During the time period that this novel was written the gothic novel was a main piece of literature that was read. ... He also suggests that these books are mindless; they include no effort or thinking to read. ... She brings into the novel two types of reading, books and letters, and reading people. ... The characterization may be weak in some areas, but it does allow us to see the life of people two hundred years ago. ... They lived their life through this romantic framework in their head and did not stray from it. ...

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This left little time for her to spend with her first born, James. ... During the time that his mother spent at work, James took care of his brothers and sisters . ... The books taught him that his problems were not unique. ... During the time he spent there, Baldwin wrote and published many of his best works. ... Along with his numerous books, Baldwin was one of the few black authors to have more than one of his plays produced on Broadway. ...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely coul...

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During her time at Howard University, she was a member of the theater company that presented plays about the lives of African Americans. ... While serving as a publisher, she published books by several African American writers. She also enjoyed lecturing across the country, teaching part-time, and writing many novels ("Toni Morrison Biography"). ... As you can see, Morrison was an incredible woman that achieved so much, especially for being an African American in that time period. ... Frequently using childhood memories to help start writing, Morrison's real-life world is often...

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That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... The material is divided into three books, each with three chapters. ... The book is crowded with observations on American social life in the l920's. ... The characters hurry back to life as usual with all its money and booze. ... "If he did not marry her his life would be a feeble parody on his own adolescence." ...

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Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that dep...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two years later, Penguin Books Canada published a collection of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag, which appeared in 1989 in the United States as Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. ... Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" ... As far as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that dep...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Humour is employed in a variety of ways in Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Heller and De Bernieres uses the same background theme; However, though contrasts are apparent in their portrayal of war, their use of humour is employed differently also. In Catch-22, the humour is interwoven t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate