Reader's expectations are deceived and at the same time come true in new convincingly motivated turn of events as the idea of the novel as a genre is defined with becoming the person. ... After "modernism" has called into question both sense living in event, and ability of the author to introduce it in product, " the dialogical poetics " has come into its own. ... "I do not know, - the story-teller interferes with "objective-epic" narration, destroying illusion of the all-knowing author, - whom she could become in our century, but is sure, that a lot of centuries back she would be...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hawthorne goes into great depth to describe the change in character of Roger Chillingworth, visible in his appearance and sinister in his descriptions. Hawthorne describes the physician's intentions with Arthur Dimmesdale mentioning he " strove to go deep into his patient's bossom, delving among his principles, prying into his recollections, and probing everything with a cautious touch, like a treasure-seeker in a dark cavern" (114). ... The relation the author establishes between Chillingworth and "Satan's emissary", with ominous eyes and the glimmering of his look resembling...

• Word Count: 699
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some families, however, are dysfunctional and go against the grain, which and can negatively impact a community's functionality. ... Sethe and her family try to transition into Cincinnati's community, it doesn't go well. Not long after their arrival, Schoolteacher learns of their whereabouts, and comes to collect Sethe. ... "(Jesser 1) As As I Lay Dying comes to a close the community has grown tired of the Bundren's indecency, but despite the extreme consequences the community's helpfulness endures. ... When looking for a shovel to help bury Addie, Darl offers to...

• Word Count: 1008
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The need to attain a sense of belonging is also conveyed through the use of Asher's' character and the lack of belonging he feels towards Perth and how he truly feels he belongs back in Byron Bay. "Mum, don't freak but I'm going back to Byron. ... Freedom shown through the eyes of a teenager exaggerates the ignorance that they have towards the responsibilities that come with freedom. ... These all project to the reader real issues through fictional works, moving to a new town and trying to find where you belong in society, teenagers and the freedom they long to have du...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... Her commercial attempts were stamped as untraditional, and La Senora turned to the industry with traditions going back to the dawn of mankind - she started an upscale ladies escort service by catalog. ... She comes back to the country to save her only friend, a socially rejected homosexual. ... Mimi, originally Melesio, comes into the picture almost at the sam...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marele Day goes as far as keeping within the crime thriller tradition as possible when she creates the web of sub characters. ... After all, Claudia is beginning to come to terms with the fact that appearances are often deceiving. ... Everywhere you turn throughout the novel, beauty versus corruption is being portrayed and it all traces back to the city itself. ... The characters, moods, themes and ideas all link back to the city, to Sydney. ...

• Word Count: 1259
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India l...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lahore during the time of Partition in 1947, Cracking India (1991), and a third set in the postcolonial era, An American Brat (1993), that treats not only contemporary Parsi life in Pakistan but the community's immigrant experience in the United States as well. ... Even though Mistry seldom goes back to India l...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While Kafka's novella is comprised of sentence structures that can be interpreted in different ways, the ambiguity in the novella comes not from what is said, but from what is not being said (Sokel 204). ... In "Hills Like White Elephants" there is a commonplace opinion that the implied meaning of the two characters' discussion is about whether the girl should go through with getting an abortion (Link 4). Through this understanding many people assume that every other symbol in the story relates to the abortion without going further into detail about what other meanings the ...

• Word Count: 3072
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thus Orlando's desire and future are always assured in Potter's film, and indeed will come to literary success, a beautiful daughter, and a singing angel who proclaims, "At last I am free. ... And, ever since she let go of the past, she found her life was beginning." ... Her long look at his face and his smile, and the physical similarity (especially around the eyes) between Billy Zane and Charlotte Valandrey, encourage the viewer to imagine Orlando thinking back through that founding love affair, exploring the likeness between Sasha and Shelmerdine. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983...

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• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate