In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used the motif of biblical references in order to outline the main theme of solitude in the novel. ... Adam was the one who had tried to do what's right and had stronger qualities such as character. ... She was the one who had to take charge and run everything after Jose's downfall. Ursula's downfall, though, was the fact that it took her so many years to realize what was going on and not be able to prevent it. ... In conclusion, the biblical references within the novel are there to help the reader understand wh...

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• Grade Level: High School

Those in exile near one hundred and twenty thousand."2 These problems are common throughout Latin America, a factor in creating a sense of unity because of these common concerns. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." ... In "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the capitalistic imperialists take the role of the villain and the workers are the innocent victims. ... 9 Like "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the revolutionaries fight for a better life, described in a daydream of M...

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The boss of the farm implies when he first meets them: " Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. ... He declared, "The great man is who in the midist of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... The word solitude means the state of being or living alone in the dictionary, but these great peoples are not physically living by themselves in Emerson's case. ... After two hundreds year since Emerson published the Self Reliance document, the westerners fully understand his encouragements and put the ideas into practice. While Jo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cooper modeled this book after Sir Walter Scott's Waverle Novels. ... The gothic episodes clash with the historical ones. ... Even after Coopers retirement in novels he continued to write satire and nonfiction. ... This marked Coopers return to novel writing. ... One of Coopers major criticizing peers was Mark Twain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Hovering over these brisk waves, a couple of hundred yards away, was a shining disk we felt a sensation first, all through our bodies then I looked to see if George, who stood nearest to me, was still alive. ... No one. ... The first few years of a lifetime are the most influential of them all, a state of uncensored innocence and being truly naive. ... Innocence is one of the few things that cannot ever be returned. ... This particular section of the novel, of Sinbad's preliminary encounter on this new land, closely emulates the story of Adam and Eve, taken from the bible, out of t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. ... For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... The couple came to Lusibari in the years following independence when Nirmal's radical political became too dangerous in Calcutta and...

• Word Count: 3979
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate