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Death, Grief, and the Rebirth of the Child in "Bridge to Terabithia"
The Harmful Effects of Othering from "How the Grinch Stole Christmas! "
Christian Values in H. C. Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"
A Subversion of Structure: Creating an Unusual (Real) Hero with "The Hobbit"
Rewriting the American Dream in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
The Natural Home: Societal Virtues of the German Household in Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - Script Coverage
Critiquing Ableism and 'Normalcy' with Sharon M. Draper’s "Out of My Mind"
A View into (a Better) Society: Archetypes in "Aesop’s Fables"
The Women of the 17th Century in Charles Perrault’s Fairy Tales
A Discovery of Home in Ursula K. Le Guin’s "Catwings"
Paradox and Time Travel as Constructs for the Meaning of Life in “All You Zombies— ” - REVIEW
Playing with Memory: the Narrative Puzzle in Memento
Portraying Nonfictional Tragedy: Krakauer’s "Into the Wild" and Its Filmic Adaptation - REVIEW
The Communal Experience of First-Person Plural in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” - REVIEW
Authenticity and Racial Humor with Epistolary Format in “Belles Lettres” - REVIEW
Multiperspectivity as Self-Awareness of the World in “The Author of the Acacia Seeds” - REVIEW
Christopher Nolan's "Memento" - Script Coverage
Hybrid Novels at Their Finest with Danielewski’s "The Fifty Year Sword" - REVIEW
'Scalpelling' the Persona with Narrative Poetry in Alex Lemon’s Mosquito - REVIEW