Essays, Research Reports & Book Reports on North American Literature (8,227) essays
North American essays:
The Apprenticeship of Wild Geese A Comparative Essay Between "The Appreticeship of Duddy Kravitz" by Mordecai Richler and "Wild Geese" by Martha Ostenso
... Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz are two very similar classic Canadian novels. To begin with, the main characters in both books (Caleb Gare and Duddy Kravitz ...
Death of a Salesman compared to "On Firing a salesman"
... Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller describes the tragic downfall of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, and how his demise affects the people around him. The poem "On Firing a Salesman" by James A. Autry describes the life in the salesman business. These two pieces ...
Introspective Main Characters in Four of Alice Munro's Stories
... a short story that is part of a novel collection of short stories about a main character, Rose called Lives of Girls and Woman, published in 1971, the year before her divorce from her first husband. The main character Rose interacts with her stepmother, Flo, and by the time of the story ...
"The Partial Writings of Zenobia Frome" essay based on: ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton
... cousin have met with a terrible accident. The hired man, Jotham was supposed to be picking up our new hired girl for me; and seeing Mattie off on the train. But Ethan went against me, in a rare show of defiance, and decided to take Mattie ...
An analization on the story the Bloodflowers by:W.D. Valgardson
... story that the reader would not expect. Incidences such as the deaths of Michael & Marj Fairweather. But to some extent the story is also predictable. We knew that Sick Jack was going to die because of our first impression of ...
Schizophrenia
... by trained mental health professionals to determine whether it is the appropriate diagnosis. Hospitalization also allows for the initiation of medication under close supervision. In the past, schizophrenia has been treated with medicines that block the action of a ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin Analyzes Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Discusses major themes, including the evils of slavery.
... of Tom and the other characters in the novel with her angelic qualities. These two are what you may call, `good masters'. They are very kind to the slaves, as opposed to the Eva's mother, whom loathe the slaves. Upon Eva's death ...
Interpretations of William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily
... two year. "In the decade that followed, Faulkner donned a host of other identities, alternately and aristocrat, a bohemian, or a derelict" (Zane 5). Faulkner established himself as a major novelist in 1929 with the book The Sound and the Fury (Larinde). He wrote twenty novels and many short stories ...
The Golden Door
... a life of suffering and even death. Once these immigrants decided to embark on their voyage to America, it marked the beginning of a new life filled with new opportunities Numerous immigrants set out to America in search of ... book, by 1907- 1911 the average rate of ...
"The Quiet American", by Graham Greene: Fowler and Pyle, comparative synopsis.
... of a foresight that enables him to see things realistically allows him to consider death as the only attractive option in his world; an escape from a future he couldn't bear. A future ...