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Answered a Question in The Stranger

The setting of The Stranger is Algiers, in French Algeria (North Africa), in the...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is full of gritty, realistic descriptions of the...

Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant

Orwell flatly does not want to shoot the elephant, which, after rampaging through...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

Whether Germany is winning or losing is not really the central concern of the...

Answered a Question in All Quiet on the Western Front

One change in the boys is evident right away: Paul and his friends are not at all...

Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily

In the second paragraph of "A Rose for Emily," the house is personified by the...

Answered a Question in Shooting an Elephant

The Burmese people hate Orwell, or more properly the narrator, because as a...

Answered a Question in The Last Silk Dress

The New Orleans Zouaves was a general term applied to soldiers recruited initially...

Answered a Question in Animal Farm

The society that replaces that of Manor Farm (soon to be known as Animal Farm)...

Answered a Question in Mary Wollstonecraft

Though she had a famous affair with American businessman Gilbert Imlay that...

Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

It is very difficult for modern readers or audiences to sympathize much with...

Answered a Question in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry's advice is, essentially, to live life to the fullest while he is...

Answered a Question in Vietnam War

The Hmong, who lived mostly in the mountainous regions of Laos, were fiercely...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

In the first chapter, the reader learns that Maycomb is a small town in Alabama,...

Answered a Question in A Modest Proposal

All of Swift's appeals are, of course, tongue-in-cheek, designed to demonstrate...

Answered a Question in The Planet Mars

The planet Mars has no rings. Only the giant gas planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,...

Answered a Question in Jubilee

"General Lee" is General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of...

Answered a Question in History

Caesar was one of many Roman military leaders who parlayed his success on the...

Answered a Question in World War II

One change was that the nature of the war dealt a serious (but not fatal) blow to...

Answered a Question in Renaissance and Reformation

Like modern science, the "natural philosophy" of the Renaissance was derived...

Answered a Question in History

During colonial times, most of the colonies only allowed white Protestant males...

Answered a Question in Benjamin Franklin

Most of what we know about Benjamin Franklin's childhood is derived from his...

Answered a Question in Reference

Guthrie's learning theory was based upon the idea that a stimulus followed by a...

Answered a Question in Frederick Douglass

Douglass recalls the moment when he discovered that he was being sent to Baltimore...

Answered a Question in Macbeth

Macbeth, of course, is highly concerned with the issue of good versus evil, almost...