Essays, Research Reports & Book Reports on North American Literature (8,227) essays
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The feeling of winning and losing in the novel "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" By Ken Kesey. McMurphy and patients win, the Big Nurse loses.
... and the prize is a feeling of belonging in the world. The patients in the mental ward of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest have always lost because the game is rigged against them by the Big Nurse and the "combine" of society. Her tools are pills, intimidation, electroshock therapy and ...
Character In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
... The short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper' written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a cry for freedom. This story is about a woman who fights for her right to express what she feels, and fights for her right to do what she wants to do. The narrator in this short story ...
Setting in "A Rose for Emily" by Willliam Faulkner
... Rose for Emily ," Faulkner's details about setting and atmosphere give the reader background as to the values and beliefs of the characters, helping the reader to understand the motivations, actions and reactions of Miss Emily and the rest of the town, and changing the mood or tone in the story. The ...
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
... and happiness for Gene and Finny as they jump from the tree into the river and hold initiations into the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. Finny, Gene, and their friends use the Devon's warm water to play in during the carefree summer session. The Devon brings out Finny's carefree ...
The problem with Holden in "Catcher in the rye " by J.R Salinger
... and act like an adult. Drinking, ordering the prostitute, and using money are all things that grownups do but Holden yet still wants to remain innocent. Theses are few of the obvious ironies of Holden's personality. Holden's utter hate for the ...
"Fried Green Tomatoes" by Fannie Flag
... the South in the 1930s. These background events that take place during the storyline have helped in setting up the status of blacks in the South today. If it were not for the constant uphill fighting that the blacks had to go through, one ...
Triumph over tragedy. Speaks of Kate Chopin's "The avakening"
... the formalities of Creole life, thus she rebels. Edna becomes enraptured by the search for the most desirable of human traits, freedom. Edna has no tragic flaw or character trait. On the contrary, she knows what she wants her life to hold, and she leaps for it. All of her actions ...
"the yellow wallpaper"a journey into insanity, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
... for this other than to force him to see that he was wrong, and, since she knew he couldn't tolerate hysteria, to drive him away. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. 'The Yellow Wallpaper.' 1892. The New England Magazine. Reprinted in 'Lives & Moments - An Introduction to Short ...
Black Like Me by John Griffin
... the past for obvious reasons. Today racism isn't about little things that white people take for granted, such as drinking water or a nice place to stay for the night, its more about fair trial and equal job or education opportunities. The ...
Conventions of Psychoanalysis in "Where are you going, Where have you been" by Joyce Carol Oates
... for the conscious mind. These strategies of the psyche are translated into symbols scattered throughout this work. These symbols are expressed through the characters of Connie, and Arnold Friend. The first convention is denial. Denial is when the subconscious cannot handle an issue or event and ...