Essays Tagged: "southern culture"

Short 3 page paper on Flannery O'Connor's "Revelation."

t as much as she is known for her exploration of religious themes, she is known for integrating her southern culture and heritage into her stories as well. In "Revelation", O'Connor focuses on the lif ...

(5 pages) 133 1 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Capital Punishment.

were under 18 at the time of their crime).The death penalty in the U.S. is essentially a product of Southern culture. During 2002:61 of the 71 executions were in Southern states.Outside the South, onl ...

(4 pages) 52 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Symbolism in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird

very defined and extremely deep. Harper Lee has a very discreet way of tying in the many aspects of Southern culture, without making it seem historical or pointless. But of all the scenes in the book, ...

(2 pages) 49 2 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Gone With The Wind: Movie Review: The transformation of the Southern culture within the movie

much of the movie takes place during the Civil War, one of the main themes is how the South and the Southern culture are transformed into more Northern ways after the war. One way that this cha ... husband has been killed in the line of duty. After the war is over, her mother dies, along with her southern beliefs. Later, her second husband dies, trying to fight Northerners who tried to rob Scarl ...

(1 pages) 53 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Tawin

The Southern SocietyAmerican authors tended to write about life in their times and culture. Mark Twain l ... utions. Twain obviously was dissatisfied with the overall ethics of humanity and cleverly viewed on Southern Culture during the Reconstruction Era. The novel depicts the Southern culture with injustic ... slavery, the hypocrisy of civilized society, and the society in general as ignorant and cruel.Many southerners had never perceived slavery as anything but a natural part of life. The seemingly "good" ...

(4 pages) 25 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Celia: A Slave

of the American South had become self-conscious and self-reflective in an intensifying manner. The southern culture has always manifested a gradual development of themes and plots of interests. The h ... uffered from many types of discrimination, such as segregation and loss of voting rights. The white Southerners held the beliefs that they were born superior to blacks in subjects to intelligence, tal ...

(4 pages) 105 0 0.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin, an American short story writer, is known for her depictions of southern culture, and of women's struggles of freedom. Many of Kate Chopin's short stories make use ... he will be forced into are a result of the difficult social problems of the time.Kate Chopin worked southern culture and her views on women and their struggles for freedom into her literary career. He ...

(6 pages) 67 1 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

To Kill A Mockingbird

l A Mockingbird 10/20/96 To Kill A Mockingbird is a fictitious novel which portrays the attitude of southern culture, and a little girl growing up. This story is told in the first person by Scout (Jea ...

(6 pages) 9 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

To Kill A Mocking Bird

kingbird October 11 2001 To Kill A Mockingbird is a fictitious novel which portrays the attitude of southern culture, and a little girl growing up. This story is told in the first person by Scout (Jea ...

(6 pages) 2004 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

African american bell curve

el, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a revelation to the North because it displayed the cruelty of the southern trade practice. This single piece of literature created uproar throughout the country. The ... ragedy, deceit and hate. The South was outraged by its conception of slavery and its bashing of the southern culture. Either way, it marked an event in American History that would change history forev ...

(5 pages) 39 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

African-American Literature, M

and Meridian in their own images; the only images they knew.Meridian?s mother was a product of the southern culture around the time Janie would have lived. She lived as a schoolteacher in her young a ... who ?loved walking nude about the yard and worshipped only the sun.? But, her mother fell into the southern rut. This rut included never talking about sex. Meridian, believing the subject taboo, neve ...

(6 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The bell curve of African Amer

el, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a revelation to the North because it displayed the cruelty of the southern trade practice. This single piece of literature created uproar throughout the country. The ... ragedy, deceit and hate. The South was outraged by its conception of slavery and its bashing of the southern culture. Either way, it marked an event in American History that would change history forev ...

(5 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

ferent eras. Eliot's novel is set in the Victorian period whereas Lee's is a depiction of a typical Southern American society in the 1930's, following the life of the protagonist Scout and events that ... ion of race relations and interlinks the main plot with several subplots that expose the realism of Southern culture. Its publication coincided with the early Civil Rights Movement, the Montgomery Bus ...

(13 pages) 20 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers