This is achieved through the examination of real issues such as the need to attain a sense of belonging, a longing for freedom and the journey of self-discovery, and the use post-modern language features to create this 'coming of age' novel. ... And through the longing for freedom within the novel the characters are set on a journey of self-discovery. The journey of self-discovery within works of literature helps explore and deepen the understanding of real issues and the universal themes of the human experience. Brigid Lowry explores the journey of self-discovery within her novel ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details a...

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

Mistry's short story collection 'Tales from Firozsha Baag' and his two novels, 'Such a Long Journey' and 'A FIne Balance' focus on the Parsi community in India rather than on the immigrant experience. ... While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... This ceremony receives full attention in Such a Long Journey, which presents all the gruesome details a...

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

If he journeys too low and allows religion and traditionalist societal conventions to determine his life's path, Stephen is subjecting himself to be weighed down by the sea spray, and his wings will be insufficient to keep him from sinking below the waves. Contrastingly, if he completely abandons all notion of home or family and soars too close to the sun of intellectual artistry, Stephen's innate artistry will destroy him from the inside out, with the same result as Icarus' fated journey. ...

• Word Count: 1289
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" (Gillum 1) Despite the horrible odor of the decaying body people stayed true to their values, and offered them continued assistance in their journey. ... At this point in the novel Anse is confident in the community's limitless ability to offer his family aide in their journey. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Marele Day has created Claudia Valentine as the character striving for the greater good, both on a personal and professional journey. ... Despite the fact that Valentine is the character who takes the responder and pulls them through the journey, step by step with her, it is the excerpts from Lavenders autobiography that give the responder the incite that even Claudia does not have. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Indeed, Rocinante and Dapple play an important role in the journeys of Don Quixote and Sancho; they are not only means of transport and symbols of status but also companions, of which their owners confide in. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mark Haddon's novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is a bildungsroman about a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's who prefers dogs to humans because "dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies". Animals are a motif that represents his fear and lack of connection to people. For Chri...

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Hopkins openly admits the plot for the novel is loosely based on her "personal journey to try and understand what had just happened to six years of [her] lifeand what had happened to [her] beautiful daughter"(FAQ). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Discuss Austin's use of Parties and Social Events as turning points in the novel. How do the Christmas Eve Dinner at Randalls, the dinner at the Coles and the dinner party at Hartfield serve as critical moments that help the reader to see Emma's growing self awareness? Throughout Emma, parties a...

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"People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask th...

• Word Count: 922
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Mr Elton gets the picture of Harriet framed; Elton keeps Tai's photograph in his locker, Mr Knightley dances with Harriet; Josh rescues' Tai, Emma offends Miss Bates; Cher offends their maid Lucy, Harriet is rescued from gypsies by Churchill; Tai is rescued by Christian in the mall and Emma/Cher go through a journey of self-realization and fall in love with Mr Knightley/Josh. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It circles around a young woman named Briony Tallis who aspires her entire life to shine the light of true redemption to right and rewrite the countless wrongs of her youth, as to finally succumb to the guilt which haunts her state of mind from her journey of childhood to adulthood. ...

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Direct vs Indirect Threats In the human heart, danger represents fear, stimulating either a selfless or selfish response. The role of different types of danger drives humanity to react in a particular way, and in the two apocalyptic novels, On the Beach by Nevil Shute and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main characters live out their last days after a global nuclear war and an unexplained apocalyptic event respectively with unique reactions to the threats. Through the analysis of the first novel and the last novel discussed in the course, the concept of hope will be examined interactive...

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"I am coming across the divide to you," sings and angel, toward the end of Sally Potter's film of Orlando. The angel is poised above Orlando and her daughter, resplendent and androgynous, pealing out the ecstasy of being "neither a woman nor a man," its exuberance inviting the audience to celebrate ...

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The term "Frankenstein" has undergone sequences of alterations, and an elongated lifetime than its carrier, Victor Frankenstein. The memoir of the title can likewise be perceived as more intensely appealing than that of the expert scientist. Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley, has certainly origin...

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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. Good! Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allen...

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In her teenage years, Behn and her family allegedly journeyed from England to the British colony of Surinam because of her father's transferal there due to a military appointment [ CITATION Bio15 l 1033 ]. ...

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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) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

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