and I always wondered if he was a real B-boy. ... I viewed it as a West Coast reenactment of the B-boy scene, not really knowing the science behind its creation. ... The camera would pan the dance floor, showing two B-boys, in the typical B-boy stance, staring at each other. ... The reality was that no one was getting killed over no B-boy battle. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While the women cooked and gossiped, the men talked and boasted, and the whole thing appeared incredibly dramatic and magical through a young boy's eyes at that time. ... History of Black Power "Black Power" evolved from slavery. ... King and Carmichael to uphold the rights of "Black Power". ... King before hand told blacks that it was a nonviolent march. ... The "Black Power" march was over some blacks were injured, but the result was a positive. ...

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Introduction The social and historical contexts of both novels are quite different as they are set in different centuries where society and values differ. ... The social and historical contexts of this novel are very different from those in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... This is because it is set during the 1900's, when the effects of the depression were spreading and there are racial tensions between black and whites. ... Both novels are told from an adult perspective. For example, both authors have written their novel 20 or 30 years after their childhood. ...

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Analysis of Fight Club, a novel by Chuck Palahniuk & film directed by David Fincher The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk was published in 1996, and released as a motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in 1999. ... It is a story in which my generation can relate to, which probably led to the success of both the novel and motion picture. ... Jack refers to himself as a "thirty-year old boy" employed as a recall coordinator for a major automobile company. ... In the novel, and omitted by the movi...

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Through the novel Dicken's displays his point of view of criminality and punishment. ... By the end of the novel, however Pip has discovered Magwitch's inner nobility, and is able to disregard his external status as a criminal. ... And Magwitch agrees with Pip and says "I"m much of your opinion boy." ... Pip tells Magwitch he is glad he enjoyed the pie in which Magwitch replies "Thankee, my boy. ... The use of calling Pip "my boy" showing more warmth between them, this also shows he may see Pip as the kind of son he would love. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald began his second novel in l920. ... She is reminiscent of many of Fitzgerald's women in later novels. ... Fitzgerald's second novel explores the same waste land that pops up in so many of his other novels. ... Money plays a dominant role in this novel. ... This is a failure of the novel. ...

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From the "coiling serpent" we can direct the idea that Coketown is also an immoral and sinful place and the thought of the "black river", an allusion to the river Styx, almost makes it look like hell. ... The first sign that the reader gets of this is the ray of sunlight that shines on her and on a young boy named Bitzer. ... The fire represents warmth and feeling to her and is, in fact, the symbol of love and warmth throughout the novel. ... When his face is painted black in Sleary's circus it is clearly a sign of sin, and he has been sinful indeed. ... Sleary seems to be the voice of wi...

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Stowe intended to help America realize the inhumanity of slavery and the pain it brought upon African-Americans by writing a melodramatic novel. She despised the South for practicing slavery and the North as well for their prejudice against blacks. ... He is a "large, broad-chested, powerfully-made man, of a full glossy black, and a face whose truly African feature [are] characterized by and expression of grave and steady good sense, united with much kindliness and benevolence-(Stowe 24). By her description of Tom, Stowe contradicts the common stereotype that blacks are savages and inhumane by...

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In the novel, the author, F. ... " Is it a boy or a girl?' ... That dog's a boy. ... "Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white. (Pg. 130) This quote reveals how Tom scorns the blacks for no apparent reason. ...

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My first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was that it was a "woman's- novel. ... The novel addresses the issue of racism before the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. ... Flagg does not describe in the novel any sexual experiences between Idgie and Ruth. ... After all, they were much more accepting of and caring towards the blacks in the town; which was also unheard of in that time. ... When she goes to Georgia and threatens Frank Bennett in the barbershop, even the barber thinks that Idgie is a guy, "He looked Frank in the ...

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He arranges the focus of the novel to modify the story. ... The children that he follows are mostly black or hispanic and are the subject of racial neglect, according to Kozol. ... In one instance in the story, there is a little boy who is playing in a hallway and leans against an elevator shaft. The shaft doors open and the boy falls to his death. ... These cuts are funded by laying off many social service agents who also happen to be mostly black and hispanic women. ...

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Although he can imagine in his head what the bulls' horns look like, his wet muzzle, and his black hair, he has never fought a bull nor has he had professional practice. ... During the course of the story, Macomber transitions from a cowardly boy to a fearless Hemingway man. ...

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The Thing about the Beats One of the novels that has caused a great impact since it was written until now is the modern classic On the Road, the second novel of one of the most controversial writers of his time Jack Kerouac. ... There are many publishers that confirm the importance of On the RoadFor example, Synopsis tells us in its review: "This novel epitomized to the world the Beat philosophy" (amazon.com-#1). ... The novel's main stages of the action are five and they are distributed in five chapters or parts throughout the story. ... The most perfect example is at the end of t...

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Adolf did very well at the monastery school and was apart of the boy's choir. ... Adolf especially admired the Abbot in charge, who ruled his black-robbed monks with a supreme authority. ... His favorite author was a German writer by the name of Karl May, who had written over 70 novels. These novels were read and reread, as well as reinacted by Adolf. ... Adolf referred to Russians as the Indians in the novels ("The Rise of Hitler"). ...

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Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. ... There was also and incident where Sula was swinging a young boy by the name of Chicken Little, and accidentally lost grip of his hands which resulted in him flying into the water and drowning. ... The novel shows society's negative view of Sula when it describes how she returned to the Bottom "accompanied by a plague of robins" (89). ... It's this insistence that eventually gets read as a recklessness and Sula later becomes...

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He has a baby boy and a wonderful harvest and can't believe how such fortune from the gods has doted upon him. ... Indeed not, for I have no preference between the guilty one and the victim.- (p.482) In both novels, Cristo and Lung are both faced with an ultimate question. ...

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Then he is a small boy being thrown into the deep end of the YMCA swimming pool by his father, a proponent of the "sink or swim" method. ... He is driving on his way to a Lions Club luncheon through Ilium's black ghetto, still smoldering from recent riots, and then through a section gutted for urban renewal. ...

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The novel Fight Club, by Jack Palahniuk was published in 1996 and released as a motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in October of 1999. ... The support groups give Jack a sense of belonging, a sense of being important to others as he expresses on page 107 of the novel: This is why I loved the support groups so much. ... There has always been the old joke that penguins appear as if they are wearing little black and white suits, which would symbolize the "suit and tie" environment that Jack works in each day, an environment that Jack feels to be stifling. ... Although the nov...

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• Grade Level: High School