… in a novel you have studied. Jane Austin uses contrast extensively in the book, Pride and Prejudice. There is examples of it in the contrast between Darcy and Lizzie, one is a proud man, contrasted with the outer, who without intentionally…

… Shame pushes him back to the hole from which he crawled. Fear inhibits the mind, body, and soul, rendering the three capable of only bad decisions. In the novel Native Son, by Richard Wright, hate, shame, and fear engulf the livelihood of the main charac…

… would be the work of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Orwell once classified the book as a “fairy story” but it is to many other things to be simply classified so casually. It has been described as a fable, a political analysis, an allegorical lesson,…

… and disillusioned, an aging man drastically alters his life in a desperate attempt to find meaning. Certainly, Don Quixote seems to suffer from that very disorder (and perhaps dementia as well), yet his experience proves earth shattering not only…

… the history of philosophy in the form of a novel. A young girl learns about life and philosophy. One day a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday Norwegian schoolgirl Sophie Amundsen looks inside her mailbox and finds a mysterious letter addressed…

… to what is "right" in society. Some of those people who don't conform, such as Atticus Finch and Harrison Bergeron, are looked down at in their community because of their uniqueness. In the novel " To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, and the short…

… that takes place in the late 1980’s/ early 1990’s in the nation’s capital Washington D.C. Though the year is inconclusive it is proven by the style of dress mentioned in the early chapters of the novel. The story is told from two perspectives, first…

… a series of letters written by Celie and her sister, Nettie. Celie is a troubled young woman with no self-worth, little confidence, and no self-esteem. Miller shows how Celie changes into a mature, whole, and true woman. In the beginning of the…

… and at the same time the medium through which we perceive it. One must assume that because he is an independent character he is not a completely objective source of information. As everything in the novel passes through him there is no other un-biased…

… in American literature greatly expanded the love story genre. In Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter he writes of adultery in a Puritan village. The story deals with the relationship between Hester Prynne, a young bride awaiting her husband,…