Christopher Durang's 'For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls'
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This 5 page report discusses satirist Christopher Durang's outrageous parody of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece 'The Glass Menagerie.' The issue of how well Durang captures the true intent of Williams' play is covered. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Durangt.wps

Faith in 'Beloved' and Other Stories
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A 4 page analysis of how faith was necessary in the lives of the main characters in Beloved, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Last of Cheri. No outside sources. Written in present tense. Concludes that without faith it is impossible to get through some desperate situations; breaks down faith into a process, starting with need and ending with dependence.
Filename: Handmad2.wps

Gayl Jones' 'Corregidora'
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5 pages in length. Humanity can be a cruel and detestable entity. No one is more aware of that fact than Ursa, a blues singer whose own family's sordid past consumes her with a hatred so deep, she carries it with her throughout her life. Portrayed as a nineteenth-century slave master who impregnates both Ursa's mother and grandmother, the slave master father holds a particular place of contempt in her heart, for it is because of the brutal way in which black women are treated during that era that sets Ursa on her lifelong journey of repugnance. The writer offers a critical analysis of Gayl Jones' classic novel. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Correg.wps

Huckleberry Finn vs. Raisin In The Sun
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A 5 page look at how society's hardships inherently upset the dreams --and even moralities of characters in the novels of Twain and Hansberry. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Hucksun.wps

I Know Where the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison Between the Novel and the Movie
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This 5 page paper provides a comparison between Maya Angelou's novel and the television movie that was based on her book. This paper outlines some of the major differences between the text of the book and the elements of the movie and determines the benefits/weaknesses as a result of these changes. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHAngel2.wps

Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
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Community is a concept that is difficult to define and harder yet to maintain. This 6 page paper argues that Paule Marshall's book, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People, as the title indicates, incorporates two distinctive themes. The first is represented as The Chosen Place and refers to the political, economic and social schema of the West Indian island and is set in juxtaposition with the western form of living, specifically colonialism as represented by the corporate style of UNICOR. The second is seen in her development of characters that represent the dichotomy of old and new cultures; also seen as the culture of the island and the outside world. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTchosen.wps

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative & The Theme Of Religion
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A 2 page essay on Mary Rowlandson's narrative and the important role that her faith in religion plays as an ongoing theme. The writer believes that the narrator's faith is what literally 'keeps her going' and that her frequent quotes from The Bible do much to reinforce this strong thesis. No Bibliography.
Filename: Rowlands.wps

Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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This 5 page paper considers the three ways that Maya Angelou argued that second class citizens infringed on her personal development as she grew up in the pre-Civil War south. This paper reflects on whether these experiences were universal or if they were universal to the way any young people grew up during this era. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHAngel_.wps

Mendacity On 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' 'A Doll's House,' And 'The Misanthrope'
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This 5 page report discusses the treatment of mendacity (the state of falsehood or untruthfulness) in each of the plays and compares it in terms of intensity. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Mendaci.wps

Morrison's The Bluest Eye & Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye
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Morrison and Salinger have both chosen to have the plot revolve around the misconception of the community and the need for adolescents (innocence) to find acceptance. A loss of that innocence results in a need to escape to somewhere or something that is able to fill the void. This 5 page paper argues that the character of Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye and several of Morrison's characters in The Bluest Eye experience a gradual psychic erosion that represents the weakening of their concept of community. An explanation of epigram is includes as well as suggestions for an epigrammatic title for the student's essay. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: KTeyerye.wps

Nella Larsen's 'Quicksand'
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A 5 page paper discussion about the book, 'Quicksand,' by Nella Larsen. The discussion addresses the issues surrounding Helga Crane. These issues include race, gender, and social class. The characther most heavily discussed is the character of Helga Crane, who illustrates very well how the issues involved are heavily interrelated for they are nothing more than the fine details of a larger picture. No additional sources provided.
Filename: Quicksan.rtf

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: The Symbolic Value of the Narrator's Possessions
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This 2 page paper considers the symbolic value of the items that the narrator collects in his briefcase and those items that he eventually discards. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHinvism.wps

Tennesse Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Babylon Revisited'
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In this 6 page paper, the writer demonstrates how the theme of disillusionment is developed through the characterizations of Blanche DuBois and Charlie Wales in these two short stories. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Streetcar.wps

The Influences of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston on African-American Blues and Theater
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A 10 page paper which examines the influences provided by poet Langston Hughes and novelist/short-story writer Zora Neale Hurston on African-American blues and theater, by comparing and contrasting their perspectives, through such works as (among others), Hughes' 'The Weary Blues' and 'Po' Boy Blues' and Hurston's short story, 'How It Feels to Be Colored Me,' and the novel, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: TGlanzor.wps

The Representation of Women in 'My Antonia' and 'McTeague'
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A 6 page paper looking at the way women are portrayed in these two novels, by Willa Cather and Frank Norris respectively. The paper argues that in each case, the author has chosen to distance himself so much from the sensibility of the central female character that she is less a real woman than an abstraction. Bibliography lists two sources (the books).
Filename: Myanmc.wps

The Spirit of Place in the African American Experience
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An 8 page paper examining three novels -- Huckleberry Finn, Love is Medicine, and Beloved -- and treating the issue of what constitutes a good place, a spiritual home, in all three works. Huckleberry Finn and Beloved are dealt with most extensively. No sources except books.
Filename: Belov.wps

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