Free American Literature Essay Examples & Topics. Page 7

However, in my opinion, "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the most powerful pieces of writing I have encountered.

For example, the difference in tones in "Sonny's Blues" and "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter," the plot is rather dramatic, providing a pessimistic perception of the story.

One of the main issues raised in the story is the indignation of the older woman by the behavior of her granddaughter who "is not like my daughter Natalie, or like me".

Sherman Alexie's essay What Sacagawea Means to Me challenges the readers to make a comparison of Sacagawea to Eve and the US to the Garden of Eden.

The clock can be considered an integral part of the story as it leads the readers all the way till the end of the day in the abandoned house.

Thousands of other people had also been affected by the test and they were all blaming the government of the US. Terry and her family had to bear the consequences of an irresponsible government.

The characters of the story are linked to the political scene of the mauve decade. The explanation was based on Baum's experience in the field of journalism before the publication of the wizard of OZ.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The tone that the narrator uses is a complete contrast to this sad condition. The narrator should have used a more appropriate manner that is evidence or characteristic of Scarliotti's situation.

Joe's entry into Janie's life is at an appropriate moment, since Janie is on the verge of breaking up with her former husband due to mistreatment, and Joe creates the opportunity that Janie has been [...]

This is a clear indication of the great distinction that exists between the higher animals and man. Despite the negative attributes of a man, he is also religious.

The setting of the novel takes place mainly in a fantastic kingdom, which is ruled by King Mildred, and partially in the Forest of Doom that is terrorized by a fierce dragon.

Overall, one can argue that the film-makers decided not to focus on the main theme of Phillip Dick's novella, in particular the contrast between the expectations of an individual and his real life.

Being different in their structure and stylistic devices, these three poems, however, are devoted to the exploration of the motif of death, destruction, and renewal which are integral parts of the war. It is devoted [...]

Although Jack Merridew, one of the lead characters of William Golding's shockingly unforgettable Lord of the Flies novel, is a child and still has a lot to learn in terms of how society works, the [...]

Truly, after scrutinizing the blueprints that they can find thoroughly, they learn that one among the walls of the tunnel is erected right where the vault of the bank is situated.

In addition, Bynum's singing through the play provides a clear picture of his spiritual and cultural relationship with his African heritage.

They learnt the important lesson that, the rich do not work for money; no, money works for them by employing other people to work for them In Chapter 2, the author explains the importance of [...]

The theme of Negro poet's beauty is discussed in the work "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" written by Langston Hughes, one of the most prominent African American poets. The Negro poets are unique, [...]

Thesis of the book The book focuses on the life of women and their families in the revolutionary America when the backup was provided by the keepers of the family hearth while all men were [...]

The notion of the end of the world is synonymous to the notion of the end of time. The subtleties of time can be visualized: "In this world, time is a visible dimension".

The setting of the story is complex and multi-layered, presenting the life of the rural community and placing the storm into the midst of the story.

The white man is willing to let the black man in to his space but not to benefit the black man but to humiliate him.

She attempts to use her academic qualifications to conceal the truth that she has cancer but she finally decides to face the truth. In the course of the treatment, it is clear that Vivian is [...]

The authors of this book explain properly that the purpose of this book is to teach the reader about acting craft and to provide several ideas on how to improve personal acting skills and not [...]

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.

In A&P by John Updike, the reader encounters the young narrator whose principles are developed with the flow of the story.

He understands that the technologies and automation of the processes he sought to achieve led to the devaluation of his wife's work, disobedience of children, and a life devoid of love, mutual understanding, and family [...]

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.

Secondly, the author draws the reader to the benefits of introversion and the disadvantages of the trait within the workplace. The author traces the roots of the extrovert ideal to the spring of industrial America [...]

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 [...]

Showing the most vivid examples and providing a highly detailed account of his actions, Stevenson manages to draw the public's attention to the matters of racism, inequality, and law enforcement in the context of criminal [...]

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.

Indulging oneself is one of the most conspicuous traits of Ignatius, which is also one of the major symptoms of antisocial personality disorder. Clearly, he is disrespectful to older people and the representatives of the [...]

Like many people, he is reluctant to do so, and it is metaphorically shown through his unwillingness to part with Faith at the beginning of the story, but eventually, Goodman realizes he has to go.

For the protagonist to win the jackpot, he has to press a key linked to a spinning wheel. As the protagonist is standing on the stage, forcing the wheel to continue spinning, he discovers that [...]

Paley chose to write the story in the first person to depict the connection between the author and the story. Other than the technique demonstrating the author's exceptional emotional depth and profound intelligence, it contrasts [...]

Thus, the essay will consider the short story from a Biblical perspective and demonstrate that O'Connor's short story introduces Biblical allusions to critique people's attitude to Christianity. Thus, the author tries to demonstrate that religion [...]

The novel is based on the life of John Lewis and opens with a group of African American protestors marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The police deny the demand of one [...]

The narrator is devastated by the fact that she is not allowed to write, as she is sure it would "relieve the press of ideas and rest" her.

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.

In the book, Bernays explains how he employed propaganda to manipulate the public when he was the head of the United States Department of public information during world war I.

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 [...]

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 Novel, Unpardonable Sin written by Hawthorne is a detailed criticism of the way of life of the Puritan. The various examples of Jesus in His dealing with those who commit sin is relevant as [...]

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'.

Emerson's outlook embraced an idealistic view of the world together with the key role of nature in it, and the ultimate objective of one's life was seen in cognition and understanding of the world with [...]

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 [...]

Abel's feelings are in large part due to the Indians' belief that the image of the eagle clutching a serpent in its claws is the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl's icon that rivals the Christian cross.

Contrary to the author's statement about the art of loss that she repeats in four stanzas out of six the point of the poem is that the art of losing is hard to deal with, [...]

When she closes the window as said "she got up hurriedly and went about closing the windows and doors", she illustrated the significance of her married life and that she was not willing to have [...]

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.

When the novel starts, Tom is appointed in and often the arranger of childhood tricks and make-believe games. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom's obsession with Rebecca Thatcher is obvious.

Even the reason for the shame experienced by Gregory is stated as due the humiliation that he had in front of Helene.

But if you look at the other side of the story this kindness shown to Bartleby is only the social responsibility of one person to the rest of the world.

However, what the reader should acknowledge is that the author manages to present a wholesome and clear image of the issues and occurrences that defined the United States throughout the 1920s.

From the point at which Zeus rescues his siblings from his father Cronus, however, O'Connor follows the original myths quite closely, describing the war between the Titans and the Olympians, Zeus's journey to find Cyclopes, [...]

The crash of the stock market that results in economic depression is a result of the sinful extravagance of the wealthy and can be related to this prophecy.

The entire story is a documentation of the happiness that the dogs brought to Bill, and its conclusion is practically an illustration of how fond memories always stay with the individuals left behind after the [...]

In the reading "The Train from Hate", John Hope Franklin gives a critical description of the problem of racial segregation in the American society.

The central characters, the correspondent, the captain, the oiler, and the cook, are all survivors of a shipwreck which left them stranded in the water in a small and flimsy dinghy.

Both the dominant role and the level of authority exercised by Yunior's father and his observations of the older boys' attitudes towards the girls share the same set of characteristics and thus can be linked [...]

The kerosene fire that the firemen use is associated with the chaotic nature of fire and the firemen's desire to destroy.

The key purpose of the story is to bring awareness to an issue that a human being is born to be free.

The second and the third ones are created and represented by the Veldt, which turns the reader nauseous with the eye-blinding sight of an African steppe and then lulls their vigilance by offering a background [...]

In this case, the duty of the person breaking the news was to appear gentle while transmitting the sensitive news. It was quite unnoticed that a sob was to hit her hard since she was [...]

From the very beginning of the story, Tod is not good at hockey, but in a process of training, he becomes a good player.

The grandmother asserts that she could paint the picture of the black boy if granted the chance. The grandmother seems to be complaining about the dramatic destruction of the environment since plantations that used to [...]

The Storm and The Story of an Hour illustrate the viewpoints of women's restriction in marriage. Through the two women's experiences, the author illustrate on the theme of restriction in marriage.

The reason why "We Real Cool" is being described as a type of sarcastic personal commentary is due to the type of language is utilized wherein the inflection seen in the sentences and the types [...]

His father, Gim Lew Yep, was born in China in 1914, and he came to the USA when he was ten.

The Great Gatsby is a story of a young man in the early twentieth century who seems to know what he wants in the way of that dream and what to do to achieve it.

The family pattern for the Blacks includes high fertility rates compared to the average Americans, with the Indians and the Hispanics also displaying the same.

Thus, Shepard develops the topic of the American dream and variety of its aspects with the help of discussing Austin and Lee's different attitudes to success, glory, wealth, and independence which are the reflections of [...]

In addition, the application of humility in her poetry serves as a justification of her career as a female writer, considering that women were not thought as capable of be successful in poetry. As such, [...]

While making rhetorical analysis of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, I would like to point out that his memoir is recognized to be one of greatest narratives of the nineteen century in the [...]

It is based on the book Guns, Germs and Steel: The fate of human societies by Jared Diamond, professor of Geography and Physiology at the University of California Los Angeles.

This female sex only society resulted in a culture of peace among the inhabitants, the women had a good social order and they followed the laws set to the latter.

The novel describes one of the most horrible periods in the history of humanity. The prisoners of the Nazis little knew about their future and they were likely to deceive themselves.

In the Story "The man to send rain clouds" by Silko, the central conflict is lack of rain or drought. Culturally the two believed that when the old man dies, he is capable of sending [...]

An interpretation of the ending of the play is given with the impact that is felt as a result of the play is brought light.

The woman in her story goes against the tradition of the time and triumphs by challenging it and gaining a new self-identity. The author uses this story to address the issue of women oppression that [...]

The book tells women's magazines off for not making enough efforts to lessen the force of the myth, in spite of the fact that they are one of the important fundamental tools for transforming the [...]

Even though a person is considered to be a rational creature, everything is directed by feelings and the greater the feeling is, the more rational pull there is to the object of affection.

Therefore, it is convenient to argue that while Ned is a symbol of the younger generation that seeks to liberate the society from the old paradigm, Jimmy Caya belongs to the old generation that wants [...]

This is because it was namely the fact that, ever since her early years Emily was indoctrinated to believe that she had no other option but to live up to the expectations of her traditionally [...]

The beauty of the music is in the feelings, not in those which should be expressed according to the rules, but in those which the musician wishes to express and which arouse in the audience's [...]

This chapter is a flashback of the time when Conover was recruited to join the forces, as a correctional service officer recruit.

The narrator thinks that the woman took off because of the fear he invokes in people due to his skin color. On the other hand, Amy uses fear to show dominance of white cultural heritage [...]

In his compelling masterwork, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, Professor X laments on the poor education system among the people of low social class in America.

In the analysis of Ashami, the author introduces her in the first chapter as trying to conjure an Indian meal from a mixture of American ingredients.

The Ten Commandments have as well dictated the secular lives of the Americans since they have been incorporated in the legal framework of the American history.

One of the most consistent criticisms hurled Bukowski's way, and one of the justifications for his bad reputation, appears as the observation that his work appeals to those who do not understand, or value, the [...]

In the very beginning of the story one can already see the reason why Tuten disapproved of Dee's actions and supported the desire of Mama and Maggie to continue with their way of life.

The author had illustrated different stages of human life with the help of illustrating characters of old waiter, young waiter and an old man at the cafe.

From the very beginning, it becomes evident that the protagonist of the short story is oppressed and the oppression is depicted symbolically.

This section tackles the main characters of the story and as aforementioned, the narrator and the old man are the only central characters in the story.

However, when Kira learns the truths in her society, she decides to strive and save the villagers from their horrible way of life and superstition. The village is primitive and a scary place to be [...]

Although the characters of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie are different in their perception of the world and their actions, all of them prefer the world of illusions instead of reality in order to cope [...]

The author criticizes the twittering society by introducing the APPARAT as the possible progression of the current technology. Sarcasm in this book comes through lack of literary values in the way Lenny is devoted to [...]

The author believes that it can be one of the new systems used to control society and affect African Americans negatively even though it seems to make the USA safer for the representatives of the [...]

The author uses Billie Jo's mother's absence and regrets Billie Jo to show how important the family unit is to the lives of people.

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".

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.

The book entitled Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew features the white power movement in the USA and shows how this movement was born out of people's grievances in the aftermath of the Vietnam [...]

Despite being centered on the antiutopian model of the narration, the author strives to show the first step for the person to obtain individuality. Supporting the ideology of the author and the situation depicted in [...]

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 incorporation of two distinctive perspectives on the events transpiring in the book, namely, those of the Mendez and Munemitsus families, also contributes to reinforcing the powerful message that the book conveys: "Every child deserves [...]

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.

Therefore, the classical guide provides a description of ways to identify the symptoms and the possible treatment for combat stress, PTSD, and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

The lessons in the book are represented through the tree's selflessness, and the book promotes diversity by showing that kindness and generosity are universal values.

In the book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explores the factors contributing to exceptional performance and success in various fields, such as sports, music, and business.

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 [...]

These works shed light on the struggles of women in the late nineteenth century and emphasize the importance of continuing to advocate for gender equality and empowerment.