Essays On Books

Salinger’s 1951 novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”, and John Hughes’ 1987 teenage comedy film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, both reflect the lives of teenagers in a time span of nearly 40 years. The two authors successfully convey society’s values on materialism and education in the two different eras using language and a variety of […]

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger is a classical coming of age novel that deals with a youth’s mental adjustment to a modern world. Holden Caulfield, Salinger’s troubled protagonist, has a flawed view of the world where youth and integrity fights maturity and corruption. Salinger explores this dichotomy using a variety of […]

Often in America, citizens are placed into mental institutes due to mental breakdowns, but do you know the real reason behind them? Holden, a main character in the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, goes through many mental breakdowns, but he struggles through many issues throughout his life that lead him […]

At age 15 he continued his study in Valley Forge Military Academy where he found it hard to adapt to the environment, and which later became the prototype of Pencey Prep in The Catcher in the Rye. As the narrator of the novel Holden Caulfield, Salinger was the manager of the fencing team at the […]

Vespers is choreographed by Ulysses Dove and means ‘Evening Song’. It portrays 6 aspects of his grandmother. He tries to compose a modern day view of an old person. He used noises during the rehearsal process to help keep the time of the music. The first part of the piece shows spirit and prayer.CostumeThe costume […]

Freud, Saussure and Lacan: Interpreting dreams of a mad king, significations of a modern Ulysses and unrealities in a story of passion The equation ‘Freud + Saussure = Lacan’ is a student-friendly basis for streamlining the complex theories of these three major modern thinkers towards a common and purposeful analytical illustration of psychoanalytic and linguistic […]

Alfred Tennyson, a British poet, wrote the poem, Ulysses, In 1833 as a literary work that would serve to Implicate the Importance of education In the lives of the British. In the poem, he uses the roman character Ulysses thoughts and his experiences as a Ana warrior and a King to impose onto the 18th […]

Sherman writes to General Ulysses S. Grant, discussing the importance of army size in modern warfare. He urges for the request of the largest possible armies from our country, emphasizing that a great nation should not take risks with war. Sherman believes that having a bigger army is advantageous. The letter sent to General John […]

Ulysses and Tithonus are narrated by two men, who are both very much unhappy. They both want different to change but want contrasting things. Inevitably though each wish they have is most likely to end up in death. Tithonus was a handsome man in his youth and this got him the love of a goddess […]

While no major events take place in the opening chapter of Ulysses, it remains an important one because it introduces the elements that will play out as the novel continues. In relation to the rest of the novel, the opening chapter raises a series of questions that the reader expects the remainder of the novel […]

Crystal Spears Professor Brown American Classics April 27, 2008 Frome’s Desire and the Path to the Elm Of the many themes present in Edith Wharton’s tragic novel, Ethan Frome that could be discussed at length, one of these that above all seem to drive the plot of the novel from event to event. This is […]

The novel Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, is a tale of a man and the eventual downfall of his life and well-being. Ethan emerges as the main protagonist and hero of the story. He is a proud man of tall stature and good nature. Although Ethan is not of noble blood and is very poor, […]

Symbolism approach to interpretation has so many possibilities—so many paths to consider! An exciting approach to interpretation and criticism, comparable to hunting, finding the symbols, an object or image that, although interesting in its own right, stands for or suggests something larger and more complex—often an idea or a range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and […]

Ethan Frome, the protagonist of Edith Warton’s novel, resides in a world that restricts him, making it impossible for him to break free. The constant presence of winter symbols in this book portrays the themes of disconnection and solitude. The winters endured in Starkfield, where the story takes place, are exceptionally lengthy and intense. The […]

In the novella Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, main character Ethan Frome is a man that faces many disappointments as well no self-assurance. Ethan Frome is definitely a tragic figure that functions as an instrument of the suffering of others in the novel. Ethan Frome overall is a very tragic tale of misery and suffering, […]

Title: Ethan Frome Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones. She supposedly was born on January 24, 1862 in New York, New York. She came from an upper-class New York family and had a distant relationship with parents. Her parents were embarrassed by her literary ambitions. In 1885, she married Edward Wharton at the age […]

The awakening is a set in the late nineteenth century on the Grand Isle, off the bank of Louisiana, Cheneiere Caminada over the cove from great isle and the city of New Orleans. It begins on the fabulous isle, movement to New Orleans and later closes on the amazing isle. The novel spotlights on the […]

Truman Capote’s characters, Perry Smith and Dick Hancock, play a crucial role in his renowned work In Cold Blood. They demonstrate how their contributions to society can ultimately lead to regret, remorse, and an unwelcome reality. In both their personal lives and within their community, they experience the consequences of their own actions and decisions, […]

Entry 1. page 5“But subsequently the townsfolk. theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom problem to lock their doors. found fantasy re-creating them over and over again—those drab detonations that stimulated fires of misgiving in the blaze of which many old neighbours viewed each other queerly. and as aliens. ” I found this quotation […]

The two texts being examined are Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. These works were published in different years, with In Cold Blood being the more recent novel, published in 1966. Conversely, Frankenstein, a literary classic, was published in 1818. In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel that presents an accurate portrayal […]

In Truman Capote’s non-fictional novel In Cold Blood, he tends to favor Perry, one of the killers, over the other killer Dick. This unfairly hinders the reader’s opinion towards the final sentencing, which is the death penalty. Capote does this by adding un-journalistic comments in his “journalistic” writings. We do not even know if Capotes […]

Pages 87-88 The townspeople’s reaction to the news of the killings is one of “amazement, shading into dismay; a shallow horror sensation that cold springs of personal fear swiftly deepened” (70). The Clutters’ demise holds greater significance for this small part of western Kansas as it represents the intrusion of an “other” – a “poor, […]