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Unnamed black narrarator struggling with black identity in Harlem

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Invisible Man (1952)

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Written as a parallel to the Odyssey

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Ulysees (1922)

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worships Henry Ford (e.g. “Our Ford” instead of “Our Lord”, and the year 632 AF (After Ford))

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Brave New World (1932)

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Chester Gillette murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake

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An American Tragedy (1925)

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“It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him”

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Catch-22 (1961)

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Billy Pilgrim

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Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

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Joseph Heller

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Catch-22 (1961)

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The Joads trapped in the Dust Bowl, move from OK to CA on Route 66 during the Great Depression, doesn’t end well

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The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

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Jim Casy

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The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

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Jay Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby (1925)

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

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The Great Gatsby (1925)

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Bigger Thomas

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Native Son (1940)

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William Faulkner

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The Sound and the Fury (1929)

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Major Major Major Major

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Catch-22 (1961)

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“War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery”, “Ignorance is Strength”

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1984 (1949)

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The only solution to the prolem is denied by a circumstance in the problem

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Catch-22 (1961)

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a black American 20 yo lives in poverty in Chicago slum and commits crimes “because he’s a product of society’s view towards blacks”, executed

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Native Son (1940)

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George Orwell

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1984 (1949)

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June 16 - Bloomsday

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Ulysees (1922)

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Yossarian and other bombadiers try to keep sane on Mediterranean island so they can return home during WW II

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Catch-22 (1961)

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Ministry of Truth

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1984 (1949)

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Clyde Griffiths gets Roberta pregnant, falls in love with rich girl Sondra, lets Roberta drown, is executed

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An American Tragedy (1925)

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Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties

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The Great Gatsby (1925)

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Eric Blair

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1984 (1949)

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Daisy Buchanan
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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Tom Buchanan
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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Stanley Kubrick
Lolita (1955)
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Yossarian tries to plead insanity to keep from flying
Catch-22 (1961)
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Stepehen rebels against Catholic/Irish conventions in Dublin and leaves for Paris
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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semi-autobiographhical about young Lawrence striving to get out of his working-class mining community
Sons and Lovers (1913)
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Billy hides in a _____ to avoid bombing of Dresden
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
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About a Roman Emperor as an autobiographical memoir
I, Claudius (1934)
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Myrtle Wilson
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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deaf-mute man (John Singer) and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia, commit suicide after learning his friend Spiros has died
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
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Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
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Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man (1952)
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Stephen Hero
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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Theodore Dreiser
An American Tragedy (1925)
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John the savage
Brave New World (1932)
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Humbert Humbert
Lolita (1955)
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dystopia in Oceania with omnipresent govn surveillance and mind control (Big Brother), Winston's job is to change public records for the party line, he rebels
1984 (1949)
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Futuristic novel set in London of AD 2540
Brave New World (1932)
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now it means a sexually precocious girl, nymphet
Lolita (1955)
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Newspeak, Oldspeak, doublethink, thought police
1984 (1949)
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James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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"Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in the his office"
Catch-22 (1961)
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Stephen Dedalus
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
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Nick Carraway
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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Robert Graves
I, Claudius (1934)
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Dolores Haze
Lolita (1955)
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the Ramsays visit the Isle of Skye in Scotland, mostly stream-of-consciousness and thoughts
To the Lighthouse (1927)
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James Joyce
Ulysees (1922)
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Molly Bloom (Penelope)
Ulysees (1922)
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Humbert becomes obsessed with 12 yr old, has sex with her
Lolita (1955)
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Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita (1955)
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Captain John Yossarian
Catch-22 (1961)
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Aldous Huxley
Brave New World (1932)
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Carson McCullers
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)
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Winston Smith
1984 (1949)
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West Egg & East Egg, Long Island NY
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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Day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin
Ulysees (1922)
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Richard Wright
Native Son (1940)
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satirical anti-war (semi-autobiographical) novel starring WW II soldier Billy Pilgrim
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
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D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers (1913)
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John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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As a woman's "sons grow up, she selects them as lovers"
Sons and Lovers (1913)
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Stephen Dedalus (Telemachus)
Ulysees (1922)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (1925)
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Ma, Pa, Noah, & Tom Joad
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (1927)
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sequel is called "Claudius the God" (which includes his death)
I, Claudius (1934)
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comes from a line in Macbeth
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
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Compson Family in Mississippi dealing with the dissolution of their family and reputation
The Sound and the Fury (1929)

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