Sherwood Anderson's 'The Egg' / Trick Failure
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3 pages in length. In Sherwood Anderson's The Egg, the father's failure to perform the egg trick ties together the very heart of the story, because it represents how everything in their lives proved traumatic, troublesome and ultimately doomed to failure. Significantly clear is how the father relates everything in his life to that of the egg, even to the point of valuing it more than himself. The writer discusses how the significance of failure relates both to the egg trick and the lives of the characters. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Sherwood Anderson's 'Winesburg, Ohio' / Theme Of Isolation
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A 5 page paper on Sherwood Anderson's classic 1919 book of connected short stories. It discusses Anderson's philosophy of community and interpersonal relationships as developed in the book, and examines the motif of human isolation as it occurs in several of the short stories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' / Human Source of the Monster
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A 5 page paper examining the relationship between Mary Shelley's own feelings of parental abandonment and the way the Creature is abandoned by his creator. The paper goes over the main points of Shelley's life up to the writing of Frankenstein, and compares them to events in the book. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' / Was She Playing God in the Creation of Frankenstein's Monster?
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This 6 page paper provides an analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with a concentration on the argument that Mary Shelley was attempting to play God in the creation of the monster. This paper is an argumentative essay that supports this perspective utilizing passages from the text as well as elements in the history of Shelley's life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' / The Monster's Story
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the themes and impact of the Monster's story in the larger novel Frankenstein. In the center of Mary Shelley's novel, the Monster provides an insightful narrative that tells of his experiences after being created by Victor Frankenstein, a narrative that relates his process of learning about his surroundings, language and human emotion. This narrative provides a significant view of the psychology of human development, underscores the problems of creating life using technology, and substantiates the view of the internal conflicts and misperceptions of the Monster pertinent to the defense of his actions. No additional sources cited.
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Censorship of Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”
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A 7 page paper detailing the furor which has surrounded J.D. Salinger’s classic novel ever since its publication. The paper concludes that Salinger’s accurate portrayal of teenage life brings his adolescent readers into his story, and from there he can give them his real message -- that growing up is anything but idyllic, but that one can live through it with a lot of help from one’s peers. Bibliography lists 8 sources, which follow the paper.
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Criticisms of 'The Catcher in the Rye' by J. D. Salinger
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In 4 pages, the writer summarizes the main points of three critics who have written criticism of 'The Catcher in the Rye', noting similarities and differences in their criticisms. ''The Catcher in the Rye' is a 1950s book that has been criticized in many forms by many people. Holden Caulfield is the subject of most of the criticism because he is the main character of the novel, and the novel is written in first person. The book has been on the 'banned list' of many schools for its vulgarity.' Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Dramaturgy and Symbol in August Wilson’s “Fences” and J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”
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A 9 page paper looking at the way these two works are organized around a governing symbol. In both cases, the paper argues, the works center themselves around the idea of self-protection versus reaching out to love others and find fulfillment in them. No additional sources.
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J.D. Salinger
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A 5 page paper comparing the tales presented in Salinger's book entitled 'Nine Short Stories.' The writer discusses similarities and differences between the stories.
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J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' # 2
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A 5 page examination of the theme 'the human heart in conflict with itself' in J.D. Salinger's classic coming of age novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher In The Rye' / Missed Communication
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A 9 page paper on J.D. Salinger's classic novel of growing up. It traces the a huge number of assignations and phone calls Holden Caulfield either makes or just contemplates making in the novel, and concludes that they represent his unsatisfied need to reach out, to affirm the validity of his place in the world at that moment and have it confirmed by the response of another person. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Catcher.doc

J.D. Salinger's 'Franny & Zooey'
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A 4 page essay examining the similarities and differences between Franny and Zooey and Salinger's first novel Catcher In The Rye. Specific parallels are drawn between Franny and Holden Caufield in Catcher .. the writer sees them both as the kind of people who look deeply into themselves to discover what their place in the world. No additional sources cited.
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