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Papers On American Literature
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Ernest Hemingway / A Life On Paper
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A 7 page paper discussing the relationship of the events and people of Ernest Hemingway's life to the characters and plots in his fiction. Three novels are discussed, and numerous correspondences pointed out. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Heming2.wps
Ernest Hemingway / Gender Relations in His Short Stories
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A 7 page paper analyzing the reason for the lack of communication between the sexes in three of Hemingway's stories: 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,' 'Hills Like White Elephants,' and 'The End of Something.' The paper concludes that the Hemingway code does not give much room for softness, sensitivity, and self-articulation. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.
Filename: Hemgen.wps
Ernest Hemingway / The 'Sun Also Rises' Vs. 'The Old Man and the Sea'
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A 7 page research paper comparing the characters, setting and plots of the two great Hemingway books. The writer details plot synopses, main characters, the settings, and the meanings derived from them. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Hemingwy.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'A Clean Well Lighted Place'
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In 6 pages, the writer discusses 'A Clean Well Lighted Place.' It is posited that Hemingway and his characters share a commonality... His writing reflects his own life.
Filename: Clearwe2.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place'
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A 6 page essay in which the writer describes Hemingway's short story as one of supreme loneliness, despair, and 'nothingness.' No additional sources cited.
Filename: Clearwel.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'A Farewell To Arms'
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A 5 page essay on the transformation of Frederic Henry, the main character in this Ernest Hemingway's novel. The writer traces events in the novel to show how Henry develops from being very immature at the beginning of the story and then ... through the processes of war and his love for Catherine, he matures.
Filename: Farewel2.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'Butterfly & The Tank' / Hemingway in Spain
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A 5 page examination of Ernest Hemingway's short story, 'The butterfly and the tank' as a metaphor of Hemingway and the war itself as perceived by his critical contemporaries. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Buttrfly.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' / Hemingway's Loneliness
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A 5 page overview of the underlying theme of loneliness and self deception in the characters of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. Associates these characteristics as being reminiscent of Hemingway himself. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Heminbel.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' / Use of Characterization
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A 6 page research paper that examines Hemingway's use of characterization to broaden the scope and breadth of the novel's setting and time frame. The writer demonstrates that the complex nature of Spanish society is shown via the presence of a varied cast of minor characters that also contribute to the reader's understanding of the protagonist. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: Chartoll.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'
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A 4 page essay analyzing Hemingway's short story. The writer analyzes the significance of the title 'Hills Like White Elephants,' as well as various other symbolisms that occur throughout the story.
Filename: Hillslik.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' / The Abortion Issue
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A 5 page research essay on the legitimacy of the abortion debate in Hemmingway's story as it relates to safety. The writer shows the need for abortion throughout time, how unsafe abortions were at the time Hemmingway wrote the story, and how the story reflects this reality. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Elptabrt.doc
Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' vs. 'Clean, Well-Lighted Place'
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A 5 page essay on the concept of oneness as it relates to 'everything' versus 'nothing' in Hemmingway's two stories. The writer discusses the concept of oneness in terms of dichotomies in plot, setting, characterization and dialogue. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Elephnts.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home' / Critical Analysis
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A 4 page exposition of Hemingway's short story, looking at the background of the protagonist, a soldier just home from the war, before and during the war. Special attention is paid to how Krebs' activities before the story opens affect the story's development and outcome. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Soldierh.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man & The Sea'
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9 pages in length. A concise analysis of Hemmingway's novel concentrating primarily upon its use of biblical symbolism. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Oldman2.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' / Nature, Death, & Manhood
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A 9 page research paper on Hemingway's classic tale and its meaning. The writer details how the setting is symbolic of Hemingway's views of life and death, and what it means to be a real man. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Oldman.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' / Analysis & Review
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A 6 page general overview in which the writer discusses the novel's meaning, influence, and success. Bibliography cites 5 additional sources.
Filename: Sunalso.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' / Exchange Of Money
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A 6 page paper on the importance of buying, lending, and paying for things in Hemingway's first novel. The paper suggests that Hemingway is using money as a substitute for meaning. Two sources cited.
Filename: Rises.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' / Explicated
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A 5 page look at a critical article by Claude Clayton Smith of Ohio Northern University, which focuses on a 'lost allusion' contained in Hemingway's novel. The paper argues that this reference, which ties Hemingway's novel to A.E.W. Mason's 'The Crystal Trench', would be completely indecipherable without scholarship such as that provided by Smith. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Sunexp.wps
Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises' / Review Of A Literary Critique
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5 pages in length. Robert Meyerson's analysis of Ernest Hemingway's character Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises is both accurate and revealing with regard to the overall central claims about the novel. The writer evaluates the article's main arguments and judges the validity of those points.
Filename: Suncrit.wps
Ernest Hemingway's Own Life Reflected In His Short Stories
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An 8 page paper looking at three of Hemingway's short stories -- 'Soldier's Home,' 'A Cat in the Rain,' and 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' -- in terms of their relationship to events and experiences in Hemingway's own life. The writer concludes that his stories from World War I on reflect a deepening despair, and a conviction that life ultimately was without meaning. Bibliography lists two sources.
Filename: Hemlife.rtf
Ernest Hemingway's Own Life Reflected In His Work
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This 7 page paper explores the life and work of author Ernest Hemingway, and how his art was a direct result of his life. Hemingway's narrative style, character structure and common themes are also examined.
Filename: Hemingway.wps
Ernest Hemingway's Short Stories / Modernism, Postmodernism, & The Search For Meaning
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An 8 page paper looking at stories by Ernest Hemingway ('A Clean Well-Lighted Place' and 'Snows of Kilimanjaro') and Donald Barthelme ('A Shower of Gold') to show how the transition of literature from modernism to postmodernism mirrors the increasing uncertainty of contemporary life. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Hembarth.wps
Modernism in Hemingway's 'The Sun Also Rises'
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A five page paper looking at Ernest Hemingway's novel in terms of the way it fits the profile of modernism. The paper defines modernism and concludes that it is Hemingway's portrayal of the twentieth century's loss of meaning that makes the novel modernist. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: KBsunris.wps
The Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway
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This 5 page paper begins with a short biography and then moves on to compare two short stories and find common elements of the author’s style. Hemingway’s work is analyzed in terms of his own experiences. Bibliography lists 4 sources
Filename: SA004Hem.rtf
Tim O'Brien's 'Lake of the Woods'
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A 5 page paper which analyzes Tim O'Brien's 1994 novel, Lake of the Woods, to determine how events from John Wade's past made his future inevitable, whether his outcome was just or unjust as well as O'Brien's interpretation. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Tobrien.wps
Tim O'Brien's 'In the Lake in the Woods'
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A 5 page paper that discusses sorcery and politics in Tim O'Brien's novel ‘In the Lake in the Woods.' This paper demonstrates the way John Wade utilized sorcery as a means to create the illusion of political credibility and also presents the way that sorcery is used as a part of the political process in general. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Lakewood.wps
War Reporting in 'The Things They Carried' and 'The Iliad'
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A 6 page paper looking at these two works of war literature by, respectively, Tim O'Brien and Homer. The paper concludes that the way war is reported impacts the way readers come to regard not only the experience of war but their society as a whole. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: KBobrien.wps
Maturity in 'Sonny's Blues' and 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'
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A 3 page paper examining the theme of maturity in Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues' and Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' Baldwin's Sonny surpasses all the other characters, including Connie and her mother. In spite of his dangerous dance with heroin, he is the only one of the group who seeks further meaning either in life or his own actions, or even acknowledges that such further meaning even exists.
Filename: Sonwhere.wps
Oates’ “Where Are You Going. . .” vs. Chopra’s “Small Talk”
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A 6 page paper comparing Joyce Chopra’s film “Smooth Talk”, with Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, the short story on which the film was based. The paper argues that in allowing the protagonist to live at the end instead of being murdered as Oates implies in her story, Chopra has changed the tale’s moral. No additional sources.
Filename: KBoates.wps
The Dark Side of Joyce Carol Oates
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A 6 page paper that provides an overview of the darker elements in the writings of Joyce Carol Oates. A number of her stories are used as examples to illustrate points being made. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Oates.rtf
Marsha Norman’s “Getting Out”
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A five page paper looking at this 1983 play by American playwright Marsha Norman. The paper suggests that the two identities of the protagonist in this play are a metaphor for the dual realities women experienced in the 1960s and 1970s. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KBout.wps
The Power of Truth in Norman’s “Night, Mother”
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A 5 page paper looking at this Pulitzer prize-winning play by Marsha Norman. The paper contends that although the ostensible subject of the play is suicide, it actually deals with the search for truth and the necessity of dismantling the illusions that prevent us from reaching our potential. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBmother.wps
Christianity Has Some Competition
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This five-page-paper presents a discussion on
Aldous Huxley (Brave New World), Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight Of The Idols), and
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes From The Underground), and whether they present a serious
challenge to the Christian Faith. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: CWchristi.wps
Hillerman's Sacred Clowns And Talking God
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Tony Hillerman is a well
known author of southwestern mysteries. He is unique in that he sets
many of his works in the four corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico
and Arizona; on or near the largest Navajo Reservation in the United
States. This 5 page paper provides a review of the books Sacred Clowns
and Talking God. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KThilman.wps
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' / Witchcraft and Puritanism
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A 5 page essay on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story. The writer provides some historical background into Puritanism and the Puritan view of witchcraft against the backdrop of Hawthorne's fiction. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
Filename: Brownwit.wps
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' / Meeting Of The Witches
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In this 2 page essay, the writer argues that even though the meeting of the witches in 'Young Goodman Brown' seemed like a very realistic occurrence, Hawthorne meant for it to be interpreted as a dream or an illusion of the devil based only upon bits and pieces of reality. This idea is explained in light of themes presented throughout the rest of the story. No other sources cited.
Filename: Ynggdbrn.rtf
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' / Character Analysis Of Hester
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An 8 page paper that evaluates the role of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's story. This paper considers the role of Prynne in respect to the Puritan institutions and society in which she lived and the conflict that was inherent between her personal morality and that of the society. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Hester.wps
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' / Hester's Example
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A 3 page essay which explores how Hester's alienation as a mother, wife and woman show the true expectations and moral values of Puritan society. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Hesterex.wps
Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter' / Historical Significance Of Adultery
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5 pages in length. Intolerance towards acts of adultery was alive and well, historically, during the period of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The sexual repression and hypocrisy that reigned during the seventeenth century -- as compared with the more relaxed attitudes of today -- was evident within the Puritan culture. The writer addresses such sexual imprisonment as it relates to the mentality of that time. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Scarl4.wps
Calisher, Faulkner & Irving / Change & The American Experience
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A 4 page comparison of Hawthorne ('Wash'), Irving ('Rip Van Winkle') and Calisher ('Greenwich') with regard to individuals and how they accept change. The specific subject discussed is how each felt about time (past and present) as it relates to their respective stories.
Filename: Ripvanw.wps
Emerson and Hawthorne / Future & Past America
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A 5 page essay in which writer contrasts the two writers in life and work and discusses their legacy to American culture. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Natem.rtf
Emerson's and Hawthorne's Rebellion
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A 5 page paper discussing two statements: In comparing Hawthorne's statement of 'what we did had a consecration of its own—we felt it so' and Emerson's 'society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members,' there is guilt present, either in barely perceptible tones or in crashing waves that color all of the aspects of life it does not obliterate. The comparison of the two original statements does have Romantic rebellion at their centers. The difference between them is that Hester Prynne, the fictional character, was the only one prepared to live her rebellion. Hester was more a 'man' than was either Emerson or Hawthorne. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: RomRebel.doc
Guilt & Adult's Treatment of Children In Literature
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A 4 page paper that explores how adults' treatment of children results in assumptions of guilt and resultant powerlessness, as imposed on children by adults and their societies. Literary works used to argue this thesis are as follows : Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery,' Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' and Kerouac's 'On the Road.'
Filename: Growup.wps
Hawthorne vs. Faulkner / Family Deterioration and Moral Corruption
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An 11 page paper on this theme present in the works of Hawthorne and Faulkner., The writer explores various novels by these two authors and points to the common thread found in each of their novels. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Falkhawt.wps
Hawthorne vs. Faulkner / House of the Seven Gables & The Sound and the Fury
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In this 5 page essay, the writer compares these two novels (the first by Hawthorne and the latter by Faulkner). Thesis analyzed the similarities in the fall of each family in the works.
Filename: Hawfaulk.wps