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  • The Plague

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    The Plague is a novel set in Algeria in 1940. It follows a wide array of characters during a plague in Algeria. The characters range from scientists and doctors attempting to stem the flood of the plague to simple refugees and Americans and Europeans vacationing in Algeria. The novel is existential in tone, dwelling grimly on themes of the meaninglessness and irrationality of life and on the sudden and brutal destruction caused by plague, war, and other catastrophes.

  • When Plague Strikes

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  • A Journal of the Plague Year

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    A Journal of the Plague Year is the fictionalized story of a nameless Londoner surviving the Great Plague in 1665. It is inspired by the journals of author Daniel Defoe's uncle, who himself kept meticulous records of the plague and its impact on one of the world's greatest centers of commerce and culture. The novel is a roughly linear account of the plague's progress through London and, to a lesser extent, its impact on the rest of the British Isles.

  • Analysis of Don Juan

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    T he year is 1775 and social ills plague both France and England Jerry Cruncher an odd job man who works for Tellsons Bank stops the Dover mail coach with an urgent message for Jarvis Lorry The message instructs Lorry to wait at Dover for a young woman and Lorry responds with the cryptic words Recalled to Life At Dover Lorry is met by Lucie Manette a young orphan whose father a once eminent doctor whom she supposed dead has been discovered in France Lorry escorts Lucie to Paris where they meet

  • The American Dream in Of Mice and Men and The Great Gatsby

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    Love Money Happiness All three are characteristics which describe the typical American Dream During the early 20th century immigrants swarmed to America chasing a dream that was often out of reach Even individuals already living in America strived to attain the unattainable A myriad of individuals of different sex creed and nationality all in search of the American Dream were all too often confronted with an American nightmare Shattered hopes and dreams have always been the result of unrealisti

  • Trauma in In Our Time

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    Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate

  • Themes in Fifth Business

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    he feeling of guilt can only be present in someone who has come to the realization that they or someone around them have done something wrong In the Robertson Davies novel Fifth Business the concept of guilt both for ones self and for others is a major recurring theme The reader sees this theme grow and materialize through the eyes of Dunstable Dunstan Dunny Ramsay who is the major character in the novel Dunny as Davies implies with the title fills the role of fifth business The definition of w

  • Loss of Innocence in Fallen Angels

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    While honor and self realization may be ideological terms often associated with a war cause brutality and self scarification are perhaps more realistic descriptors The brutal and ferocious atmosphere of war often forces its young soldier constituencies to sacrifice any childish views of life and mature Walter Dean Myers novel Fallen Angels details the tragic loss of innocence of group of young soldiers who surrounded by the unspeakable horrors of the Vietnam War are forced to prematurely journe

  • The Nature of Redemption in The Kite Runner

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    The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel set in war torn Afghanistan of 1975 and follows the redeeming story of Amir who at the beginning is a young Pashtun boy who is best friends with Hassan his servant and a Hazara Their friendship is broken off abruptly when Amir witnesses Hassans rape and is too scared to defend him Towards the end of the book Amir is a grown man searching through memories of his past and unraveling a series of secrets that ultimately encourage him to find a way to be

  • Commentary on No Longer At Ease

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    Obi nkwo an Igbo villager who through a community scholarship given to him by the Umofia Progressive Union UPU is sent to England to attain the only hope of advancement in the colony a European education Upon his return he settles into a senior government post which he eventually loses to corruption by an acceptance of bribery After Obi is caught and is facing trial for bribery The Umofia Progressive Union describes obi as A man who runs after sweet things of Lagos This paper will therefore dis

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