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… "Hills Like White Elephants" leads to simple understandings as well as profound questions. Hemingway uses a very pure form of objective view point to depict a conversation between a couple. His use of objective view point causes the reader…

… a theme; this theme helps to centralize the story and give it purpose. Written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Son from America", centers on the pleasures of ignorance. Niel Bissoondath makes the "crisis" in mid-life crisis the crux of his story,…

… of mankind's future that has succumbed to an extremely darwinistic evolution. We become familiarized with the Time Traveler, the book's main character, by means of a fictitious author who also remains nameless throughout the text. The reader receives…

… what country they are from, or what gender they are, they have all at one time or another loved something. Love is considered to be the language of the heart. Lydia Maria Child once said, "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows…

… destination." Authors were using the idea of a journey before Homer wrote the Odyssey. This literary tradition has continued to the present. Two authors that embrace this idea are Voltaire and Sinclair Lewis. In their books Candide and Arrowsmith respect…

… 2 A definition of gender and feminism......................................2 3 The Bloody Chamber and its fairy tales.....................................2 4 The comparison of the fairy tales The Tiger's Bride and…

… the gun in the Nazi prison camps, Elie Wiesel had managed to survive the systematic slaughter of his fellow Jews. In his book Night, Elie Wiesel tells us of the relentless hunger and strife he, and his fellow Jewish brethren, experienced in order to…

… into the world of terrorism, through the eyes of an eighteen year old man, Elisha. Previously, having survived hell in the Holocaust, Elisha now finds himself as a freshly recruited Terrorist in the holy land of Palestine. However, Elisha finds that…

… plays, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Romeo and Juliet". These parallels concern themes and prototypical Shakespearian character types. Both plays have a distinct pair of 'lovers', Hermia and Lysander, and Romeo and Juliet, respectively.…

… dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries…