Fiction Essay Examples

This short story written by Hemingway is titled Cat in the Rain. The title suggests that something weak (‘cat’) is trapped in a difficult situation (‘rain’). Since cats are generally very afraid of water, being in the rain can be such a torture to them. From the title, it is hinted that the story may […]

A short story must have texture in order to allow the reader to capture full essence. Writer’s often stratigize realism in their work so visualization and relation is in grasp by their readers. The use of heavy description and dialogue accomplishes the sense of realism. “The Untold Lie,” by Sherwood Anderson, displays the art of […]

Year of wonders the novel explores how people change by catastrophe such as the plague. The plague was brought to the town by cloths Anna is urged by Mr Mompellion to burn Viccars belongings and Anys Gowdie being a customer of his rejects his advice. ‘Burn it all! Burn it all! For the love of […]

Use of literary devices to enhance the mood of “Berenice” Famous author and poet Edgar Allan Poe is well known for his writing of ill-minded scenarios and grotesque circumstances. Poe, one of America’s most ailing writers, made use of many different literary devices to develop his popular, eerie, and suspenseful mood. In “Berenice” (1835), Edgar […]

This essay is going to talk about the character traits of Peter Brownrigg in Geoffrey Trease’s Cue for Treason. Peter Brownrigg is the novel’s narrator and protagonist. He is fourteen years old and he lives in Country Cumberland. One day, he throws a rock to Sir Phillip which makes him get in a lot of […]

“Guests of the Nation” is a short story written by Frank O’Connor, first published in 1931, portraying the execution of two Englishmen held captive by the Irish Republican Army during the War for Independence. The story is split into four sections, each section taking a different tone. The first reveals a real sense of camaraderie […]

There are many different types of fiction. Many people confuse these different types of fiction and classify fiction books into incorrect groups. To help better understand fiction they would have to know what types of fiction there are and what they’re like. These types of fiction include realistic fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction. Realistic […]

In Virginia Woolf’s short essay “The Death of the Moth”, Woolf uses combat imagery to portray the vulnerability of all creatures on Earth to death, but also to show how some will not give up without a fight. Witnessing the moth’s death, Wolf realizes that it tries to hold onto life before giving up. She […]

Baseball is America’s pastime. The poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer tells the story of a baseball game. The home team is losing the game. They are hoping for their star player, Casey to get up to bat and win the game. In this poem Thayer uses imagery to build suspense. First, […]

1. What features make The Awakening a “local color” story? The features that make it a “local color” story are the ways that the lives of the characters is depicted. The story makes it seem as though everyone knows each other, almost as if it is a very small town. 2. What customs and beliefs […]

According to Joseph Campbell, a universal heroes pattern “ involves a process by which the hero leaves the ordinary world of waking consciousness, enters the dark world of the supernatural, overcomes those who would destroy him there, and then returns to the ordinary, possessed of new knowledge and powers for his people” (Leeming, p. 217). […]

Thomas Hardy, a highly influential and widely read tragic novelist in English literature, depicts the tragic destiny of rural life in England with a morbid tone in his native Dorset, known as ‘Wessex novels’. His pessimistic view on human life is evident in many of his works. The Mayor of Casterbridge, both reviled and revered, […]

From the late nineteenth century, different movements started to work all around the world, protesting for the equality of women in the political and social life. The thesis of the feminism covered every aspect of life within a short period of time, so it had a great influence on literature as well. The feminist theories […]

A dream is an inspiration to pursue a goal in life. However, personal legends are a part of a soul and when successfully flourished it will make a person extraordinary blissful. Personal legends at times can be very difficult to conquer, but if a person is affected by fear they will not be able to […]

Trash (2010), a novel by Andy Mulligan, ends with the protagonists Raphael, Gardo and Rat starting their new life together. In the course of the novel, they faced many challenges and their friendships grows. Each character has qualities which helped build this friendship. Raphael shows the qualities of friendliness, kindness, caring and selfless. Gardo shows […]

Harris is a vain fellow who pretends to be extremely hard working but usually pushes off the burden on other people. he is outspoken and does not hesitate to tell his friends what he thinks about them even if it may not be pleasant. for example he outwardly tells george that his new blazer is […]

In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the narrator is a young girl named Jean-Louise Finch, or Scout, as she grows from age six to eight. Scout, being a child, has not yet been jaded by societal views. Therefore, she is still an innocent girl, and it is her innocence that contributes to the […]

In the writing of Linda Seger’s “Creating the Myth” she argues that there are 10-points in creating a “hero myth”. Seger uses Luke Skywalker from the Star Wars Trilogy as her hero myth example. I will use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, because Harry follows the 10-points that Linda Seger argues about in order […]

Premchand, whose real name was Dhanpatrai, was born on 31 July 1880 in Lamati near Varanasi. He received his early education at a madarasa where he learned Urdu from a Maulavi. Despite being in the ninth class, he was married at the age of fifteen against his wishes. While working as a teacher in Gorakhpur, […]

Imagine a world where you were destined for a dramatic downfall. It is such a world that becomes the fate of a tragic hero. A tragic hero possesses a tragic flaw, which ultimately leads to their downfall. Within both selections, the tragic Shakespearian play Macbeth, as well as, the dystopian novel The Stone Angel, by […]

To outwit someone it means you have deceived or defeated him or her by greater ingenuity. In the short story “Twins” by Eric Wright, there are many examples of how people can be easily outwitted. This short story is about a man who takes his wife to an old mine shaft to explain his next […]

The Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez displays numerous elements that through careful analysis can reveal the society in which the characters live and shed some light on the character of the puzzling Santiago Nasar. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author Gabriel García Márquez suggests that women can overcome Columbian’s […]