Scott Fitzgerald's personal life at the time in which he wrote the novel. ... Scott Fitzgerald", Michael Adams notes that Fitzgerald was not only motivated to succeed, but Zelda's was only attracted to him because of that motivation. ... Davis further notes, "The new money makes Gatsby into an equal of Daisy's and allows him to finally pursue her" (Davis). ... In "The Novels of F. ... Adams notes a similar wasted effort by Fitzgerald when he writes, "Fitzgerald began working . . . sold his first short story . . . ...

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The novel deftly talks about certain social issues predominantly reigning during those times. ... The novel has the title "Invisible Man" for the exact same purpose in which it represents. ... (p.3) All throughout the novel, it is very interesting to note that Ellison has never mentioned the protagonist's name, but instead the readers are guided by the narrative and informed that he is given a new name as the plot develops, and intriguingly, the protagonist adapts to each of the name that was given to him. ... At the end of the novel, it states: Who knows but that, on the lower ...

• Word Count: 1723
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School

In Tim O"Brien's novel, If I Die in a Combat Zone, a unique, young man examined the Vietnam War. ... Many of Tim's college friends escaped the draft with doctor's notes or chaplain notes. ... To lighten conversations, they talked about authors and novels that they were both interested in. ... When he was not thinking about the war, his life after the war was on his mind and so were the novels he had read. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His first novel, Northern Lights (1975), remains obscure, but O'Brien fans have unearthed it to find the roots of his fictional vision. ... These same concerns are evident in his award-winning short-story cycle The Things They Carried (1990), powerful tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." ... This novel clearly demonstrates how O'Brien's Vietnam anxieties are actually versions of the anxiety that we all feel in the nuclear age. O'Brien treats the Vietnam War even more obliq...

• Word Count: 781
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... Most importantly, she notes, "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." ... This novel has not only given great in...

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• Grade Level: High School

From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... Most importantly, she notes that "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." ...

• Word Count: 444
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• Grade Level: High School

One thing that's really struck me about this book is Woodward's use of personal anecdotes - on the very first page, we hear about CIA Director George Tenet's background like he's a character from a novel, and in chapter 6, he recounts how Condoleezza Rice cried at "The Star-Spangled Banner" playing at Buckingham Palace, and don't forget about Powell's "don't break down" note to President Bush mentioned on the next page. ...

• Word Count: 555
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• Grade Level: High School

As the main character in the novel, Fowler possessed many complex levels to his psyche. ... Americans were not very popular in Greene's novel, and Pyle was the hated American. ... In a note at the beginning of the book to friends of his in Vietnam, Greene wrote "...the historical events, in at least one case have been rearranged. ... The Novel aroused a lot of different interpretations, and gained a lot of popularity. ...

• Word Count: 955
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• Grade Level: High School

The Great Gatsby is, in some respects, somewhat autobiographical in that Fitzgerald relied on his life experiences to form certain aspects of the novel. ... During the party at the apartment, Nick notes Myrtle's behavior: "The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. ...

• Word Count: 2520
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Whitman notes how he engages each individual differently and yet still gives each patient the time needed to cope, uncertain if they are dead or alive. ... I thoroughly enjoyed reading this poem and will continue to read more of Whitman's novels and poems....

• Word Count: 724
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American dream in the 1920s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted by the vulgar pursuit of wealth. ... In the chapter-by-chapter analysis, especially in the Notes, The Fitzgerald's critique of the dream of success is developed primarily through the five central characters and through certain dominant images and symbols. ...

• Word Count: 798
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Scholars Interpret The Constitution The book Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and justice in the origins of America were written by Thomas West in 1997 through 2001. Thomas West undoubtedly supports the constitution, it's framers, and the way it was applied to our society for the fir...

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The novel is comically littered with contradictory tones and gross inaccuracies in terms of frontier life, but in spite of the aforementioned, Cooper manages to convey his over-used American roughrider, Hawkeye, as a genuine model for nineteenth-century gunslinger heroes. ... Almost an advertisement for moving west, The Last of the Mohicans was one of the first novels to depict frontier life. ... These ideas coincide with other interpretations of the novel that had already adopted these same biblical motifs to explain its battles between good and evil, its ideas of Indian descent to hell, and ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dreamwork Dreams are an interesting topic because everyone has different dreams at different times that mean different things to them. Much is known about dreams because they have meant something to people across all cultures. At the same time there is a lot to learn about dreaming because sci...

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In fact, many historians note this time period as the major catalyst for trends of Urbanization and Feminism. ... In this novel, a small town girl leaves her home in search of work in the big city (Chicago), an unprecedented concept, via the newly built rails. ... While some women did follow the model portrayed in the novel, the majority of women still maintained relatively traditional roles. ...

• Word Count: 2026
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He speaks of it in awe, making note of its wildlife population, the vast pastures ready for cultivation, and the incredibly stunning geography that was a beauty to behold. ... In her novel Brushstrokes of a Gadfly, E.A. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The flaws of capital punishment are also important to note, as Innocent people being executed or being released within weeks of execution have alarmingly become more and more common as of late. ... "IN COLD BLOOD" The film In Cold Blood is an adaptation of Truman Capote's novel of the same name. ...

• Word Count: 2281
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and exp...

• Word Count: 2954
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Regardless of bias and propaganda involved, the accounts of Hubbard's torture witnessing were at a minimal grotesque, and in fact, when such novels went on sale later in England, they did very well in the markets that cater to such literature. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he claims "hurt" by presenting "idle lies about human nature and the social fabric." ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel has precise records Of the battle from Pearl Harbor to the war of attrition between submarines and convoys in the Atlantic, through Midway and Guadalcanal, to the invasion of Europe, to Okinawa, and the final surrender of the Japanese. ... Even though the band was interrupted in their song by Japanese planes, the crews did not move until the last note was sung. ...

• Word Count: 2389
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School