On the one hand, it depends on the person who is telling the story; on the other hand, it is determined by the level of the narrator's awareness.
The author describes the project, in which all the events of the Civil War are shown shortened to only one day.
I choose to analyze the poem from two perspectives that are; a poem denoting the life of Maya through the ups and downs of her life and from a bird's eye view, a poem describing [...]
The character in the poem is complex as she struggles from childhood through adulthood to come to terms with the loose of her father at a young age.
By the use of the technique of contrasting the characters and their opinions in the story, the author succeeds in demonstrating the significance of comprehending our present life in relation to the culture that our [...]
At the same time, the story draws a parallel to the uprising itself, with the tyranny of Rip's wife leading him to try and escape, only for this woman to disappear before his return.
While trying to address the extremist audience, the writer resorted to the strong methods of personification to be able to talk straight to each reading the letter. Despite the character of the text, the writer [...]
This promise is immature; Walter knows very well that getting the money to invest in his business remains a point of contention, yet he promises Willy that he would take the money.
The mysterious nature of the story comes to light when Jim decides to leave and Jelka is knitting, as it is unclear why she is acting in such a strange way, and the discovery that [...]
The use of horror and humor in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the literary features that the author uses to constructs the story.
The following paper analyzes William Carlos Williams's story "The Use of Force" to understand the plot and meaning of the narrative to prove that the use of force by the doctor was justifiable.
In other words, the two little people with their intelligence cannot accept and adapt to change easily, while the two mice notice the change, adapt to it, and move on to find new cheese.
Pete followed in the footsteps of their parents - he is serious, distrustful, and responsible because he needs to take care of his disorganized brother.
The stories under analysis A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Revelation focus on the psychological and moral analysis of the main actors with regard to their perception and attitude to the external social [...]
The reader is captivated from the very beginning of the story, as it is similar to the beginning of the famous Star Wars.
This essay shall analyze the main scenes and the ending of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" This is why realism and real-life cruelty are the things, which are inherent to this story [...]
The author wanted to show that the strength of the crowd, coupled with a strong sense of habit and tradition, so much clouded the mind that only the victim, left alone against the entire crowd, [...]
She is also depicted as a "damsel in distress" when Goodman hears in the forest how the townspeople lead her to the devil's communion.
The disabilities of the younger brother do not prevent him from admiring the world, while the elder brother is inclined to show more pride, and these differences form the basis of the story.
Many of the works of Aiken have a reflection on his interests about the psychoanalysis and the progress of identity. However, what the main character did is a mere expression of what he feels at [...]
Although Elie questions the whole concept of faith in God, he never stops to ask questions that connect him with God.
At the very beginning of the novel called The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the author explains the meaning of fuku "...generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and [...]
The dream is a premonition of danger that is ahead; although she dreams after fighting with her friend Tia, it also represents her conscience because her friend despises her during the ordeal. However, the dream [...]
By the time of her death from cancer of the breast only 18 months after publication of this book, she had been awarded a freedom medal by the president and indeed a revolution to fight [...]
Stradlater reveals to Holden that he has a date waiting and that he needs to shave. Stradley asks Holden to write an essay for him and informs him that the former is taking a girl [...]
It is expressed through the eyes of a young girl, the persona, who tries to grapple with the disturbing memories of her late father. The disillusionment on the part of the persona is begotten by [...]
The two hand-stitched quilts draw attention and become the center of conflict in the family of Mama and her two daughters.
In "A Rose for Emily," the theme of adapting to the changing environment is developed through the character of Miss Grierson and her reluctance to the changes.
A writer's ingenuity appears in many forms, be it a word choice or a particular grammatical structure, but "tone" is a device that is liable for depicting and illustrating a writer's attitude to a situation [...]
The author used a dramatic monologue as a style to provide a compelling explanation of the events that occurred before and after meeting the lady.
The author intends to put himself and his companion to the test by traveling to six cities of the US in the conditions of uncertainty and social rejection.
The Poet is a co-tenant of Jeanne's in the apartment, where Jeanne receives customers, and who also owns the pussy cat that the woman wanted to strangle and kill.
This paper intends to explore the identity of the author and the critical figure of speech as well as the overall theme that is being discussed in the poem.
The plot of the story unfolds at the time of the American Civil War. Instead, the story's finale is a sad note with the death of Peyton Farquhar.
A deeper contemplation of the first few pages of the story reveals that Jiya is always afraid of the ocean since he understands the wrath of the storm and the changes it has brought in [...]
After Desiree walks into the desert, instead of walking back to the Valmonde family plantation, Armand sees that all her clothes and belongings at the Augbiny's are placed in a bonfire.
The author identifies the decaying symbolism of the house in the text through the author's constant mentions of dust, which fills the Griersons' mansion: "faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils".
The notion of time in The Sound and the Fury is characterized by a subtlety. The most chaotic and fuzzy sense of time is observed in Benjy's narration.
The power of this short story is not only in the beauty of portraying human beings but also in the way it scrutinizes attitudes to and perceptions of life, the present and the past, love [...]
Edgar died in Baltimore and the cause of his death was not clear. Edgar, in his element, overcame challenges and established a literary legacy that has stood the test of time.
The author presents the scenic elements of the forest and the village without ambiguity. The author resonates on the contradictory extremes of misguided attitude and false perception in the belief of 'a blackness power.' Besides, [...]
Consequently, the fish appears as a courageous fighter who has been struggling for existence and is rewarded by the gift of life it that gets from the narrator in the end of the poem.
In this sense, the author manages to inform the audience that Paul is drowning in his thoughts and barely shows his concern for others, thus, showing the depth of his unhappiness.
The Bell Jar is a story of the transformation of a young woman who despises the idea of being servile to men into a person who serves them in order to escape the psychiatric institution [...]
"The Most Dangerous Game", a short story written by Richard Connell, is one of the first literary pieces to tell the tale of human hunting a subject highly popularized in the contemporary popular culture.
The idea that the speaker of the poem is the author becomes obvious with the following line, "And I will stand here like a shadow".
Bearing's thoughts on the problem, but the controversial character of the play influences the viewer's vision of the theme and idea significantly, affecting the interpretation of the ending.
This clearly shows that the genesis of Sasha's behavior is linked to her missing father. In the story, the leaving of Sasha's father has made her to mistrust all the people she is dealing with.
You nabbed them!" "Who?" asked the detective."The time fugitives" said the other man, with a note of deep distaste."They were not content with the domes, the recycled air, the recycled food, the unvarying light and [...]
Another interesting character to be considered is Alaska; this girl is very active and cheerful, but at the same time, she is a bit pensive: she speaks about death and life and the labyrinth where [...]
The plot of the story, therefore, becomes an argumentative platform for the author to touch on the way the animals are being discriminated upon and how that is more than likely similar to how people [...]
It is important to note the fact that culture-based poverty due to discrimination of the past or political ineffectiveness of the nation can have a profound ramification in the lives of its victims.
In The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald documents these changes through an in-depth exploration of cultural changes such as the rise in consumerism, materialism, greed for wealth, and the culture of loosening morals in the 1920s [...]
Luella Bates Washington Jones acts positively in changing the behavior of Roger. Luella Bates Washington Jones is very successful in changing the behavior of Roger.
It should be mentioned that the story is the discussion of the reaction to the event and the characteristics of one hour in the life of Louise Mallard.
And now, when the storm was about to hit, Calixta's home was about to become like a garden and Alcee will come in like a snake tempting her and she will give in to that [...]
The narrator watches Sonny playing the piano in the club and concludes that this helps him deal with frustrations he has experienced in his life.
From the very first lines of the story, the readers can observe the way the narrator perceives the surrounding world and the people.
The cultural difference between the two families is introduced by the author as a theme describing the role of gender in the community.
This paper aims to analyze the poem by revealing its symbolic meaning and the narrator's identity, as well as the use of literary and metrical devices that support the overall mood of the poem."Stopping by [...]
Harry and his wife, Helen, are stranded in Mount Kilimanjaro and their interactions reveal that their rocky relationship is a result of a mixture of frustration, incorrect decisions, getting married for wrong reasons, and unreciprocated [...]
Kingsolver uses everyday examples to unveil importance of the American flag as a symbol of national unity and patriotism. In sum, the flag means much more for American people than a national symbol: it is [...]
The play begins as the County Attorney and the Sheriff have come to investigate the murder and find the motive. Irony helps Glaspell to unveil women's right to suffrage and dramatize the situation.in the play, [...]
This paper provides a discussion on changes in the young woman's character, addressing her salient traits that remain the same and outlining the differences in her personality across time and media.
In turn, the use of various stylistic devices helps the writer create a sense of suspense and show the immense moral tension that the main character struggles with.
The advantage with this style in poetry is that the poet has the freedom to decide on the length of the verse in order to meet the thematic concerns of the poem.
Lewis and first published in 1981 by Knopf, the book When Harlem was in Vogue is one of the few chronicles of the Harlem Renaissance.
At the end of the story, it is revealed that the point of the lottery is to select a victim among the community members and collectively stone her to death.
At the time that Odile comes to Mamzelle's home with her four children, the latter is described as unhappy and fairly indifferent.
The hesitancy and repetition of phrases, the parallels of contrast, express and enforce the strong bound between George and Nick. In the case of George and Nick they form the basis of their relationship.
It is not easy to specifically classify some of her works because they do not conform to the conventional styles of writing.'Our Secrets' is one of those pieces of writing, where she brings out the [...]
The style is especially evident in the analysis of the governess, one of the main characters in the book."The Turn of the Screw" is a narrative about a governess who is tasked with the responsibility [...]
Together with the regular rhyme scheme and the repetitive "o" sound in The Raven, the poet is able to heighten the melancholic atmosphere that is characteristic of gothic poems.
The first story is of Nya, a girl from Sudan, and the second story is of Salva, a Sudanese boy. Man in the dorm of a civil war which is the cause of Salva's fleeing [...]
As a black American, Troy's childhood experiences have been passed on to his children, making him a victim of an oppressive culture. Therefore, this makes Troy a victim of racism and culture, contributing to his [...]
The author suggests that even the kind of history that the children of the oppressed Haitians learn in school is doctored to whitewash the atrocities colonizers meted on the natives, further emphasizing the systemic nature [...]
The author's mood changes the plot, and the choice of characters and setting contribute to a better understanding of the message.
Cory's swinging of his dad's bat is a symbolic action that represents his desire to fill his dad's shoes, despite the fact that he struggles and is not confident in his ability to do so.
In the earlier decades, realism was not the dominant literary style in the US but became more influential and important to a famous novelist in the US.
The main theme in the play is sustained in the play with the sons of Willy attaining their personality from their father.
In this play, I identify with Bill because he is nervous and ends up saying the wrong things as he tries to impress Betty.
In noticing that the author is female, we begin to think that this is her story and that she has risen above the choices she was given after all, so it has a happy ending.
Thus there is irony in the title, in the characters, in the name of the characters, and also in the title of the story.
The women portrayed in the story are Rebekka, the wife of the farm owner Jacob Vaark, Florens, a black slave sold to the farmer, Lina, the Indigenous servant, and Sorrow, the woman with an unknown [...]
At the beginning of the story, Sammy seems like a thoughtless sexist who only admires girls because he has nothing to do, but as the story develops the readers is able to see beyond Sammy's [...]
However, at the end of the story, the son discovers that he was not the source of his problems but instead alcoholism was. He did this while referring to the character of his grandfather and [...]
Suddenly, the bell rang, and all the people in the office abruptly got up and went to the room next to the main hall.
The lesson that can be learned through the interface of this Poe's short story is that no one can be trusted due to the lack of background information and deceptive practices.
Her biography slightly resembles the story of Louise Mallard, who was also processing the alleged death of a husband. To begin with, in The Story of an Hour, the protagonist Mrs.
The character Pearl is considered a perfectionist, and when the father deserts the family, she is challenged in her attempt to hold the family together as strongly as it used to be.
The role of nature in the people's lives and the role of an individual in the natural world is one of the main themes in Whitman's poetry that is why Section 31 of "Song of [...]
Death refers to the lasting termination of all life's tasks in a human being. Death chances on its prey in the middle of their actions and strikes equally to all.
Although he uses the aspect of foreshadowing to relate to the tragic end of the story, the final paragraph comes as a shock to the reader.
It appears that the black group keeps to itself and that the white group remains as a unit without a black girl amongst them.
He entombs the corpse in the basement of his house, and when the police unexpectedly show up at his house, he inadvertently leads them to the corpse.
The author fulfilled the purpose of the book and the needs of the audience, as he described realistic events, created a down-to-earth hero and made the plot thrilling.
Another of the details that support the postulation that the main idea of the story is that assumptions can kill is the inability of the main character to recognize his limitations.
The use of these devices is against the common Puritan practice that preferred the use of a simple and straight-forward language with the view of making the poems' divine messages more vivid to the audience. [...]
Philippe Diaz's documentary, The End of Poverty, is a piece that attempts to dissect the causes of the huge economic inequalities that exist between countries in the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere.
Raymond Carver is the writer who uses minimalism in his writing style to set up the tone of the story from the very beginning."What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Carver explores [...]
The author demonstrates all the complexities of her intra-familial relationships in detail, and it is impossible not to feel sympathy and empathy.
Sweetness, what the mother wants her daughter to call her instead of amama', is conforming and observant of the injustices around her.
Nature is full of mystery, diversity, richness, it is a human dwelling, but one of the burning problems is the place of a human in nature.
For people who have not been completely deprived of their ability to utilize their sense of logic, as a result of being continuously brainwashed by hawks of political correctness, it does not make a whole [...]
But, what actually makes the hardships of the Indians in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation bearable to the reader is the excessively used hilarity and empathy that Alexie has used in the anthology.
For instance, the birth of a younger brother or sister, the beginning of school, or the divorce of parents would change the relationship between the child and his or her environment. In the given case, [...]
Main Points of The Yellow Wallpaper The basic aim of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is to reflect the oppression of women in the 19th century.
From the beginning, as the author narrates the story in the setting of World War 1, the reader is shown the horrors and trauma of war.
The third level of darkness that comes out from the novel is that of the tendency of every human being to be evil.
As a result, she is trapped in the cage of her American apartment. Aparna's transformation ended up with an authoritarian head of the house, avoided by her daughter and viewed by her as a relic.
Toni Morrison in Sula describes the problem of how society perceives post-traumatic stress disorder through the figure of Shadrack and his way of life after the First World War.
An important aspect of foreshadowing is that at the end of the story, the reader can understand how the hint is linked to the ending.
The name The Storm symbolizes some of the characters' lives, and Calixta and Alcee end up marrying other people. Therefore, the two storybooks are related in the sense that one is the continuation of the [...]
The readers are invited to see Nick and Hemingway himself as Nick's prototype in a new light of a lover and a young husband.
Even though the story is in second person, we understand that this is actually the feelings and thoughts of the narrator.
For example, a child brought up by a single mother tends to relate with women in a more comfortable manner than the ones brought up by the two parents. In this light, a father has [...]
To begin with, let us state that the story under consideration is the short story under the title "The Management of Grief" by Bharati Mukherjee.
He writes Maus, a nonfictional book, to describe the horror that the Jews were subjected to during the Holocaust through the narration of his father.
The poem portrays a vivid image of the emotional rollercoaster the author is experiencing as he visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial."Facing It" successfully incorporates the use symbolism and imagery throughout the structure of the poem [...]
The thyme of the two versions makes up one of the major contrasts between the film version and the original version of The Tell-Tale Heart story as it appears in the book.