The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background -- all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. In CliffsNotes on Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, you follow the autobiographical account of a character who seeks to discover his own identity. Akin to all mankind, the character must know himself before he can develop a sense of contentment. Like the main character's passage through many episodes and experiences, this study guide carries you along a path of discovery about the life of the author, Claude Brown's style, chapter-by-chapter critical commentaries, plus the following: Complete list of the wide range of people who appear in the story Character analyses of the major players Review questions and essay topics to help polish you...