... education in general, led to profound changes in the reading public. The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. By the time of the First World War there was a whole new ... in novels like The Time Machine (1895), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). Yet, though radical in his social vision – Ann...

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... Through written conversation, the novel deals with many of the social attitudes and ideas which prevailed during the early 20's. Historical facts are cleverly infused into the body of the novel that gives the reader an authentic and classic impression of the story. A clear view of the discrimination that existed in that time period against non-whites and women was evident by the time the conclusion of the book was reached. ... For instance, a conversation takes place between characters in the novel in which civilization is said to ... that exciting motion pictures are made of, It was r...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is Nationalism. Nationalism is what gets Paul and the others to join the army. It tricks them into thinking the war is great and everything the war really is not. The several themes in this book are relevant to what the other was trying to show all of his readers. Some of the new technology that they got were tanks, machine guns, chemical gas, and trench warfare. These ... three were also the most dangerous. The new technology led to even more deaths, some of which were their own. It made fighting the war a lot easier but in the end led to more tragedies then wins. Early on in ... ;Arch...

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... decided to change his ways. He became a member of the Church of Christ in Christian Union and was soon teaching Sunday school classes and leading the choir. In addition, the Church of Christ in Christian Union preached a strict moral code which forbade drinking, dancing, movies, swimming, swearing, popular literature, and moral injunctions against violence and war. York gladly ... and Marbache. On September 12th, the Division engaged the enemy for the first time in the St. Mihiel campaign. Alvin's unit, 328th Inf, in connection with the attack of the 90th Div against the Bois-le-Pretre, ...

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... after being gassed and wounded in 1917. He died in 1937 in a mental hospital where he had continued to write "war poetry" thinking the war was still going on.(Fussell 74) Gurney's poetry wasn't the only literature influenced by shell shock. In his novel, "Regeneration", Pat Barker tells the story of a doctor in a mental hospital whose job was to cure victims of shell-shock ... was employed on thousand of them - that therapy was lobotomy. Unable to calm or relieve their agitated and difficult patients, and unwilling to devote the time to "talk therapy", doctors experimented with severing...

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... still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. Both the novel All Quiet On the Western Front and the poem "The Man He Killed" help to portray the image of the effects and feelings of warfare. In the novel All Quiet On the Western Front, Remarque does an impeccable job conveying the torturous misfortunes of war. Through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a young man shipped ... killed." He then realizes that he is no longer an individual man, but a trained killing machine. At first, he does not understand exactly what he will be doing at the front lin...

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• Grade Level: High School

... symbolic transformation into a huge, repulsive, fatally wounded insect. In the Penal Colony (1919) is a parable of a torture machine and its operators and victims---equally applicable to a person's inner sense of law, guilt, and retribution and to the age of World War I. The Country Doctor (1919) was another collection of short prose. At the time of his death Kafka was also preparing A Hunger Artist (1924), ... four stories centering on the artist's inability either to negate or come ... to terms with life in the human community." Franz Kafka's writings can be best described as nightma...

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... death, in the form of suicide, his father is right there to comfort him. From this we are able to see how Nick has his father to, physically and mentally, "lean" on, much like Hemingway did (Shaw 11). Hemingway's love for his father was not always so positive though, and he often expressed his feelings about his situation though his literature. When ... Hemmingway was young, his father persuaded him to have his tonsils removed by a friend, Dr. Wesley Peck. Even though it was Dr. Peck who performed the painful operation, Hemingway "always held it against his father for taking out his ton...

• Word Count: 2020
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• Grade Level: High School