Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on An Examination of Pushkin. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 3 page paper recapitulates two articles reviewing several of Pushkin's works. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPlitPushkinCrtqs.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
Peter the Great", an eighteenth century African slave that had been brought to Constantinople as a seven year old child (Gnammankou and Gage 211). Following the custom of
the land regarding slave children, the young African was converted to Islam and freed (Gnammankou and Gage 211). Free or not, however, the child was put in the
sultans court as a servant (Gnammankou and Gage 211). Later he was transferred to the court of Czar Peter the Great and moved up to be an important
confidant of the czar as well as the progenitor of several generations of children leading up to the birth of Pushkin himself (Gnammankou and Gage 211).
In an article titled "Pushkin Between Russia and Africa" authors Gnammankou and Gage (211) review several of Pushkins works to quite successfully support their contention that Pushkin was not only
proud of his African heritage but used that heritage quite extensively as a literary element. This use is evident in a number of his works ranging from his earliest
poetry while still a child to some of his more successful later works. Gnammankou and Gage (211) demonstrate quite decidely that while Pushkin was certainly not ashamed of his
African heritage, he was of the mindset that that heritage went hand-in-hand with some less than positive characteristics that he saw in himself. Pushkin was not only taunted about
his African heritage from classmates and the like with being called names like "the monkey", for example, but even taunted himself in his writings (Gnammankou and Gage 211). In
one of his earliest poems he describes himself as ugly and relates that ugliness to his African blood describing his face as "a real monkey-face" and declaring that he
...