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…Every book adaptation of an existing work has its own set of problems. Not only was Jane Smiley's 1991 novel a Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller with a large number of devoted fans, but the book A Thousand Acres was in turn self-conscious reworking…

…information from him was through exchanging his knowledge for tidbits from her childhood. Jane Gumb is an enigma during most of the book, and is an unseen antagonist except for brief periods when the author switches to his point of view to enlighten the reader…

…favorite authors are Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, and Robert Louis Stevenson. She has said that her novel about a white southern lawyer defending an innocent black man is not autobiographical. But her father was a lawyer, and the inspiration for the character…

…not understand how the average person can live by a code of professed morality and then actually act out completely different behavior. During a conversation, Holden learns that Stradlater’s date is Jane Gallagher, a girl whom he knows and likes. In the course…

…handle this alone, but there's no one to turn to." Back to the note of STD's (gross!!!!) okay, I'm gonna get serious... Anyway, my friend, John Doe, was sexually active, and because his sexual activities with Jane Roe he received the incurable condition…

…almost certainly fraudulent. Anne was soon replaced by Jane Seymour. Although Jane died during childbirth it was small price to pay for finally acquiring his long-awaited male heir, the future Edward VI. Henry's next three marriages occurred…

…Homepage, Roe verses Wade) These laws had caused the number of illegal abortions increase. These illegal abortions were unsafe, and could put their health at risk or even prove to be fatal. (Abortion Law Homepage, The Roe verses Wade) Jane Roe was a twenty-one…

…the phony adult society. Jane Gallagher and Allie, the younger brother of Holden who died at age 11, represent his everlasting symbols of goodness (Davis 317). A quote by Charles Kegel seems to adequately sum up the problems of Holden Caulfield: "Like Stephen…

…?” Downloaded from ENN.com, the Environmental News Network website. 22 September 1997 Johnson, Tim. “Battered by El Nino, South American Sea Lions and Seals Succumb to Hunger” The Miami Herald 28 July 1998 Kay, Jane. “El Nino Killing Seal Pups.” San…

…tribute to his character that he largely succeeded in doing so (Holland 5). Oscar Wilde was the second son of the famous eye surgeon William Robert Wilde and Jane Frances Wilde, more commonly known by her literary name as Speranza. Jane was noted…