... two characters and their relation to their surroundings, the importance of nationality being prevalent in identity is realized. Certain structures give credit to the presence of national identity in the novels. Throughout In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje illustrates the construction of the Bloor Street Viaduct, a bridge connecting east and west Toronto. The midnight before its grand opening to ... perceived self-identification. Through recognition of structures as a powerful force in the realization of identity, Ondaatje places emphasis on ethnicity in context to the nature of identity. C...

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... Guterson uses this to represent the struggle of morality, and it's clash with prejudice. This struggle against prejudice is a primary element in both Snow Falling on Cedars, and other great novels of cultural influence, such as To Kill a Mockingbird. Ishmael's job as a news reporter serves as a silent metaphor for righteousness through its inherent requirement of impartiality and righteousness. Etta Heine, ... serve as an impacting lesson in learning from our history, and preventing the reoccurrence of unfair treatment of others different from ourselves. The sober and bleak mood portra...

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... development of West Indian fiction in the 1950s and 1960s. Within recent years his work has been critically examined by scholars from several countries. To date he has published ten novels and written two screenplays, numerous short stories, several books of fiction for children, and many plays for radio and television. But even if he had written nothing else, A Brighter Sun ... " the English reader, whom he considers to be ignorant of the Caribbean. Above all, Selvon's work is read and applauded for its scintillating humour, which fills the pages of his novels and short stories, even wh...

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... " dominated American popular culture, with everyone trying to prove that they were against Communism. The influence that the Cold War had on American popular culture is evident through the popular novels at the time, which usually contained violence towards Communists and portrayed Americans as tough and righteous. Secondly, the Cold War had drastic affects Hollywood largely due to the fact that ... fictional bestsellers list of the 1950s, with six of them making the top ten. Historian Stephen Whitfield claims that it was "the detective's hairy-chested heroics would have made such novels...

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... a tool to promote the anti-fascist movement and his first novel Fontamara, for which he is still best known, is no exception. Silone's novels had the purpose of arousing the reader from the lethargy induced by fascist propaganda to a critical awareness of conditions around him. Giorgio Bassani's way of ... much less detailed way and keeps strictly to the anti-Fascist message with a very bitter attitude to those that he sees as evil. The two novels are very different from each other in location, time and social class, but they both have traits of the individual and collective within their...

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... between the past and the present, and between Winnie and Pearl. The theme of the gap between the first generation and second generation of immigrants appear frequently in Tan's other novels The Joy Luck Club, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter because it reflects her own life of misunderstandings between her and her mother. The reason for Tan's talent ... 's Wife, Tan, like Pearl, learned to accept the cultural mixture and how the beauty of living in two cultures allowed them to acquire the benefits of understanding. Hence, through her novels, Amy Tan offers the rea...

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... community in the state of Israel, itself largely a byproduct of the Holocaust, now serves as a focal point for much of this energy. A vast literature consisting of histories, diaries, memoirs, poetry, novels, and prayers has emerged in an effort to understand the Holocaust in terms of its religious and secular implications. The secular materials attempt to explain how it happened and the ... ...

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... a world of growing desolation, although after his conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, he came to hope cautiously for humanity's salvation 16. Franz Kafka - (1883-1924); German novelist; in several of his novels and short stories he portrays helpless individuals crushed by inexplicably hostile forces 17. George Orwell - (1903-1950); English; wrote 1984, novel about the future of society, with every person's life ... ...

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... of his ancestral traditions. His understanding of the world grows stronger by virtue of his openness to all of them. Bless Me, Ultima is one of the best-known Chicano novels. Anaya dramatizes Chicano identity by weaving his story out of its mixed cultural heritage. The violent clash between Spanish conquistadors and indigenous peoples produced the folklore represented in Bless Me ... ...

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The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque has revealed the horrifying and devastating effects of war on humanity. Instead of presenting, like many other novels did before, the glorifying and heroic aspects of war, Remarque showed how innocent and young soldiers became victims of a terror. In addition, Remarque critiqued the negative role of authority, patriotism ... ...

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... the time had no intention of entangling British money in any form of a long battle, which would also go to weaken its military prowess. However, growth in nationalism, popularized by novels that depicted Germany as a brutal enemy, made their intervention and ultimate fight against Germany possible. Their need for reserves, in order to perform their respective plans, such as the German ... ...

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