THE FOXIntroduction This paper aims at analyzing the short novel The Fox written by David Herbert Lawrence. The point from the short novel that will be analyzed is concerning Henry's will of marrying March. The two hypotheses formulated are: Henry was interested in the farm and in March's capture, l...

Stephen King is one of the most influential authors of today. His award-winning novels and short stories are known world -wide. His many awards and nominations have created a space for him in the literary world. King is a true ¡§Horror King¡, for his books, turned movies, have scared millions...

Innocence, Compassion, and some 'Crazy' Cliff A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of ...

The use of literature as a learning catalyst is not a new approach.As early as 1993, researchers Kathy Short and Junardi Armstrong pointed outthat literature should be used as more than just a way to get facts.Rather, literature could be "an integral part of children's inquiry andmeaning const...

The modern society, influenced by both political corruption and moral scrutiny, will eternally exist as long as we continue to ignore its imperfection. However, two people who don't accede to the flaws of our society are Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Kate Chopin. In both their literature, we ...

William Faulkner: His Life and Achievements William Faulkner is viewed by many as America's greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi where he lived a life filled with good times and bad times. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short ...

Paul Bäumer, the narrator and protagonist in All Quiet on the Western Front, is a character who develops extensively within the course of the novel. As a young man, he is persuaded to join the German Army during World War I. This three year ordeal is marked by Paul's short, but tragic trek into adu...

William Faulkner's novel, As I Lay Dying is the story of one family's experiences of the death of their mother and wife, Addie Bundren, and the experiences the family members go through in an attempt to fulfill what they think is a simple wish she had for her funeral arrangements. Addie ...

David Copperfield is regarded as one of Charles Dickens's best novels (Long 495). In his life he completed fourteen novels, and an unknown number of essays, short stories, and sketches. During his day, he appealed to all levels of society, but especially the growing middle class of England (...

Herman Melville, an American author best known today for his novel Moby Dick, was actually more popular during his lifetime for some of his other works. In 1837, at the age of eighteen, Melville signed as a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was to sail from his Massachusetts home to Liverpool,...

Using his unique style and structure, Joseph Heller masterfully manages to interlay humor and terror, comedy and tragedy and reveals the perversions of the human character and of society gone mad. The first stroke of Heller\'s deft touch is his presentation of outrageous characters, acting outrageo...

There is a single problem common to Uncle Tom's Cabin and All Quiet on the Western Front, despite the works' having been created in different centuries on different continents and nominally about different subjects. The single, common problem is this: the valuation of one group of human be...

Carson McCullers Having lived a difficult life made Carson McCullers a very strong minded person. Born into a highly respectable family with moderate means, she received an opportunity to play the piano at a very young age. McCullers was the oldest of three children that were born to highly regar...

"Waiting for time" by Bernice Morgan is a very interesting novel. It is the sequel to Bernice Morgan's "Random Passage". In "Waiting for Time" Bernice Morgan continues the saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. She has further developed the characters into more ma...

The Deft Touch of Catch 22: Heller's Harmonious Unison of Comedy and Tragedy Since the dawn of literature and drama, comedy and tragedy have always been partitioned into separate genres. Certainly most tragedies had comedic moments, and even the zaniest comedies were at times serious. Howeve...

Ray Bradbury is an accomplished American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet. His writing style is like none other. Some say he is a science fiction writer; however, others argue that he merely uses the far-out setting to criticize racism, censorship, technolog...

Seeking and expressing the bare truth is often more difficult than writing stories of fiction. This truth can be harsher to the reader than works of fiction; it can make an author\'s desire to reveal the essence of society through characters the reader relates to risky and unpopular. As a naturalist...

Accepting Differences The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee and the short story, "Chrysanthemums," by John Steinbeck, deal with male and female differences between characters. The characters of these stories experience tensions and complexities with dominance, gender, a...

It's Just Syrup and Water There is a grand war going on in today's world that many of us are unaware of, but are affected by everyday. This war takes place at home, on the highways, in magazines, and in stores. It is the war of marketing. Just about every company t...

Subject Jemima J by Jane Green is a classic story of ugly ducklings and swans for the Internet age. Jemima Jones is an employee at the Kilburn Herald, a small London newspaper. As she eats her way through her disappointments, her model thin, fly-by-night flat mates treat her like a maid. Two peo...

The meaning of the character of Beloved in Toni Morrison's Beloved The character of Beloved in the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison, is symbolic of several important ideas that are essential to a complete understanding of the novel. In the context of the story itself, Beloved is a specter t...

Margaret Atwood: 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' (1994) BIOGRAPHY • Born in Ottawa, Ontario, 1939 • Studied at the University of Toronto, then took her masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962 • Canada's most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes shor...

Twentieth century American literature illustrates the emergence of stories and characters that reflect real lifeâ€"that is, a respite from romantic or idealistic notions of people's lives, as depicted in literary works. In Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," readers are ...

Confronted With Adversity Difficult situations arise almost daily in the lives of most individuals. When confronted with adversity, individuals are forced to deal with the circumstances in the best way they know how. People can reach a point where they can no longer deal with the effects of a...

In the book titled Illumination Night, Alice Hoffman has clearly defined each character, attributing to them the most unique and distinctive traits, but giving enough 'elbow room' for parallelism between them. As the characters struggle with family relationships, social acceptance, restriction and ...