Cloudstreet illustrates the role of culture in making people feel psychologically and emotionally at home. ... " Tim Winton's Post-Colonial novel Cloudstreet adopts some techniques to illustrate the role of culture in making people feel psychologically and emotionally at home. ... By adopting the modern technique 'stream of consciousness,' Winton further illustrates the vitality of culture as a role in influencing the characters' well-being. ... " Thus, Winton illustrates that feeling belonged and 'at home' is dependent upon the specific culture ...

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Consider the different dreams throughout the novel and decide what functional role they fulfill. Raskolnikov dreams often in the novel, and the author indubitably implements his dreams to play a specific role. ... Religion plays an ironic role in Crime and Punishment, and many Christian themes appear within the novel (i.e., driver who whips Raskolnikov). ... What role does suffering have in the characters and in the novel? ... The role of suffering in Crime and Punishment ties in with Christianity and its themes that are incorporated into the novel. ...

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Her role as the link between the white Americans and the Japanese is reinforced by aspects of the novel, such as her appointment of strawberry queen; a role of linkage between the two cultures. ... Hatsue, as Kabuo's wife, furthers her important role as a cultural bridge through Ishmael's struggles. ... Etta Heine, relative to the other characters plays a minor role; yet her minor role is that of the personification of the major theme of prejudice throughout the book. ...

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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Morrison's Beloved are similarly in the fact that both portray how community plays a key role in a families functionality in society. ... Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, while dealing with a situation almost polar opposite to Beloved, follows the same pattern of community playing a role in a family's functionality. ... The residents of 124 relied solely on themselves to fix their imperfections, but as Denver began to transition into the normal societal role for a girl her age, she was treated exponentially better and became accepted by society. ......

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However, the articles of clothing that are mentioned in the books do play a vital role in illustrating the symbolical meanings that help explain the personalities of the characters introduced in the books. ... Besides clothing, accessories also play a vital role in revealing the personalities of the characters in the novels. ... He clearly has the money to buy the material and this shows that when he wants something specific he gets it and money usually plays an important role in his affairs. ...

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Characterization is a literary element used by the author to present qualities of characters in a literary piece, the purpose of characterization is to make characters credible and make them suitable for the role they play in the work. ...

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Historically, many groups of people have been subjected to much scrutiny or lack of acceptance from society. Acceptance in current society, sadly, is often based on gender, ethnicity, social class, or sexual preference. In "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy," by Mabel Maney, the characters exist in a...

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Social constraints on women during the nineteenth-century play an important role in this novel. ... Meg and Beth both conform to society's expectations of the roles women should play, while Amy and Jo attempt initially to unchain themselves from these constraints in order to develop their individuality. ... Little Women, by teaching young girls the lessons of maturing into women, and the joys and problems that come along with such a process, succeeds in playing a noteworthy role within children's literature. ...

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Arbitrary discipline has been in order upon the ship nullifying the chance of mutiny; therefore it is necessary that Captain Vere fulfills his role as captain and continue with standard proceedings. ...

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An ancient theme and major characteristic of mankind is "Revenge." As long as man has inhabited the earth, retribution has played the role of a recurring vice for all. As a chief part of society, as well as a dominating motif in literature, people consistently seek revenge. Sustained from the beg...

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In his noted work, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street, Herman Melville portrays the deranged character and namesake of the novel, as a blatant critique of nineteenth century America. In spite of his seemingly antagonistic role in the novel, Bartleby is really a victim of his surroundings...

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Jane is hurting at this point in her life because she realizes she is limited in her role as a woman. ... This seems like a political move by Bronte to round up the troops and get the female readers to think about the world around them and how happy they are with their roles in society. ...

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21. Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. Write an essay in which you analyze the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid plot summary. In A Portrait of the Artist a...

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Aphra Behn is a complicated figure within English theatrical history. As the first woman in England to classify herself as a professional writer and playwright, she wrote to support herself and to prove a point during a time when women were deemed subordinate to men. She was a commoner among royals...

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Relationship between Phineas and Gene. A surrealistic environment, which the boys of Devon lived in, reflected Gene and Finny's abstract and hopeless "friendship". By approaching the piece of writing with an almost surgical technique, disserting its parts, eliminating the unneeded, and adding th...

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The role of different types of danger drives humanity to react in a particular way, and in the two apocalyptic novels, On the Beach by Nevil Shute and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main characters live out their last days after a global nuclear war and an unexplained apocalyptic event respectively with unique reactions to the threats. ... Upholding his role as a faithful husband and father till the very end, Dwight informs Moira about his loyalty to his family and expresses that his wife, Sharon, "will want to meet [Moira]" (256). ...

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"The Monk" is a horror-gothic novel written in 1796 by Matthew Gregory Lewis, a man who came from a somewhat scandalous background which influenced his work as an author later in life. Lewis's mother, Frances, left his father for a lover and Frances had to leave her children as a consequence of the ...

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Therefore, Hawthorne's depiction evidences an evolution in character with this simile referring to his searching in the darkness, adhering a menacing and evil characteristic to his traits as a character, giving a tailspin to his role in the novel. ...

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Children Should be Required to Read Weetzie Bat The quality of education for children in the United States has been questioned for many years. Educating children using novels about realistic portrayals of life broadens the minds of children by exploring diverse views of lifestyles to help eac...

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Moses allows us to understand his perception that Claudia's role as a storyteller is supported by the blues lyrics that punctuate the narrative at critical points, suggesting a folk knowledge mood. ... In an attempt to discover how Morrison influences the reader to feel and understand the cultural perspective of African Americans growing up in the Great Depression, Khayati explores the argument that Morrison is concerned with things unsaid or "unsayable" in the narratives of struggle and often is offering a new kind of cultural positioning that is more attentive to black women a...

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The new dialogical form of the novel of the XX century assumes belittling of the "all-knowing" epic author up to a role of the story-teller alongside with an eminence of the hero up to a role of the objective author. ...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. Good! Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allende's novels and I have to admit that in the beginning I had to struggle with the stereotype of "romantic pulp novels- to get myself through the first twenty-five - thirty pages (Wilson). I think that a reader, in this case me, starts to appreciate a novel as soon as he or she finds something i...

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ENGLISH ESSAY- The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender by Marele Day. In a search for clues to the mystery of Mark Bannister's death, Claudia Valentine is drawn into Harry Lavenders web of corruption and the world of organised crime behind Sydney's established image. Marele Days choice to take the tr...

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Fydor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment takes the reader through the twisted mind of man who has committed a heinous crime and is living with the external and internal repercussions. Dostoevsky utilizes other characters in order to fully develop the complex picture of his central character Raskolni...

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The thinking that was being questioned by the Gothic novel was Augustanism; and without some understanding of Augustan principles and their role in eighteenth-century thought it is difficult to understand the purposes of the Gothic revival, either in terms of history or in terms of the way in which it offered a new conception of the relations between man, nature and a supreme being. ...

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