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‘Brother I’m Dying’

The main theme in her book highlights the lives of families of Haitians in the US. She believes the impact of the US stay is the cause of constant devastations and rebuilding, self governance and [...]
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  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1146

Review of Slow Death by Rubber Duck

The book is a collection of first hand evidence that reveal the environmental and health dangers that some common items can expose users to.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1074

The Battle against Chaos and Challenging Inequities

The battle against chaos as the main function of the societal regulation as it is outlined in the social order model and challenging inequities as the driving force for the social transformation as it is [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

Classic Tale About Janie Crawford

The presence of dialect in a story makes the characters to appear real in the eyes of the reader. The title of the novel has a greater significance in the story as it is assisting [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1124

Ontological Difficulties in Literary Works

A difficulty in literary criticism in negative terms refers to an element of writing that points to or indicative of a rift between a poet or an author and the reader.
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1408

Stylistics of Poetry and Prose: A case of Contrast

The words "it is that he has one foot in the finite and the other in infinite, and that he is torn asunder, not by four horses as in the horrible old times, but between [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3743

Racism in Native Son

He is drawn to the whiteness and buys into the notion that their life is the best. Mary is the character that the author uses to show the repercussions of a crime between Black and [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1924

Waiting for Lefty

The social revolution of the thirties had a lasting impact in shaping the social and cultural intelligentsia of America, the play Waiting for Lefty is definitive discourse on the ills of capitalism and the reasons [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 950

The Influence of Language on Thinking

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2165

A Reader-Response to Crane’s ‘The Open Boat’

The Open Boat begins with four men battling for their life in a lifeboat at a sea."These waves were of the hues of slate, save for the tops, which were foaming white and all of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 932

“Franken-Frogs and the Mushroom Bear”

Therefore froggin' is part and parcel of the people of Cajun to the extent that they have set aside a day to celebrate frogs which is a part of tender diet as illustrated above.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1128

Power Relations in Greco-Roman Myth

Several literatures available describe the position men and women occupied in the Greco-Roman mythology, with the most interesting consideration being on the position of the women in the Greek and Roman societies.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1392

Prophecies in Oedipus the King

In Oedipus the King, one of the persons, who receive prophesies that project a doomed end, is King Laius; who is the biological father to Oedipus. Oedipus then arrives back to his father's land, Thebes [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 695

Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 618

Hwang’s Critique of Orientalism

However, it is possible to state, judging from the huge body of literature dedicated to the essence of Orientalism, the analysis of it roots and the process of its formation, that Orientalism in itself is [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1893

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Umuofia society is religious as it is characterized by the worship of Chuckwu the chief the god, spirits and the ancestors.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

Flowering Judas versus Winter Dreams

In Flowering Judas, Porter brings to our attention the love that exists between the two main characters, Laura and Braggioni, on the other hand, Fitzgerald, in Winter Dreams brings to us the love between Judy [...]
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 617

Meaning of Gilgamesh’s Quest

After Enkidu's death and the loss of the magic plan of the rejuvenation walls, Gilgamesh is reduced to a humble and introverted seeker.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 536

Charlotte Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper: Themes & Symbols

The fact that the patient is the physician's wife ought to portray a picture of mutual agreements and understandings rather than subjecting one's decision to the other with a reason for care and protection.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

The Death of Ivan Ilych: Face Death With Dignity

In Court he was well aware of his high position and he was not able to hide his indifference for those of lower rank. The moment he was convinced that he was about to die [...]
  • Subjects: World Philosophy Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1223

Melanctha’s Relationship with Desire

Jeff and Melanctha's interaction in their domestic setup is evidence of Melanctha's complex relationship with desire, in the sense that, her interaction with Jeff is not a conventional one, or of a woman befitting her [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1133

Literacy Poses in Paulo Freire’s Philosophy

The golden middle in adult literacy education is in being able to transform the theories and rules of language into the forms and meanings that are understandable to learners.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 612

Theodore Roethke and Sylvia Plath

Both poets suffered from depression that influenced the themes of poems in Praise to the End by Theodore and Ariel by Sylvia.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

Ritual Performances in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare uses this dream theme to bring out the comic nature of his play and ensure that the unusual happenings in the comedy serve to entertain the audience as opposed to depressing it.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1569

American literature: Steven Wallace

This is because it signals the reduction in the weight of syllables in all the lines found within the four verses."The second line of the first stanza, 'As in a season of autumn,' serves as [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 743

Inaccessible Law in Franz Kafka’s “The Trial”

Therefore, the fact that the man wastes all his lifetime and wealth waiting for his chance to access the law reveals the dissatisfaction of the judicature as a branch of justice in the society.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 864

Mr. Chiu: “Saboteur” by Ha Jin

Ha Jin is a Chinese novelist currently living in the US and the author of the book Saboteur, Saboteur is about a young man, Mr.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 640

Great works of literature- Chinua Achebe

This book also brings out the wide impact of knowledge, education, and evangelism on the people lives and at psychological level, the damage is inflicted on Achebe's changing society as this brought the culture of [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1904

Nickel and Dimed

The inherent problem is that the system of employment for unskilled labor is virtually designed in such a way so as to limit their rights and give more power to the employer.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 743

Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”: Cynicism or Meliorism?

Miller in "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown: Cynicism or Meliorism" states that critics have shared the feeling that Hawthorne's story intends to express the move from the relationship between God and man that is brokered through [...]
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 546

Children’s Literature for Literacy

Children literature deserves lots of attention; it provides the reader with an opportunity to investigate the worlds of different people, analyze oneself, and comprehend each piece of information because of such features as a friendly [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1022

Different Views of Early Modern Europe

The novel, The Princess of Cleves, is actually a romance, but it also tells a lot about the history of France and the court of King Henri II, a lot of the characters in the [...]
  • Subjects: Dramatical Novel
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1898

Satire in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Works

With time, Bulgakov's satire turned out to be more and more dramatic, pointing out the shortages of technology and society development."The first of the various levels on which the novel's satire functions is that of [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 606

Reflection: The Concept of the “Islamic State”

Mohammed Ayoob is a professor of International Relations from Michigan State University and the author of one of the most interesting and worthwhile book about the Islamic world The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 490

The Fall River Axe Murders

However, her The Fall River Axe Murders is not about sexuality and fantasy, it is about the real events, which happened at the end of the 19th century, where the case of Lizzie Borden was [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1039

“Ordinary Men” by Christopher R. Browning

In the wake of the strong-held belief that Jews were responsible for the fall of German Empire, there was massive deployment of police officers to clear Jews from ghettos and exterminate them.
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 845

War and the Meaning of Home

In his works, Berry makes a wonderful attempt to compare a soldier's attitude before and after war, analyze what aspects of war are able to change a soldier's mind and principles, and explain why war [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2250

Song Dynasty and Two Poems for Analysis

It is possible to give different questions, and in my opinion, the idea to united water and the issue of death is one of the most brilliant steps in this poem. It is possible to [...]
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1397

Kate Chopin’s Novel The Awakening

Kate lost all her siblings and by the time she was 24 she was a single child. Kate was sentimentally exhausted and she needed to turn to composing as a way of squeezing out her [...]
  • Subjects: Writers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 680

Perspectives: Woman at point Zero

In the opening scene of the play, Medea is beating herself over the loss and present to console her is an elderly nurse.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Drama: Susan Glaspell’s Trifle’s

In the play, we also get to know the character traits of the Wright's from other characters.Mr. This makes Minnie Foster a key suspect in the murder case i.e.she might have killed her husband to [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 643

“The Tale of the Heike”

It discusses the stories of 12th century and the main focus is the transition of Chinese and the Japanese. This is the initial stage that the belief of the Japanese is portrayed.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 531

Beauty and the Beast

The setting of Beaumont's Beauty and the Beast is the world of merchants and nobility. The heroine of the story, Beauty, the youngest of the six children, and the most "handsome" of the three sisters [...]
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  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2364

Catullus’ Lyric Poem and His Obsession with Lesbia

He used different methods to break her spell the first time he tried to convince himself that there is nothing good that will come out of his love for her and he said: Leisure, Catullus.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 662

Love for Nature: A Symptom of a Lovesick Heart

Although the setting for the song was in a field of barley the reader can easily sense that the composer wanted everyone to know that he is a lover of nature.
  • Subjects: Comparative Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1010

What Can Lawyers Learn From ‘Othello’?

Shakespeare has employed one of the literature elements by using major characters like, Othello, a hero and the head of armies, Desdemona, Othello's covert wife, Michael Cassio, Othello's deputy, Lago, ranked below the lieutenant, among [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 692

Flight into Canada by Ishmael Reed

This paragraph from the book reflects that the author feels deeply about the issues in the society and somewhat does hold the gods responsible for not doing anything.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Instead of listening to the perspectives of other workers, the author herself gave up her middle-class comforts and assumed the role of a minimum-wage worker in America to experience the daily hardships they go through.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 803

Depression due to Repression in The Yellow Wallpaper

By the end of the same century, the patriarchal view of women as 'natural born housewives' and the objects of men's sexual desire, had lost the remains of its former validity.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1817

The souls of the black folk

World War 1 and the social and cultural changes in the United States accelerated the growth and popularity of the alliance during the start of the 20th century.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1699

Post Colonial Literature: Poetry and Prose

On post colonialism, Judith Wight talks of how both the whites and the black natives have lost in terms of culture and property then she proposes forgiveness and unity of the two groups as the [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1886

Language and Identity: Communication and Representation Sources

Since the concept of identity has been traditionally considered abstract and more often collective, the present stage of socio-linguistic study marks the revelation of individual identities and group identity features in a separate individual clearly, [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

“Ambivalent Conquests” by Inga Clendinnen

The book's chapters, the monogram, and the conclusion do not explain the author's central argument. In this book, Clendinnen attempts to explain Landa's actions when he championed for the rights of the Maya people and [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1077

The Cherry Orchard: Response

Firs, as one of the main characters depicts various stages of the play's development, his fate is associated with the fate of the orchard and the attitude of people to his is almost the same [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

The Poet in Love, the Poet in Pain

The major theme of the poem is unhappy love and the way to love. One of the major symbols in the poem is the symbol of the play, called 'love'.
  • Subjects: Poems
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

An Occurrence at Owl Creek

The author uniquely uses the nature of time to narrate a story from a present time to that of the past.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

“Farm Girl” and Child Development

The style of the essay is rather interesting and compelling, as it describes the life of a small girl but is written by an adult.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

A Play “Medea” by Euripides

Not only has there been a gender difference between men and women in life and social environment, but extreme discrimination and external conditions of the world and governmental ruling added to the role division.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 550

Book Report: Who moved my cheese?

Symbolism relating to the maze and the cheese in the story is what helps the author to present his message in the entire book.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’: Chapter 18 Analysis

This paper takes a critical look at the inclusion of chapter 18 in the publication entitled 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and its significance in enabling a better understanding of the drama in the chapter. It [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

How Language Can Be Used or Abused in Persuasion

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 [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1363

Jeff Henderson’s Life After Prison

This is one of the problems that the author is forced to encounter. This is one of the reasons they were reluctant to deal with him.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 372

Jeff Henderson and his Family Environment

Apart from that, it is important to mention that his parents failed to safeguard Jeff against risks that one could face in the neighborhood.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 333

Jeff Henderson’s Life Journey

In particular, the writer shows that in the course of his life, he reached the state of moral degradation, recognized the causes his downfall, and profoundly changed many of his worldviews.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1625

“Kokoro” a Novel Written by Soseki

There is also contradiction in the way that narrator and his father feel in regard to graduation. After Sensei learns that K is also in love with daughter of the widow, he proposes to her.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 818

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

It focuses on the personal characteristics of the presidents and aligns it to the public lives the men have led. There are many events that are described, relating to both public and private lives of [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1094

House of Refugee vs. Life-Saving Station: In Search for a Shelter

It is quite remarkable that the difference between the two houses comes into the limelight as the correspondent, who clearly incorporates the elements of media as the author perceived it, cunning, two-faced and at the [...]
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  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 588

Illness of the Mind

This also comes from the fact that Bartleby think very highly of himself, and being the person that he is, others must understand him and love him as he is."Torquemada at the Stake" is also [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

The Handmaid’s Tale

In the book, The Handmaid's Tale, the republic of Gilead presents a different environment with different rules from those of the former order before the conflict and establishment of a new order.
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1467

Gender Issues and Post-Colonialist Mood in Supernova

Dewi, however, does not interpret the given statement as the fact that knowledge is the source of power and power is the source of knowledge. The depth and palette of emotions that a single phrase [...]
  • Subjects: World Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 911

Iris and the Sky Myth

The myth offers intrinsically narrates the war that Iris had with the sky due to the pride of Iris. The "Iris and Sky" myth fits in the etiological theme of the classical mythology.
  • Subjects: Mythology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff

The aim of this essay is to characterize the place of the figure of Falstaff in the works of William Shakespeare.
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

A&P by John Updike: Plot Summary

The aim of this essay is to summarize the plot of A&P by John Updike and to discuss the main idea of the novel.
  • Subjects: American Novels Writing Style
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 853

“Outlaw Platoon” by Sean Parnell

The author begins by explaining how he became the commander of the infantry platoon at the age of twenty-four. From the book, it is notable that the author displayed and lived most of the army [...]
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 581

Carpe Diem and Aubade in British Literature

The themes and the underlying meanings of the poems encompass the problems of human existence, human feelings, desires, and even the world perception. The aubade is the kind of lyrics devoted to love and the [...]
  • Subjects: Plays
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man

One of the motifs is the defiance of religion and the moral understanding of the world. A rather crucial motif is the development of the individuality and understanding of the surrounding world.
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 586

Twelve Years a Slave

He is the son of Mintus, who was a slave under the Northup family. The initial chapters of this publication discuss the history of the Northup's and the author's marriage to Anne.
  • Subjects: American Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 863

A heroine meets an anti-heroine: Eloisa vs. Belinda

Despite the fact that the characters of Eloise and Belinda are traditionally interpreted as the exact opposite of each other, i.e, a heroine and an anti-heroine, they, in fact, share quite a number of similarities. [...]
  • Subjects: British Literature
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861