To demonstrate the continued relevance and wisdom of Cather's writing, I will argue in this essay that Paul's Case offers a potent examination of the themes of alienation, conformity, and the attraction of the exceptional [...]
In "Sweat," the tale unfolds with the portrayal of Delia Jones, an assiduous launderer who is subjected to maltreatment at the hands of her husband, Sykes.
The point of the book is to show the necessity of an unbiased attitude toward another person while hearing their entire story and past.
While that serves as the central conflict of the narrative, the broader issue raised in it is the case of personal accountability in disadvantaged minorities.
Through a vivid depiction of themes of guilt, madness, and death, as well as the symbols of heart and eye, the author masterfully illuminates the persisting insanity of the narrator.
Sanjeev is annoyed by the collection and finds the items silly and lacking a sense of blessedness. Despite their differences, they agree to compromise and display the Christian items in the house, much to Sanjeev's [...]
In "The Story of an Hour," Kate Chopin examines the main character's relationship with her husband and sister, the development of the main characters, and the use of symbolism to convey the theme of freedom [...]
The story highlights the deficiency of existence and the imperative of understanding and admiring the world. Jack London's To Build a Fire is an evocative investigation of the theme of survival that operates as a [...]
Sylvia's internal conflict and her resistance to the lesson taught by Miss Moore exemplify indirect characterization. Miss Moore's indirect characterization is evident in her actions, particularly her determination to expose the children to the realities [...]
The literary piece provides the reader with a comprehensive portrayal of the challenging circumstances in which the protagonist Viola and her family reside, effectively depicting their everyday trials and tribulations.
Hence, these means are utilized to divert a reader from daily issues and invoke some thought about changes in the society.
"Everyday Use", a captivating short story penned by Alice Walker, is a narrative that delves into the intricacies of family dynamics, heritage, and the concept of home. In conclusion, Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" offers a [...]
The novel explores the transformative journey of the protagonist, Annemarie, who encounters the harsh reality of war and conflicts with societal expectations and learns the significance of sacrifice and bravery.
The first aspect that should be considered as part of the analysis of the book "The World Needs More Purple People" is illustrations.
For example, the hazard of attraction is described by the music of rebellion and freedom playing in Arnold's car, helping Connie escape the unknown.
As the narrator explicitly reveals, a cigar in his grandfather's hand would usually mean the power of a patron. Once the narrator's grandfather died, his widow developed a habit of lighting and smoking cigars.
In the essay "Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving," Audre Lorde presents an example of the negative contribution of vertical lines of power and authority and how it impacts marginalized [...]
The psychoanalytic approach allows us to interpret this as a manifestation of her repressed self-loathing and low self-esteem. In conclusion, the psychoanalytic approach provides a rich and complex interpretation of "Hunchback Madonna".
The plot is a hilarious take on the trials and tribulations of middle school life."Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck" is a laugh-out-loud escapade of Greg Heffley, a middle schooler navigating life without his [...]
Set in the marshes of North Carolina, the novel combines themes of isolation, coming-of-age, love, and the indomitable spirit of survival.
In addition to examining the dynamics inside families, the book also examines the complex interactions between the individuals, highlighting the bonds of loyalty and friendship and the struggle to maintain morality in the face of [...]
In particular, the author discusses various aspects of Black Americans in the first and second chapters, which made me stop and think about what happens in the book. In general, reading "The Souls of Black [...]
The characters in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" demonstrate that this problem is common and everyone is guilty of something.
"A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin" is a children's picture book written by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
Nick's narration of events throughout these two chapters dismantles the belief of the American Dream where 'anyone can pull themselves up from their bootstraps', because in reality it only yields four groups of people: ".the [...]
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms follows the journey of Frederic Henry, where we see how Henry's experiences in the war shape him, he begins to see war as a pointless and destructive endeavor, and [...]
Schwartz states that being open and honest about one's feelings is the key to finding true connection and fulfillment. Schwartz argues that forgiving is crucial to people's happiness and maintaining positive connections with others.
The novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese discusses the fate of one of the sufferings from the stigmatization of a young man.
The below discussion reveals how people's deference to traditions and authority and their readiness to commit bad deeds in the name of superstitions are depicted in "The Lottery".
The second edition of the book is even more powerful for students to sharpen their writing skills and for teachers. In conclusion, fletcher dives deep into how to be a successful writer and the importance [...]
The origin of Elwood, the fact that he is a black orphan, in this case is the fundamental factor causing his belonging to the social stratum of the poor.
He describes the beauty and richness of the lands he has encountered and expresses his belief that he has found a new route to the wealth and spices of the East.
The heroine of the novel "The Maid" becomes a single mother and is forced to look for all possible ways to feed the child.
The silent cafe and the presence of the old man underscore the waiters' and the old man's loneliness and lack of purpose.
Sam and the Seven-Pound Perch is a story about the desire of Sam, a young child, to catch the giant fish. To conclude, Sam and the Seven-Pound Perch is a new book for children of [...]
The themes set the events that led to the fire after Elizabeth Richardson discovers Lexie's secret and her superficial family, making her burn the house to establish a new beginning.
After getting to know the main character, where the readers get to know her background, in the third chapter, the author reveals the essence of the whole book.
In the works of the greatest realists, the American novel asserted its special theme of human resistance to the disfiguring influence of the environment.
The other specific traumatic events in A Farewell to Arms are closely related to the terrible scenes during the war and the job threatening the protagonist's life.
Despite the routine of Housekeeping, this process reflects the characters of the novel's protagonists and demonstrates the differences between generations. Therefore, the novel is called Housekeeping because the author wanted to emphasize the importance of [...]
The first is bureaucratic influence, the second is the role of public health, the third is the practice of physical and sexual abuse in prisons, and the fourth is human rights.
One can trace this particular feature of the author's style to the example of his novels and the characteristic features of the heroes.
In the essay, he describes how learning to read gave him a new sense of purpose and self-esteem and transformed his life.
Due to the combination of realism and symbolism in the horizon and the world in which people lived at the time, the book is imbued with the contradiction between the American and Cuban worlds.
This work is a summary of the first five parts of "The Stand: Captain Trips," providing a description of the basics of the events of the plot.
The article also observes the emergence of Rick Emerson's 'Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries', a work that aims to analyze both Sparks and the influence of [...]
The book is a powerful and moving exploration of the human condition and inspires the reader. Fire is a powerful symbol of the human spirit's capacity for resilience and hope in adversity.
The original interpretation is that Sylvia represents the oppressed, who can only learn about their oppression through education to identify the beneficiaries of the system.
The book describes the life of Scarlett O'Hara, which was changing due to the Civil War in America, and the story illustrates the way the main character lived through these changes.
Despite their differences in age and social standing, both characters experience similar feelings of loneliness and isolation, unable to find emotional fulfillment within their respective towns, highlighting the struggles of the people of Winesburg, Ohio, [...]
Gatsby's dream to become wealthy to gain Daisy's attention "is simply believable and is still a common dream of the current time". However, Gatsby is the story's main character and is a "personification" of the [...]
While the instances of personal interactions between Gerry and homophobic community members demonstrate egregious absence of tolerance, these are the examples of discrimination entrenched in legal and social institutions that the novel proves to be [...]
Arguably, Emily's actions and choices in life are wrong and in contrast to the social expectations because of the impact her overly controlling and manipulative father had on her early upbringing.
For example, the first literary element, the setting, emphasizes the serene and simple beginning of the story. The author wants to show the real face of the character and her treatment of other characters.
Moreover, from the welcome and the talk between the visitor and his wife, it is evident that Robert is understanding and knows the narrator's wife better than the husband.
Perhaps the best-portrayed theme and the most controversial one is the recreation of slavery on the part of Afro-Americans who have just been freed of it.
When it comes to individual memory of Teera's childhood, the author explains the connection between her memories of her father and musical instruments: "Perhaps it's because as a child she grew up listening to her [...]
The girl's fears and doubts contrast with the man's confidence and reassurance attempts, resulting in a substantial dramatic context behind the casual conversation.
The characters' avatars in Ready Player One demonstrate people's desires and insecurities that they cannot control in the real world. Ernest Cline has created a solution to classroom overcrowding, school bullying, and reality through the [...]
A story with an open ending allows a reader to draw their own conclusions on the subject of the character's future and the meaning of the plot.
The article discusses how the writer develops the story's themes and how they reflect the author's life and philosophical views. The key concept presented in the article is the idea that Flannery O'Connor's stories share [...]
This indicates Holden's growth as future situations indicate he is aware of his age and does not perceive issues as a child, returning to school after the escapade.
O'Connor's use of disruption and distortion to reconfigure ethical-religious forms of being in the world is illuminated by the Levinasian themes of alterity, anarchy, and the absolute.
The grandmother persuades the family to take a detour to an old farm, but they crash the vehicle on the route and get trapped on a remote road.
William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, set in Jefferson during the decades preceding and following the start of the twentieth century, depicts how an innocent girl, Emily Grierson, is driven to madness.
In the present paper, the summary of the work is presented, as well as its application to the modern world's developments.
The inability to make friends with black people is evidence of this similarity, and any attempts, in the presence of his mother, to strike up a conversation was to anger his mother.
In addition to motherly love, the fundamental themes of the haunting narrative and the elemental tale are the child's innocence, the child's father's humiliation and remorse, and motherly love.
The main character finds himself troubled in defining his position in the war due to being a foreigner in Europe. When Henry was in the position of an outside observer, he could freely think about [...]
Another interesting feature of the story is the couple of main topics of the work: the changes in the South and societal issues in general.
In this work, the main character is Thea Kozak, and the theme is the mysterious murder of a 16-year-old girl in a private school in Massachusetts.
Cinelle relies on her resiliency and trust, like humanity, to survive and experience coming of age again as she struggles to navigate a flawed judicial system, assimilate, and maintain her sense of self.
Fadiman's book highlights cross-cultural communication's importance in the American medical system through Hmong's history and the fish soup concept to show the medical profession's failure of the Hmong community and offers several solutions.
It is apparent that Art's relation to Anja is one of immense sorrow, uncertainty, and loneliness, and that his reactions to the Holocaust mimics this relationship with his mother's memories which is a graphical representation [...]
The narrator can look beyond himself thanks to his spiritual growth, which is a direct outcome of his and Robert's quiet bond.
The novel focuses on the life of Esperanza Ortega, who goes through various challenges in her life after the death of her father. The experiences of the main character prove that starting over is an [...]
The hardship of immigrants is the central theme of The Jungle. Sinclair utilizes the plural form of "you" to connect the reader to both the individual and the scenario.
The main character was fired from the job because, in his opinion, the manager behaved inappropriately with the girls who were customers of the store.
The current discussion will compare the differences exhibited by Anton Rosicky and Rip Van Winkle in terms of conflicts, dependence/independence, and communication. First, the author presents the significance and the position of the character's friends [...]
Frederic Henry, in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, drastically changes his attitude and perspective about war because of the leg injury he receives, the loss of his ambulance crew, and the execution of [...]
That civilization has led to changes in people's beliefs, way of living, and how they view things compared to the traditional era.
There is a high chance that Old Man Warner is not concerned about the lottery itself as he is worried about preserving the old traditions. Once the lottery is forgotten, the habitual way of life [...]
In the beginning, the story introduces the setting of the imaginary world and the main character Beekle. Children were able to elicit the main concept of the story about the meaningfulness of friendship and socialization.
At the time of the trial, Montresor is proud of what he did because it was fair in his eyes. According to this alternative reading of the event, Montresor sees family honor as his adversary, [...]
In the 2019 nonfiction book, "How to Be an Antiracist," Kendi, an American author and historian, incorporates social criticism and narrative. Becoming an antiracist is acknowledging that racism exists and affects everybody because humans have [...]
Until the age of 18, the writer lived on a farm in Milledgeville, and all her stories are literally imbued with the reality of life in the 1920s and 1940s in South America.
While attempting to provide a voice to his protagonist, Mark Twain employed his "vernacular of the people" when writing Huck Finn to give a voice to an illiterate, impoverished white youngster in the American hinterlands [...]
The watch symbolizes Jim's links to the family he was born and raised in, the family he abandons to begin a fresh home with Della his companion.
I think that the author of this book does this in order to reveal a mixture of events to the readers of the book in his own way.
Not a single person from her family took her seriously, so the grandmother grabbed the opportunity to be noticed. The decision to speak out becomes the doom of the grandmother and her entire family.
One of the themes in James Baldwin's novel "Sonny's Blue" is the usage of drugs by young people. Thus, the drugs have a way of hiding the reality of the users' struggles such that people [...]
A living person is formally considered dead, the head of the syndicate takes contracts from the enemy to bomb their positions, counterintelligence accuses the innocent, and the most inadequate military receives titles.
In a sense, the death of Claire's mother and the death of Gaelle's husband made Nazias and Gaelle husband and wife, as they care for one child.
The article explores the symbolism of Elisa as the main character in Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and especially her representation of the ignored and oppressed women of her time.
It is vital to say that each of the three versions, movie, play, and text, is unique, and the spectator perceives it differently.
The author uses numerous literary features in order to advance the theme of justice and revenge throughout the book. The writer employs parallelism, humor, and character development in numerous accounts of narration to advance the [...]
The intrinsically perplexing crime causes the reader to ask a multitude of questions about the seemingly contradictory evidence, a lack of means and motive, and superhuman mutilation; through these complexities, the reader is moved around [...]
Toni Morrison says in her article "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature" that "the trauma of racism is, for the racist and the sufferer, the extreme disintegration of the self, and has [...]
In the text, the sound of the blues has a special meaning, a particular signal that should remind the reader of certain aspects of Sonny's life.
The author expresses the desire of the main character to know himself, to purify himself and live in the wild, through recommendations not to sit in one place and be active nomads.
Despite the inability to eliminate stereotypes equating womanhood to being submissive, modernist and postmodernist literature created a new woman and expanded the boundaries of the American woman's role.
Henninger, Katherine."Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces".
Representing the epitome of the mundane life, the characters in the novel convey the sense of hopelessness that the author outlines as the essential social issue.
Symbolism reflects in the stories "Young Goodman Brown," "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," and "A&P" through the use of strangers in their plots.
Perhaps it was this passage that served the emergence of various interpretations of the conclusion and perpetuated the story in the category of American classics. The quintessence of this hope is expressed in the exclamation, [...]
By realizing the circumstances of the matter and the danger he brought to his friend, Jenkins follows him and uses the information he received from the man who looked angrily at Blaisdell when he was [...]
On the other hand, the work demonstrates the main character's transformation caused by the contrasting situation, the rebellion against society, and the desire to live an adult and conscious life, despite the difficulties ahead.
The first paragraphs introduce the conflict between the Northern and Southern parts of the country, between black and white people, between the rich and the poor.
Desiree leaves her home and goes with the child to her mother, seeing her husband's true face. In the case of Desiree, only the fact that her husband rejects her allows her to gain independence.
In the short story, Bartleby, The Scrivener: The Story of Wall Street, Herman Melville offers a glimpse into the life of one of the scriveners, Bartleby.
This is evident in how the heroine first recalls the past, analyzing and recounting critical moments related to the main idea of the piece.
After witnessing the deviltry of his companion's conversation with a woman who used to teach Goodman Brown catechism, he is confused and hears a sound that resembles his wife's voice.
The reader receives a strong impression from the setting of the story that black people constantly face bad luck, lack of support, and disrespect from modern society.
Slavery is one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the world and the most striking manifestations of human discrimination.
The three introductory chapters enlighten the reader about the Hmong's childbirth customs and traditions. Reading the book was enjoyable for me since the author drew similarities between birth in Hmong traditions and birth in the [...]
The problem of rebellious nature and interaction between the narrator, an elderly lawyer, and Bartleby takes the central place in the story.
It is quite peculiar that both Orwell and Huxley chose the same tool to express the tension and the absurdity of the situation that the people of the future were trapped in, creating the abridged [...]
Jerusha is a feminist because she uses the letters to communicate the inequalities she feels in her relationship with Daddy-long-legs and her limits.
Ideally, using the subjective understanding of Poe's work, it is possible to evaluate some of the qualities of the story. At the same time, the setting of the story creates a lot of suspense for [...]
All children in the age bracket tend to like language presentation using images, diagrams, and illustrations to understand and relate to every theme in the stories.