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Realism and Regionalism in Kate Chopin's WorksIn "At the 'Cadian Ball" and "The Storm," Kate Chopin falls into the realism and regionalism realms. She is a realist through her attention to detail. She is a regionalist because of her mourning of the vanishing, idyllic past.
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Anne Bradstreet and Phillis WheatleySubmissiveness is present in the works of both Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley, two early American female poets. While Bradstreet submits completely, Wheatley fights against it, a reflection of the time in which she wrote.
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The Theme of Freedom in Selected Works of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale HurstonDuring the Harlem Renaissance, African-American poets and writers expressed the desire for freedom in many ways. Langston Hughes uplifted the race out of the negative, stereotypical mold. Zora Neale Hurston showed African-Americans as rounded humans.
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The Life of a Ghost Hunter: Review of Ghost HuntingGhost Hunting is a collection of Syfy's Ghost Hunters' cases. While not scary, these stories do instruct readers on how to be professional, scientific ghost hunters.
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A Must-Read for Any Writer: Reading like a Writer by Francine ProseIf you are a beginning writer or an experienced one, Francine Prose is must-read craft book. By dissecting excerpts from famous works and telling anecdotes from her own career, Prose shows how great writers turn simple rules into incredible stories.
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Markus Zusak's the Book Thief: An Inspiring ReadSet in Nazi Germany, The Book Thief follows Liesel Meminger as she reads her way through the chaos of World War II, and along way, connects to those around her, even those she is taught to persecute.
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The Suppression of Ophelia by Men in Shakespeare's HamletOphelia, who begins as an independent, spirited woman in Hamlet, slowly become suppressed as the men in her life use her for their own purposes. This loss of self eventually leads to her madness and death.
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Plural First-Person Narration in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin SuicidesThe use of plural first-person in Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides keeps the story of five girls' suicides from being sad. Instead of emotion, the narrators rely on assumption and scientific approaches to understand the Lisbon girls.
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The Power of Honesty in Mary Karr's The Liars' ClubIn The Liars' Club, Mary Karr recounts her childhood with brutal honesty. Her descriptions of memories, family, and experiences are precise, even explicit. In this work, Karr takes memoir back to its basic principle, to tell a story truthfully.