Novels Essay Samples

A Farewell to Arms   Love and
A Farewell to Arms Love and
Novels · 870 words
  • A Farewell to Arms - Love and John Stubbs' essay is an examination of the defense which he believes Henry and Catherine use to protect themselves from the discovery of their insignificance and "powerlessness...in a world indifferent to their well being..." He asserts that "role-playing" by the...


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A Domestic Dilemma by Carson M
A Domestic Dilemma by Carson M
Novels · 511 words
  • Carson McCuller's story 'A Domestic Dilemma' depicts a family torn by both compassion and suffering. Martin, a loving and understanding husband must deal with his family's problems. Martin's wife, Emily, distraught by her new environment, initiates her family's...


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A River Runs Through It by Nor
A River Runs Through It by Nor
Novels · 1,418 words
  • Norman Mclean's A River Runs Through It explores many feelings and experiences of one 'turn of the century' family in Missoula, Montana. In both the movie, directed by Robert Redford, and the original work of fiction we follow the Mcleans through their joys and...


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A Raisin In The Sun
A Raisin In The Sun
Novels · 848 words
  • By: John Christo "A Raisin in the Sun" "A Raisin in the Sun" was written by Lorraine Hansberry. It has won her an award in 1959, at age 29, the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the black playwright to win the Best Play of the Year Award of the New York Drama...


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A Portrait of the Artist as a
A Portrait of the Artist as a
Novels · 1,165 words
  • Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though reared in a Catholic school,...


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A separate peace
A separate peace
Novels · 768 words
  • A Separate Peace Topic A The theme suggested in the closing paragraph of the novel A Separate Peace is that people create their own enemy and then they defend themselves laboriously and obsessively against their imaginary enemy. They develop a particular frame of mind...


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Bill budd
Bill budd
Novels · 477 words
  • Herman Melville's Billy Budd is a story about true goodness. It entails the conflict of good and evil, but more than that it portrays innocence in its? most purest form. Innocence is an exploitable commodity. While this is universally recognized, there are many different ways...


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A Picture of Dorian Gray by Os
A Picture of Dorian Gray by Os
Novels · 869 words
  • Oscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil's life change drastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and express too much of himself in it, which, in Wilde's mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believes that the...


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A separate peace, symbolism wi
A separate peace, symbolism wi
Novels · 543 words
  • John Knowles uses the literary element of symbolism in his novel, A Separate Peace. Gene, a student at the Devon Prep School in New Hampshire, tries to understand the love, hate, and jealousy that he feels for his roommate Phineas, nicknamed "Finny." Knowles uses...


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A New England Nun by Mary E WI
A New England Nun by Mary E WI
Novels · 1,717 words
  • In "A New England Nun", Mary E. Wilkins Freeman depicts the life of the classic New England spinster. The image of a spinster is of an old maid; a woman never married waiting for a man. The woman waiting to be married is restricted in her life. She does chores and...


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A tree grows in brooklyn
A tree grows in brooklyn
Novels · 471 words
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an appropriate name for the book. It's about 7 years of Frances Nolan's life. The book's title is highly symbolical and took me several passes through it before I understood it completely. In the beginning of the book the author talks about...


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A Street Car Named Desire
A Street Car Named Desire
Novels · 1,066 words
  • Irony: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the expected results. Huh? Well take the short story 'Lady with a Dog' written by Anton Chekhov as an example. First let's get a look at our main characters, Dmitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, and...


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A thing of beauty is a joy for
A thing of beauty is a joy for
Novels · 2,522 words
  • `ever`. How far and in what ways does Keats communicate this belief in his odes. Emotion was the key element of any Romantic poet, the intensity of which is present in all of Keats poems. Keats openly expressed feelings ignoring...


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A Stranger is Watching
A Stranger is Watching
Novels · 515 words
  • is a terrific book. I enjoyed reading this book very much. The non-stop action kept me reading for hours. One of the best features of the book is how it was written.The point of view changes every chapter.For example...


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A tale of two cities 2
A tale of two cities 2
Novels · 617 words
  • In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, the characters created contribute to the plot revolving around the French Revolution. Each character portrays a role that ultimately intertwines with the plot. Dickens does a very good job in creating a habit, trait...


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