Free American Literature Essay Examples & Topics. Page 11

In the story, the author portrays the inner nature of each of the characters via the symbolic features of the things carried by them.

The theme and problem of woman's rights looming over the society of that day is demonstrated as the main issue at the core of the story.

The French and the English colonizers had a lot in common in their approaches of leading the first way of war in North America, but, at the same time, there were differences.

In a tale about a young girl meeting a hunter, the author touches upon the subjects of the relationship of humans and nature, the feelings of attraction, and moral judgment.

The Devil is trying to persuade the main character that the world as he sees it through the moral lens is an illusion.

Consequently, the cat and the crow agreed to be friends. One day, the cat and the rat worked in the garden.

It is very unfortunate that instead of her enjoying the company of the man while waiting for the train, she feels he is a bother to her and deserves to keep silent.

Colonel came to know of the relationship, but did not approve it because Anne was a servant, and he did not want his reputation ruined of his kinsman having an affair and he was a [...]

This young man from the South follows the deathbed warning of his grandfather not to comply with the wishes of white people which destroy the lives of black people.

A literary work that was inspired by one of the most crucial periods in the history of the country was "Democratic Vistas" by Walt Whitman, which was written in 1871 or the period after the [...]

Among the literature discussing of slavery as one of the blights on the history of the U.S., Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” takes an important yet controversial place.

First of all, the story plot of the book should be taken into consideration to understand what scientific facts may be put in requisition in it."Ender's Game" relates the story of a six-year Ender Wiggin [...]

It is possible to little the use of the words and still drives points home this is attained by incorporating sign language amid the use of words.

An individual needs to understand that the word landscape does not only refer to having the knowledge of names and identity of everything in the landscape but also perceiving the relationship between different elements in [...]

The second step in the block building approach to critical thinking is the importance of the study of the play and the impact on the readers.

The title is, in itself, ironic, for anthems have always meant to sing praises about grand things like love and patriotism, and so at first glance the poem seems to praise the damnation of the [...]

And Steinbeck offered his audience a clean view of the end when George made Lennie promise "to hide in the brush" if he gets in trouble again, as if it was an absolute fact to [...]

To illustrate, The Story of an Hour narrative is based on the supposed death of Brentley Mallard - the husband to Louise Mallard - thus reflecting a number of real life deaths that characterized Chopin's [...]

In his book Three Men in a Room, the author describes the situation and the problems which take place in statehouses throughout the country.

It is interesting not only because of the tension a reader feels reading the story, but the style and approach of the writer to deliver the plot.

The next day roles are changed: the children with brown eyes have privileges, and the kids with blue are eyes are in the position of minority.

The institution of slavery drove and shaped the enslaved people to respond and behave in different ways in that Fredrick Bailey was forced to flee away from slavery and later changed his name to Fredrick [...]

However, the narrator's use of silence not only makes the audience take notice of her memoir but to presents the selfless nature that engenders the true identity of the characters.

The changes in Emily's life can be largely attributed to Emily's father and her perception of change. Emily's father is the only man in her life for the better part of her life.

In his book "the fire that Changes America", the writer explores the social problems that faced the American people in their social settings.

Even though most Americans consider him a traitor, he is regarded as one of the greatest boxers in the world."Redemption Song" by Mark Marqusee is a book that describes the cost of the choices that [...]

The way she describes the wallpaper is symbolic of the evolution of her psychological problem: she gets to see herself through the wallpaper.

Aylmer is not in a position to bring about living perfection and therefore the presently perfect Georgina must leave this earth that is imperfect.

All the events in the book are connected to the author herself and their entire family and those who happen to be born in poor backgrounds, whereby she is after informing the reader on the [...]

As the story turns out to be, Michael, who is the main character in the story is being brought out as one of those Irish men who had come to America in pursuit of wealth [...]

This piece of literary work is written at the period of the end of the civil war in America, and the south's era of greatness is coming to an end. This is a reflection of [...]

The effect of this well-structured rhyme on the tone of the poem is evident upon recitation as it gives it a musical sound.

Tim Wise, one of the best speakers in the United States of America, says that even though the President states on the colorblindness society and he is sure that racism is combated and there is [...]

These were people who had never moved to the city and had spent their lives in the village. They had starved and the family had had to stay for days without food.

We know that the setting is in the American South because of the use of the names Andrew Jackson a famous general of the U.S.

This is indeed a can spark the minds of young readers and be a source of motivation to them to learn through the life of Anne.

Hitchcock's books and essays have been of great admiration by most of his readers throughout the years in America and all over the globe. His skills in presenting American culture and romance are quite admirable; [...]

However, in the novel the experience of Billy is more of a lesson that tries to teach readers against war through the manner in which Billy is seen to perceive war.

The concept of his role is to highlight the fact that it's never too late to do what you have always wanted to do.

This paper will discuss the four characteristics that define McDonaldization of society according to Ritzer the author of the book "McDonaldization of Society".

The "discerning Eye" that sees through society's "Madness" is certainly the poet's and, implicitly, belongs to certain other naysayers as well."I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" articulates a state of consciousness that follows the [...]

According to Dawley in class in community, wrote of the tremendous changes in the life of the shoemaker 'S" as the shoemaking industry moved from a cottage industry to the factory system.

The book helped me to understand that the process of winning money in business sphere can be successful not only in a case if someone has losses.

Hem and Haw somehow did not notice that the supply of cheese was slowly dwindling, until one day, when they arrived at Station C, they found out that all the cheese was gone.

This begs the question, whether a human or the whole society has a right to take the function of God and to punish the sin.

The power that the people have on their rulers is minimal and this is one of the factors that have impeded the development of the values of self governance in this country.

However, it is this kind of utopian society that existed in Jerusalem that shaped the views that this author had. The story of the island of utopia is a satire on the complicated society that [...]

In it Rosenblatt says that the whole of a written text is a combination of what the writer produces and what the readers infers.

Being a cultural anthropologist, she played a vital role in the development of Obama in that he grew up appreciating the fact that he was different and at the same time having the belief that [...]

Before analyzing the works in terms of their belonging to Puritanism I believe it's important to identify the main characteristics of Puritan style and intentions and aims the authors put forward to transfer their message [...]

In the novel "The Adventures of Huck Finn", the writer portrayed the theme of 'racism and slavery' in South America during the end of civil war.

This implies that he had started valuing the presence of other people in his life and the aversions that he had towards his parents started to wither after realizing that he had to share his [...]

The main character of Hemingway's book The Old Man and the Sea is a person with great experience in life and in his work but he does not seem to be lucky; this is where [...]

The agony and the ecstasy is the work of Irving Stone who is an American author. The cardinal instead fails to suggest a specific topic for his work and even after months of waiting for [...]

It is evident from these words that the actual intention was to emulate the philosophical concept of the time but the situation and the intention was completely materialistic in nature.

It is possible to imagine the cruelty and the risk of the battle if only one day was enough to feel like being a veteran of war.

To him, it sounded like the culture was just a way of enriching oneself, like in the case of Mars Dugal, and this could not deter him from exploiting the potential the land had.

In what is a parallel to Marx's philosophy and attack on the exploitation of the workers by the capitalists; and therefore a call for a revolution, the farm animals are inspired by the counsel of [...]

The evidence from the plot of the book that supports the position taken on understanding the underlying factors of behavior is the realization that the bear had killed the goose due to the feelings of [...]

The topic chosen from the story for analyzing is 'To what extent is the protagonist of the story you have chosen responsible for the conflict or predicament he or she faces'.

Roth uses the "first person voice of the writer Nathan Zuckerman to tell the story of Coleman Silk, a black man who passes for a Jew ", a professor of classics and dean of faculty [...]

Moreover, as we go on and discover the meaning and objectives of pilgrimage, we will realize we are dealing with a different kind of art: the art of seeing what is sacred."What legendary travelers have [...]

The book under consideration in this paper, "Mountain Windsong: A novel of the trail of tears" by Robert Conley depicts the events of those times showing the tragedy of the Indian people of the Cherokee [...]

In order to discuss Hemingway's depiction of the American values and beliefs, it will be necessary to use three works: The Old Man and the Sea, a novella by Hemingway, "Papa's Ghost", an article by [...]

Positive attitude towards the challenges of life and the real joy found in the numerous adventures of the book's characters are the things that Elizabeth Enright wants every person to have, and in this paper [...]

The important literary device used to depict Holden confronting the pressure of the society and the corruption of the adult world is characterization, as the main character calls people he meets "phony" and refers to [...]

The protagonist of the story, Jack Hawthorne, is considered to be the example of the person seeking consolation in horn music because of the brother's death; the death is showed as the way to something [...]

The poem The Weary Blues was written by Langston Hughes; the author devoted his work to the description of the music theme highlighting the role of blues and the uniqueness of this genre.

Even though Cruz is finding it difficult to cope with life here, the more she stays here the more she get as adapted to this environment.

The narrative description of the elegy expresses the narrator's undying love for 'Annabel Lee' detailing a love which had originated many a year ago in the unidentified 'kingdom by the sea'.

It's an indication of the misuse of the people by the leaders in a bid to bar them from enlightenment and also keep them in manipulative positions.

The story describes the process and results of the experiment, the knowledge acquired during the experiment and the aspects influencing the lives of the low-waged workers, their living conditions and methods of making money.

The character of Belisa Crepusculario is introduced in the first line of the short story because she is the main character and the action unfolds around the woman.

The short stories Maus and Maus II by Art Spiegelman are the examples of the innovative, not traditional approach to the topic of the Holocaust.

In his novella The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright tells the story of a seventeen-year-old African-American adolescent, Dave Saunders, who has a strong desire to buy a gun to prove to everyone [...]

The atmosphere of fear and poverty forced the families to break the rules and to overcome the frontier in the pursuit of welfare.

As the story continues, it becomes clear that bailing out the boat is about the only job the cook is suited for in this situation."Later in the night they took the boat farther out to [...]

Hot, Flat and Crowded is a much anticipated follow up to his earlier books and is a plea to the policymakers of the world to wake up to the reality of global warming and the [...]

She imagines that if she could have gained the attention of Jim O'Connor in high school, her life would be much different.

Gladwell's main thesis pertains to the trends in society being understood in the same manner as researchers understand the spreading of viruses and to the fact that a surprisingly large variety of social phenomena can [...]

As Stella entered the cave, her flashlight's beam fell on a splatter of blood, and the scarlet stain gleamed against the backdrop of moss that covered the wall like a green carpet.

It goes without saying that the main topic to be explored in the course of comparison is the impact of science on human life and its part in the overall course of events described. The [...]

The Grapes of Wrath begins by describing an occurrence of soil erosion in Dust Bowl Oklahoma that led to the destruction of crops, a decline in farming and farm produce and the migration of farmers [...]

Economic analyses and participation of the slave labor force in economic development are used to analyze the impact and role of slave labor in the development of the American economy.

After reading this text I strongly felt the necessity to communicate with the nature, as it is an integral part of any of us!

However, to accept it he must first assure the white men that he knows his place and that he would never use a phrase like "social equality".

The true story is about the family, which lived during the Great Depression on the South and who had to live a lot of times in order to find some source of income and be [...]

While "Ten, Nine, Eight" relaxes children with the predictable pattern of the story, "Where The Wild Things Are" elicits many emotions that may both excite and frighten children before they settle down to a "feel [...]

Looking at the social background of the village one cannot even imagine that the denouement of the story is reckoned with the poor destiny of some inhabitants of it.

The leg cannot be the sense of people's life as it is just a leg, and people should believe in something more real.

In this way, Thoreau uses intimacy with the landscape to talk about larger ideas that continue to apply to the modern world and thus links the landscape of his experiment with the "continuing narrative of [...]

The novel became very popular and created the idiom of monkey wrench in referring to the sabotage activities that damaged machines and led to violence in America in order to protect natural habitat and conserve [...]

One of the books that raised his popularity in America as well as among other readers of the world was his collection of books published under the Rabbit series.

The only thing which the author opposes to a happy life of a man is loneliness and its effects in various fields of a man's activity.

As for me, the main theme which the author persecutes in the story is the problem of racial peculiarities of American people and the Indians in particular.

Afghanistan has not produced a lot of books in the past and it was an achievement for Khlaed Hosseini to be able to come up with a best seller in a western setting.

As they struggle to survive through rationing of food and water, fighting off the exhaustion of body and mind, and contend with the sharks that come to investigate the boat, they continuously think about nature [...]

The approach is helped by the legends of Arthur and the royal knights like Lancelot and Guinevere. The book is a journey of murder and mystery to spirituality and hope at the end.

She is a flawed character who identifies herself only through her physical deformities, her glasses and her artificial leg, but remains ignorant of self until she is forced to confront the truth.

In her novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent, the problem of remaking of identity of Arab Americans is depicted. It is important to mention that the problem of multiculturalism became a topical one in the end [...]

It is one of the main characteristics of the mockingbird includes its innocence and imitation of the songs of other birds in a loud voice.

The Tralfamadorian subplot includes a vision of the end of the world and the perpetuation of war, but these seem distant threats compared with the miseries of battlefield.

The psychological stages of the pilgrimage of conversion and of progression in the spiritual life were described in detail by Mary Rowlandson, two of the greatest New England preachers of the first generation.

In contrast to many children, Dillard lived in wealthy family and had an opportunity to visit a private school. In sum, the unique childhood experience had a great impact on Dillard and her life views.

The novel starts with the end of an expedition when people were attacked and killed by an unknown enemy, and the contact between the expedition and the outer world is lost.

One of the delights of the novel is that technology aids both the tracking of some characters and the evasion of tracking by the same characters.

However, his observations of the clientele help him shape a view of the others in the community, and sadly, it is not an image that appeals to him.

Andre Dubus is the author of the short story "Killings" published in the year 1979; this short story was converted to a film in the year 2001 a Todd Fields Direction.

Children's literature has long been a part of a child's early development and can trace its roots all the way back to the very first time in ancient history when a parent told a child [...]

All his books invariably deal with plots in the nature of conspiracies in one way or the other and in this regard, his two novels, The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are very [...]

The emphasis on the absence of any sounds in this room presents a depressing feeling of sadness that is visually interconnected between the absence of movements in the 'air' and the 'paralyzes of the protagonist.

However, the visible aspect of the story is racism and it covers the central theme of the text. The fundamentality of this story is a measure of human essence where the major character appears to [...]

The narrative Incident of the Life of a Slave Girl depicts life troubles and hardships faced by a slave girl and her understanding of freedom and equality.

What Greene does not mention here is that Jesse is her adopted son from Bulgaria and so there is the added responsibility of setting an example of how to live in a society that is [...]

Cohn states, that he is dissatisfied with his life in Paris, and he believes, that the change of the surrounding scenery would help him to fill the void that he feels in the life.

Our task is to show how this journey is viewed by some of the minor characters, how he or she perceives the notion of "American Dream", and how it reflects his world perception.

This scene is the one where the narrator and the attorney were giving a lift to a hitchhiker. Two of us were driving the car to Las Vegas when I saw a boy standing in [...]

In the pages of history and numerous literary canons in American experience there lies a terrain of societal upheaval and unrest that addresses the questions of segregation and racist philosophy underlying the mainstream dynamics of [...]

The article related to this short story, "Looking at setting and Atmosphere" analyses and demonstrates the importance of minor details in a short story. The author of the article is right that the story is [...]

Martin Luther King Jr was a hero for he decided to fight for the rights of the black person in the American society.