A 10 page paper which synthesizes important literary works to determine to what extent humans have power to determine their own destinies, the relationship between the human and the divine, and the role society or tradition plays in the respective texts. Bibliography lists 11 sources. It opens with a discussion of how hard and laborious travel was in the 13th century and moves into the fact that Polo did much more in the book than recount the path to the destination and the foods that were eaten. This and other things is what makes it a history book. Bibliography lists one source.
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This 5 page paper considers these two books with the hypothesis that they are both damming critiques on society and any member of society who is different. The bibliography cites 2 sources. A five page paper comparing these two stories by John Updike and James Joyce. Both stories show a young man thrown into conflict, ostensibly over a girl. However, in both cases, the deepest conflict comes from the young man's encounter with life itself, and his realization that he, as an individual, is no longer willing to try to meet the unrealistic expectations of his society.