The white doctors and the white government officials played important but minor roles in the novel. ... These white people served as the antagonists in the novel because they were in conflict with Ayah and brought a great deal of sadness into her life. ... While an exact location was not named in the novel, the Navajo people lived in the states of New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, and it can be assumed that the story took place in this region of the United States. ... Alliteration was used many times in the novel, especially when describing the setting. ...

• Word Count: 1994
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Although Faulkner wrote many novels such as Absalom Absalom and The Sound and the Fury, his intuition into the lives of people around him is clearly seen in his shorter stories. ... He gained more popularity with his short stories and novels throughout the early 20th century until he received the Noble Prize for Literature in 1952 (Timeline.) During his lifetime, Faulkner, won awards, such as the Legion of Honor for his short stories as well as his novels (timeline.) ...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Structurally, both novels are very different despite setting their protagonists on a journey of self-discovery that takes them through the American Southwest using memory flashbacks and Native American Mythology. ... She didn't really let Tayo learn the stories and ways of the Community of "the people" (as Silko refers to them throughout the novel). ... Both novels involve their protagonists doing battle to save their respective communities. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first novel published by him was The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California Bandit in 1854. ... In the 1920's the Native American authors started turning to the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The novel begins in the countryside where Stephen Kumalo lives a quiet life as a priest. ... His return home completes the circular structure of the novel. ... The novel is a cry for all to acknowledge that human beings are connected and in order to have success, everyone must be united. ...

• Word Count: 1586
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In 2007 he published a young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This novel is a reflection of his personal experience growing up on the Reservation. ... He has written poetry, novels, screenplays, and most notably short stories. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the end of the novel, the young mother, Waterlily, gives birth to her daughter "Mitawa ("My Own "). ... It mirrors in many ways the themes of another internationally acclaimed novel "Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. ... These meticulously detailed anthropological observations read like a novel. ...

• Word Count: 1720
• Approx Pages: 7

In the novel "Changes in the Land", written by William Cronon, a collection of essays would be organized into a compilation of explanations and subjective reasoning to assist in a better understanding of how the two separate ways of living had such different effects on each other and the New England ecosystems. ... By reading and analyzing the novel, CHANGES of the LAND, written by William Cronon, we are able to gain greater insight and a better understanding as to why the two groups utilized the New England Ecosystems so differently. ...

• Word Count: 1323
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

The Native Americans" Genocide In the novel, The Lone Ranger Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (LRT), Sherman Alexie not only depicted the struggles of the Native American Indians on a Spokane Indian Reservation, but he also tried to weave in their harsh past and unpredictable future. ... Most of these characteristics of genocide are present in the novel LRT. ...

• Word Count: 2237
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In Joyce Appleby's Inheriting the Revolution, she discusses the lives of Americans after the American Revolution is over and when their new lives begins. She points out many different aspects of the Americans lives. Appleby shows how the Americans changed and developed over the years by using real...

• Word Count: 1352
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the narrative style of a novel rather than a historical record, Demos tells the story of Eunice Williams, a captured daughter of honored minister John Williams, to turn the worlds of master and captive upside down. ...

• Word Count: 1326
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Captivity narratives were popular with readers in both American and the European communities. Captivity narratives of Americans relate the experiences of whites enslaved by Native Americans and Africans enslaved by Americans. Two widely read captivity narratives are The Interesting Narrative of the ...

• Word Count: 1490
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As time passes there are endless diseases and illnesses that our discovered, incurable, and that trouble our society. In the book The Broken Cord there are many contemporary issues that are raised through the lives of the characters. We learn of the disease Fetal Alcohol Syndrome through one of th...

• Word Count: 1555
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The depiction of Christopher Columbus in the national media today is that of a charismatic leader and founder of the New World. According to Miller, it should be noted that Leif Erikson and his Viking comrades arrived in America some 500 years before Christopher Columbus even prepared for his voyage...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Founding Brothers" by Joseph J. Ellis is a book documenting the "historical drama" (pg. 3) that occurred during the formation and unification of the United States of America. This novel displays the conflicts that infant, post-revolutionary America had to face when dealing with foreign policy, po...

• Word Count: 1803
• Approx Pages: 7

In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he proves that a uniquely American culture was forged not from the fire of the Revolution, but instead from the dynamic changes that occurred during this often-overlooked period. Through detailed analyses of changes in demographics, the economy, politics, and religion, Butler explains the origins of Am...

• Word Count: 2312
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate