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The harsh realities of war force soldiers to undergo drastic personality transformations making them feel disconnected from their previous way of life. The war separates them from their past both physically and psychologically. In his novel All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses books, poplar trees, and butterflies to illustrate the life altering effects…

The Rise of Bureaucratic Authoritarianism in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil and Chile Economic Crisis The populist policies with which the Latin American countries of Argentina, Chile and Brazil had been experimenting during the decades leading up to the 1960’s held apparent benefits for the robust working class population that they contained (O’Donnell). While the working…

In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, suffering is anintegral part of every character’s role. However, the message that Dostoevskywants to present with the main character, Raskolnikov, is not one of theChristian idea of salvation through suffering. Rather, it appears to me, as ifthe author never lets his main character suffer mentally throughout…

Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janiero in 1947 and before his career as abest-selling author, he was a playwright, theater director, hippie, and popularsongwriter for some of Brazil’s leading pop artists. In 1986 he took apilgrimage along that Road of Santiago and this would be the center of theplot of the book, The…

Offred’s story was found by Professor’s Wade and Pieixoto on the site of what was once the city of Bangor, in what would have been the State of Maine, which was a prominent way-station on what Offred refers to as “The Underground Femaleroad”. The story was of spoken form, recorded on approximately thirty cassette tapes…

Finally the novel has many inappropriate themes and la nguages. However the reader of this novel can take the best lessons from it. So The Catcher in the Rye should be taught in high school classrooms. Throughout the novel Holden explains the transformation from a teenager to an adult, by the wrong choices Holden makes….

Racism will never be truly abolished from the world because it is a part of humanity that is instilled in us at a very young age, racism towards the “different” and the “other”. Society put a certain stereotype of each race into our minds and even if we onto act on these thoughts. In Ralph…

Melville uses many biblical allusions throughout the novella to relate Billy Budd to Jesus. Billy is symbolic of a Christ-like figure because of his destruction by evil and betrayal, fate and. Similar to Jesus, Billy was a fatalist who believed that life was planned out and all events were destined to occur. Lieutenant Ratcliffe was…

In The Catcher In The Rye, Salinger presents Holden Caulfield as someone who defends innocence in various ways: by safeguarding children, sacrificing his own innocence to assist others, and expressing his revulsion towards graffiti on walls. Holden is a determined individual who openly expresses his emotions. While initially it may not appear that he plays…

“The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger revolves around the life of Holden Caulfield, an anguished teenager who perceives his world as full of deceitful individuals. Seeking authenticity, Holden spends a few days residing in a New York hotel. Regrettably, he encounters nothing except for his isolation, letdowns, and the prevalence of fakeness….