In Chapter 5 when Johnny cuts Pony's hair, Pony feels he has lost his identity as is upset by this. The Greasers have formed their own identity through their long hair, thus setting standards for their own society. Also by having long hair, the Greasers form an identity. ... By doing so, they would rob him of his identity. ... Society overlooked the Greasers as their identity and status rejected the values society placed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This movie is an example of the British identity being challenged by an emerging Indian/Asian cultural force, especially when it comes to race, class and gender. ... What this produces is a contemporary attempt at capturing the social phenomena that shape cultural and individual identities, but of course the way that is done is somewhat different, but given the circumstances (that it is a contemporary Bollywood adaptation of a nearly two century old novel), this is arguably unavoidable (Wilson 2006: 325). ... Chadha clings more closely to the comedic way in which Austen captures socially cons...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Community, Identity, Stability is the motto of the World State. ... Community is in part a result of identity and stability. ... Identity is in large part the result of genetic engineering. ... Identity is also achieved by teaching everyone to conform, so that someone who has or feels more than a minimum of individuality is made to feel different, odd, almost an outcast. ...

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In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner explores the impermanence of existence and identity. ... Faulkner's metaphor points to a state of communal wholeness, as within a coherent and loving family, the individual's identity would be defined, recognized, and sustained. ... (Turner, pp. 61-67) Throughout the novel, the impermanence of existence and identity were key factors for each and every character. The themes that were relied on included: isolation of the characters within their own series of interior monologues; the physical realities such as land, nature, and all the physical proc...

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The ways in which Tita, and Mama Elena handle the similar predicaments help separate the identity of the two characters. ... Causing emotions to become uncontrollable; food is a strong force in this novel, and it lets Tita form an identity of who she is. ... This form of writing leads the reader to take part in Hicks p.5 the feminist properties of "Like water for chocolate", which are obvious in the depictions of Tita's quest to gain independence and establish an identity for her. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The blank area represents emptiness and loss of identity. ... However, the loss of identity and morals that happens later in the novel, affects the island, causing the island to do a complete flip. The blank area that is loss of identity affects the two moons and two crescents on the bottom, causing them to reverse. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

By doing so, Holden distances himself from people and creates a new identity for himself. ... Phoebe's gesture at the end of the novel is symbolic of her accepting him as who he is giving him that sense of identity that he was lacking throughout the novel thus changing how Holden views himself. ... These character changes can be seen in the way he opened his mind towards the possibility of change, the way he started to accept responsibility for his own life and through the way he acquired a sense of identity that he was lacking near the beginning of the story. ...

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Walter, along with Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie, is constantly struggling to acquire identity and freedom. ... Without her investigation into her identity the story would stagnate and the plot would freeze. ...

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In addition, the article "Balwin's Sissy Heroics," Marlon B Ross explores the themes of sexual orientation and black queer identity in the nonfiction of author James Baldwin. ... In the short story, the author uses the images of light and darkness to illustrate the theme of man's painful quest for an identity (Murray 354). ...

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"I dreamt I went to Manderley again." (Dumarier 2) is the famous opening line to the classic novel Rebecca. Right from the beginning Dumaurier builds up the mystery of Manderley by showing a conflict between the way the main characters live now verses how they remember the tragic events of the past...

• Word Count: 1831
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• Grade Level: High School

John, Jane sees her position as one of regained will power, and thus regained identity" (Ewbank 196-197). ... She fought to maintain her identity and stay true to her moral convictions as life threw countless obstacles in her path. ...

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Nearly from the moment of its publication, The Joy Luck Club was a critical and public smash. People easily identified with its stories of close knit, yet classically flawed families trying to come to terms with their differences and still make their own respective individual voices heard. There w...

• Word Count: 1953
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The novel Jasper Jones written by Craig Silvey and published in 2009, was set in a country town of Western Australia in the summer of 1965. The setting was influenced by novels that Silvey had read as a youth. This is why many features of the novel have similarities to novels such as TKAMB and TAOH...

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• Grade Level: High School

For one to be a romantic one must first have the freedom of self expression and that indeed was what Mary Shelley possessed as she wrote her novel, Frankenstein. She comprised a story of many original and imaginative ideas which came solely from her boundless individual imagination. She incorporat...

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The Bondwoman's Narrative is a valuable historical document written in the 1850's that reveals the sad, humiliating, fearful and painful lives of slaves who suffered untold instances inflicted by their cruel, indifferent owners. ...

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In Madame Bovary, Flaubert pays close attention to minute details such as Emma's wedding dress, windows, cigar case, and flowers. For example, Flaubert spends almost an entire chapter describing Emma's and Charles" wedding using meticulous details to paint a picture of her wedding dress, the cake an...

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Solar Stoms Angel has returned to Adams's Rib to find her roots. She is a 17-year-old girl in search of her family and most of all, who was her mother Hannah Wing (p 21). This is also a spiritual quest for Angel, yet that is only an observation that I became aware of after reading this novel Sol...

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The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct Realistic novels portraying characters which are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The A...

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Charlotte Bronte's Villette introduces Lucy Snowe, the novel's main character and narrator. Initially, Snowe may be presumed a trustworthy informant of events. As the novel progresses, Bronte challenges the relationship between the reader and Snowe by revealing Lucy's inconsistent descriptions of he...

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"Everything is Illuminated," by Jonathan Safran Foer, was published in 2002 and is still on many bestseller lists. Foer was born in Washington D.C. in 1977. Foer's grandfather, Louis Foer, was a holocaust survivor. Foer never thought about having a career in writing, but was inspired to become a writer by one of his professors, Joyce Carol Oates, at Princeton University. "Everything is Illuminated" was Foer's first novel and was named book of the year by The Los Angeles Times in 2003. ...

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The book is divided into seven stories or chapters that are named Mattie Michael, Etta Mae Johnson, Kiswana Browne, Lucielia Louise Turner, Cora Lee, the Two, and the Block Party. This book is about the women who live in the community of Brewster Place, a poor Neighborhood on a dead-end stree...

• Word Count: 1933
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• Grade Level: High School

In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary objects". In Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses magical realism to combine reality and surreality onto the same plane making it seem as if the unreal happens as a part of everyday life. Laura Esquivel was born in 1951 in...

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