Shortly after, Tyler moved to Montreal, where her husband was completing his residency while she published her first novels, If Morning Ever Comes and The Tin Can Tree. ... Most of Tyler's time in Baltimore has been spent raising her two daughters, running her household, and publishing twelve more novels, a children's book, numerous short stories, and several reviews. ... In most of Tyler's novels, the main characters struggle and, at the same time, depend on their families. ... The key feature that Tyler focuses in on the most in her novels is the tension that develops betwe...

• Word Count: 834
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The main character of the novel "A Room with a View " is Lucy Honeychurch, a young English woman who follows the social convensions of the Victorian middle class which she belongs to. ... The main theme of the novel is the comparison between the peculiarity of Italian people and of English people, between two different ways of living. ... Forster sees something deeply wrong in the puritan and merchant society of his time and he underlines that view in his novel: we could find a clear contraposition between Honeychurch's and Emerson's world or, better, view of the world. ... A...

• Word Count: 379
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Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. ... Throughout the novel, Simon is depicted as a man who seems stuck n a rut, unable to move forward. ... However, in the closing lines of the novel, Stephen finally frees himself from his father's influence. ... The novel is permeated by references to freedom through avian symbolism and allusions to Daedalus' wings. ... Toward the end of the novel, Joyce's readers are granted concrete conclusions which resolve Stephen's many patriarchal conflicts. ...

• Word Count: 1289
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A defining, overarching element of Virginia Woolf's novel, "To the Lighthouse," is the presence of uncertainty during transitional periods of time. ... Outside of the novel's boundaries, Woolf addresses the reoccurring theme of uncertainty by writing a novel that defies being categorized as a product of a specific genre or literary period. ... Towards the beginning of the novel, the Ramsay family and their home are portrayed in a positive manner. ... The novel's overall transformation can be noted through the darkness that slowly consumes the Ramsays and their household. ... At ...

• Word Count: 869
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Through distinctive features within a novel, exploration and an understanding of ideas upon human experience can be encompassed. The novel Ellen Foster written by Kaye Gibbons, portrays the ill-fated life of Ellen, an 11 year old girl mourning the death of her mother and living with the burden of her alcoholic father. ... Subsequently, the unique characterizsation Gibbons illustrates throughout her novel highlights the different aspects and opinions her characters convey giving the audience a view of life within her novel and life within the setting portrayed. ... Within the text Ellen Foster,...

• Word Count: 1059
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Looking at the novel Beloved from a chronological standpoint, the story truly begins with Sethe's time on the Sweet Home Plantation. ... At this point in the novel Anse is confident in the community's limitless ability to offer his family aide in their journey. ... In both novels there are broken and dysfunctional families who are only successful through the aide of their community. The text shows how the communities adapt and change throughout the novels, and the effect it has on the main character's families. Through comparing the text of both novels you can see the thematic s...

• Word Count: 1008
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There is some evidence to suggest the relationship between the father and the Emperor in Otsuka's novel, and the reason why the U.S. government arrests him on purpose. ... According to the father's appearance and background information in the novel, it seems that he has a close relationship with the Emperor, but there are still numerous Japanese-Americans like him not on west coast who are not caught by the U.S. government. ... After suffering from four years' miserable detainment, the father finally comes back home thin and worn, and then answers the accusations of being a thre...

• Word Count: 1101
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The major conflicts in the Novel are between Will and Harlen, Will and his brother and Will and Louise. ... The conflicts between Will and his friend, his brother and his lover are ongoing throughout the Novel but it is something that Will takes in stride. ...

• Word Count: 269
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To what extent does this novel uphold traditional family values? ... In the novel "One True Thing- by Anna Quindlen we are presented with a paradigm of a "perfect family- who complies with gender-based assumptions. ... The traditional family is at the heart of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 834
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The Awakening is a novel about the growth of a woman into her own person; in spite of the pattern society has formed for her. Chopin's novel, which challenged society's concepts of what a wife and mother should be, tells of a young woman in search of her identity and sexual awakening. ... Her poems, short stories and novels permitted her not only to emphasize her beliefs for herself, but also question the ideas of individuality and autonomy during the turn of the century. ... This view of a man's wife being his possession is prevalent throughout the entire novel, especiall...

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Frankenstein's dream is the most blatant aspect of the novel that does this. ... Another figure in the novel that represents some characteristics of a mother is Frankenstein himself, although these are outweighed by the patriarchal values he display. ...

• Word Count: 1028
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In the novel "One True Thing- by Anna Quindlen we are presented with a paradigm of a "perfect family- who complies with gender-based assumptions. ... The traditional family is at the heart of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 844
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Montana 1948, a novel written by Larry Watson and published in 1993, describes an embarrassing recollection of David Hayden happened in a small town called Bentrock. ... A lesson should be learned throughout this novel is that long-time unregulated and centered power existed in a family or a society will definitely lead to an authoritarian control, which will negatively affects the whole system by making inefficient decisions. ...

• Word Count: 868
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Nilda, the protagonist in the novel Nilda by Nicholosa Mohr uses her knowledge of the English language to obtain an identity in the United States. ... The mother in this novel one could see just does not have the time to learn the language because of her other responsibilities due to her family. ...

• Word Count: 1038
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It is at this time in the novel that the love in which Bertrande has for Arnaud is true whilst for Martin it is not. ... This is because, constantly throughout the novel, Bertrande challenges the imposter to reveal his true identity however; Arnaud merely responded to the household that she was "demented" and "mad", thus regaining the order of the household. ...

• Word Count: 916
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In the novel, Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts explicates the determination, strength and integrity of the First Lady by not only showing the hardships Martha Washington faced throughout the 1700's but also how she became one of the most influential founding mothers and created a stance for women in colonial America. ... I feel that the most influential individual Roberts expresses in her novel is, Martha Washington. ...

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The concept of change in this sense is portrayed through the prescribed text Feliks Skrzynecki, Migrant hostel, and 10 Mary St composed by Peter Skrzynecki, the stimulus booklet Text 1 "The Door" by Miroslav Holub, also the song "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chaplin and the novel The Poisonwood bible composed by Barbra Kingsolver. ... My Final text The Poisonwood Bible is a novel full of changing perspectives of migrant experiences and once again the failure of child- parent relationships. ...

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With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...

• Word Count: 3412
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The author Sholem Aleichem describes Tevye as a wise Jewish dairyman of a Russian village who can readily quote the Bible or some other holy text on any occasion. The majority of the short novel is about Tevye's struggles to marry his seven daughters, only Tsaytl, Hodl, Chava, Shprintze, and Beilke'...

• Word Count: 777
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"Love, in the world of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' is a destructive force."" Love has the power to heal; however the experiences of the Tull family in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' demonstrate the destruction and pain that individuals can also encounter as a result of ...

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The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth-Century England In Naomi Tadmor's article, The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth Century England, she discussed what a household family consisted of though the analization of five different books written in the eighteen century. Alth...

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In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth t...

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The famous television actor Bill Cosby stated, "For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked" (Motivational Quotes). Cosby's statement still has meaning today. While the Vatican (the papal government) forbids the Pope and ...

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As it is shown throughout the novel, the strong feelings of abandonment felt by Willie eventually lead up to his death in him believing that he is still working for the betterment of his family, and the attainment of achieving the American dream, which he never does. ...

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An appraisal of Peter Skrzynecki's poetry and other relevant texts illustrates that Changing Perspective is a dynamic and evolutionary process, culminating in the transformation or modification of one's own outlook. A study of varied texts reveals that the journey to changes in perspective may be gr...

• Word Count: 1749
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