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In life to discover our self-identity a person must show others what one thinks or feels and speak his or her mind. Sometimes their opinions may be silenced or even ignored. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, the main character Janie would sometimes speak her ideas and they would often make a difference….

There are seven billion people on the earth. Each divided somewhere among the habitable continents of the world, most congregating in sociocultural conglomerates, yet each an individual. When people deliver motivational speeches they sometimes emphasize that each of us is unique, with a unique skillset, organization of cells, rhythm of heartbeat, DNA, and finger prints. In…

“The Beast in the Jungle” is a vivid tale about the life of two friends who became entangled and lost because of their own beliefs, by Henry James. The narration is conducted on behalf of the protagonist, John Marcher, who thinks that his life is doomed to an obscure catastrophe. Out of a curiosity that…

The federal government does have a responsibility to enact policies to help the situation of American workers with the goal of creating a more fair and just society. Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle illustrates this point by describing how big corporations like those involved in the Beef Trust, have managed to steal and cheat without…

Reading “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini has evoked many emotions within me that I forgot long ago. It has made me question everything we once had. It has made me question whether what we had can be considered a relationship or even a friendship. In your letter you said I was a better person…

In today’s society, violence abounds wherever one turns, assaulted with shocking headlines slashed across newspapers and television screens. As the media glorifies violence as a whole, one grows numb to such reprehensible actions as rape, murder, or assault. Unlike these senseless crimes, however, scenes of violence in literary works do not exist merely for the…

The novel talks about unloving children because a slave only needs to watch out for themselves, this passage focuses on the struggles in family life that slaves witness. They do not become attached to their children because they know that they will not be able to stay with them. This passage is an example of…

In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Heale Hurston a former slave named Nanny’s ideal marriage is if the relationship provides both protection and security. Although people always have their own perspectives and standpoints of problems that are different from others, Nanny’s own view of marriage is influenced by slavery and her ill-fated life…

Rudkis is a very determined and directed man. He is always eager to work. He does not let anything stop him and is confident in his ability to get work for himself, unassisted by anyone(pg.35). Aware that he needed money, Rudkis does anything and everything to achieve his goals. No matter what he must endure,…

In Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the protagonist, Christopher Boone, narrates the story to the readers in a meticulously thorough way. The readers are impelled to see the world from Christopher’s perspective and from the very first page it becomes clear that Christopher’s perspective not only allows the…