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… Within The characters in Gullivers Travels and Robinson Crusoe are portrayed as resembling trained soldiers, being capable of clear thought during tense and troubled times. This quality possessed within Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver is a result of…

… 451 is a futuristic novel that concentrates on the forbidden act of reading, for this may encourage thinking. Guy Montag, the main character, is a fireman. Today, we translate the word "fireman" as someone who extinguishes fire, but in…

… Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” is an example of how an author can incorporate physical, emotional, and intellectual responses of the characters under social pressures. The characters, Jack Potter and Scratchy Wilson, as well as the Negro porter and…

… 1, 1919, may not have written many novels in which he is recognized for. Although, he did write one novel, which brought him fame. In many of Salinger's short stories and especially his most well-known novel he writes about how the main character…

… Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970. Pp. xv+447). Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is a boring title for such an extraordinary book. This is my second time reading this book. I began reading this book again just to refresh my memory, but once I started…

… Heathcliff Wuthering Heights, the creation of Emily Jane Bronte, depicts not a fantasy realm or the depths of hell. Rather, the novels focuses on two main characters^ battle with the restrictions of Victorian Society. Societal pressures and…

… of high school students because the story includes many issues people deal with in their own life and that they can associate with. Scout, the narrator, grows up and matures throughout the story just as the readers have through their lives.…

… grew up in the middle of London. Since Blake lived in a bad part of the neighborhood, he was poorly educated. Around the age of ten his father had enough money to send him to drawing school and then at fourteen he became an engraver. Blake realized…

… been read and enjoyed by successive generations. It has been passed down from generation to generation. Another definition of classic literature is that it has been written by an outstanding and famous author. My book (The adventures of Tom Sawyer…

… and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. His position is symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Hansberry stated in her meeting with Robert Kennedy…"the first thing that must be achieved…