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"Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer's bestseller, Harlot's Ghost, opens with the narrator, Harry Hubbard, describing his surroundings in Maine. Above the first chapter are the words Omega 1, which refer to a secret autobiographical manuscript that Harry had begun years before (9). When the book begins, Harry is living with his wife, Kittredge, at a place they call the Keep (5). The Keep once belonged to Harry's father, Cal Hubbard, who sold it to his second cousin, Rodman Knowles Gardiner (7). Ironically, Rodman Gardiner is Kittredge's father, and Kittredge gained possession of the Keep on her first marriage (7).

The novel begins innocently enough, with Harry describing his wife's eyes as having "the blue of the sea" and saying that her white skin becomes "luminous in any pale meadow" (5). ... "

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"Sam Croft in Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and Mike Hammer in Mickey Spillane's I, The Jury are both macho characters, but there are great differences between the two. Croft is a sadistic man without a heart while Hammer is simply a man who can be tough when he needs to be, but can also be gentle and loving. This study will show that Mailer has created an evil and violent fascist in Croft, while Spillane has created in Hammer a hard-nosed private detective with a heart. Croft is out to do damage wherever he can, while Hammer is out to serve justice, especially in terms of avenging his cruelly murdered friend Jack Williams. Hammer is shown to care about other people
---including the person who murdered his friend, while Croft cares about nothing and nobody but himself.


Mickey Spillane leaves no doubt in the reader's head that..."

Abstract
This paper is a summary and response to Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" (1957) which examines the nonconformists of society and appraises them psychologically.

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"Norman Mailer's stirring essay "The White Negro" examines the nonconformists of society and appraises them psychologically. Hip as the opposite of square is a perspective and a lifestyle exhibited in different ways by different types of nonconformists. The hipster, for example, is a nonconformist that the author asserts is trying to get back at the conformists by staying out of society and resisting its effort to make him over in its own image. Embodied by James Dean, the hipster does not proselytize his views but..."

Tags:Norman Mailer, The White Negro, hip, square, hipster, nonconformist

Abstract
This paper details the introduction and perception of the WWII combat genre in both film and literature. The writer of this paper defines genre as an element consisting of a shared set of rules, symbols and story patterns. In Norman Mailer's novel, "The Naked and the Dead," the author engages the symbols, characters and narrative conventions of the combat genre in a complex dialogue, both enmeshing and reinforcing audience expectations. By tracing the minority character of Martinez in "The Naked and the Dead," one can see how Mailer incorporates the genre in a way that reflects both the unique capacities of the novel as a medium separate from that of film. This paper also expands on Mailer's particular view of film as an inadequate representation of the complexities of war and America. The writer of this paper contends that Mailer's novel must be read in the context of the combat film genre, which was well established in the memory of American audiences by 1948 as a frame of reference for understanding and justifying WWII. This paper clearly details the characteristics of Martinez which fits the conventional stereotype evolved from and established within the genre of the World War II combat film. The writer also discusses the significance of various WWII related films that were released in the 1940s including: "Bataan," "GI Joe" and "Home of the Brave."

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"The multiracial platoon acts as a symbol of democracy, functioning to distinguish Americans from a racist enemy, the Nazis. At the same time, the visual presence of minorities helps to legitimize 'good' racism (racism against the Japanese) by framing it with images of racial integration. Feigning inclusion of minorities is also a propaganda tactic aiming to harness collective support for the war. In Bataan there are four minorities: a Mexican-American, two Philipinos and a black man. The Philipinos are associated with nature; they are implicitly more primitive and closer to the enemy. The Mexican-American is associated with jazz music and a womanizing past, and the black man is associated with spirituality. All four characters die fairly early on in horrible barbaric deaths. In later movies, some or all of these characteristics may be lumped together into composite minority representatives."

Tags:literature, analysis, perception, film, industry, u.s., history, world, war, two

Abstract
This paper explains that Vietnam War literature positions American religion as being a God-fearing culture that seeks to be moral. The author points out works by Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly that refer to this everyday American religion and culture and to myths of American power, politicians and industrialists as being insane and immoral and as changing forever how Americans saw their country. The paper relates that these works project the Vietnam conflict as something in which Americans should never have been involved including describing its soldiers as victims or as people responsible for terrible crimes of war. The author stresses that Vietnam was a working-class war rejected by the American bourgeoisie, who did not need to go to combat. The paper concludes that the literature discussed in the paper is the work of Americans with the option not to go to Vietnam and that it needs to be examined along with other literature produced in the next decades, too.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Damning Literature
Tim O'Brien's "In the Field"
Norman Mailer
Robert Bly Poem: "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last"
Last Remarks

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"Norman Mailer's "The Army of the Night" was published in 1968 and is an allegorical description of the March on the Pentagon. The reader is shown the extreme contrast between rather decadent hippies of the anti-Vietnam War movement and the thousands who then fought in Vietnam, ordinary Americans who dealt with every terrible aspect of jungle warfare. The last pages of "A Confrontation by the River" tell of a clash of American popular myths and moral beliefs about America and a "true religious war of Christ against the Communist" in relation to Vietnam towards a "whole crisis of Christianity in America... ""

Tags:working-class, immoral, carelessness, generation, justifications

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This papers focuses on the front-line battlefield experiences of both American and Japanese soldiers as depicted in the semi-biographical, but fictional work, "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer, and the autobiographical account of World War II experiences by Ooka Shohei, "Fires on the Plain". It looks at how both of these great books are war-account classics that provide insights from a unique perspective that actually delivers the reader onto the front lines and into the hell of war on the hot Pacific islands.

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""The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer is a novel about human tragedy. The book was set during World War II on one of the many islands American armed forces had to battle for against the Royal Japanese soldiers. The story depicts the island, Anopopei, as an insignificant one in the scope of the pacific theatre but that does not cut down on the book's characters having to deal with isolation, death, loss and the loneliness. All of the characters in this work do their fair share of suffering as the war goes on all around them. Victory only shows that many of their comrades in arms are never going home and those who are lucky to go home have been scarred either mentally or physically and will never be the same."

Tags:american, japanese, soldier, battlefield

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The paper examines the character of Norman Bates played by the actor Anthony Perkins in the movie "Psycho". The writer evaluates this character in terms of his extraversion, how open to experience he is, his conscientiousness, his neuroticism and his agreeableness. The paper notes that he would be considered a sociopath in modern psychology.

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"Norman Bates is a young man that suffers with what seems to be an Oepidus complex. He dwells in a mansion which is adjacent to his family owned motel. The motel is in a quiet area which is located on a deserted road far away from any urban society. A secretary from Phoenix Arizona, Marion Crane (Lila Crane) runs away from her ordinary life while holding a stolen sum of $40,000. She decides that The Bates Motel is a desirable location because it is secluded.
"When Marion checks into the motel, she meets Norman. He seems rather shy yet shows that he yearns for company. He invites her to sit down and have a talk. She obliges but it is apparent in her demeanor that she senses Norman is eccentric and socially awkward. During her gathering with Norman, she becomes aware that his mother resides in the mansion that is located on the property. She can hear arguing between Norman and his supposed mother. She confronts Norman about his poor relationship with his mother. This conversation causes him to become uncomfortable and visibly angry. Marion decides to retreat to her room. She eventually meets her demise when Norman murders her in the shower."

Tags:extraversion, experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, agreeableness

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The preservation of historic sites and of vintage architecture has become a major focus for many in the contemporary period. Different theorists have addressed this issue as they have also sought to motivate the movement for the preservation of the worthy and the important. This paper examines how two such theorists with somewhat different approaches to the subject are William Sumner Appleton and Norman Morrison Isham, both of whom left writings on the subject as well as took action in furtherance of their goals and their idea of the need for preservation.

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"William Sumner Appleton lived at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries in the Boston area, where at the time, preservation was maturing from a string of spontaneous efforts to an institutionalized movement. As this took place, both the aims of preservation aims and its methods were transformed, a process in which Appleton played a key role. In the nineteenth century, Boston did not have an organization dedicated to preservation as such. The Bostonian Society was meant to be such an organization, but the group seemed to be satisfied by the single project of looking after the Old State House. The Trustees of Reservations was also nominally interested in historic structures, but in practice the group refused to accept any such structures for years because they had no means of maintaining them. "

Tags:historic, sites, vintage, architecture

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This paper discusses how a Canadian doctor Norman Bethune became a Chinese Communist revolutionary hero. The writer shows that as a cadre, he worked side by side with the revolutionary soldiers and he imparted his medical knowledge to the peasants. The writer points out that Mao cited Bethune as a true spirit of the People's Revolutionary Struggle. Further the writer notes that Bethune became known throughout China as a martyr to the revolution and a war hero.

Tags:china, revolution, bethune

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This paper examines American popular religion and myth and how they were shaken by the experience of the Vietnam War. This can be seen especially in the works of writers of that era. This paper refers to Michael Herr, J. O'Brien, Robert Bly and Norman Mailer whose work showed the poverty of American myths of moral involvement in Vietnam. Additionally, the paper includes reflections on how the anti-Vietnam faction was not so moral either.

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"American culture has been described as God-fearing. There is also an American popular religion of being American and of what is American as being moral. A variety of literature that was inspired by the Vietnam Conflict in the Heath Anthology of American Literature features references to religion, here and there, while describing the Vietnam war's trials. (2006) If one begins with Michael Herr's Dispatches, a 1977 classic of the conflict, a journalist relates simply what he saw when taken into forward..."

Tags:literature, vietnam, civil religion