By examining the novel My Antonia, by Willa Cather, one can see that the novel feeds off of immigration and would not be the same if the protagonist, Antonia Shimerda, were not an immigrant. ... Throughout the novel, Antonia and Jim were, at some point, outcasts. ... (McNall 70) The fist book in the novel is titled "The Shimerdas". ... If these confessions, the novel, reveal that neither action nor character gives unity to the novel, they also suggest, indirectly, that a feeling the emotion attached to Antonia's name informs the novel structurally (Miller 52). ... By examining the...

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The novel describes the time period of which Fitzgerald was from and discusses the experiences of a character named Nick Carraway and the acquaintances he makes during the year that the novel takes place. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes and contrasts the two fictional peninsulas on Long Island known in the novel as east and west egg. ... This is where Tom and Daisy Buchanan, two main characters from the novel, live. ... Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald is continuously showing how the two establishments do not mix. ... The novel, The Great Gatsby is a depiction of the J...

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In the novel, Daisy seems to be a more intellectual and well brought up lady. ... In the novel, he mispronounced words and stuttered much. ... Another subtle change between the film and the book is that in the novel, the reader is left in the dark, not sure if Daisy killed Myrtle or not. ... Even though there are character differences and the story has changed a little, the movie still stayed true to the novel. The plot and the majority of the characters have stayed the same, maintaining the entertainment and enjoyment of the novel. ...

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Crane envied wounded soldiers, thus he wrote the novel The Red Badge of Courage. ... Crane got his information for the novel from; interviews with war veterans, old war photographs and accounts, and old newspaper articles. ... Crane wanted to the get his novel the most real possible. ... The Red Badge of Courage is a United States Civil War novel that traces the development of a young recruit, Henry Flemming, and his campaign during the war. ... The novel does not focus mainly on the war itself, but each character and his or her battle of maturity....

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The novel moves in such a way that the chapters are really individual stories, all linked in only one way - the priests. ... The reading is very choppy, the way she develops the chapters into little stories and not having the typical rise and fall of a usual novel. ... From the title, one could derive a symbolic meaning for the novel. ... Although death is not denoted as being a negative ideal in the novel, one can also still not escape it. ... Although there does not seem to be much a plot to this story, the scenes in the novel are almost enough to keep the story going. ...

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Whether it is the lush decadence of the upper class or the political themes focused on in the novel. ... This brings us to the moral decadence that Fitzgerald explores in the novel. ... But compared to her peers in the novel, Jordan truly is a strong woman. ... On this level Jordan could be looked at as the most relevant character in the novel. ... Yes, this novel is in fact very relevant to today's society. ...

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The Great Gatsby is a novel of tragedy, love and rich vs. poor. In this novel, the American Dream is a concept that is consistent throughout the entire story. ... In the novel, the symbol of the green light is mentioned many times. ... In the novel, Fitzgerald also uses quite a few obvious motifs to depict what his notion of the American Dream is. ... The last motif that is a very prominent throughout the novel is parties. ...

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Joseph Heller's outrageously funny and very affecting novel Catch-22 is a perfect example. ... While Catch-22 takes place in 1944, in it Heller makes frequent allusions to events in America in the 1950s, when he wrote the novel. ... The satirical allusions present in the novel make it significant to readers. ... People were going through the same things Yossarian goes through in the novel. The two factors that make Catch-22 a successful novel are its entertaining humor and underlying significance. ...

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This response paper will concentrate on the theme of wealth in the novel The Great Gatsby by author F. ... His novel The Great Gatsby is one of the most popular works in American literature, even though it was a critical and commercial failure at first. The novel received acclaim and popularity only after Fitzgerald's death and is now considered a literary classic. ... The novel tells the story of Nick Carraway who is also the novel's narrator. ... Most of the characters in the novel are members of the upper class and are very rich. ...

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These lines had intrigued me to read this brilliant novel by Jeffery Archer. ... Archer draws on his own political experience and knowledge to portray the life of politicians, the work of Congress, and the difficulties in passing the controversial bill that forms the backdrop of the novel. ... Archer's approach to the suspense thriller is still intriguing today, even though he first published the novel in 1977. ... Dr Dexter isn't a particularly important character in the novel, but she has an essential connection to Andrews' investigation. ... Unusually, the antagonists remai...

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The novel deftly talks about certain social issues predominantly reigning during those times. ... To support this claim, Ralph Ellison, the author, described the protagonist of the novel as a man wrought invisible by the people around him. The novel has the title "Invisible Man" for the exact same purpose in which it represents. ... " (p.294) This is an example of how society or the people that constitutes it assigns roles to each individual, the novel defining it as a "name". ... At the end of the novel, it states: Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I spea...

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The novel takes place throughout the twenties, when society experienced a corruption of values and a decline in spirituality. Critics say that Fitzgerald tells of this corruption in many of his novels, The Great Gatsby included. ... (Sutton 3) Most critics and reviews of the novel agree that the work shows corruption of some sort, whether it be social, moral or ethical. ... Often in the novel, it seems the socially elite characters often forget about their morals in order to get ahead in life. ... During the course of the novel however, as Nick is exposed to more and more of this activit...

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The novel is classified as a sentimental novel, which was a large part of romanticism. ... In the typical sentimental novel, something present an obstacle to love and lovers are separated, which is what happens in the plot. ... Additionally, the presence of nature is very lush along novel. ... There is a presence of religion throughout the novel. ... Maria is a novel of romance in Latin America on strong and impossible love of youth in a patriarchal world. ...

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Having his first novel, This Side of Paradise published and a bestseller accomplished this. ... Second, there are many themes that Fitzgerald uses to make the novel a classic. ... As you can see on the first page Nick holds himself in higher esteem than the other characters in the novel. ... Tom is the antagonist in this novel. ... It is a masterpiece because of his use of symbols throughout the novel. ...

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The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. ... This novel, centered around the lifestyles of the wealthy, involves a love affair. ... Many symbols appear during the novel, including the ever-watchful eyes of Dr. ... In the novel, Tom cheats first on his wife, Daisy. ...

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Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. ... Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway are the main characters in the novel. They are neighbors that become good friends at one of Gatsby's lavish parties, and they remain friends throughout the novel. ... In essence, The Great Gatsby was a novel that showed the friendship between Gatsby and Nick. ...

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The place where the novel is set is a county called Maycomb, an imaginary county in Southern Alabama in the United States. ... The Time when the novel is set is 1930's when the system of segregation was in force. ... All these things in that period of time and the place where the novel is set is very important because the characters of the novel reflect their background. ...

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This is easily shown to us in the novel The Great Gatsby, F. ... The two main themes in this highly symbolic novel reflect on the disintegration of the traditional "American Dream" through the shallowness and corruption of the upper class. ... The Green light shown is a guiding light to Gatsby that will motivate him through the novel. ... As revealed later in the novel, these parties exceed the boundaries of materialism and begin to decompose on all that is moral in the modern world. ...

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. ... In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. ... In the novel Jay Gatsby often throws elaborate parties in hopes that someday Daisy will show up at one and they'll reunite. ... In the novel Gatsby says "everyone has an American Dream and sometimes [they] surpasse[s] it in the process of grasping it. ... Scott Fitzgerald showed in his novel another reason for failure, that reason being that it purely just wasn't meant to be. ...

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He even began working on his very first novel. After having finished the novel, Lewis presented it to several publishers, only to be rejected. ... At work on his third novel, Sinclair Lewis was offered $1000 by the Saturday Evening Press for his story called "Nature, Inc."" and following that, he was offered a total sum of $3000 for 3 more. ... To America, the novel seemed completely new; different from anything that had ever come before. All over the country Sinclair Lewis was "denounced as a villain and a traitor- (Schorer, 12), and yet, all over the country thousands of people bought t...

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The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. ... The attempt to capture the American Dream is a theme in many novels. The novel shows that the 20th century is a wasteland and a corruption of the original idealistic American Dream of the past. ... Jay Gatsby is the main figure of the novel that tries to capture his "American Dream". ... Also, in the novel all the dishonest people (Tom, Daisy, Jordan) have all the money. ...

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The Great Gatsby The Corruption Of The American Dream "The Great Gatsby" is a novel written by F. ... The novel was completed by 1925 and published in 1926. ... The main themes of the novel are materialism, corruption and The American Dream. ... I am going to show how effective Fitzgerald is at portraying the materialism in the American society throughout his novel "The great Gatsby". ... The main characters in Fitzgerald's novel are symbols of some aspects of the American Dream. ...

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Hawthorne frames The Scarlet Letter around three scaffold scenes in the beginning, middle and end of the novel; each scene occurs on different occasions and at different times. ... While Dimmesdale awaited her appeal, he placed his hand over his heart "a habit the reader will recognize further through the novel. ... The scaffold on Hawthorne's novel serves as a framework around which the story is built. ...

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This novel portrays a problem of people making money by doing things against the law. ... I choose this novel because of how Fitzgerald was able to make connections between these parallel ideas. ... This novel was not a clash of cultures but more a clash of morals. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that illustrates American Culture in the 1920's. The entire novel is seen and told through the eyes of Nick Carraway. ... In the novel the reader is introduced to the "Valley of Ashes." ...

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