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"Sojourner" by Carson Mccullers and "The Lion and The Jewel" by Wole Soyinka, 2000.
An examination of the treatment of the theme of love in the short story by an American and a play by a Nigerian.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 2 sources, $ 87.95
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"Love as a theme in literature has a long history, and love can be treated in a variety of ways according to the view of the writer and the nature of the time in which the work is written. Love is treated differently in a short story by the Southern writer Carson McCullers and in a play by Nigerian poet and playwright Wole Soyinka.
In her short story "Sojourner," Carson McCullers presents a character for whom love is a nearly alien concept, though he does not seem aware of the fact. He has failed to find love because he lives on his own, doing what he wants and going where he wants. He selects the name "Sojourner" for himself, meaning a person who stays only temporarily. This is the mode of life selected by John Ferris, a reporter who is also living in Paris. The significance of his designation as sojourner is emphasized..."
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Carson McCullers and Katherine Paterson, 2002.
Discusses the work of Carson McCullers and Katherine Paterson in terms of which writer is more realistic in dealing with adolescent identity problems.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate paper discusses the work of Carson McCullers and Katherine Paterson in terms of which writer is more realistic in dealing with adolescent identity problems. The paper compares their major novels and concludes that Paterson's portrayal of the issue is more realistic than McCullers'.
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"The Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers, 2006.
This paper focuses on the symbolic use of music in Carson McCullers' novel "The Member of the Wedding."
1,507 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper centers on the character of Frankie Adams' incomplete development and the symbolic use of music in Carson McCullers' classic novel "The Member of the Wedding." One of the most important examples of how the author uses music to signify Frankie's development is illustrated through the jazz horn in part one of the book while in part two the music of the piano foreshadows her progression towards maturity. This paper also examines how music signifies Frankie's instability within herself and the world around her.
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"In part two of the novella, the music of the piano also foreshadows Frankie's progression towards maturity. As the neighbor's piano is being tuned, it carries out the sound of interrupted music. With every repeated stop and start, it shows the music is out of Frankie's control. Because the music is disoriented, it represents the unpredictable ways of Frankie not finishing her transition to young adulthood. The musical references symbolize the confusion and chaos Frankie associates with her transition in the world."
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"A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud" by Carson McCullers, 2002.
An analysis of the short story "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud" by Carson McCullers.
1,316 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper reviews the short story "A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud" by Carson McCullers. The writer describes the main characters of the story, their interaction with each other and explains their literary roles as defined by the author.
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"There are three central characters, two of whom have minimal dialogue, and only one of whom is given a name. Leo is the owner of the cafe where the story takes place. The newspaper boy who visits the cafe early in the morning while on his rounds is twelve and is never named. The focus is on the drunken man sitting alone at a table, a man who makes a surprising comment to the boy and who then expands on his comment by telling his own story. The situation between the boy and the drunk involves a series of implied contrasts between youth and age, innocence and experience. A secondary contrast is evident between the drunken man and Leo, here between an open and accepting spirit and a closed and angry one. What the drunken man imparts to the boy is a difficult lesson learned, and the rather elliptical way the older man imparts this lesson suggests that the boy will have to learn it for himself, probably through experience, just as the older man has."
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Carson McCullers' "The Ballad of the Sad Caf, 2001.
Discusses subject matter & narrative techniques. Outline.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 31.95
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" Carson McCullers' story "The Ballad of the Sad Caf?" is written in a non-sensationalistic style, and its narrative voice is omniscient, objective, and descriptive. The subject matter has sensationalistic elements, including questions of sex and violence, but these are muted through most of the story. What the author does is create a strong sense of doom as well as suspense through a number of narrative techniques that on the one hand withhold information for a time to keep the reader interested while at the same time hinting at what is to come so the reader tries always to see the forces at work, to figure out how they will converge, and to recognize revelations as they are made.
The first element that contributes to this sense of suspense is the fact that the story is structured as something..."
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"The Lion and the Jewel", 2002.
An analysis of the relationship between Sidi and Lunkunle in Wole Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel"
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the Wole Soyinka's "The Lion and the Jewel" and reveal the nature of the ways in which Sidi's dismissal of Lunkunle represents the victory of tribal values over western ones. This paper will also explore the relationship between Sidi and Lunkunle from the point of both gender and social values.
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McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" and Donofrio's "Riding In Cars With Boys", 1994.
This study analyzes the misbehavior of adolescent girls as exemplified by the character of Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" and by the character of Beverly Ann Donofrio in her autobiographical "Riding in Cars With Boys".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will analyze the misbehavior of adolescent girls as exemplified by the character of Frankie Addams in Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" and by the character of Beverly Ann Donofrio in her autobiographical "Riding in Cars With Boys". The study will consider what makes an adolescent girl a "bad girl" or a "good girl," what leads them to misbehave, how each of the two girls sees herself, how each girl's culture judges her, and how this reader sees each of them.
There are similarities and differences between the two girls in terms of why they are "bad" in the eyes of those around them. They come from very different socioeconomic backgrounds, Beverly from a poor neighborhood, Frankie from a wealthier family with a cook and other conveniences. They live in different era---Frankie in the 1940s of World War II, Beverly in the 1960s, but both eras ... "
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Sojourner Truth nee Isabella Van Wagener, 2005.
This paper examines the life and contributions of Sojourner Truth nee Isabella Van Wagener, black abolitionist and women's rights advocate.
1,980 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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This paper explains that Sojourner Truth nee Isabella Van Wagener was born a slave but became an early role model in the struggle for civil and women's rights during a period in American history when it was not only politically incorrect for black women to do so, but also positively dangerous. The author points out that the fact that Truth and the others dictated their narratives is not unusual; what makes them unusual is the fact that they were written at all. The paper relates that Truth used her enormous oratorical abilities to support three major causes: (1) The abolition of slavery, (2) woman's rights and (3) a failed attempt to relocate the contraband and eventually the freed slaves out of the cities of the east to western lands, where they could practice the only trade they knew, farming. Picture.
Table of Contents
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
Biographical Details about Sojourner Truth
Impact of Sojourner Truth's Life on American Society
Conclusion
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"According to one of her many biographers, Isabella Van Wagener was born the daughter of slaves; consequently, her early childhood was typified by all of the cruelties and brutalities associated with slavery in the Old South. The first language she learned was Dutch, and she and a fellow slave (named "Thomas) had at least five children together between 1810 and 1827; she was freed by Isaac Van Wagener just before New York state abolished the state's practice of slavery in 1827. Truth, with the assistance of Quaker friends, even managed to recover one of her sons who had been illegally sold into slavery in the South through the courts. The next two years found Truth in New York City where she supported herself and her two youngest children as a domestic worker. Truth's life was to assume a new direction at this point; she had experienced visions and heard voices since childhood, a phenomenon she attributed to God; however, she became associated with Elijah Pierson in New York City and this appears to be the catalyst she needed to take on her new role as an advocate for the newly freed slaves. Truth joined Pierson's Retrenchment Society and eventually his household and preached on the streets of New York City."
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Sojourner Truth, 2002.
How Sojourner Truth contributed to history especially to the women's suffregette movement.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper states the importance of Sojourner Truth in American women's history.
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Sojourner Truth, 2002.
This paper examines why it is that the memorial to women?s suffrage in the Library of Congress includes Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott but not Sojourner Truth.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 78.95
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This essay examines why Sojourner Truth, one of the great American heroes, was excluded in the memorial to women?s suffrage, by looking to a much less well known woman who was essentially her contemporary, Harriet Ann Jacobs.
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?Jacobs, who (like Frederick Douglass) spun the chaff of her experiences as a woman defined by and oppressed because of her race into an eloquent and uncompromising narrative of the enduring strength of the human spirit and the lure of freedom to those denied it.
Born into slavery, Jacobs still was also taught to read at an early age. After being orphaned, she becoming increasingly close to her maternal grandmother, Molly Horniblow, who had been freed from slavery; their relationship is described in loving detail in her autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The work begins with one of the most compelling opening lines imaginable: ?I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.?
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Black Abolitionist Sojourner Truth, 2006.
This paper explains that the life and work of Sojourner Truth were instrumental to the women's rights movement of the abolitionist era.
1,530 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper describes how Sojourner Truth worked not only to free women but also to free her people that had been bound by slavery before then, as she was. The author points out that her self-educated views illustrated the foundation of the movement with her simple and clearly thought-out speeches. The paper states that Truth was one of the most important elements of the women's movement of her time and carried the responsibility of the Black female voice throughout her lifetime.
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Introduction
Her Life
The Women's Movement and Truth
Conclusion
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"The basis for the women breaking support with each other was a statement made by Stanton during one of her public speaking engagements. It was at that time that Stanton vowed she would not vote for Blacks having the right to vote as long as women were not allowed to vote. Black women throughout the movement took issue with the one sided support. They believed that if they were supporting the women's movement then the white women suffragists should also support the Black movement, because in their mind oppression was oppression and it should all be fought against."
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Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, 2007.
This paper looks at the accomplishments of Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass.
704 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 25.95
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The paper discusses the life of Sojourner Truth, one of the key organizers of the Underground Railroad, part of the Abolitionist movement. The paper describes how she holds a prominent place in the history of the women's rights movement. The paper also looks at Frederick Douglass and contends that he deserves far more recognition than he receives. The paper maintains that his scholarly, descriptive and smoothly presented narrative writings should be required readings in every American history class.
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"Sojourner Truth was tall, had a deep voice, and was a character. She never for a moment doubted herself, her mission, or her ability to move others in the direction she wished to have them go. In her speech, which she probably had given more than once or twice in her career, she made a few wise cracks at the expense of a previous speaker."
"He was saying that women are the weaker gender, that they need help negotiating mud puddles and getting into carriages, setting her up perfectly for her semantics. Using the power of redundancy and the charm of colloquial language, she mesmerized the audience. "Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!" she argued."
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"Sojourner Truth", 2003.
An account of the historical method used to convey the substance of Truth's life.
1,610 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper presents an account of the historical method used by Nell Painter in "Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol," to convey the substance of the life of Sojourner Truth. It looks at the painter's interactive approach to dealing with issues of race, class and gender oppression as they affected the life and work of Truth. It looks at sources of Truth's social consciousness and activism.
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"This research argues that Nell Irvin Painter's biography of Sojourner Truth goes far in accomplishing an interactive approach to dealing with issues of race class and gender oppression as they overlapped andc onverged to affect the life and work of the ..."
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"The Member of the Wedding", 2005.
An analysis of the symbolic use of music in "The Member of the Wedding" by Carson McCullers.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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Carson McCullers' classic novel, "The Member of the Wedding', tells the story of a lonely 12 year old girl, Frankie Adams, suffering from typical adolescence crisis. In the course of being disconnected from the world, she reveals her frustration by not being a member of anything. This paper examines how Carson McCullers throughout the novella uses music to signify Frankie's incomplete development. It looks at how the many versions of music in the novella indicate Frankie's special burden of childhood, ultimately revealing her position of not being ready to become a teenager.
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"One of the most important examples of how McCullers uses music to signify Frankie's incomplete development is illustrated through the jazz horn in part one of the novella. When Frankie is visiting John Henry, she overhears someone playing blues on a horn. Her first notion about the tune takes her back to the spring, when all kinds of things began to hurt her. It was known as the season that troubled her: "it was like the telling of that long season of trouble" thought Frankie (44). The sadness of the tune reminds her of her disturbed childhood days. She is able to relate to the grieving tune. Then in a sudden moment the horn plays a wild jazz and Frankie is swept away by the off beat rhythm. "
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"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter", 2004.
A review of the novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers.
2,340 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper discusses the book "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers, a tale involving five main characters that struggle against the isolation and despair brought on by circumstances in their lives. The paper contends that McCullers wrote this story in order to analyze the lives of social outcasts and to learn how they try to break out of their unfavorable positions in life. The paper claims that she wished to show that despite being misfits in society, either due to their unpopular opinions on important issues or unusual circumstances in life, they were still complex individuals who also wished to love and be loved by others.
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"The novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers is a tale involving five main characters that struggle against the isolation and despair brought on by circumstances in their lives. The story takes place during the late 1930's in an unnamed deep Southern town. McCullers begins the story by introducing the deaf-mute John Singer; he used to live with his friend Spiros Antonapoulos who was also a deaf-mute. Singer doted on his friend a great deal even though it was apparent that Antonapoulos never showed any appreciation towards it. Later Antonapoulos became mentally ill and was taken away to an insane asylum despite Singer's protestations. Due to this, Singer had to move out of the home he once shared with his friend and become a boarder at the house of the Kelly's."
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