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"Fugitive Pieces" by Anne Michaels, "The Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay and "Empire of the Sun" by J.G. Ballard
... the presence of a father-like mentor. All three main characters were separated from their fathers at a very young age. Having a father figure to ... possibility of being separated from Basie. He was afraid of losing Basie but he was also afraid of dying alone ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Hamlet and Ophelia.
... a father and a brother to take care of her. She relies upon them solely. So we can understand when she obeys her father and repels Hamlet - her father ... hours together Here in the lobby. ... At such a time I'll lose my daughter to him" Consequently, the lines ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
"To kill a mocking bird" by Harper Lee.
... hurting Boo would be like "shooting a mockingbird" (Lee 280). Boo, an intelligent child ruined by a cruel father, is one of the book' ... ensures that she will not become jaded as she loses her innocence. In a sense, the plot of the story charts the characters ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Analyzing "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop is an Analytical Essay of One Art by Elizabeth Bishop. It looks at the authors meaning of "losing" in this polygamous poem.
... losing can be mastered. The speaker gives the reader advice on how to practice losing. She informs us to lose "father" and "faster". Farther meaning to a ... over or had the ability to lose. And if a continent or a river were, indeed capable of being lost ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Book Summary of War and Peace This was written for a freshmen World Civ. class.
... requests Prince Vasily to fix a commission for her son in the army. Ellen arrives to accompany her father to the home of the ... their country. In the process, the leaders become powerful but people lose their lives and wreck their families. In the novel, the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
In what ways does this dialogue develop your response to Othello in the play as a whole?
... and subdue my father Eternity to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my fathers eye Should ... the play. By losing the handkerchief Desdemona symbolically loses Othello's love. Thus the handkerchief becomes more than a cog in the machinery ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Narrative Women in Context in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out.
... father, has not lived up to his responsibilities as a father. A father is supposed to protect his children, especially while they remain in the parental household. Xuela's father ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Death of a Salesman Film
... at finding his father in a hotel room with a prostitute has continued to haunt Willy. At sixty-three Willy loses his job and ... gone, a salesman was finished. Biff characterizes his father as "a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Death Of A Salesman
... father. The Boston hotel room has a bed, bathroom, and a small dresser. This setting serves as the place where Biff loses all his faith in his father ... Biff loses all his faith in his father, "You fake! You phony little fake! You fake!" (2, 13) Willy is a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Hamlet"- A Tragedy.
... father's death, and finally he exchanges forgiveness with Laertes by their own death. Two men, two royal people end up losing ... remember, as thoughts, and usually their occasion, is a continuous and tremendous experience of pain and suffering. (Kirsch,. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
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