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Isabel Allende's 'The House Of Spirits'
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A 5 page essay comparing and contrasting two of the main characters--Nicolas and Uncle Marcos. It describes the similarities in beliefs, interests, relationships and, ultimate, their destinies.
Filename: Houseof1.wps

Reassimilation in Silko’s “Ceremony”
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A 7 page paper looking at the way Leslie Silko’s protagonist Tayo is reassimilated back into the Indian community and the Indian mindset following traumas suffered in war. The paper argues that Tayo is only able to sustain his psychic health by seeing the world in an Indian way. No additional sources.
Filename: KBsilko.wps

Silko & Toni Morrison
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6 pages comparing and discussing the concepts of ‘self ‘ and ‘home' in Morrison's 'Beloved'and Silko's 'Ceremony.'
Filename: Belovcer.wps

Silko's 'Ceremony'
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A 4 page summary & review of this novel. The writer gives an overview of the book by Leslie Silko, depicting the life of the half-white, half-Indian protagonist.
Filename: Ceremony.wps

Silko's 'Ceremony' # 2
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This 5 page paper is based on Leslie Marmon Silko's novel about Native American customs, Ceremony, with the thesis relating the ceremonial rituals with child development.
Filename: Cerem.wps

Silko's 'Ceremony' / Significance of Myth
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A 4 page paper on Leslie Marmon Silko's novel about Indian heritage. The paper argues that the function of the folktales in this novel is to reconnect the protagonist with his Indian heritage on a subconscious level, treating his psychological symptoms by reindoctrinating him into the culture of his people. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: Mythsilk.wps

Silko's 'Ceremony' / The Desert As Magic In Native American Culture
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A 5 page analysis of the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. In this novel, Silko uses the relationship between Native Americans and their environment in the desert of New Mexico as a metaphor to express the journey that the protagonist takes in his search for healing after World War II. In so doing, Silko embodies the environment with various levels of meaning that simultaneously encompass both the concepts of freedom and the ties that bind the people to the earth. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Desertce.wps

Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' vs. Silko's 'Ceremony' / Escape and Body
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A 10 page comparative which explores the authors' use of physical and non-physical forms as a means of dealing with dichotomies, e.g., life and death or pleasure and hate or enslavement and the need to be freed from slavery. In Beloved, the main character will choose freedom at any cost. In Ceremony, the main character will be instructed to choose what is recognized as its opposite. Both are done for political reasons, and both are experienced through the body. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Belvcer.wps

'Everyman' and Shakespeare's Hamlet - Comparing the Medieval World View to the Modern
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This 5 page report discusses the fact that 'Hamlet' (1604) and 'Everyman' offer an excellent comparison between styles and dramatic license of their authors but even more clearly, they show the differing attitudes and visions of the world from the perspective of medieval times as compared to modern. The dark brooding prince compared to the hapless Everyman demonstrate a combination of self-absorption and helplessness in the face of the spiritual realm and the questions it provokes. No secondary sources.
Filename: Bwevery2.rtf

'Jane Eyre' & 'Sense and Sensibility'
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A 9 page comparative analysis of the main characters in these two novels. The writer posits that Austen and Bronte made use of characterization, dialogue and narration to show how Elinor, Marianne and Jane represent the intellectual and passionate properties of womanhood, with the further intent of reflecting control of passion rather than hysteria/madness. The writer proposes that in every instance, the characters' inward reflections are meant to support a revision of the female experience, not to support archetypes. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: Cneyraus.wps