Category: Theater

Pecola, an eleven-year-old black girl, is the protagonist of The Bluest Eye. Her family lives in grinding poverty in Lorain, Ohio. By 1941, her parents’ marriage had turned bitter and violent. Cholly, her father, is an alcoholic and Pauline, her mother, prefers to retreat into the fantasy world of the movie theater. Surrounded by a …

Theodore DreiserTheAmericanDreamCourtney ConnorsEnglish III CPMr. BreslinThrough the social criticism of Theodore Dreiser, the plight of the poor is compared against the actions of the rich. In both An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie Dreiser presents characters who are driven by ignorance and in ability to withstand the pressures of the shallow American yearning for money, …

The Influence of Reading on Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary Reading provides an escape for people from the ordinariness of everydaylife. Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, dissatisfied with their lives pursuedtheir dreams of ecstasy and love through reading. At the beginning of bothnovels Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary made active decisions about their futurealthough these …

The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove, Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is to have the “bluest” eyes so that others will view her as pretty in the end that desire is …

Chapter 1: The Right to Make WarSince 1795, when Immanuel Kant published in his old age his treatise on “Perpetual Peace,” many have considered it an established fact that war is the destruction of all good and the origin of all evil. In spite of all that history teaches, no conviction is felt that the …

Many of us, people dont believe that there exists live after death. We think that this is not possible. People are just dying and they are living their bodies behind them, and leaving this world. Some of us believe in the reincarnation. We died, but we are born as a new human being. In the …

ng Generation?”Is Violence on Television Acceptable for our Growing Generation?”I. The BeginningSince the beginning of time, there has always been violence. From the death of Abel by his brother Cain in the Bible, to the mighty gladiator stadiums in Rome ruled by Alexander the Great, to the horrible accusations of the Salem Witch Trials in …

In 1961, Joseph Heller published Catch-22, his first novel. Based on his own warexperiences, the novel wickedly satirized bureaucracy, patriotism, and allmanner of traditional American ideals. This was reflective of the increasingdisdain for traditional viewpoints that was growing in America at that time.(Potts, p. 13) The book soon became championed as another voice in the …

Among the chaotic events that occurred, World War II, in itself, produced a great array of military leaders, political figures, and government officials. Dwight David Eisenhower was one of the few who was triumphant at all three.Ike was an indifferent student, he came to preside over a great university; almost denied a commission as second …