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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, AU$ 48.95
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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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"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, AU$ 53.95
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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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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, AU$ 28.95
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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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"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, AU$ 94.95
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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' "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", 2001.
Discusses subject matter & narrative techniques. Outline.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 34.95
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" Carson McCullers' story "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" 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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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, AU$ 51.95
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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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"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, AU$ 53.95
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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 Ballad of the Sad Cafe", 2004.
A review of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers.
721 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 27.95
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This paper examines how "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers is an interesting tale that focuses on strange nature of the emotion called love. It looks at how it deals with interesting yet complicated relationship between three people who are not our average protagonists where looks and appearance are concerned. It also discusses how relationships play an important role for the simple reason that author has taken up the uniqueness of this emotion of love as the central theme.
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"Miss Amelia is not our usual female protagonist because she is neither beautiful nor rich. She is an ordinary woman with less than average looks and an unusual appearance. About 6'1 tall, she is not very feminine but is well respected in her town because of her small store where she sells wine. Marvin Macy is a handsome man who lacks morals since he is an outlaw and has often been convicted of stealing and robbing. However for some inexplicable reason, he falls in love with Miss Amelia and this brings us to the strangeness of this emotion."
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Ghosts in "The Member of the Wedding", 2002.
An analysis of how the theme of ghosts is included in Carson McCullers's "The Member of the Wedding".
2,476 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 81.95
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This paper analyzes the role of ghosts in the plot, themes, and language of Carson McCullers's novel, "The Member of the Wedding." Using Judith Butler's theories on kinship and queer relationality in "Antigone's Claim," the paper argues that ghosts help the novel to present an expanded vision of the field of human love.
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Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding is, essentially, the story of a twelve-yeard-old girl named Frankie Addams searching for love and connection in a lonely world. Frankie's world is frightening, even nightmarish at times, and it is filled with the ghosts that inhabit her imagination and described in the textually ghostly terms of the unknown, the secret, and the unnameable. The figure of the "ghost" - as imagined by Frankie and as a primary descriptive device in McCullers' prose - quite literally haunts the novel, complicating its conceptions of human relationality and connection. The ghosts enable the novel to posit a tenuous definition of what it is to be a living human being; every living figure in the novel is not only deeply aware of the presence of non-living figures but is in constant danger of falling out of the realm of the living, of becoming a ghost, and every relationship between the living is negotiated over the presence of the dead. Ultimately, the novel's - and its characters - ghosts allow for the at once terrifying and redemptive possibility of relationships and identities that transgress not only normative societal boundaries but the boundaries between the living and the dead.
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"The Member of the Wedding", 2007.
An analysis of the importance of family in Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding".
1,003 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 38.95
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This paper discusses how the heroine, Frankie Adams, of Carson McCullers' "The Member of the Wedding" is primarily defined by her familial relationships. It looks at how Frankie seems ostracized from what is left of her biological family, even though she is not consciously aware of this fact. It concludes that Frankie learns that family is not particular to brothers, fathers, or mothers, but can be found within the hearts of anyone who cares enough to listen and understand her needs, thoughts, and feelings.
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"Although Frankie does not realize her confusion about growing up until she talks to Bernice, Frankie's childlike status and need for a mother soon becomes clear when the reader leans she is scared to sleep alone. Early on in the book, she demands that her six-year-old cousin stay overnight to keep her company. However, like the twelve-year-old she is, Frankie is also determined to seem like a young woman and conceal her feelings of neediness and desire for protection, as she tries to seem mature before her father when he informs her of her uncle's death. Her family does not see this need for protection and maturity all at once--they are too preoccupied with the wedding. Only Bernice truly understands Frankie's emotional conflict, as a mother should."
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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, AU$ 77.95
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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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"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" ., 2002.
An analysis of this book by Carson McCullers, focusing the author's unique writing techniques.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 47.95
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This paper will cover the book "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers and seek to understand the author's style and form. By understanding the nature of the novel in the way that McCullers seems to change characters on every chapter, we can understand the experimental side of this author's technique in literature. The style that he uses to reveal the nature of the scope of the novel and its characters will also be discussed for his approach in technique.
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Isolation in Literature, 2004.
A look at the theme of isolation in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Carson McCullers's "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe".
1,987 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 68.95
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Isolation is a word that denotes loneliness and being alone. This is not merely a physical condition, but can be a state of mind, as well. This paper discusses the stories of William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily", and McCullers's, "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", in which this theme is highlighted. It shows how both writers create protagonists that are isolated due to their thoughts and struggles in the course of life, rather than solely by society and the constraints it puts on people.
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"Isolation is a harsh word that brings up an image of a person living alone in the desert or equally far away place that has little human habitation. The word is rarely used for people living in the middle of a social town or city for it seems impossible that a person could be alone in the midst of a relatively large population. Yet, some people refuse to accept that their lives must be inexplicably linked with the others who live amongst the society for humans are not social animals for recreation purposes, though that is an added advantage, the fact is humans are social for survival. For without the human touch even an infant slowly dies. Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner is a story of a woman who seems to be lost in her search for love and companionship, through out her life."
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Sense of Community in Literature, 2005.
An analysis of the theme of sense of community and the impact on the individual in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and Carson McCullers' "Ballad of the Sad Cafe".
2,184 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 73.95
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This place examines how the cafe in "Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and the porch in "Their Eyes Were Watching God" both represent people existing as part of a community. It looks at how, in both cases, the main character is struggling to balance their need to be part of that community with their own individual needs. The various functions of the two community settings are discussed in order to show how the community setting is a place that is the opposite of loneliness and alienation, a place where people are judged, and a place where the conflict between your needs and the needs of society plays out.
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"The community setting can be considered as a place that represents the opposite of alienation and loneliness. When individuals are in this community place, they become connected to the larger society rather than disconnected from it. Fowler (260) notes that a dread of isolation is apparent in Ballad Of The Sad Cafe. This is seen in the character of Amelia, who is initially known as a distant and unfriendly person. Due to this part of her nature, she remains disconnected from the larger society and alone because of this. This changes when Cousin Lymon becomes part of her life. He initially meets people in Amelia's store, where a gathering of the town takes place. This meeting represents the point where Amelia begins to become socially connected."
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Christopher "Kit" Carson (1809-1868), 2006.
A biography of Christopher "Kit" Carson.
1,410 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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The paper looks at the life of Christopher "Kit" Carson, an almost mythic character in American history. He played an important role in the United State's expansion as a major player in the government's war with the Navajo Indians, finally forcing them off their lands. The paper reports on Carson's childhood. As his father died when he was nine years old, the need to work prevented him from ever receiving an education. His story is remarkable because in his lifetime Carson played so many roles that aided in Westward expansion in addition to Indian fighter: mountain man, trapper, guide, and sheep rancher. Both during and after Carson's life, astounding stories were told about his bravery, great strength and heroic deeds he had performed. The paper concludes that the story of Carson reveals both the good and the bad; while playing an important role in the Untied States expansion, he participated in important ways in subjugation and mistreatment of Native Americans. He was an army officer who followed his orders, but today those actions are recognized as wrong. His life is an example of those complex times.
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"Christopher "Kit" Carson, who was born in 1809 and died in 1868, has become an almost mythic character in American history. He started out as an apprentice to a saddle-maker, but made his way to the West, where he became a fur trapper and guide. He started out enjoying good relationships with Native Americans and even married Native American women twice in his life. Eventually he was an officer in the Civil War, and he played a major role in the American government's war with the Navajo Indians, finally forcing them off their lands."
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Carson's Nature, 2005.
An analysis of Rachel Carson's environmental classic, "Silent Spring."
1,164 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 43.95
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Rachel Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," unquestionably served as a catalyst in the formation of the modern environmental movement, rousing many to action, and profoundly altering the public conception of government, industry, and the human relationship to the natural world. This paper explores the myriad ways in which Carson revolutionized nature writing and her profound impact on American life.
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"Perhaps the most noticeable aspect of Carson's writing is its lack of overt glorification of the natural world. Gone are Muir's mountain "temples," "bathed in light, bathed in floods of singing water," or "the wild sheep of God" that populate Mary Austin's' landscape. Carson boldly does away with the grandiose language usually used to evoke emotion, and in its place she creates an overriding tone of objectivity. A trained biologist, she presents a vast body of information in a style that is succinct and straightforward, designed to have a logical, rather than artistic or spiritual, appeal. References to the divine, for example, are almost entirely lacking - a marked contrast between her work and that of most other writers. Rather, one races through a series of vividly sketched case studies and statistics, which together paint an increasingly convincing and dire picture. It is this tone of objectivity, somewhat ironically, that creates much of Silent Spring's tremendous emotional impact."
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