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The Father of English Drama Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that at a party organized by the Capulets, the scion of the Montague family, Romeo crashes in and falls head-over-heels in love with Juliet, who happens to be the daughter of the Capulets. She too loves Romeo and professes her forbidden love to the stars and the night at the window sill of her room, when Romeo hears it.
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Analysis of the Works of Harriet Jacobs and Audre Lorde Literature Book Report/Review
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Both of them form the very important literary tradition of the black woman’s discourse who were denied a voice and who have risen through generations and proclaiming their political rights but also questioning the female identity under male-centered power structures and in contrast to the white feminist
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Southern American Literature: the Role of the Women in the Era of Alice Walker Literature Book Report/Review
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While the majority of these studies have concentrated on how the white, middle-class women reacted to their assigned domestic or private sphere in the nineteenth century; there has also been interesting in the dynamics of gender roles and societal expectations in minority and lower-class communities  
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Lee Smiths Oral History Literature Essay
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The author reveals how history, especially if orally delivered, can easily be tainted and thus be difficult for historians to examine. The author presents the complexities and convolutions that happen in the development of such a delicate field as history. The point of the entire novel is to show readers the different facets of history.
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Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Literature Essay
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Not only is Bayardo a typical male of the time, but also the twin brothers of Angela; who just to live up to the standard social order, were ready to kill Santiago for having disgraced their sister. The women were bounded on all sides by traditions and were expected only to get married and have families.
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How Iago Has Managed to Lead Othello to the Death Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that working as Othello’s ancient or ensign, Iago is successful in maneuvering the other characters to make sure that his plans are carried out. He develops enmity to Cassio when he is promoted by Othello, and makes use of all his strengths to plot his revenge against Cassio as well as Othello.
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The Idea of Black Female Identity in the Harlem Renaissance Literature Essay
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According to Jervis Anderson's account, the working classes merely functioned as a literary topic and poetic subject for the black literati, virtually all of whom sprang from or were educated into the middle class. Similarly, David Levering Lewis declares that most Harlem artists were products of the 10,000 privileged Afro-Americans
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The Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Lynn Margulis argues that symbiosis is crucial for evolutionary originality. Writing from the point of view of the molecular biologist, she explains the evolutionary innovations brought about by the symbiosis between the partners, ranging from the tiny bacteria to the living earth itself.
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1984 by George Orwell Literature Essay
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The author states that Orwell’s vision of women was limited, thinking of Julia as the forbidden, fun and sexually active, pretty but not so smart girl; while only mothers were honorable and cause for admiration. Orwell’s famous line: “You’re Only a Rebel from the Waist Downwards” can be thoroughly discussed.
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The Relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia Literature Literature review
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This important tragedy intensely deals with a number of themes such as treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption and narrates the course of real and affected madness. Another major element of the play has been the playwright's treatment of the characters and themes to suit the demands of a classical tragedy and a profound analysis of the major characters in the play confirms that Shakespeare is the most skilled master-craftsman of characterization.
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The Last War by H.G. Wells Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that society is swept away, purged by fire, and a new civilization rises from the ashes of the old. Viewed from the standpoint of a sane and ambitious social order, it is difficult to understand and it would be tedious to follow the motives that plunged mankind into the war that fills the histories of the middle decades.
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Anita Pachecos Royalism and honor in Aphra Behns Oroonoko Literature Book Report/Review
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The review begins with a clearly stated objective of exploring the main points of Pacheco’s essay and analysing its strengths and weaknesses; proceeds to describe Pacheco’s arguments and illustrations that suggest Behn’s hero as ‘Eurocentric’ and ‘royalist.’ A significant portion of the review is spent on summarising Pacheco’s viewpoints.
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Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi Literature Essay
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Author of the Book, Never Eat Alone Keith Ferrazzi is originator and CEO of the teaching and consulting corporation Ferrazzi Greenlight and a donor to Inc., The Wall Street Journal, and also at Harvard Business Review. Previously in his profession, he was CMO of Deloitte Consulting and at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, and also CEO of YaYa Media.
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Pride, which She Calls Plainness by Cordelia Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that it is only proper that his subjects should lie to please him. His accusation is that Cordelia is stubbornly refusing to be a sycophant like her sisters because she is proud. On the other hand, in her mind, Cordelia is being simply true to her feelings. Plainness, to Cordelia, is honesty.
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When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the admiration has enforced him to be acquainted with the spiritual and religious vacuity in Japan that When I Whistle investigates—demonstrating that the deficiency of belief in an inspirational divinity makes it difficult if not impractical the gratitude of moral supreme.
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The Right Stuff by Thomas Wolfe Literature Assignment
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The author states that Wolfe does not lay out the definition with hard vocabulary and narrow strokes of the writer's brush, but rather with a broad sense of experience as he takes the reader into the world of the astronauts. The exposure to their world, and their live sets the stage for the reader to build their own sense of "The Right Stuff".
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Oedipus the King by T. Hoey Literature Annotated Bibliography
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The author states that Tiresias begins to look into the depths of his own self and as he does, he realizes his sins and the full extent of his culpability. As he develops an inner eye, signifying introversion, he realizes that his outer eye, sight, had rendered him blind. He, thus, completes his movement towards introversion by blinding his eyes.
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A Raisin in the Sun Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Mama’s dream is to buy a comfortable house in an all-white locality, while Walter Lee’s dream is to get into the business. Ruth is an independent intelligent girl, who wants to steer clear of all the Americanisation and get in touch with her African roots. Mama is scheduled to get the pension amount.
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Shakespeares King Lear Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that our only solace, as a reader, comes from the knowledge that his lonely and painful journey from tyranny to compassion is complete. The play is about division at many levels and the quest for union. The kingdom, the family, Lear’s soul, and sight and his reasoning are all divided and separated from their natural states.
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Middle Passages by Charles Johnsons Literature Book Report/Review
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His book Middle Passages won him the National Award in which he basically focuses upon the era of the seventeenth century and describes several events of that time from the perspective of the African Americans (Pedersen, p225). The author has emphasizes a wide range of issues in the novel like racial discrimination, social inequality, adjustment problems of the colonized people.
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Americas Choice: Environmental Myopia or Long-Term Thinking Literature Essay
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In her article "Don't Mess with Mother" Anna Quindlen analyzes some of the causes and effects of the recent catastrophes and emphasizes: "It's about changing the way we all live now." She means that we should rethink and change the way the natural resources are consumed in order to maintain the environmental equilibrium and secure the future.
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Comparing two plays for a Theatre Class Literature Book Report/Review
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During the time in which they engage in recreation took put society frowned winning women asserting themselves? Women were hypothetical to play a role in which they support their husbands, took the mind of their children, and complete sure the whole thing was ideal around the house. Work, government, and decisions were absent to the males.
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Post-Colonial Writings Literature Essay
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The author states that literary texts are ‘knots in a discursive network’ and “literary history is but a specific parcel within a history of the dialogic relation between the different discourses composing a culture, and the different institutions’ – not taken as a ‘thing’ but as a ‘process designed to give stability to the objects constituting it.’”
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Keeping up Appearances at All Costs Literature Essay
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The author states that the quince tree and the blackbird seemed to be metaphors for what life could be like for Mr. Nilson and his neighbor if only these ‘rules’ could be changed, if only they could take a chance. The bird and the tree were fully alive, truly natural; Mr. Nilson went through the emotions behind the façade of a wealthy businessman.
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Womens Writing in the 1980s in Caribbean Literature Literature Essay
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The author states that the prose works by the Antiguan-born, United States-based, Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and the poems by Jamaican Lorna Goodison and British-based poets Jamaican Jean Binta Breeze and Guyanese Grace Nichols illustrate the writings by women in the 1980s. These woman writers were born in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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Critical Analysis of the Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Women Literature Essay
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She speaks of the “tyranny of man” and is concerned that men keep women from being educated, saying that they “try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood” (4.7-8). Wollstonecraft disagrees with the arguments that have attempted to prove that women are indeed the weaker sex.
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The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon Literature Book Report/Review
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However, is wilderness really what it seems to be now Or is this concept a modern world invention Cronon argues that it is. He shows how the priority was gradually shifted from utilizing the wasteland to preserving the wilderness. This transformation of thinking and attitude seems so astonishing that it's difficult to conceive of any visible reasons or sources for this.
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Sex, Love and Tragedy in Early Italian Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that when we look at Capaneus, we understand that for Dante, pride cannot be forgiven and the blasphemy against Jove, committed by Capaneus, has led to his downfall, yet he says, “Such as I was alive; such am I also in death.” The character helps us to understand that punishments are meted out individually.
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Super Size Me by Morgan Superlock Literature Essay
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McDonald’s is now an organization by itself. It is ‘the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world’ (Retzer, 1999:1). It’s affected all walks of life—education, work, travel, the family, and every other sector.
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The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams Literature Essay
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There are several important issues concerned with doctoring in the story such as the dilemma in dealing with the demands of a medical and social environment which is hostile, the doctor’s striking power of observation, the doctor’s insistence of doing the medically right thing.
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Things Fall Apart Literature Essay
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The author states that Umuofia may be regarded almost as a large, self-contained village, held together because of the clan’s strict adherence to its religion and laws. It is pride that brings its people together. With remarkable economy and simplicity of language, Achebe describes the fragmentation of this ancient culture.
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Like an Eagle in the Sky Literature Essay
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I realized that I would have to put up with the petty thoughts and deeds of those wanting to drag me down to their level; envious classmates, spiteful instructors and the system itself, if I wanted to succeed, much like Angelou in "Still I Rise". All I had in my favour to prove all my detractors wrong, to rise above this contemptible hatefulness, was a fierce determination to succeed, and I was sure that, " With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise" (Angelou 10 - 12).
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Period Of Water Issues In The History Of New York Literature Book Report/Review
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The Manhattan Company, which owed its social responsibility, had to come up with solutions for the sorry situation. After many hiccups and problems – which are very well documented by the author – the Company came up with a solution to end the water crisis – by bringing in the water from the Bronx River.
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Physical And Emotional Loads Of The Soldiers In The Vietnam War Literature Essay
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The physical and emotional loads were symbolic of and filled with fear, love, grief and their longings. O'Brien specifies the physical loads which all the soldiers carried with them. Many of them were things of common use in the war, while apart from these soldiers also carried things of personal value to them.
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Gender and Family in Relation to Politics and Class Literature Book Report/Review
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Mill and Taylor then pointed out the reality about the relationship of gender and family to politics and class.  Where society imposes on the theory of dependence and protection, social class affects gender and family negatively.  On the other hand, where the theory of self-dependence is allowed and practiced in society, the social class would not make a significant bearing on gender and family.   
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The Poetry of Octavio Paz Literature Essay
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This essay examines the poems “A Tree Within,” “Before the Beginning,” and “ A Song Out of Tune” that show a progression from the perception of an individual and its desire of a companion to a contemplation and appreciation of the other’s existence to the transient nature of time, memory, and relationships. 
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My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Literature Essay
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One plan to teach the poem to high school students might be to have the poem read and acted out by three volunteer students, followed by a brief note-taking lecture, concluded with classroom group discussion divided into four groups which then present their conclusions to the other groups.
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Conrad's Heart of Darkness Literature Book Report/Review
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Certainly, these facts represent at some remove the historical case of the Belgian exploitation of the Congo, with Leopold's pious claim of working for the betterment of the natives while killing as many as ten million of them and maiming countless others, and the seeming inevitability that genocide (not yet a word) would become the ultimate result of colonialism (Hawkins 369-75).
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The Myth in Poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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Millay succeeds through juxtaposing the actions of Penelope and Ulysses against her own, seeming more mundane, but in reality similar actions in the present day. She shows that ancient myths are so evocative because they take the actions of ordinary people and make them something profound (Milford, 2002).
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Symbolism in Beowulf Literature Essay
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Symbols in Beowulf were used to teach and entertain pagans while spreading the message that one should always do good to defeat evil.The heroic protagonist Beowulf was connected by relation or blood to many characters in this epic poem
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My Antonia by Willa Cather Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the journey that life takes them through, is related in a memoir by Jim Burden, who befriended the family when he was just ten years old; and continues to stay in touch with them. The novel belongs to the Modernist era of literature and comprises the varied elements of a typical Modernist piece of work.
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A comparison of Augustan and Romantic poets Literature Essay
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The most important poets of the Augustan period include John Dryden and Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope is the writer most associated with the Augustan Age, who exemplifies the literary style of this period which is characterized by harmony and precision. His works, as well as those of his contemporaries, exhibit order, clarity, and the appropriateness of style.
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Eugenics in The Girl In The Glass by Jeffrey Ford Literature Essay
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By 1932, there was the reverse deportation when the economic effects of the Great Depression hit hard in America. Illegal, as well as legal Mexicans were no longer welcome because they took away jobs from the Americans.
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Wit and Comedy in Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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The very endeavour of approaching a work of literature by correlating it with the conventions of the genre it affiliates to, enhances the basic understanding pertaining to that work, be it the poetry, drama or fiction.
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Victor speaks of women in terms of possession, and Leonce is shown to class her as property and to see her as a symbol of his social status. Edna herself remarks that as she moves into the pigeon-house she feels she is lower on the social rank. Another naturalistic element in the novel is the portrayal of Edna as a victim of fate.
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Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet Master Book Report/Review Literature Book Report/Review
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The third aspect which will be examined is c) how the characteristic elements of youth and speediness can lead to death. One of the factors that lead to Romeo's and Juliet's respective demises have to do with their being young. To begin with, it is the fact that these young people are caught up in their families' continuous rivalry which makes this story all the more compelling, and which ultimately solves the age-old problem in their deaths, when Shakespeare says, "the continuance of their parents' rage/Which, but their children's end, nought could remove"1
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Tallys Corner: A Study of Negro Street corner Men Literature Book Report/Review
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Elliot wrote his book after 18 months of experience he got while living in a group of socially and culturally unstable men in a poor, city neighbourhood in Washington D.C. The main reason of this book when it was published in 1960 was to open eyes of the Americans to the condition of black men in American society.
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Testimony and Trope in Frankenstein Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Victor started his story when he had this intense idea to create something that no one can imagine. An ambition that no scientist can ever think of, and worst, will challenge the capability of God and his greatest creation in all time, the humans. Ultimately, Frankenstein tried to be God in his own mysterious world.
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Examining a Work of Fiction Through Another Author's Lens Literature Essay
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In his work "The Art of Fiction", Henry James states that "good" fiction should exist in competition with reality, and an author should never interject their intent in writing the story, or remind readers that the story is "just make-believe." "The subject-matter of fiction is stored up likewise in documents and records" (James, n.d.).
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Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis Literature Essay
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Gregor Samsa is clearly unhappy with his life and alienated from the expectations placed upon him by his family in particular and society as a whole. "If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel," Gregor says.
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