" Tim Winton's Post-Colonial novel Cloudstreet adopts some techniques to illustrate the role of culture in making people feel psychologically and emotionally at home. Through the strategic use of minor characters and Indigenous culture, Winton adds depth to both the intimate and broader cultures utilised in the novel. ... For a portion of the novel, Rose associates with women who earn their own incomes and support themselves, claiming that they don't "need men....

• Word Count: 768
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" "Pride and Prejudice," the acclaimed novel by Jane Austen published in 1813. ... The first line of the novel examines the notion of a blurred true/false reality in the novel, whereas the tagline from the movie brings in the theme of a conflict between cultures. ... This clearly sets it apart in content from the original novel, but the themes remain the same. ... These feminine accomplishments are heavily scrutinized in the novel. ... It has been shown that the content of the stories are somewhat different, as director of the novel Chadha incorporates Bollywood and contemporary circumst...

• Word Count: 1319
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel 'Wild Cat Falling' deals with journey because throughout the novel the first person or narrator experiences and deals many issues in his life, which is the journey. ... The way one child was influenced by these white policies is one of the major themes of the novel. At the end of the novel, the narrator hears that his mother has gone back to die with the Noongar people because she has no one else. ... One issue that clearly stands out from this novel is that the laws for aborigines are different from the laws for white Australians. ... Another major theme of this novel is...

• Word Count: 560
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jim Butcher writes a typical fantasy novel and the stereotypes are included. ... " The novel then takes a turn and the fantasy begins. ... This begins with children's literature and goes all the way to adult novels. ... Jim Butcher's fantasy novel brought a different form of stereotyping. His novel allowed for readers to see how fantasy novels can portray female characters. ...

• Word Count: 1340
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The movie, Frankenweenie, follows in its footsteps and adopts many of the themes and ideas of the original novel. ... One element that occurs in both the novel and the movie is supernatural or inexplicable events. ... In addition to this, only one monster was animated in the novel, but in the movie a total of seven reanimations happen. ... In the novel, rain occurs during the animation of Victor's monster, and during a few scenes where dread is soon to follow. ... Both movie and novel use rain to represent a depressing scene, or a depressing scene to come. ...

• Word Count: 788
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The central theme in the novel Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, is that all mankind is inherently savage and the only aspect suppressing man's primitive behavior is the moral influences of civilization. ... The importance of the signal fire changes a great deal in the novel when the boys?... One of the most vital topics of the novel remains the issue of the beast, which frightened the boys who viewed it as a real object. ... Throughout the novel, Golding develops such symbols as the conch, fire, and paint to depict his solemn views of humanity. ... However, like the boys in the nove...

• Word Count: 920
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• Grade Level: High School

Pulitzer Prize winner, Juhmpa Lahiri, effectively conveys the theme of the alienation experienced by immigrants assimilating into a new place and the exposure of two cultures, relative to how one's 'home' reflects on their identity in the novel, The Namesake. This bildungsroman novel, set in both India and America and which follows a Bengali family's attempts at assimilating within American culture, portrays this theme throughout. ... The characterisation of Ashoke throughout the novel is also used by Lahiri to convey how a home is a reflection on one's identity th...

• Word Count: 1254
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Although Lord of the Flies is a novel which explores some of the darker aspects of human nature, I think there are many positive aspects of human nature presented here too: Look closely at the characters and roles of Ralph and Piggy, for example. ... Golding"s novel shows a group of schoolboys who are stranded on an island, and most of them turn into savages, as the controls of civilisation have been removed. ... In the novel, the pig"s head is the Lord of the Flies, because it is the most powerful influence upon the flies which are its subjects, just as the beast which is the evil within ...

• Word Count: 591
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• Grade Level: High School

In his novel A Passage to India, E.M Forster offers the reader a critique of English colonists, or Anglo-Indians as he refers to them, in colonized India. ... In the Bridge Party that takes place at the start of the novel, the reader is introduced to some of these prejudices and cultural misunderstandings that are formed with the fusion of these two divergent cultures. ... Even with the best intentions, the British are plagued by this emotional detachment, and throughout the novel it serves as a crucial basis for the cultural misunderstandings that ensue. ... This magnification is made abu...

• Word Count: 975
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through establishing gender roles as one of the primary motifs in the novel, Frank Norris projects Laura as a historically distinctive character. ... This very same flirtatious manner with which Laura approaches all of her suitors in the novel causes the reader to question the motivation behind her actions. ...

• Word Count: 305
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Essay #1 Henry James uses many important themes throughout the short novel, Daisy Miller. Some of the important themes are innocence, loss of self identity, and to always be yourself. One of the main themes in the novel was how people behave in different cultures. Mr. Winterbourne is always a...

• Word Count: 416
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• Grade Level: High School

In Chinua Achebe's two novels Things Fall Apart and No Longer At Ease, these problems are presented form the viewpoint of the colonised, and we see the disastrous effect the imposition of "civilisation" has on an already civilised society. In both novels the decline of the native culture is traced through the downfall of an individual, Okonkwo, in the first novel, and his grandson Obi, in the second. ... Likewise, when we consider both novels together, we can see something similar regarding education. ... It is somewhat ironic that it is Okonkwo who is sent away as he is the most zealo...

• Word Count: 2919
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel Conrad concerns himself with "darkness" (like Golding later). ... The modernistic narrative technique gives many different interpretations of the novel. ... However, in my essay I would like to exam-ine and demonstrate how the novel is both incorporating and challenging Victorian histori-cal issues. ... (Conrad 47) In the motives and symbols of the novel the "humanistic" is accompanied with BLACK (colour), RESILIENT and SATURATED notions, while the "anti-humanistic" is occurred with WHITE (colour), STABLE, EMPTY and ROUGH notions. ...

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Since the story is still seen so much today, it proves that this novel has to be one of the biggest factors in the mindset created for our culture. ... As a reader, you might not want to make the same "mistake" Hamlet did in the novel, so the fact that this ghost caused fear and death leads English culture to become very fearful of ghosts. ... There were not many written English language culture stories of revenge before Hamlet, so it is clear that this novel was the domino if you will, that started the chain effect on media even to this day. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In order to understand the implications clothing can have in society, one must understand the societal norms of the time in respect to the novel. ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote this novel in the context of the 1920's - 1930's era, a time of modernist growth. ... Naimo 3 Thus, through careful examination of the use of cloth in these novels, one can see how the treatment of the latter relays cultural information in each culture, respectively. ...

• Word Count: 1064
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• Grade Level: High School

On the surface, both Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness and the 1939 film Gunga Din are tales of great adventure and great prosperity obtained in foreign lands. ... Indigenous peoples are portrayed in this way throughout the novel, treated not as human beings but as animalistic, indistinguishable parts of "a black and incomprehensible frenzy"-"a whirl of black limbs, a mass of hands clapping, of feet stamping, of bodies swaying, of eyes rolling" (Conrad 67). ...

• Word Count: 662
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the novel, Heart of Darkness, the Europeans witness a life unlike any they have ever seen. ... Even before leaving Brussels, he felt as though he was on a journey to the centre of the earth rather than to the centre of a continent, as he mentions at the beginning of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2429
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Many people in our society feel that they have become so immune to the media that they no longer realize the actual affect it has on them. Many of them see it as their only way to discovering the world. Meaning that they get to see, hear, and perhaps feel things that they would never feel, had it not been for the media. Hence the expression often used to describe the media, "the window to the world". People feel that they are wise and independent individuals who do not need the influence of media to get through their daily lives. ...

• Word Count: 2756
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• Grade Level: High School

Popular Culture Popular culture is the culture that is adopted and appeals to large masses of people, normally the middle class citizens. Culture consists of the customs and civilizations of a particular group. Popular culture means that artefacts and styles of human expression develop from th...

• Word Count: 397
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Cultural Variations in styles of thinking Is it true that people from different cultures "think differently"? it seems clear that students from different cultures often bring different purposes to their thinking and learning. These different purposes produce different results, for example in the...

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On the last page of the novel Coyote attempts to get the story straight, and he begins the story all over again. ... However, through the messages raised in this novel, Thomas King certainly does his part to voice the on-going battle that Natives have been fighting for over two centuries. ...

• Word Count: 1156
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel Carnage and Culture written by Victor Davis Hanson whom is a military historian and professor at California State University gives a new perspective on why the West always wins their wars. ... His novel has been successfully used throughout time to educate the readers about this progressive period in warfare. ...

• Word Count: 1113
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A Passage to India "They didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices, no, not yet, and the sky said no, not there'- (Forster, 362). In E.M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, there is a clash between two cultures, England and India. Aziz, a respected Indian and Fielding, a liberal En...

• Word Count: 1057
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• Grade Level: High School

Taken out of its original context and having undergone a patriarchal-type adaptation, the novel adopted the receptional function of "a true story about the wonderful adventures of a foreigner". ... Functionally speaking, there was much in common between this English novel and the popular Bulgarian religious or moralistic tract of the period. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From Jules Verne came the novels Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, and Twenty thousand Leagues Under the Sea. ... Up through the early twentieth century, novels, even if they had fantasy elements, were still regarded as fairy tales. ... Their invention of "high fantasy " " a novel taking place in a highly developed fantasy world " and their characters' epic journeys brought a whole new side of seriousness to a genre that had been seriously lacking it. ... Some of these include The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; A Game of Thrones; and what is th...

• Word Count: 3873
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography