World Literature essays:
"Of Love and Other Demons", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
... absence of love. She is bitten by a dog and is thought to be possessed. She is sent to a convent where Father Cayetano is her exorcist. The entire novel leads up to the forbidden love between Maria and Father Cayetano Delaura. For the first time Maria experiences love ...
"Piano and Drums" by Gabriel Okara.
... novelist Chinua Achebe. In the poem "Piano and Drums," Gabriel Okara shows the contrasts between the past life and the modern world. Some aspects in his poem date back before the beginning of civilization. In this essay I will reflect on Okara's concepts and visions. The poem ...
"The Power of One" by Bryce Courtenay. Answers question, "What have you learned about he predominant culture of the book?"
... War II and apartheid. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay is an amazing display of apartheid in South Africa during World War II . The story follows Peekay, a young white boy, as he travels from a boarding school full of children who support Hitler, to a home with a Christian mother, to copper mines ...
Use of magic realism within Tim Winton's "Cloudstreet"
... imagery and symbols are what drives the narrative. Structure also plays an important role within a magic realist novel, as it works to reflect a deeper meaning. In the case of Cloudstreet , the structure is cyclical; we begin and end at a ...
An Analysis of the poem 'Homecoming' by Bruce Dawe
... war through his description of the events that followed the bodies of the soldiers as they returned home from the war. BIBLIOGRAPHY:the poem ...
In "The Drover's Wife", by Henry Lawson, the drover's wife possesses qualities that associate her with the myth of the bush. Discuss
... a good provider for her children and spends most of her time isolated from the outside world. Using her resourcefulness to combat any situation, she depends on her physical and mental strength to cope. BIBLIOGRAPHY:the story ...
Josephine Alibrandi's development
... a bigger part of her life, claiming that he "would rather die than ever see [Josephine] suffer". There is suddenly a deeper connection between father and daughter; the feelings are returned in equal intensity, as Josephine states that she "love ...
The Hour of the Star
... story in a very casual manner shown by how he does not have a planned script or outline to tell the story "I ask myself if I should jump ahead in time and sketch out an ending immediately" (p. 16)The beginning of the novel ...
The Fitzgerald Formula: Comparing The Great Gatsby to the Lees of Happiness and the Camel's Back
... loved Gatsby, and even made love to him before he left for the war, and promised to wait for him until he returned home ...
The Curious Case of Film Adaptation: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from Text to Film
... a Charles Dickens novel without using his wit and whimsy, it just couldn't work. The issue with the Curious Case of Benjamin Button regarding this author spirit is that Fitzgerald is writing out of his element ...