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    Shane is the story of the title character and his fight to save a small homesteading town in Wyoming where a powerful cattle baron, Luke Fletcher, is attempting to buy up huge tracts of land to pasture his herds. Shane is a former gunslinger who attempts throughout the novel to avoid the violence of his past, but he is drawn inexorably back into his old ways. At the novel's conclusion he saves the town and rides away sorrowfully.

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    Shane is a 1949 novel by Jack Shaefer about the Starrett family, homesteaders in Wyoming in the late 1800s. The story is narrated by the homesteader's son Bob, who recounts how the Fletchers began to encroach on their territory, intimidating them and trying to buy up their land. However, a brave and mysterious gunman named Shane saves the Staretts, fighting off the Fletchers and allowing the Starrett's to keep their land.

  • A Walk to Remember

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    A Walk to Remember begins with Landon Carter at age 57 looking back on his younger years when her was about 17 In Beaufort North Carolina Landon was known as the popular boy at school and a bit of a trouble maker Landon hung out with a bad crowd and one night he got in trouble with the law forcing him to volunteer for community service and the school musical After Landon and his girl friend break up he forced to ask Jamie Sullivan to the school dance because he has no one else to go with Jamie

  • Parallels to the Author's Life in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

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    Betty Wehner Smiths unique ability to capture the reality of American society in the early nineteen hundreds is seen in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The setting of the novel stems very much from the authors own childhood Society can truly relate to this story as it has a place in every American familys roots The time defying novel evokes sympathy by telling the story of a young impoverished family comparing their rough lives to a relentless tree native to Brooklyn New York Betty Smith was

  • Women In The Playboy of the Western World

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    Consider the Position of women in J M Synges The Playboy of the Western World In Playboy of the Western World Synge sets out to dismantle Yeats construction of self sacrificing and pious Irish womanhood the revivalists had encouraged him to portray in The Countess Cathleen Irish nationalism sought land reform and Home Rule for the Irish and encouraged the Irish revivalism in theatres as propaganda for their cause They promoted the ideal of a unified Irish peasant whose women were Christian Hist

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