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• Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

  As one of the most influential preachers and instigators of The First Great Awakening, which swept America in a fever of repentance...

• Answered a Question in The Sun Also Rises

  Basically, the phrase describes the generation that came to maturity during World War I and describes the cumulative effect of the new...

• Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby

  One big similarity between the two novels is that both follow protagonists who seek to fulfill their desire for another: Gatsby...

• Answered a Question in 1984

  The very first page of the novel describes a poster bearing the slogan, “BIG BROTHER IS WATHCING YOU,” which also serves as a sort of...

• Answered a Question in 1984

  Winston's apartment is certainly drab, as it's basically just a bare, utilitarian living space designed to support the basic functions...

• Answered a Question in 1984

  In the stark, utilitarian world Orwell portrays, there is almost no beauty. Winston and his girlfriend must go outside the boundaries...

• Answered a Question in The Sun Also Rises

  If you’re doing a project on the novel, you might consider it as a chronicle of what has been called “the lost generation,” or the...

• Answered a Question in East of Eden

  The Biblical tale of Cain’s murder of his brother Abel first comes up when Samuel and Lee have ganged up on Adam to get him to finally...

• Answered a Question in A Raisin in the Sun

  Mama Younger, the strong matriarch of the extended Younger family all living in one tiny, slum-like apartment, is a devout, if...

• Answered a Question in The Raven

  Poe writes that a literary work should be short enough to be read during one sitting, so that the effect of the entire piece could be...