The Divine Wind describes an Australia that is tarnished by racism, hatred and distrust, and yet the novel ends on an optimistic note. ... The novel is set during a World War. ... All throughout the novel elements of separation are presented. ... Hart's lack of trust for characters in the novel such as Mitsy and Jamie are just some signs of Disher showing an Australia that is tarnished from distrust. ... Although the novel ends on an optimistic note, the future for Broome doesn't seem promising. ...

• Word Count: 540
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

James Baldwin has become one of the most famous black writers of all time. His novels and short stories have been a wake up call for people. The reader can see the trials and tribulations that the black man went through in his generation. Although he wrote fictional storie...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Racism is a main issue in the novel. ... Sexism is also a problem in the novel. ... There are many female relationships in the novel. ... During Nettie's time in Africa, Samuel notes to her that the Olinka women have a strong relationship between each other. ... The men in the novel are given no last name. ...

• Word Count: 1740
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This is contrary to life as it relates to James Baldwin essay "Notes of a Native Son"and John Edgar Wideman collection of Homewood stories "Our Time." ... Through his novels and essays, he voiced his discontent on social injustices: James Edgar Wideman earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently a Professor at the University of Massachusetts, he won the PEM/Faulkner Award. ... I do take note that African American Men have to deal with many dilemmas, social injustice, hatred, and discontent. ...

• Word Count: 861
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, "Deadly Unna?" ... The Aborigines in "Deadly Unna" are separate to the whites in many instances in the novel, due to the cultural differences and their position in society. For example, the novel is set in recent times on a peninsula in South Australia. ... "Deadly Unna" concludes on an optimistic note that there could be change if the white community develops a better understanding of the Aborigines. Blacky, at the end of the novel suggests that there is a need of understanding between cultures for Aborigines and whites to resolve their differences. ...

• Word Count: 1285
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Those "blank spaces on the earth"(22) Conrad and his protagonist for the novel, Marlow, dreamed of journeying to were finally accessible to them during the turn of the century - At the exact moment East and Central Africa were falling under the dominion of European colonialism. ... It is clear early in the novel that Conrad is making a negative statement about European imperialism. ... Perhaps the greatest setting in the novel that lays witness to the perils of imperialism is the path which leads from the coast to the Central Station. ... However, he does make a strong note all the abandone...

• Word Count: 1016
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Island of the Blue Dolphins Author: Scott O"Dell Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co 1990 I chose this novel because it's an outstanding recreation of a real life story about young Indian woman named Karana who lived on an island for eighteen years all alone. ... Noting that these were similar to the one's that had slain her father in a twisted turn of events, she went into hiding. ...

• Word Count: 778
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In contrast between dark and light which refers to black and white, helps us to realize true reason of isolation in the novel. ... The narrator notes how the black drops spread out on the white paint saying, "I measured the glistening black drops, seeing them settle upon the surface and become blacker still, spreading suddenly out to the edges" (Ellison 200). ... At the end of novel, the narrator refers to readers that "My hole is warm and full of light" (Ellison 6). ...

• Word Count: 1020
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

It is interesting to note as well, that it is the dietician who causes Joe to be taken out of the orphanage, the only home he has even known, by telling the matron of the orphanage of Joe's mixed heritage. ... She is perhaps the only person in the novel that he is truly able to communicate with, although at this point he is still a young man. ... Her desire for Joe to deny his heritage will contrast starkly later in the novel with Joanna Burden's need for Joe to claim his Black blood. ...

• Word Count: 1750
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The novel traces Emma Lou's life from city to city as she searches for a group of "the right sort of people" who will accept her although "she is black, too black" (109). ... The teachers send her a note in an attempt to help Emma Lou avoid the gossip and criticism behind her back. ... This idea is clearly represented at the end of the novel when Emma Lou returns to the man she thinks she loves and believes will love her in return. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On a positive note, Richard did eventually get to attend school, which didn't come till later on in Frederick's behalf. Richard's grandmother hindered his ability to learn because she thought that reading novels was a sin and that the only reading he should have been doing was in the bible. ...

• Word Count: 1141
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

These works where "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note", a collection poems and "The Baptism" and "The Toilet", two early plays. In the PreFace to Twenty Volume Suicide Note" Amieri showed his sense of despair, alienation, and self - depreciation. ... During this transitional point in his life he wrote two books of serious fiction " The System of Dante's Hell", a novel, and "Tale", a collection of short stories. ...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Through the racism that several blacks harbor against their own race and their consequent desire to achieve the unattainable physical and social characteristics of their white counterparts, the novel shows that post-slavery African Americans often perpetrated their own second class-ness. ... The narrator notes that, "They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all these things because the town bowed down" (80). ...

• Word Count: 1653
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School