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  • Male Oppression in Jane Eyre

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    Jane Eyre Male Oppression Considered one of Charlotte Bronts greatest works Jane Eyre will always be known for its strong message and symbolism especially the theme of male oppression On Janes journey to self discovery many male characters attempt to oppress her but she resists In Jane Eyre Charlotte Bront uses the interactions between Jane Mr Rochester and St John Rivers to assert that women during the Victorian Era possessed the will to overcome male oppression and gain both their own indepen

  • Jane Eyre

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    Jane Eyre is an orphan being raised by Mrs Reed her unkind rich aunt A servant that goes by the name Bessie give Jane with some of the little kindness she receives by reading her stories and singing to her One day Jane fights with her bullying cousin John Reed As punishment her aunt locks her up in the red room the room where Janes Uncle Reed died During the time she was locked in she believes that shes seen a ghost of Uncle Reed she screams and faints She wakes up finding herself at the care o

  • Alice In Wonderland

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    Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day drowsily reading over her sisters shoulder when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running by her The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch exclaims that he is late and pops down a rabbit hole Alice follows the White Rabbit down the hole and comes upon a great hallway lined with doors She finds a small door that she opens using a key she discovers on a nearby table Through the door she sees a beautiful garden and Alice begins to cry

  • Where The Red Fern Grows

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    Billy Colman spots a Redbone coonhound in a fight with neighborhood dogs Billy chases the other dogs and helps the hound recover from its wounds When the dog is feeling stronger again Billy realizes he must set it free knowing that the hound will find its way home Growing up in the Ozarks with his parents and three younger sisters Billy wants to own a pair of Red Bone coonhounds but his parents tell him that the family cannot afford coonhounds One day Billy finds an article in a sportsman magaz

  • Personality in Where the Heart Is

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    Personality rules over Image in Where the Heart Is The novel where the heart is by Billie Lettes Is a story about a young seventeen year old girl named Novalee Nation who is pregnant She gets deserted at Wal mart by her dirty poor scruffy boyfriend Willy Jack Then she has to restart her life in Oklahoma She finds Sister Husband an older woman with blue hair Appositive Phrase that teaches others about the bible After she meets Sister she runs into a young ten year old Indian boy named Benny Good

  • An Analysis of Mirror Mirror

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    By placing the fairy tale in a real time and place Gregory Maguire allows the reader to develop a completely different point view compared that of the fairy tale of Snow White fairytale Using this technique Maguire makes his novel seem to come to life The effect is enhanced when he uses real historical people such as Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia The reader also does not know what to expect while reading because although it is just a story like real life anything can happen Unlike fairy tales wher

  • Analysis of In The Lake Of The Woods

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    Vietnam was a very tragic war for the American soldiers For many of them seeing so many innocent people die made them crazy and go into shock After returning back home many suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder John Wade also suffered from this condition making him restless and very disturbed Because of Johns mental condition it can be said that he murdered his own wife without even knowing it therefore Kathy Wade is In the lake of the Woods Primarily there is evidence that on the night

  • Crank

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    In Crank by Ellen Hopkins Kristina is a character that can not avoid peer pressure and helps one realize living above the influence is a major decision in life that can either make us or break us When she went to Albuquerque she met this gorgeous boy Adam and knowing that he was bad news off the bat when she witnessed him dealing crank the previous day she could not resist but to come up and talk to him when he noticed her Its part of nature for all human beings to encounter with that gut feeli

  • Identity in Cold Mountain

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    Cold Mountain People usually begin a journey to achieve a goal or arrive a destination but more importantly through the journey they can find a self they have never noticed before or create a new self who adapts to the current environment In Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain the Cold Mountain is the destination the Inman wants to arrive at Although not physically starting a journey Ada goes through a mental journey which causes physical and spiritual changes in her Metaphorically she reaches Cold

  • Analysis of Catching Fire

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    Catching Fire Book Analysis The second page turning chronicle of the Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins embellishes the idea that absolute power and perfection cannot co exist with the modern world for all is vulnerable to corruption Collins defends her belief through her literary works in Catching Fire by emphasizing the cruelty use of President Snows tactic and what it resulted in fighting the controversial subject of the existence of eternal absolute power by form of betrayal with

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