A dexristion of why Hagar's behavior reveals a complex value system that changes over time through experience.

Essay discusses the wealth described in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby."

Examines Sherwood Anderson's "Hands". Provides a character study of the novel's protagonist, Wing Biddlebaum. Discusses the symbolism of the novel's title.

"Hands" by Sherwood Anderson shows the impact of the opinions of others on individuals.

Discusses the theme of happiness and how different characters of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald obtain it.

Looks into how society in "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury attempted to create happiness for everyone by destroying unhappiness, but managed to destroy happiness at the same time.

It's a character analysis of Happy Loman from "Death of a Salesman."

Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative and Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass' slave narratives all were best sellers in their time. These narratives continue to appeal to readers today because they are success stories about overcoming extreme hardship.

Essay provides a basic summary of the book "Hardy Boys: The Hunt For Gold."

Provides an analysis of the African American oral tradition, as evidenced through Langston Hughes and other members of the Harlem Renaissance.

Harper Lee uses a great deal of humor in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, most of which is satirical in nature. Lee uses humor to describe certain traits of various characters, and she chooses indirect yet humorous ways to describe thoughts and actions among the characters.

Examines the life of writer and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Explores her early life as a Calvinist, education and early influences. Details her work as an American abolitionist and her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial 19th century book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was a historical novel that helped to undermine the immoral institution of slavery in the United States. Also, a biography of Stowe and reaction at the time to "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Examines the theme of equality in the Kurt Vonnegut short story Harrison Bergeron.

Analyzes the Kurt Vonnegut story, "Harrison Bergeron." Provides a plot summary. Discusses major themes in the story.

Evaluates the question of whether Harry Potter should be regarded as a modern or ancient hero.

Discusses three arguments in "Harum and Scarum," written by John Brantingham. Reveals how Brantingham allows his readers to take a stand for or against each argument. Discusses how each argument affects the characters involved.

An analysis of the hatred exhibited by characters in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible." This hatred is best represented through the characters Abigail Williams and Thomas and Ann Putnam.

Examines the essay Haunted America, by Patricia Nelson Limerick. Ponders whether or not there is any benefit for society to have historical knowledge. Discusses if society learns from the past.

The characters of George and Lennie have goals that can be described as "the American dream" in "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. But they and others in the classic novella do not reach their goals.

This essay documents Hawthorne's attitudes towards Puritan society as expressed in his novel "The Scarlet Letter." Specifically, it comments on his conveying of dark themes, the role of women, and the nature of sin.

About evil, and Pearl, Dimmesdale and Hester's isolation both figurative and literally. Includes themes.

Essay discusses the characters in "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Argument of how Nathaniel Hawthorne's view of good and evil is evident in people.

Mikhail Bakhtin, in his essay "Discourse in the Novel," characterizes his theory of authoritative discourse as "the word of the fathers," in which previous external knowledge demands a "simultaneously internally persuasive" acknowledgement. In a novel that uses language as a device for uncovering the perceived identity of its protagonist, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby also shows evidence of this same external narration that attempts to achieve discrimination between classes and control the behavior that governs social conduct.

Hester Prynne, of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, was like no other woman of her day. Being ostracized from Puritan society for committing the unpardonable sin of adultery and henceforth spending her life in contempt, Ms. Prynne lived in duality, having love and compassion for a man, who was not her husband, and a daughter from this union while living the socially shameful life of an adulteress.

Discusses the novel, Heart of Darkness. Provides a plot summary of the text. Analyzes the character of Kurtz and describes how he changes in the novel.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad deals with imperialism.

Comparison Essay of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown.

Many contrasting elements occur in both Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Two such comparisons in which both novels provide entirely different perspectives are truth and women.

This essay describes Kurtz character in detail and demonstrates the impact of society on the changes in his character in the work, "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad.

On page 120 of the Joseph Conrad novel, Heart of Darkness, Marlow states "That is why I have remained loyal to Kurtz to the last, and even beyond.." This essay provides an analysis of these words as uttered by Marlow, showing their relevance to the novel as a whole.

Provides a character sketch for the girl in the play "Heat Lightning."

The scaffold scene positioning in the third chapter of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter shows how an author's placement of characters in a scene tells much about that character and his or her role in the story. In this scene, Hawthorne sets Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth at different elevations in the marketplace to symbolize the separate levels associated with the Puritan view of the religious world. Dimmesdale, above on the balcony, represents Heaven; Hester, below on the scaffold, represents Earth; and Chillingworth, blending with the crowd below, represents Hell.

Discusses the novel, "Bartleby the Scrivener", by Herman Melville. Describes how the novel illustrates misfortune, growing compassion and a similarity to God. Questions if the narrator's encounter with Bartleby brings him to a state of increased awareness.

A summary of Frederick Douglass.

Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time

Covers Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", discussing the character of Santiago and the conflict in the story.

Hemingway's "In Our Time" and its strange use of inter-chapters and disconnectedness.

Evaluates The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. Discusses how Santiago is Hemingway's classic "American Hero." Provides a brief biography of Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Battler" describes Nick, a modern man in a constant fight with life. The story encapsulates Hemingway's way of seeing life: an entity mixed with darkness and light, where fighting and sufferance are the primary means through which to attain knowledge and experience.

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses a number of unconventional methods of writing to tell his story. It is a story of an unlikely hero, an unusual set of characters, and an unsatisfying ending that is given away immediately at the beginning of the book. Regardless, Hemingway is able to capture the attention of his audience by the book's dialogue, descriptions, and most importantly, clear and intriguing characterizations.

Many philosophers and authors over time developed the idea that human existence is unexplained and void of meaning, which came to be known as existentialism. One such author was Ernest Hemingway, whose short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" provides one of the best examples of existentialism. Through his simple, repetitious tone and his use of the symbol of nothing, Hemingway subtly demonstrates in the story the emptiness of life through existentialism, yet glorifies existentialism through its characters.

In "The Sun Also Rises" Ernest Hemingway paints a portrait of American artists disillusioned by American life following World War I. This gives rise to Hemingway as the leader of the "lost generation."

Explores the writing style of Ernest Hemingway. Describes how his dialogue dominates his work. Examines his use of conversation and speaking in his novels.

Provides an analysis of Henry David Thoreau's "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."

Essay provides a description of Henry Fielding.

Explores characters and themes from The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. Focuses on Henry's decision to stay in battle or to flee. Speaks of how, throughout the whole novel he contemplates running, and eventually does. Explores the consequences of that decision.

In the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, young soldier Henry Fleming entered the American Civil War as a nervous, unready boy. By convincing himself that others were more cowardly than he, however, Henry succeeded in making himself feel like a hero.

An essay about the role of heroes in A Lesson Before Dying by Gaines.