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Analysis of “The Things They Carried”
... far shore come at me?. The shore symbolizes the reality of the war, coming towards him and he knows can?t avoid ... author/narrator uses setting to build the sense of harsh reality of his crisis, and the ?rawness? of his situation and the world; the ?brittle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
The Critical Analysis of The Painted Bird
... war to find any distraction that could help them escape reality for a moment. The saddest part of this novel is that the boy regardless of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Religion in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
... of his wounds" (Stallman 139). This is also the climax of Henry's religious conflict. He becomes conscious of the "slaughter and bloodshed" of war ... of that time, Henry had to lose himself before he could reach his redemption. The boundary of reality and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Death of a Salesman" and "Raisin in the Sun"
... of their actions and ultimately ended in failure. Willy and Walter represented the Americans of the 1950s who failed to recognize the reality of ... and the two World Wars brought the need for immediate economic prosperity. It diverted the people of the 1950s ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane
... theme in the novel. It depicts the brutal reality behind all the glory of war. It is dehumanizing. The exposure to the atrocious ... named Henry Fleming has grown up infatuated with the glory of war and combat, but when the time comes for recruitment, he ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
On the Road to Individualism; Off the Road of Conformity
... an escape from the reality of adulthood, such as emotions, responsibility, and the nearly unattainable definition of intelligence, which are ... example to explain the corruption in the postwar culture because society revolved around everyone adhering the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Psychological Interpretation of B.F. Skinner's "Walden Two"
... reality of society, but meet the specifications and ideas of psychology. In general, the psychological backing for Walden Two lies in the basic principles of ... the student, are: Steve, a friend of Rogers from the war, Rogers and Steve's girlfriends, and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Plot summary and examination of character and colflicting worlds of realism and supernatural in Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher
... of sanity. He is presented with a mental tug-of-war between the realistic and imaginary, science and supernatural, and reality and fiction. Through examination of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
analysis of Karl Shapiro's "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
... of feelings and emotions about the reality of death. Shapiro's usage of imagery together with figurative language is a key element in getting the theme of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Deeper Examination of the Merits and Shortcomings of Nicholas Lemann's The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America
... . The black migrant's dream of the promised land of economic opportunity collided with the ugly reality of Chicago's south side. ... for these buzzing communities. With the onset of World War II, thousands upon thousands of factory jobs opened up. An average ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American