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Dominance and the Quest for Self in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’ and Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ Alice Walker’s Everyday Use” and Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” feature characters of different genders who strive to attain a sense of identity and individuality. In “Everyday Use,” Dee attempts to carve out her own place…

            Although Iola Leroy heads in one general direction down two roads it seems that it is most properly interpreted as having only one purpose.  That is to say that Frances Harper’s book speaks plainly about progress; its two roads to that direction are individual and social progress.  That is where this fork in the…

In the novel Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli taking place not even a year apart from the first novel Stargirl also by Jerry Spinelli is written out to be the world‘s longest letter by Stargirl. This book was all of the many diary entries Stargirl wrote in the course of a year or a little…

Throughout the novel Duddy tries to go person who deserves regard. He wants to turn out everyone that he can go a “somebody” and believes he can do Max and Simcha proud of him. Duddy Kravitz grew up without much support from his household: his female parent Minnie died. when he was about six old…

    To the Lighthouse written in 1927 by Virginia Woolf is a perfect example of her experimental style of writing.   She uses (overuses) semicolons, dashes, parenthesis to create “stream of consciousness” writing technique that can be found in many of her novels.  This approach demonstrates for the reader the randomness of human thought.   In the…

4 Main Characters of the Story: Fr. Augusto Saenz (Gus) – The old priest who is an expert in autopsy and was the mentor of Fr. Jerome Lucero. He was asked by the Director to help him in dealing with the murder case in Payatas. Fr. Jerome Lucero – The companion of Fr. Saenz in…

Graphic novels have become a new art form in the sense that a lot of authors are using this form of writing to get their points across. Using images to describe what is going on instead of having to use other forms of literary devices and figures of speech. Throughout time we have seen the…

Characters in Rizal’s novels 1. Crisostomo Ibarra – In the Noli, he was introduced as a young and wealthy Filipino who had just returned to San Diego after several years of successful study in Europe. 2. Simoun Ibarra – The rich jeweler in the novel El Filibusterismo 3. Capitan Tiago – At the beginning of…

Q: How does R.L. Stevenson create fear and suspense in the novel ” The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde? “Each of us has heaven and hell in him”(Oscar Wilde). The book ‘The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde’ is a tale concerning the duplicity of human nature. Written by Robert…

Pip when we first see him in the book is made out to be a small, feeble eleven-year old boy who is an orphan and lives with his elder sister, Mrs. Gargery. He spends some of his time around his dead mother and numerous brothers in the graveyard. As he is an orphan, his elder…