Free American Literature Essay Examples & Topics. Page 9

In today's literature, it is possible to observe the artistic, historical, social, and political value of literary work in connection with the social and political conditions of the definite epoch.

By naming his play Fences, the plural form of the word even though only a single physical fence is evident in the play, August Wilson brings attention to the symbolism of the fence itself as [...]

In this discourse two of his famous short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are studied in an attempt to better understand the use of symbolism, the literary tool of irony, and [...]

John Steinbeck's short story, "The Chrysanthemums" reflects the struggles of a stereotyped woman of the time, Elisa Allen to find her own identity in the oppressive world of men.

She had to prove the right of a woman to decide something in the society contemporary to her and, besides, was influenced by her parents.

These assessments are made based upon the appearances of others, such as in her identification of the cotton print dress that is recognizable to Mrs. Through imagery and setting, O'Connor is successful in heavily lacing [...]

Those running away are not sure of where they are going as Le Guin put it at the end of the story "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us [...]

She was his "winter dream " which he was unconsciously being dictated to by "she was the embodiment of a glittering world of excitement and promise.

A peculiar feature of works of this type is that the main characters, women, are not treated as they should be: they see numerous deaths of their dearest people, they are deprived of the fulfillment [...]

In order for the writer to familiarize the reader with the setting of the story, she has succeeded in inviting the reader to be part of the story by describing in detail the setting, from [...]

Despite the presence of many opportunities and positive dreams and goals, most of them fail to be realized due to misleading values and aims set by surrounding society; this idea is present in almost all [...]

Burgess, which is the name of the main character, plays a trick with the citizens of Hadleburg, involving them in lies, thus ruining the virtuous reputation of the town.

The main goal of this paper is to analyze The Scarlet Letter to reveal the author's idea of the frustration of revenge and victory over shame.

In this part of the play, it is clear that Jack is not ready to hide his feelings and is happy to share them with someone who, in his opinion, can understand him.

This claim is informed by the fact that the book has the potential of confusing the average reader. The evidence that is used to back up this claim is Griffin's references of World War II.

They leave you with a, but there is a self-limiting effect of all of our contemporary psychotropics and mood-alterers. The tabloid news is full of people who have become addicted to prescription drugs, or find [...]

After high school, I decided to pursue theology in college, which, in my opinion, explains the mysteries that surround the origin of the universe, life's purpose, and mankind's destiny.

As a result, she can be considered a reliable narrator as she describes both of her daughters honestly and without skipping over any of the unpleasant bit of their backgrounds such as the fire that [...]

I cannot help but agree with this fact because this powerful combination of the novel and the movie helps to understand each character better, develop a personal attitude to the author of the novel, and [...]

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.

Thanks to the newly-attained DNA evidence that pointed at the unknown suspect present at the crime scene, in 2011 the West Memphis Three were able to sign the Alford plea that allowed them to maintain [...]

The current paper will discuss the issues of racism and prejudice in two brilliant pieces of art: Kathryn Stockett's novel "The Help" and the movie "Gone with the Wind" directed by Victor Fleming.

This paper explores the issue of how these people's ideas contributed to the shaping of the culture of that time. The literature portrayed the ways of life of the early dwellers of America, and it [...]

The man helps Jamison to deal with her manic-depressive illness and provides her with more than a decade of extremely strong medicine that is an intimate relationship.

However, he also asserted that the failure of the radical activism of the 1960s was due in part to the flawed ideology that hampered the growth of the movement.

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.

The author emphasizes the main idea of his short story which is the fear of changes in the first lines of his work with the help of concentrating on the description of the peculiarities of [...]

The author brings up a theme of a civil war refugee who has fled to the United States from Africa and who struggles trying to match his old experiences to the new ones and to [...]

In the poem "the dead woman" by Pablo Neruda, the subject, states of his feeling of wanting to go back to where his loved one is lying without life, but he also clearly states that [...]

She used to prove her orders and insights to Gertie in the light of the Bible by manipulating the teachings according to her desire.

This difference in customs impacting behavior can be seen in the story "My Mother, the Crazy African" wherein Lin is ashamed of her mother who is thoroughly immersed in her Nigerian culture and background despite [...]

It seemed to suggest that when he was face-to-face with the war memorial, the author was transported back to the time of the conflict.

At the beginning of the novel, we meet Eliezer and his father, the main characters, the destinies of whom we will follow up to the end of the novel.

One of the reasons for this is that in her novel Plath was able to show that, contrary to what used to be the psychiatric convention of the fifties, one's depression-triggering sense of inadequateness does [...]

Additionally, the author documents the heaviness of the objects to underscore the physical items the soldiers carried. Through repetitive documentation of the tangible objects carried by the soldiers, the author opens a leeway to allow [...]

The African American house cleaners in the novel have a sense of fear in their places of work as can be observed in Aibileen and Constantine.

In spite of the fact that there are many symbols of different types in Poe's "The Raven", such symbols of darkness and depression as December, the raven, the Night's Plutonian shore, and the repetition of [...]

The place of the story is at St. Roberta is the protagonist of the story.

The novel called "The Circle" written by Dave Eggers is a modern dystopia portraying the exaggerated idea of what our world could become if the rules of ultimate transparency and sharing were taken to the [...]

The Fat Girl has a specific plot that helps to understand the connection between culture and identity and define the power of culture over identity through the discussions about the image of American body, its [...]

Despite losing his father in the hands of the Japanese invaders, Adam rises above ethnic discrimination to assist his friend, who is of Japanese descent.

On the arrival of her sister- Dee, she was not coming in the courtyard to her mother to greet and welcome her sister.

The car reminds readers of the good time the two brothers had before Henry participated in the war and the effects he carried along with him when the war was over.

It is in the mind of the narrator that we see a glimpse of the neighbor's beliefs and convictions about the wall.

He endures the bad whiskey smell from his father and the violent style the father makes him dance. They show how much he misses the days he used to dance with his father.

In "The Swimmer" the reality paves the way towards surreal through the use of foreshadowing where there is a creation of the antagonistic world faced by Ned in every new swim.

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.

In the 2004 film, 'A Cinderella Story' by Mark Rosman, the story takes a similar approach as the traditional folk tale with the exception of some added elements in the modified story.

This paper aims to summarize the plot of the novel, to discuss the central themes and the main characters, and to provide a personal review of the book.

He trained his sons on his approach to life and hoped they would follow and achieve his dream of success. Willy's life was a disappointment as he had the wrong ambitions and failed to teach [...]

The story utilizes graphical language and imagery in the development of a sense of deceptive and persuasive nature and circumstances in the expansion of the symbolic approach of sustaining a condition of suspense. The imagery [...]

In this paper, the author analyzes the usefulness of catastrophe narratives as far as alerting the public about the possibilities of environmental destructions is concerned. The events depicted in the texts take into account the [...]

In the third and final section, the author narrates the fall of Bill Cody in the early 1900s, his devastating divorce in 1904, the collapse of his mining business in Arizona and the fall of [...]

For instance, Gumprecht ties in the process of degradation of the Los Angeles River together with the issues in the evolution of the urban life or, to be more exact, the specifics of the life [...]

Another important point the readers are to draw their attention to when reading is the appearance of hope in the author's heart.

Second, the Bay Colony of Massachusetts is likened to an island in the midst of wilderness, indicating that the place is undeveloped First, the market place is described.

She did not care what the outcome for her bad performance could be, hers was to do it for her parents; she was not part of it.

This essay discusses the character of the Townspeople with regard to the development of the themes and plot of the story.

The absence of insurrection among the slaves in Southampton helped in propagating the belief that the slaves under the care of their white masters were satisfied.

The sheer amount of views and in-text lifting from other authors lends the work a certain degree of veracity in terms of the accuracy of the arguments and how they conform to current methods of [...]

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 author explains the meanings of different events and rituals conducted by members of the El Eshadda tribe in order to get rid of ambiguities that inform the western ideologies regarding the culture of the [...]

This is one of the aspects that can be distinguished. This is one of the points that can be made.

This is because, as it was implied in the Introduction, in The Horse Dealer's Daughter the author did succeed in exposing the conceptual fallaciousness of the idea that there is a 'big-daddy-God' up in the [...]

This is a one sentence summary of Rodriguez's career who managed to achieve much by means of reading and education in general, but at the same time he has lost his family having created a [...]

Essentially, the narrator is not personally involved in the events of the story, but he is in a position to see what the two characters are doing and even read their minds.

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 this case, the visit to the supermarket reveals Jack's true nature as an American who is proud of his way of life, and the satisfaction he feels after buying goods from the supermarket.

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 [...]

The method of survival reflects their determination to succeed in life through doing the small jobs and in the end improve the economy of the country.

The book dwells upon the journey of a Hispanic boy to the USA. Of course, the loss of mother is one of the hardest traumas.

When reading through the early chapters of the book I could not help but think that this work was a way in which the author was trying to develop a sense of closure with his [...]

The memoir "Hope's Boy" portrays the childhood experiences of Bridge which depicts the U. The anger of his childhood leads to the belief that there is a hope that the future can be better.

The different themes and characters issued and depicted in the book can be applied in management to provide a basic guideline in terms of the principles of management and the current growth being experienced around [...]

The key purpose of the author in writing this book is to inform the public that change is inevitable. The lack of growth in a rapidly changing environment leads to loss of jobs and opportunities [...]

Catfish and Mandala is a smooth mix of travelogue and memoir: Pham merges stories of his family's escape and settlement in America with steep mountain climbs on his bike, the reunion with several family members [...]

Still others are very much convinced that whatever differences there may be in languages can easily be eliminated if translations are done without the use of idioms to make sure that the meaning of the [...]

This discussion is therefore inclusive of the role of Christianity which is represented in the narrative Frederick story in comparison of both representations by the slaveholders as well as the slaves themselves.

The two works by the authors are related in that one work is the rewrite of another or almost the duplicate of another and therefore almost all the themes are the same in both books [...]

The dog that accompanies the man is also indifferent to the man even though it seems to be have more aware of the danger posed by travelling in that kind of weather than the man [...]

She even thought that the little store was made for children because she had never seen a grown up near it and would not have imagined that the owner's family lived in the same building.

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 [...]

Through this analysis, the techniques used by authors and speakers to control the effects of the message they are delivering, the pros and cons of these kinds of techniques, and the meaning of these messages [...]

Dillard has described Ackerman's work in A Natural History of the Senses and Synesthesia as "a history of her extraordinary enthusiasms," one that continues in the vein of the poet's "effort to draw scientific and [...]

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.

The protagonist's encounters as well as that of the rest of her colleagues indicate that social mobility is locked out to many in the lowest stratum of the working population.

The title of the book refers to the river in which bodies and murder weapons are dumped. One of the main themes of this book is the connection between the past and the present.

In an attempt to free her, she rips apart the wallpaper and locks herself in the bedroom. The husband locks her wife in a room because of his beliefs that she needed a rest break.

The Authors purpose in writing this book was to give the story behind the development of ghettos in the black community specifically the Cleveland community.

The term flogging in the book simply describes the system of canning, stroking, or fondling as a form of prison punishment imposed to prisoners.

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.

In the novel, Harper Lee demonstrates her vision of the question of the social inequality with references to the problem of racism in the society based on prejudice and absence of actual principles of tolerance [...]

The first line in the book is a claim that the amount of food wasted by Americans in a single day can fill the Rose Bowl stadium. Towards the end of the book, the author [...]

Despite the numerous researchers disclosing the affirmative evidence concerning the inborn evilness of some individuals, the author still confides in the idea that to be good is a genetically encoded state which is typical of [...]

Her mother goes to the extent of trying to starve herself to provide Beloved with what she wants. Nel accepts the fact that her friendship with Sula was the best thing that ever happened to [...]

Gimpel's belief that the world is full of marvelous things characterizes him as a man of vision. Remarkably, Gimpel is sure that everything is possible and he acknowledges that the world is, indeed, full of [...]

1- Exploitation- In the book "One Perfect Day": The selling of the American Dream, Rebecca Mead looks into the extreme levels that most brides go to in order to have the best weddings ever.

In the 20th Century, it is a recognized factor in Australia, and all over the rest of the world, that there was neglect of Aborigines since the settlement of the first western civilization, and for [...]

The unfortunate aspect of the story is that Connie plays up her attractiveness and plays the roll that other people want her to have, the one of a beautiful girl.

In addition, some of the plays like a streetcar Named Desire and Baby doll are doing great in the film industry and they have led to the recognition of some actors/actresses like Malden, Brando, and [...]

The idea about braiding strands of air is also depicted as a way in which the strength of women is shown when they are together, this helps withstand the outside forces and this can be [...]

This is not an exaggerated statement judging from terms and imagery used in at least four of his popular works such as The Cask of Amontillado; The Black Cat; The Tell-Tale Heart; and The Masque [...]

With the help of such walk, the author underlines that something mysterious and unknown to Jane is waiting for her and she has to find more powers to discover the truth.

Tom's mother is from a genteel southern ancestry and frequently narrates the stories of her youth to her children and the number of suitors who wanted her.

At the end of it all, Billy is a traumatized individual and is unable to come to terms with the negative effects of war.

The conflict was only indicative of the dualistic nature of the era in terms of depiction of the African American experience in the United States and the Diaspora.

The present research is a valuable source for the further analysis of Jacobs' narrative and life since it is based not only on the Jacob's writing but uses many other reliable sources.

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.

She clearly feels that her marriage was a life of hers, and the death of feelings is the divorce the end to happiness, to mutual understanding, to being the two parts of the whole.

The book by the title "Born on a Blue day" is a story describing the journey through the life of a character who is also the author-Daniel Tammet.

Although Murray emphasizes an importance of the reforms of the educational system, the information in his essay provides the description of the inability of many students to deal with college-level material and incapability to pay [...]

The hallucination about death leads to a conflict between Troy and his wife, but eventually the tussle draws the theme of reality.

In the story Mrs. Dutta's singing helps her to reminisce about the life she left back in India.

Lauren is observed to be sympathetic, since she wished she could trade places with her mother, in order for her to achieve some more, since she felt that her mother was imposing the life that [...]

By the end of her little 'binge', she is aware that she will have to return to her married, maternal role, out of which she stepped, if only for a few hours, and accept the [...]

In most cases, it is quite difficult for husbands and men as a whole to invert their mindsets on the way they perceive women and their wives.

I even think that the author had some words in a sheet of paper and his task was to use all those words in the article.

He believes that the government is not doing much to address the issue of the working poor. Although there are laws set up to protect the working poor, the process of implementing them is very [...]

He breaks down on the politics involved in this prohibition in the year 1919 till the enactment of the prohibition in the year that followed.

The third level of darkness that comes out from the novel is that of the tendency of every human being to be evil.