Category: Book Review
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Ivan Turgenev ‘First Love’: The Analysis of The Romantic Line
Love in Turgenevs novella First Love is treated like some brief summer whirlwind or storm that sweeps through his people and transforms them. Vladimirs love for Zinaida triggers such a transformation, changing him from a naïve, idealistic young boy to a man. The story of his first love is one that haunts Vladimir into his…
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Analysis of Joyce’s Story a Boy’s First Love
A story of a bashful boy’s unrequited first love may seem to be dull; however, Araby proves different. The subtle bursts of love, frustration, and hope are captured and framed in Araby. James Joyce ignites a monotonous topic by cascading a flood of images to the reader. Joyce’s use of metaphors that contrasts according to…
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Zuckerman The Unreliable
American Pastoral is narrated by Philip Roth’s Nathan Zuckerman, a friend and admirer of the Levovs, in particular of Seymour “The Swede” Levov. Zuckerman tells the story of The Swede’s tragic fall from youthful perfection due to his daughter’s act of terrorism in protest of the Vietnam War. However, if Zuckerman is truly a friend…
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A Review of J. Picoult’s Novel 19 Minutes
In Jodi Picoult’s novel 19 Minutes, she brings her readers on a roller coaster ride of emotion and gives to all of her characters. Ms Picoult uses multiple flashbacks from past and present while switching between different characters. This provides wonderful detail into the inner mind of all characters and reveals personality. However, it is…
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R. L. Stevenson: The Analysis of Eternal Issues
Robert Louis Stevenson Book Analysis Is man good or evil? This is the recurring theme in Robert Louis Stevenson’s books The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped. In all three books, Stevenson explores both possibilities. For Dr. Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Evil…
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Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: The Stylistic Analysis of Metaphor
The Bluest Eye: Tough Love at the Core of Color We as humans strive for many things- comfort, success, money, beauty, but among everything, our core revolves around love. A child is born and is innocent, and as that child grows through their experiences, love fuels the way they survive. How do we as humans…
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The Anti-feminist Aspects of Emma Donoghue’s ‘feminist Retelling’ of “The Tale of The Rose”
Once upon a time, the first fairytales were written down from their folkloric origins, thus giving rise to one of the most popular genres of literature. Ever since then, these fairy tales have been enchanting us and there have been thousands of retellings presenting the original tales in a new light. The women’s liberation movements…
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How Personal Experience Helped A. Stuart Write Sugar in The Blood
While assembling a research paper the author has to make a decision on how much of an influence they want their personal thoughts and feelings to have. On one side the author could choose to remain as objective as possible and present the facts and events in a way that allows the reader to formulate…
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Critical Analysis of Bell Hooks’ Book Killing Rage:ending Racism
Gloria Jean Watkins, better known as , is a prominent figure not only in literature, but also in feminist and civil rights movements. She seamlessly weaves both of these issues into Killing Rage: Ending Racism in order to address the problems she believes plague society. Many critics attack Hooks’s informal, violent style of writing; however,…
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Refuting The “Primitive Economic Man” Model in Argonauts of The Western Pacific
In the Argonauts of the Western Pacific, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski refutes the notion of “Primitive Economic Man” through his early 20th century studies at the Trobriand Islands. The Trobrianders were considered primitive because of their isolation from modern society, belief in supernatural forces, and difference in skin color. “Primitive Economic Man” denotes the idea of…