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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy

Many critics describe Blood Meridian as one of the most important novels of the 20th century. It is a revisionist Western in which McCarthy explores the era after the Mexican-American War. During this time, vigilante, mercenary gangs patrolled the...

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A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini's second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, was written after Hosseini traveled back to his native Afghanistan to examine for himself the nation’s situation in the aftermath of decades of turmoil. In early 2007, Hosseini told Time...

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Hard Times

A metaphor is employed when the fragility of the townspeople is understood by their being like "weak china." These people are weary and weak from being exploited workers. They suffer from poor health and poor nutrition.

The workers are masses of the population forced to labor in dirty unhygienic factories for very little money. This includes fragile little children. People, including children, are often sick but and malnourished yet they are still forced to work...

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Who was M'Chuckhumchild?

M’Choakumchild is the improbable surname of the grinding, fact-fact-fact school-teacher from the beginning of Dickens’s Hard Times.

Mr. M’Choakumchild began in his best manner. He and some one hundred and forty other schoolmasters, had been lately...

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What is the name of Slack Bridge labor movement?

I believe the movement is called the "Brotherhood"

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