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… of Jewish people solely on Mordechai Richler's "Son of a Smaller Hero", I would probably start wearing a Swastika on my arm and pledging my allegiance to the fuehrer. Richler characterizes Jews as a people who have an enormous lust for money,…

… and Happy?," asserts that society is responsible, rather than the actual weight of the people, for the unhappiness and depression of the obese. With this in mind, he depicts what the world would be like if everyone was fat, while fantasizing of…

… novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee employs many literary strategies to perfect her prose. These said methods are difficult to categorize, though it is simplest to divide her methods into three categories, each with their own branching sub-topics.…

… Foretold, by Gabriel García Marques, is the foretold murder of a twenty-one year old aristocrat, Santiago Nasar, by the Vicario brothers in legitimate defense of their sister's honor. The long range of effects of this murder on the citizens of the…

… features a final chapter that was omitted from the original English edition against the author's preference. Anthony Burgess, the novel's author, provided for the new edition an introduction to explain not only the significance of the twenty-first…

… Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird, the protagonists are subjected to a societal alienation. However, Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis, and the boy in The Painted Bird, cope with this alienation through different tactics, and as a result, their success…

… many reasons and in many ways. Kurtz's failure is especially tragic because he once had the potential for great success. He was an eloquent, powerful, and persuasive speaker who at one point was adored by all the inhabitants of the heart of darkness,…

… since the world was made" (Jewett 69). A young girl, Sylvia, lived in a city environment for the first eight years of her life. Then, Sylvia came to live with her grandmother in the country, where the little girl came alive and became one…

… the type of human behavior that is evident throughout the novel, Ordinary People, by Judith Guest. Simply, this type of motivation, as defined by Webster, is "a need or desire that causes a person to act." Behavior reflects many influences besides…

… for Emily", the character Emily is one that is often portrayed by women. Women tend to get more easily attached to people and things in general than men do. Women want to feel secure, be comforted, and have someone to tell them that, "Everything…