Themes in American Novels Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

The development of the American dream and its impact on the society of the United States is a pertinent topic of discussion for various authors.

Her response is to try her best to make up for her crime by satisfying each and every demand of Beloved to the extent of literally enslaving herself to the girl.

He felt like a living dead, in a coffin still to be drained of his blood, and yet, he seeks spiritual answers and is interested in the "psychic underside of sexuality" as Boroff explicitly suggested.

In the short story, Faulkner portrays that the beginning of the 1900s was marked by great social and economic changes but many people fail to accommodate their life to new social relations and a new [...]

The theme of the struggle between a man and the sea as the power of nature can be traced even in the ancient literature, drawing on the example of Odysseus challenges and Poseidon, the formidable [...]

As a result, Kathy is ready to start the strange and disgraceful relationships with Burdon in order to find a kind of security.

The next chapter of the book explores more on the main subtopics of the piece of writing. According to the author, the increasing depression amongst the people triggered the creation of a public warfare.

Therefore, in a strict play of the private incidents such as the death of her father with gangrene and his German lineage are presented in the poem to actually demonstrate Plath's abhorrence for her ancestry [...]

This phrase is heard on behalf of the author at the end of the story, in the part where the description of the murderer of the protagonist's son is given.

A breakdown of the symbolic significance of the concept of "doubleness" in the short story and its exciting aspect forms the basis of this paper.

The story's central irony is that the protagonist is not a good boy. A passage that depicts the author viewing the character as pretentious is the one discussing Jacob's desire to rescue a dog only [...]

Thus, the three main themes of the book are games, relationships between adults and children, and ruthlessness. The reader sees the opposition between the way of thinking of children and adults.

Through these works, the concept of the blurring of reality and the imaginary world of dreams is explored, showcasing the complexity of reality perception and its nuances.

The description of the boat colliding with the shore and the crowd rushing in to save the crew serve as a resolution example.

In society, women are there to be seen and not to be heard; thus, he expects his wife to look good.

The attempt by writers of the nonfiction but documentary literature genres to explore various global phenomena often responds to the claim of certain absolutism, that is, the recognition of the perfect truth of the picture [...]

Though deemed to be the land of opportunity, the 1940s New York environment and the harsh setting of rigid stereotypes and prejudices create multiple challenges for each of the protagonists, setting barriers that are exceptionally [...]

In the second essay, Dillard writes that "the drama of the chase" had a profound impact on the character's perception of pursuing one's goals.

The reason why this is important to the main theme lies in the fact that passing is a form of deception that allowed Clare to obtain higher status and more freedom.

The main difference between the stories of Frankenstein and The Possibility of Evil is based on the evil aspect and the type of horror represented.

For example, the mother in the family in the 2019 remake is presented as a kind woman without any sins, with her daughters claiming that she is never angry and her partly corroborating this statement, [...]

The concept of surrealism is understood as a direction in bourgeois contemporary art, the purpose of which was to know the depths of the human subconscious, familiarize ourselves with supernatural phenomena and create a different [...]

The two stories, 'Girl' and 'Yellow Woman,' have standard literary devices, and at each level, the author intends to pass a particular message to the readers.

The essay is about life and death, with a key emphasis on the inescapability of the latter, as portrayed in the afterlife of Everyman.

Consequently, some question the content of children's literature and the role of societal issues in it. Therefore, it can be debated that children's literature should be able to teach critical thinking by introducing social diversity [...]

The lack of cultural awareness in society is widespread today because people do not take the time to learn and appreciate the background of the diverse people around them.

In general, the new perspective on relations between males and females and a new form of marriage can be associated with the rise and spread of the ideas of feminism.

The goal of the text is to demonstrate the plight of migrants. The author of The Cheater's Guide to Love is the American-Dominican writer Junot D az, who was 44 years old at the time [...]

In this story, the protagonist, whose wife was Ligeia, tells of the happiness he found in his marriage to her before her untimely death.

She argues that what individuals truly mean by the phrase "good men" is the opposite of what they actually mean in her powerful masterpiece, A Good Man is Hard to Find.

OASIS is a useful and productive escape from the harsh world that the characters in Ready Player One live in, while the current social media platform that could be compared to OASIS, Meta, is more [...]

To shed light on the problem of discrimination, the texts of the chapter and the essay examine cases of linguistic and tradition-based intolerance.

The authors were able to integrate and discuss the features of the issue of pollution in terms of socioeconomic variables as a notable part of the book and its elaborations.

Missie May and Joe relay the themes through the roles issued to them as the protagonist and antagonist of the story, respectively.

Thus, in "Farewell to Arms" by Hemingway, the brutality of war influenced the change in the hero's views, and his opinion was formed by the senselessness of war, which are essential foundations for the prevention [...]

The platonic love between Leen and Buddy shows how human suffering is inevitable regardless of race. Fictional stories can express the theme of love and human suffering.race does not determine the level of human suffering, [...]

The novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway demonstrates the similarities between my life and Henry's, resulting in a metamorphosis due to improved knowledge.

To Kill a Mockingbird, in its imperfection, is a testament to the march of progress in social justice and racial equality.

After the release, Malcolm had the tools he needed to change his life and the lives of many others in America.

Written in the nineteenth century, this essay examines the problem of the state and society and the contribution of Latin culture and political identity.

Still, most of all, it is dark and mocking, in the spirit of Swift, the discourse on science and religion, faith and disbelief, meaning and nonsense.

Girl short story is a single sentence of advice from a mother to her daughter - the author uses semicolons between the words of wisdom and admonishments.

Racial prejudice, morality, and the importance of the law are common themes in To Kill A Mockingbird, and their implication in life is readily apparent.

The central theme of the fourth part of the book is the question of reality and its perception in today's world.

The host seems to be a well-off family, expressed by the narrator's description of the dresses and nightgowns, the bathrooms in the house, and the interior decor.

The essence of the latter is in the opposition of a person to society and its norms. Further, the second conflict in "The Story of an Hour" is the internal struggle and confusion of Louise.

Different points of view on the depicted events are expressed in narrative types, characterized by a different degree of subjectivity on the one hand, and a different degree of approximation to the object of the [...]

The importance of being earnest, as per the essay, is that a person becomes able to have a taste of a realm that can be subjected to their preferences.

The authors were in the middle of events: they worked as editors in the Ramparts, a political magazine popular among the radical audience.

Herland was established to show that women are not biologically inferior to men and conventional perceptions of femininity are false. Jeff and Van learn that their conceptions of women and femininity are artificially formed.

In fact, such absence of scenery is closely connected to the passage of time, the way that the time in the story is distributed and managed.

In the matriarchal society of Herland, the concept of 'femininity' is absent; thus, from the author's point of view, the women are free from being bound to their sex.

By pinpointing the nature of the problem, specifically, outlining racism and disregard for the integrity of women's bodily autonomy, Skloot condemns the abuse that Lacks suffered, therefore, paving the way to new, fair and unbiased, [...]

The story's title represents the name of the conference that the main character takes part in. Instead, the story follows the main character's fictional journey across the minds of other people caught in the snowstorm.

The primary purpose of Gary Soto's The Afterlife is to show the significance of human life and forgiveness from the perspective of those who lose it.

Thus, the former's relationship to this institution was guided by humanity towards the slaves and the development of legal methods of improving their lives that did not exist in the latter case.

Amongst the stages of grief, the most fundamental one is the ability to maintain a connection to the deceased while at the same time moving on with life.

The way a black child is struggling to get the most basic needs in the US. In the story, the twelve-year-old child is not afraid of mistreatment by the people when they realize she is [...]

I think that the irony, demonstrating how issues of the girl are directly related to the mother's relationship with her is, used effectively.

As a white man, he is expected to follow the society's rules and ensure that the runaway slave is returned to the owner.

The main symbols of the story are tortoiseshell hair combs and a platinum chain for a pocket watch the symbols of sacrifice and devotion.

In the end by the end, Jeannette's aspiration was the opposite of her family, bringing to success and acceptance not only herself but also those close to her.

Art Spiegelman magnificently links the past and the present graphically to narrate his father's surviving the Holocaust and his relations with the father.

The author wants to show that Wangero's desire to reunite with her original roots leads to the alienation from the cultural background of her ancestors in the United States. It was found that Wangero tried [...]

The story is a reflection of society's facilitation of paranoia and isolation in the context of manipulated relationships. Society's descent into an accumulation of paranoid and self-centered individuals unwilling to embrace different people is evident [...]

In this case, marriage is not a union of the loved ones but is a social obligation where a wife is a subject of a husband.Mr. Millard's family seemed a perfect example of the social [...]

In the novel, ‘Apology of Mrs. Pamela Andrews’ Fielding writes about Mrs. Andrews showing that she was a wicked woman who tricked her husband into marrying her.

Martinez's story demonstrates the conflict between the brutal honesty of the resurrected dead and the unprepared minds of the living, who were unable to reject the established societal rules.

The Devil and Tom Walker depict a corrupted man named Tom Walker, who is eager to sell himself in exchange for the treasure that the devil has promised him.

The Monkey King is the protagonist of the first tale, which serves as a re-imagining of the Chinese folk legend The Journey to The West.

The author intentionally uses the first-person point of view in order to reveal their thoughts and highlighting the dread of the happening.

In the novel, the culprit for the destruction of Okonkwo's personality, the disintegration of the clan, which Elder Mbata speaks of in the second passage, the destruction of family ties and religion, is the person [...]

The most important one, in the presence of which it is possible for the author to commit a legal crime, is the fact that doing otherwise would cross my own ethical values.

Donny struggles with his identity, with the outside view of the people residing in mobile homes affecting his outlook on himself and his place in life. In summary, Donny and his family are the opposite [...]

A&P by Updike is a story of personal protest against the 'general good' for everyone, a path to self-respect, and the right to be different. To understand the nature of the protest committed by the [...]

The story of the narrator from "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" demonstrates the absence of one's connection to his parents. This example adds to the role of relationships in one's behavior and [...]

Turner is sure that the division of the frontier, the colonization, and the existence of free lands were the main reasons for the cultural and political development of the country, that only these divisions are [...]

In this respect, the title of the book fully indicates its reliability and straightforward character of it in terms of the contemporary social situation between minorities and the majority of the American nation.

The diversity in the social and societal background of the United States cannot go without the trends for the historical basis of the nation.

The themes of trauma and death unite the novel "The Day of the Locust" by Nathaniel West, the short story "Grief" by Scholastique Mukasonga, and the short film The Neighbors 'Window by Marshall Curry.

He presents the crimes of American capitalism including the corruption of Blackhead, Dutch Robertson's returning from the prison that does not stop him from stealing money, Gus McNeil's denial of the class that he belonged [...]

Paul is offered a chance to pursue the American Dream and gain huge material riches as a result of hard work in the area of business, for example.

He soon realized that the job was supposed to enable him to facilitate the cooperation of black workers in the war-time effort.

Based on the actions of the grandmother it can be said that the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" contains subtle religious overtones portraying how aesthetics and what it means to truly [...]

The first experimental device applied by the author is borrowing of the biblical motives to render the historical events which serve as the basis of the novel.

From the beginning of the story, the reader anticipates the happy ending especially when the author describes the meeting of Desiree and Armand Aubigny who had fallen in love with each other at the first [...]

The focal point of this paper is to present a symbolic criticism of the play "Fences" by August Wilson with a special emphasis on the significance of Gabriel in the play.

The extension of borders of the tropic, the contraposition between the life in LA and the life in Mexico, the change of events is a typical technique of Magical Realism, namely, hybridity that implies extensive [...]

But the mismatch of the real-life and the world of the primer becomes obvious to the reader from the first pages of the novel.

The theme is very intricate and it finds its realization in different aspects of the book, such as the authorship the author's tone that can be perceived while reading, the genre, the choice of the [...]

African American literature during this turbulent period in the lives of African Americans was heavily influenced by the rise in radicalism, enlightenment and the advent of industrialization.

Its main theme is slavery but it also exhibits other themes like the fight by Afro-Americans for freedom, the search for the identity of black Americans and the appreciation of the uniqueness of African American [...]

The father and his son expect the arrival of God and they see a final destination on God's side. The old man stands near the road for a long time and he is the only [...]

In the story of the motion of light in water, Delany marries a girl after making her pregnant, although the two try to stay together; the relationship ends up in a split after Delany realizes [...]

Joseph Campbell in the introduction to "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" writes: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and [...]

The constitution was drafted by the framers in such a manner that only White men who owned acres of land and property would be given the right to voice their opinion and decide the functioning [...]

The general mood for this era at least for the creative minds that produce novels, poems, and other works of art can be summarized using the words of one commentator who pointed to the numbing [...]

The novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane considers the issue of women's work in the late 19th century United States, and the main focuses of the novel are the unprotected work [...]

The sinister nature of the novel is inferred in the title which derives from the Hebrew word, Ba'al-zvuv which means god of the fly, host of the fly or literally the Lord of Flies a [...]

Being the brain and the intellectual reason of the family, the husband wisely guides the ship of his matrimonial unit through all the possible mishaps and traps and takes the necessary precautions in order to [...]

The novel 'The Third Life of Grange Copeland' by Alice Walker is dedicated to the highlight of economical and racist oppression suffered by the society; it is a set of lives depicting gradual formation of [...]

The nurse behavior makes the readers to help and to think over the mental hospital establishment since the indifference of the doctors and nurses frightens.

Various attempts by April throughout the novel reveals her desperateness as a teenager to fulfill the criteria set by white, however, as an adult, April feels and experiences the endeavor to observe the creation of [...]

Through the story, the writer explains the tragic life of the Professor and how she recalls the story of her life which she spent without anybody to care and love for.

There is a powerful cultural perception of the behaviors of the three groups, the father and the brother on one side, the mother and the grandmother on the other side, and the American media and [...]

The image of storm is used by Kate Chopin as a metaphor to describe the romantic feelings that explode in the hearts of the two people, Alcee and Calixta.

By tracing through Hemingway's life in conjunction with his stories such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", one can begin to trace some of the ideas that characterized Hemingway's life and thinking.

The social adaptation of veterans in civil world is one of the main problems which may lead to veterans' estrangement if they are not accepted by society.

The author's aim is to make people know and think, and whether they agree or not it is the problem of these people."Walden" by Henry David Thoreau is the piece of work where the author [...]

Against the background of buying and selling of slaves, the hard work they are forced to do, the inhuman, degrading treatment meted out to them, and the riches made from them by most of the [...]

She is the perfect Victorian example of what Edna is expected to be, but Edna is incapable of keeping up the act, which is all her marriage and family really are to her.

Steinbeck manages to capture the isolation and sexual frustration of Elisa Allen, the reason for her tears, through his characterization of her while she is tending the chrysanthemums, the interaction that occurs between Elisa and [...]

In the novel, we see April and Frank Wheeler as a youthful, presumably flourishing couple who lives a contented life with their two offspring in a well-to-do Connecticut neighborhood in the middle of the 1950s.

In the New Jersey-based stories, the narrators, all of whom may or may not be Yunior, share Yunior's sensibility: the suspicious watchfulness and defensive stance, the blighted relationship with the father figure, and the uneasiness [...]

The novel was written only in some months; it is considered to be inferior to the brilliant author's novels of the 1920s. The novel appeared in 1935, in the period when the USA and the [...]

In the novel, the main character, Clare Kendry, defines herself in terms of her family; she is concerned solely with the welfare of her children and the degree to which her husband's infidelity threatens her [...]

Due to the revolution created by his blatant disclosures in the novel, Ellis began to be considered as the voice of the young generation and literary critics started to refer to the book as representing [...]

In consequence, the book became a model source of reading that inspired people to further take on the issues of race in the USA and throughout the world.

The author, as a mother has put a lot of her own reflection and her soul into the novel, still giving her readers the opportunity to form their own opinion about the things in the [...]

Deckard's efforts have been constituted by the feeling of an 'emotion', the making of an intellectual connection, the speaking of an utterance, the passing on of a story in the real world beyond it, or [...]