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  One way to approach character motivation is to think about the rhetorical meaning or thematic significance of the character's wants...

• Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

  It might be interesting to explore connections between To Kill a Mockingbird and Harper Lee's posthumously published Go...

• Answered a Question in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was written partly as a conscious divergence from the realist style that was...

• Answered a Question in Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth

  "Black Boy" is divided into two parts: "Southern Night," which explores Wright's formative years growing up in the Jim Crow South and...

• Answered a Question in The Laramie Project

  The Laramie Project's creator, Moisés Kaufman, and his theater company, the Tectonic Theater Project, are known for the form...

• Answered a Question in The Odyssey

  Book IX concerns the events immediately following the Trojan War and the events that first precipitated the delay in Odysseus's return...

• Answered a Question in Literature

  Along with Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and Hunter S. Thompson, Gay Talese was one of the founders of New Journalism, a revolutionary...

• Answered a Question in The Odyssey

  Odysseus is one of history's most notable examples of a tragic hero, or a protagonist who embodies all of the traits of a classic hero...

• Answered a Question in Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" can refer to an essay Joan Didion wrote delving into the counter-culture scene of Haight Ashbury, San...

• Answered a Question in The Bluest Eye

  The Bluest Eye is considered to be one of Toni Morrison's finest achievements. At the time it was written, it received...