Lewis used the main character, George F. ... Babbitt is the main character in Lewis's novel and he was a man that epitomized the materialism and mediocrity of the American middle class. ... Babbitt also portrays the conformity of much of the middle class through its main character. ... People think they are being different or atypical by listing to certain music, but they are really just conforming to it. ... Men were told to grow their beards, so they did, girls couldn't go to school, and women couldn't go out alone. ...

• Word Count: 793
• Approx Pages: 3

The book is mainly about two men dealing with their alter ego's. ... When I first opened to the beginning page, I saw the list of principal characters, and what year and where it took place. ... All the characters are very different. ...

• Word Count: 628
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

However, according to Marx and Engels, "the working men have no country" because "we cannot take from them what they have not got.... By "working men," Marx and Engels are referring to the proletariat, or the "wage-earners.... While most people probably view the typical working class as an important part of society, in the world that Marx and Engels describe, the working men are essentially a nuisance. ... Only when "class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, will the ...

• Word Count: 1209
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (1904) circulates in the popular imagination as a happy tale for children that, through the adventures of Peter and the other children in Never Land, celebrates playfulness. As Mark Twain commented, "It is my belief that Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age; and the next best play is a long way behind- (qtd. in Jack 158). Tellingly, Twain's comment that Peter Pan is uplifting seems to depend on ignoring the fact that each of the "lost- boys is a baby who has fallen out of his pram "when the nurse is looki...

• Word Count: 7291
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate