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Death is one of the main reoccurring themes in the book The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ida Pruitt. Death is a catalyst for change, the focus of familial ritual, the result of the Japanese occupation, and the outcome of diseases that had no cure. The consequences of death provide answers to the…

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss is a children’s book about greed and destruction that unfolds in the forest of Truffula Trees. While riding his wagon through the country, the Once-ler discovers this captivating woodland one day. In earlier times, when the grass was green, the pond was wet, and the clouds were clean, I arrived…

“What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would’ve done it, too, if I’d been sure somebody d cover me up as soon as I landed”. J. D. Slinger does not start out the novel Catcher in the Rye with this quote, because taken out…

Dexter Morgan and Sherlock Holmes, both being fictional characters in crime stories, share many characteristics even though they lead extremely different lifestyles. Dexter Morgan is a blood spatter analysis in Miami during his public life, but in his private life he is a schizophrenic serial killer.  Sherlock Holmes is a very well known consulting detective…

He did extraordinary well in the war. He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command Of the divisional machine guns. After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead. He was…

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about a society under threat, the Commander is the head of a household in the Republic of Gilead. He is an older man who is married but has no children. Children are very important in Gilead and the lack of them is the main reason the existing regime has occurred….

An Explication of Sharon Olds’ Poem “Feared Drowned.” Fear is an amazing emotion, in that it has both psychological as well as physiological effects on the human body. In instances of extreme fear, the mind is able to function in a way that is detached and connected to the event simultaneously. In “Feared Drowned,” Sharon…

This poem expresses the feelings of the “winning” countries before, during and after the Second World War and the anticipation which the end of the war built. Born in 1935, in the town of Malden, in Victoria; Gallagher went through the 2nd World War as a child, and as a exult, experienced many adversities that…

Alienation is a common theme in all writing; however, in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, never has alienation been so vividly accounted. The Scarlet Letter is a story about Hester Prone, a woman who commits adultery against her husband named Roger Chlorinating, with the local reverend named Arthur Timescale; the result Is a strange…

Analysis of the James Joyce’s ‘Araby’ and William Faulkner’s ‘Barn burning’ using details from the authors’ biography INTRODUCTION             The works of James Joyce and William Faulkner are considered to be among the greatest of the modernist tradition. In this paper, the lives of these two authors will be used in the analysis of one…