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  • The Solitary

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  • A Solitary Blue

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    A Solitary Blue is a novel by Cynthia Voigt published in 1983. The book follows Jeff Greene, a second-grader whose mother leaves the family. After visiting her one year at her family home, he begins to write her letters and send her things. However, Jeff's love is not reciprocated and during a subsequent visit she is more interested in her new boyfriend. He becomes aloof and depressed, though eventually his detached father begins to help him. The novel deals with themes of love, family and loneliness.

  • In Solitary Witness

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  • The Bet

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    The bet After reading the bet by chekhovs one can see through the young mans decisions the cost of capital punishment versus life imprisonment as both equally immoral In my beliefs and views of the young mans decision was the value of human life money teaches life lessons and the lack of courage to endure reality The story begins with a heated debate between a banker and many clever men on capital punishment versus life imprisonment The host of the gathering was the banker who started the debat

  • The Theme of The Dark Side of Love in Wuthering Heights

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    Wuthering Heights Emily Brontes haunting novel Wuthering Heights tells a tale fraught with obsession revenge heartache and ultimately grief Heathcliff a man who as a child was adopted into a wealthy family falls in love with Catherine the daughter of Mr Earnshaw the man who adopted him Mr Earnshaw becomes quite fond of Heathcliff and grows to love him even more than his biological son Hindley Life is good for Heathcliff until everything changes with the death of Mr Earnshaw Hindley inherits Wut

  • 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

  • V For Vendetta compared to American Government

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    Sympathizing with a Terrorist The initial reaction of an American reading Alan Moores V for Vendetta may not be hmm their fascist government seems immensely similar to our own government Why is this Is it because the American government has directed its public away from this thought After all the United States is the self proclaimed greatest democracy on Earth The government in V for Vendetta can be seen as more than just a criticism of the British government at the time it can also be seen as

  • Commentary on To The Lighthouse

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    To the Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse is a so called stream of consciousness novel one of the particularities of this modern genre is that they have no real plot Plot always refers to action it indicates the special arrangement of its elements In the stream of consciousness novels however there very rarely is any action at all the few things that happen in the world around the characters are mostly only devices to influence the mental processes of the characters Written in a ful

  • Nature in Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    Walking Along the Branches of Life Does Mother Nature truly nurture In Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie is affected by the nature of Mother Nature Janie seeks to harmonize with nature and its realm sparks her ambition to reject the burdens and discrimination placed on her because of her race and gender As a result she gathers strength and develops as a person on her path to true freedom Throughout the novel the theme of nature reflects Janies journey of self discovery thro

  • Commentary on The Yellow Wallpaper

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    The Yellow Wallpaper Published for the first time on 1892 The Yellow Wallpaper is written as a private diary from a woman whose desire to pursue a happy marriage or maternity is gone She is obligated to heal from her nervous condition resting isolated Her nervous condition is probably just a post partum depression In this story madness represents an escape from unbearable oppression caused by the privation of contact with society or external stimulus This oppression also creates isolation This

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