Kite Runner: Character Analysis of Amir
The author Khaled Hosseni wrote and published the book, The Kite Runner, in the year 2003 (Miles 207-209). It was during the year 2005 that the book became a bestseller in the United States. It was made into a movie by the year 2007, however it is considered a very challenged book. It faces many issues regarding the Afghan culture. Yet, in some way the controversies which lie in the novel obscured the book's accomplishments. After two years of publication, Hosseni's book made it to # 3 on the New York Time's Bestseller List; this is very impressive seeing as it was written in English, which is Hosseni's second language (Miles 207-209). The Kite Runner offers its readers a complex look into political history through an individual tale of friendship, betrayal and jealousy. This book also gives an insight into immigrant communities in the United…...

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Works Cited

Al-Saudeary, Mashael, "Power Relations in The Kite Runner: A New Historicist Reading." Arab Journal for the Humanities, 2009: 27.107. pp. 233-249.

Aubry and Timothy, "Afghanistan Meets the Amazon: Reading the Kite Runner in America." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2009: 124.1. pp. 25-43.

Hosseini, Khaled, "The Kite Runner." (Canada: Random House, 2007).

Jefferess, David, "To be good (again): The Kite Runner as allegory of global ethics." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2009: 45.4. pp.389-400.

Enemy of the People
Character Analysis & Reflection of the Play "An Enemy of the People"

Character Analyses

Tom Stockmann -- This part is essentially the role of the scientist. Dr. Stockman is an idealist, secure in his scientific world that the right thing, as he defines it, will be done. Tom Stockman is rational if not pragmatic. He underestimates the power that money has over common sense, good sense, and sometimes any sense at all. Stockman's world view is that of medicine, a paradigm that demands its practitioners do no harm. While money from tourism would certainly be nice, Dr. Stockman is unable to accept the idea that there are citizens in the town who would trade good health -- perhaps even their own good health -- for money. Further, he doesn't understand why the authorities don't respond to his discovery and move forward with making the corrections to the pipes,…...

Character Hamlet, Ghost, and Horatio
Character analysis of Hamlet, Ghost, Horatio: Act 1, Scenes 1-5

The story of Hamlet is so famous, it is easy to forget that at the beginning of the play, Hamlet is unaware of the fact that his father was murdered by his uncle. Hamlet begins the play a depressed, angry young man who is barely able to conceal the fact that he despises his new stepfather for marrying his mother so soon after his beloved father's demise. However, he has no proof that his uncle did anything wrong at first. In fact, the main problem seems to be Hamlet's attitude: he is wearing black and is entirely removed from the merriment of the rest of the court. He barely acknowledges Claudius and makes an effort to go back to Wittenberg so he can study, but his mother begs him to stay. When he says: "I shall…...

Greasy Lake
A Character Analysis of "Greasy Lake"

The nameless narrator of "Greasy Lake" admits in the first paragraph that he wants to be bad -- that, indeed, it is "good" to be bad. The contradiction is telling T.C. Boyle's young, teenage Everyman in "Greasy Lake" is a confused adolescent pretending to be something he is not: something legendary, mythical, hyper-real, and above the law. What unfolds in the telling is the restoration of reality as the three "baddies," the narrator, Digby and Jeff, all fall prey to their own delusions of grandeur and are accordingly reduced to the boys that they are, afraid, ashamed, and perhaps one reflection closer to leaving the life of the ne'er-do-well. This paper will analyze "Greasy Lake" from the perspective of Boyle's nameless narrator and show how he uses language to illustrate his own chronicle of incipient awareness.

Since the story is told from the perspective of…...

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Reference List

Boyle, T.C. (1986). Greasy Lake and Other Stories. NY: Penguin.

Solar Storms: A Character Analysis of its Protagonist Angela Jesnen
Solar Storms is a novel of a coming of age. Its central character is the adolescent protagonist, a young Native American woman named Angela Jesnen with a troubled family history and a troubled past. Jesnen is an outsider in almost all facets of her life, standing on the borderlines of existence on almost every facet of her being. For example, Angela is an outsider physically, as her face is scarred. During a time of life, late adolescence, where a young woman wishes most to appear to be beautiful and fit in with her peer group, Angela feels self-conscious about her ability to attract the opposite sex. This alone would be bad enough, but to make things worse, Angela is haunted by the knowledge that it was her troubled mother Hannah who injured her, as well as her knowledge that Hannah herself…...

In the same manner that the bourgeois class had 'imprisoned' the proletariat by letting them aspire to achieve the same wealth and social status that they had, came the looseness of morality required from the proletariat. This is what happened to Emma, whose internal conflict -- that is, whether or not to thoroughly embrace a rich and comfortable life despite her increasing commitment to immorality -- failed to give her the aspirations she had created from the time she had been exposed to the modern, yet sometimes vulgar, life of the rich and elite class.

Frustrated by the lack of fulfillment of her ambitions through her affairs, Emma had become restless and disillusioned in the same way an individual would have acted has s/he not achieved prosperity in the modern capitalist society: "The disappointment of her failure increased the indignation of her outraged modesty; it seemed to her that Providence pursued…...

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Bibliography

Flaubert, G. (1857). E-text of "Madame Bovary." Available at http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/mbova11h.htm.

Marx, K. And F. Engels. (1848). E-text of "The Communist Manifesto." Available at  http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html .

protagonist of Mary Morris' short story "The Lifeguard"
The most notable thing about Mary Morris' short story entitled "The Lifeguard" is the way that the story makes an adolescent and largely undefined character a powerful, first person narrator. This is especially extraordinary in a tale with only one scene of truly wrenching external action. The rest of the narrative is mostly a series of observations, through the watchful but mostly bored eyes of the lifeguard. Morris creates a sense of drama and progression by structuring the short tale along a series of contrasts, first in terms of the lifeguard's place in life against the older inhabitants he watches, then regarding the lifeguard's relative youth and mobility vs. The other character's age and stasis, and finally between the main character's unfulfilled youthful, sexual desires and the other character's unfulfilled adult desires for different and better lives.

Morris, by making the main character's…...

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Work Cited

Morris, Mary. "The Lifeguard." From The Art of the Story. Edited by Daniel Halpern. New York: Penguin Books, 1999.

Big Daddy," in Tennessee illiam's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
BIG DADDY POLLITT

Big Daddy" is one of the most important characters in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The story revolves around him and his family, and their reaction to his pending death from cancer. Big Daddy wants to make sure the estate he owns will stay in his family, and he wants his son Brick to produce the heir that will eventually inherit the estate, there is just one problem, Brick does not have any children, and he may even be a bisexual. The two men have to discover each other, admit they love each other, and try to bring the family together.

Big Daddy was just a drifter when he first came to the plantation owned by two gay men, Jack Straw and Peter Ochello. He only intended to stay long enough to do some yard work and…...

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Works Cited

Crandell, George W. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Tennessee Williams: A Guide to Research and Performance. Ed. Philip C. Kolin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. 109-121.

Crandell, George W., ed. The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Editors, "Works of Tennessee Williams: Commentary on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Monarch Notes. 1 January 1963.

Tischler, Nancy M. Student Companion to Tennessee Williams. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Roger Chillingworth in Scarlet Letter
As his name suggests, Roger Chillingworth in Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Scarlet Letter comes across as a cold-hearted character. Early in the novel, Chillingworth is depicted as a neglectful husband, whose unfulfilled promise to join his wife in the New World led Hester to commit adultery. However, as The Scarlet Letter progresses, Roger Chillingworth becomes more of a pitiful character than an evil one. Chillingworth is physically deformed; his shoulders are unnaturally stooped. Once he realizes Hester is pregnant with another man's child, he is bent on seeking revenge. Chillingworth devotes his power and attention to the degradation of his wife and her lover, using his status as a doctor to assume a mask of respectability. However, his efforts are in vain. The town sees Chillingworth for the leech that he is. Roger Chillingworth is the cold-hearted, nefarious man that Hawthorne paints him out to be, because…...

Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein is the "modern Prometheus" Mary Shelley refers to in the title of her novel Frankenstein. Prometheus stole fire from the gods to bestow its gift upon mankind, in direct affront to natural and spiritual law. As a modern Prometheus, Dr. Frankenstein harnesses the power to create life. Mary Shelley uses diction and rich description to convey the central idea that Dr. Frankenstein acts immorally with grave consequences for himself and humanity.

One of the cornerstones of Dr. Frankenstein's moral character is the fact that he is conscious of what he is doing, and therefore must be held accountable for his actions. The young Frankenstein describes himself in laudatory terms. He says that he had a "sometimes violent temper" but that he was able to channel his passions into a "desire to learn." This "violent temper" is something that Shelley inserts on purpose as foreshadowing for the reader. Choosing this…...

Character Dynamics
That 70s Show was a popular television sitcom that ran on Fox for almost a decade and gained something of a cult following by some groups. The show portrays a group of friends and was set in the previous generation (the 1970s). Each of the friends in the group has a significantly different personality as well as many different character attributes. It is reasonable to believe that the dynamics between the character roles was one of the primary attractions of the show. Each of the characters has a personality type that was unique, but also generic enough that most people would know someone that the character reminded them of. Furthermore, the fact that the show was set in a previous generation also added a cultural dynamic to the ways that the cast interacted with each other.

The main character was named Eric Forman who seemed like a normal and…...

Character and Personality Traits of Agamemnon
Agamemnon's virtue of tolerance and liberalism turns out to be his weakness as a king.

Aeschylus' play Agamemnon is actually not the first performance of the story. The tale of Agamemnon's return from Troy and consequent death is handled in Pindar, Hesiod, Homer, Stesichorus, in addition to other poets and was quite familiar to the Athenian audience watching Aeschylus. Aeschylus, however, picks and merges these customs, expanding a simple tale of betrayal and murder by providing the essential characters with reasonable motives, not only at the human, but also divine level. This gives him the opportunity to come up with a play founded on tragic disagreements that are way more complicated than those in the mythological sources that he utilizes. Apart from minor details, we see Aeschylus making modifications in the background accounts of the characters before the major action of the play via the…...

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Bibliography

AncientGreece. 2009. 08 October 2015.

Cowley, Christopher. "Moral Dilemmas in Greek Tragedies: a Discussion of Aeschylus's." n.d.

Fong, Julian. Aeschylus' Agamemnon: Myth to Tragedy. 6 January Julian Fong. 08 October 2015.

Hill, Daniel. "The future you will know when it happens:' A study of the parodos of Aeschylus' Agamemnon." 2012.

Sophie and Howl
Howl’s Movie Castle is a Japanese animated fantasy film that was written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 2004. The film, which is set in a fictional kingdom, tells the story of Sophie, a young hatter who became an old woman following a curse by a witch. Sophie is the main character in this Japanese animated fantasy film, which includes other main characters like Howl. Prior her turning into an old woman by a witch’s curse, Sophie was a young woman living in Market Chipping, a small town in the fictional kingdom of Ingary (Suzuki & Miyazaki, 2004). Since she lived in this fictional kingdom of Ingary, Sophie was predestined to never discover her fortune. On the contrary, Howl is a powerful wizard living in the same fictional kingdom of Ingary. While he was initially known as Howell Jenkins of Wales, Howl is one of the loose fraternity…...

Cathedral
Character Analysis: Cathedral Narrator

The objective of this study is to present an argument that the narrator in 'Cathedral' is a complex and sympathetic character and to consider the extent to which he seems unaware with his own limitations despite being incapable of articulating that unhappiness. The narrator in the work of Raymond Carver entitled "Cathedral" is a complex and sympathetic character who is unaware of his own limitations and essentially unhappy even though he is incapable of articulating that unhappiness and learns from a blind man that unless one is aware of their limitations that those limitations cease to exist. The work 'Cathedral' is about a visit paid by a blind man to his friend, the wife of the narrator, following the death of the blind man's wife. While the wife greatly anticipates the visit of the blind man, the husband and narrator of 'Cathedral' has a great deal of…...

loss affects not just Yank, who wrestles with it throughout the play, but perhaps also Yank's shipmates, Mildred and her aunt, the rich people on Fifth Avenue, the prisoners, and the union members. In what ways does the play suggest that modern existence is inherently dehumanizing?
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill focuses on Yank Smith, a leader amidst the stokers within the heaving furnaces in a liner across the Atlantic. In the whole play, Yank's sense of "belonging" during the new order peaks, the profusion of pride that he gets from what he does, degenerates after he receives a message of social scorn and discovers how insignificant his manual work is, in the world's eyes. His work becomes meaningless and he turns into a deplorable creature (hairy ape) who dies after being crushed; literally, by the animal's hand towards the end of the play (Oldman, 2006).

At the beginning of…...

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Derrida, J. (1994) Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, The Work of Mourning, and The New International. New York: Routledge, Inc.

Falk, D. (1982) Eugene O'Neill and the Tragic Tension/An Interpretive Study of the Plays. New York: Gordian Press.

Martine, J. (1984). Critical Essays on Eugene O'Neill. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.

Oldman, E. (2006). Yank's Consciousness of Alienation in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. Laconics.

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1. The Role of Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird

2. Racism and Injustice in To Kill a Mockingbird

3. Moral Development in To Kill a Mockingbird

4. Character Analysis of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird

5. The Symbolism of the Mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird

6. The Importance of Empathy in To Kill a Mockingbird

7. Social Class and Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird

8. Atticus Finch: A Heroic Figure in To Kill a Mockingbird

9. Themes of Childhood and Maturity in To Kill a Mockingbird

10. The Impact of Literature in To Kill a....

Macbeth: A Tragic Hero's Descent into Madness

The Role of Ambition in Macbeth's Downfall: Explore how Macbeth's unrestrained ambition, fueled by the witches' prophecies, leads him from a noble warrior to a tyrannical king.

The Influence of Lady Macbeth on Macbeth's Actions: Examine the extent to which Lady Macbeth's manipulative and ruthless nature drives Macbeth's decisions and accelerates his descent into evil.

The Theme of Guilt and Punishment: Analyze how the guilt of murdering Duncan haunts Macbeth and manifests itself in his mental and physical deterioration.

The Supernatural in Macbeth

The Witches and Their Role in Macbeth's Fate: Discuss the significance....

I. Introduction
A. Explanation of the significance of "The Cathedral" as a short story by Raymond Carver
B. Brief overview of the main themes and characters in the story

II. Summary of "The Cathedral"
A. Description of the protagonist, the narrator, and his interactions with Robert, the blind man
B. Analysis of the narrator's initial prejudice and ignorance towards Robert
C. Discussion of the transformative experience the narrator has while drawing with Robert

III. Analysis of Themes
A. Theme of prejudice and ignorance
1. Examination of the narrator's initial misconceptions about blindness and his personal growth
B. Theme of communication and understanding
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