Essays, Research Reports & Book Reports on North American Literature (8,227) essays
North American essays:
Alfred Kazin's Summer: The Way to Highland Park. Personal opinion given
... life. Alfred Kazin is a man who not only lives life, he digests it into his soul. There is a "larger than life" aura which the city of New York emanates and Kazin sees this aura. Included in this aura are the roots of American history. Kazin with his flawless descriptions of ...
Thunder rides a black horse, by Claire Farrer
... mainstream Americans consider to have happened longago, if it happened at all,is real and present during everyday life onreservations' (2). Farrer obviously feels that there are many misconceptions among the mainstream Americans about the Indians, inparticularly the Mescalero Apache. I ...
Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise"
... love with women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he looks up to. Eleanor Savage and Burne Holiday serve as prime examples of this. Until Amory loses his pivotal 'mirror,' Monsignor Darcy, he searches for his soul in all the wrong places. When Monsignor Darcy dies, Amory ...
"Animal dreams" by Barbara Kingsolver
... novel Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver Alice impacted the characters, action, and theme(s). When Alice passed away she took part of Homer with her. What she left was a misfit of time and circumstance; an emotionally distraught and distant man who attempted to resemble ...
"Canticle For Leibowitz" by Arthur M. Miller Jr.
... to this misfortune. Finally Miller mocks the monks regressive way of thinking when they send Brother Francis to New Rome with the Leibowitz designs. The ... fail to look ahead at the consequences. A good example is the deterioration of the ozone layer from pollution. During economic highs factories were ...
Janie's Great Identity Search. Discusses "Their Eyes were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
... of a woman's place in America in the twentieth century. One of the points that she makes is that women need to search for their independent identity. That women should not settle for a simple life of ...
"The Witching Hour" by Anne Rice
... love of his life. After he discovered how much he deeply loved Rowan, he began to reminisce the images of his purpose; that certain elements and images of his childhood hinted him to return to the house he had been fascinated with in New ... of souls had been discovered as tiny particles smaller than ...
Faces on the Wall: "The Yellow Wall Paper" The husband's intention is for his wife to get well, however, his way of doing so drives her to depression and insanity.
... of sights, sounds, and feelings which are important in keeping the mental state ... I am making the assumption that because the time this story takes place ...
Amazing Grace
... of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of ...
Analysis of the protagonist's character flaw or error in judgment that causes his downfall in the story "Dead men's path" written by Chinua Achebe.
... than the old ways and he expects his students to adopt these ways, even though their religion and village life show a different way of life ... of Ani not to believe in the superstitions of their ancestors. He tries to make the school a better place ...