… is one of the most interesting and complex characters in the novel. Can you imagine what it would be like to be removed from your home and family and placed in a totally unfamiliar environment? How would it feel to be ridiculed, abused, degraded,…

… Sometimes we just do not realize we have found it until it is too late. What we find may not always be what we are looking for. This is what happens in the “Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffry Chaucer, the three rioters are searching for death in the…

… by Mark Twain, is the story of a young boy, who, in a desperate attempt to escape his abusive and poverty stricken home, escapes and seeks help with the Mississippi River, where he experiences many different trials. The novel was finally published…

… of Paradise Lost, has been brewing for centuries. One would think that Milton, a Puritan, would have no problem casting God as the hero, and Satan as the antagonist. But looking back in0 history, Milton saw that most epic heroes had conflicts…

… Things Fall Apart, was a tragic figure. Though he strove to be a good, moral man, his fears and inflexible nature caused him to step out of line with his culture’s definition of a good man. Every time he did so, he was in some way chastised or prodded…

… place in a small village of Valle del Sole. Cristina the mother of a young boy named Vittorio was questioned as either being a good mother or a bad mother to her son. Throughout the following essay examples will be provided on why Cristina has been…

… autobiographical novel, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", tenderhearted Marguerite Johnson discovers all of the splendors and agonies of growing up in a prejudiced, early twentieth century America. Rotating between the slow country life of Stamps,…

… All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy presents us with a young man’s journey through the regions of the unknown into adulthood. This novel, at once a western, a coming of age story, and a picturesque adventure, gives the story of John Grady Cole,…

… a series of themes that are presented either in an implicit or explicit way that brings the reader to want to read on. The characters capture the reader's undivided attention, in the sense that one begins to feel for them even if they are the Devil.…

… Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim…