Essays On Books

The noblest efforts of a hero, ironically involves him in guilt and leads him to misery. Thomas Hardy’s novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge concentrates mainly on the life and events of a certain Michael Henchard.. The primary element of irony embraces also the main theme of the story, that life is a sum product of […]

Everywhere we go we see people giving others dirty looks and nice smiles and most of the time we choose what face to give someone by the way they look and dress. We can’t deny that we judge people by the way they look and dress. Personally I am entirely against this. It is wrong […]

Translated in the English language as ‘The South and Bene,’ Adelaida Garcia Morales’ two novellas, originally written and published in 1985 as ‘El Sur Seguido Bene,’ and later in 1999 made available to the English reading populace carrying the aforementioned translated title, affords its readers a glimpse of Spanish life in the post civil war […]

The “Ballad of Wordly Wealth” is a depiction of how money can bring pride and corruption into our society. This explication will review the many rhetoric forms and patterns of this such poem. The form of this poem is a ballad. A ballad’s contents include 3 stanzas, at least 8 lines in each stanza, and […]

The title “The Day Millicent Found the World” is about the day a young girl named Millicent discovered the world around her. The title is significant as well as symbolic. The title gives the poem a deeper meaning and gives the readers deeper insight into what they should expect. In this poem, the author, I […]

The text under stylistic analysis is the short story “The Last Leaf” by O’Henry. William Sydney Porter was born on 11-th of September in 1862 in North Carolina. His mother died when he was three year old. Porter worked at drug store of his uncle. Then he went to Texas and tried many professions. For […]

Elijah is the first generation of free-born members of his family. Escaping the oppression of the pre-Emancipation Proclamation and pre-Civil War torn United States, Elijah’s family escaped to an established free-black community in Canada. The book focuses on events in Elijah’s life – attending school, doing chores, fishing, and playing with his friends. Elijah experiences […]

Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories, as a series of sketches, and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore, although each chapter is dominated by a single character, those major […]

The Victorian period is one of the most popular eras studied and is well known for many things; from fashion to inventions, to the Industrial revolution to their education. Despite how much people like to think that they differ from them drastically, so much of our modern society depends on what they first created and […]

The short story focuses on Filipino conventions during the wake of loved ones. It’s also a twist of Filipino stereotypes regarding social conventions such as the ‘kabit’ or the second wife/mistress, as compared to the first wife. The story is narrated in a somewhat unbiased, childlike tone but it’s actually flavored with insight and implicit […]

In his Encyclical “Pacem In Terris” of April 11, 1963, the Holy Father Pope John XXIII wrote of Peace as greatly desired, elusive, and can only be attained if man will faithfully adhere to the order established by God. This papal letter discussed the natural order of the universe, the prevailing conditions in the world […]

In tracing the development of my personality, as who I am today, I need to go back to my childhood years. I have to even go as far back as the time when my mother began to breast feed me. For according to some psychoanalytical tool those periods in my life may offer a clue […]

Chapter Nine marks a pivotal moment in the storyline of Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love. In the previous chapters, Joe and Clarissa experience a tragic ballooning accident in which a man loses his life. This occurrence deeply affects their emotions. On that same day, they encounter Jed Parry, an intense Christian zealot. Later that night, Parry […]

In this paper I will be discussing two poems of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska – “A Thank-You Note” and “The End and the Beginning” – and how she uses the element of irony in her works. Szymborska’s work has been considered grim poetry because she tackles on the subject of war and its aftermath, […]

In the book “Under the Dome” by Stephen King the theme of the story is that you have to work together to reach a goal. In the book the goal was to survive, and escape the dome that had imprisoned Dale “Barbie” Barbara and his townspeople of Chester’s Mill. There are many examples that support […]

In The Pink presents the same strongly antiwar theme as most of Siegfried Sassoon’s poems do. However, the message he conveys is subtle. It does not entirely depict the gruesome horrors of war, but rather the impact of war on every soldier and his loved ones. The poem follows the thoughts of a soldier, Davies. […]

The novel “The Circuit” began in El Rancho Blanco, Mexico, then continues to California. They travel many places in California because they have come to the United States illegally. The characters are Papa, Mama, Roberto, Panchito, Trampita, Ruben, and Rorra. The basic situation is: the family has always wanted to move to California thinking that […]

In “The Sacrificial Egg”, the author, Chinua Achebe “presents the conflict between an African civilization called Igbo and Westernization, specifically European. ” (Joaquin, 2003) The protagonist, whose name is Julius Obi, is a product of European and African culture– he is a Western educated Igbo. The story begins in the empty market named Nkwo. Since […]

The song “One,” by Metallica is narrated by the lead singer, James. It is a very strong and hard hitting song. The song deals with the pain of war. It is told in first person and really gives a strong idea of what has happened. This song is very straight forward. The character was in […]

Melton McLaurin, in his book, “Separate Pasts,” recalls memories of growing up in his hometown of Wade, North Carolina. During this time, McLaurin works in his grandfather’s store in the segregated South. McLaurin writes of his interactions with the black community and observes the segregated lifestyle of black and whites. In his book “Separate Pasts,” […]

In the poem Anyone Lived in a Pretty how Town E. E. Cummings plays with jumbled syntax, a seemingly random rhyme scheme, and the paradox of non-identical repetition to convey his message about the ordinariness of daily life, the passing of time, and the inclusive anonymity of people we encounter in our lives. Anyone Lived […]

“There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart” (Kenzo Tange). Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, written in 1955, is one of the most controversy novels of its time and still has the ability to shock unprepared readers. Nabokov uses his ability to connect with […]