Genre Essays

The title of the poem ‘Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles’ creates a flashback scenario in the poem. This immediately makes the reader to have a reflective mindset of an event taking place in some medieval era or past time. This element is essentially supported by the first person technique employed by the narrator as […]

The Monster is a drama narrative story by about a young by named Steve Harmon. The monster is the work of a renowned crime writer, Walter Dean Myers. The narrative captures the reader heart in the line of trying to understand and position them in the place of the young Steve. It is a captivating […]

Introduction In this article, Eudora Welty describes her first experiences of reading. She says that her family produced the best environment for her reading. This is because the parents encouraged her to read, and they bought books that she read. This made her develop a deep love for reading; she pursued this passion, and she […]

“Trifles” by Susan Glasspel and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin have a common strong theme based on marriage. Both stories show that the females have lost their identity in marriage. “Trifles” focuses on a woman, Mrs. Wright, who is suspected to have killed her husband, Mr. John Wright, under unclear circumstances. On […]

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 […]

Dr. Horrible Dr. Horrible may portray the antagonist in Joss Whedon’s mini-series “Dr. Horrible and the Sing along Blog” but he does not actually act evil. As you listen to Dr. Horrible talk on his blog he comes across as a normal guy; you almost could not take him seriously with his talk of “evil” […]

Death Avenue In Thomas Mann’s short story “The Path To The Cemetery”, there are a few major themes throughout the plot. The story starts off with an elderly man named Piepsam walking along the road to the cemetery, and out of nowhere a young kid on a bike races by. The older man threatens to […]

Cut, By Patricia McCormick, is a fine example of why some young adult fiction deserves literary serious consideration. As a first person account Cut is not only the story of a young adult’s journey through a mental illness, it also serves as a guide to help others find solutions to their own mental problems. The […]

Drinking underage is not something a person jokes about; but Frank O’Connor story “The Drunkard” is a story about Larry, a kid, who gets drunk, but does it for a good cause. In the story O’Connor uses first person point of view, irony and humor to make this story more entertaining. The narrator is Larry […]

Novel Study Whiteout by James Houston Instructions: Each of the following chapter questions are to be completed when you finish reading the chapter. Chapter 1: What is the setting (time and place) of this novel? What does the letter reveal about: Jon’s behavior; His father; His mother’s ultimatum Chapter 2: How does Jon feel about […]

Stichomythia is a verbal fight between two characters in a book. In the book Hamlet stichomythia can be found in Act Three, Scene Four. This scene is between Gertrude and Hamlet. The significance of the stichomythia is to show how far Hamlet’s madness has gone. The scene starts off with Polonius telling Gertrude that he […]

Shylock, Villain or victim? The Merchant of Venice June 8th, 2011 In the play The Merchant of Venice Shylock is supposed to be the protagonist, the definition of protagonist is; the leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. But the way Shylock is portrayed is more along […]

Mrs. Lowe When I was 11, my aunt passed away. My older sister and I had to become a kind of mother and father to my baby sisters because my mom and dad were hysterical and a little irrational. We had to prepare meals, change diapers, and make bottles. It was really hard on us […]

Assignment Week 2: Greasy Lake Discussion Questions 1. How can the reader tell that the narrator grows and changes during his adventures? How can you explain the change in the narrator’s outlook? The reader can tell that the narrator changes throughout his adventures by his shifting disposition come conclusion of the story. At the beginning […]

Explain the title. In what way is it suitable to the story? For me, the author choose the “Chieftest Mourner” as the title of the story because the story shows who suffered most between the legal wife, Sophia and the second wife, Esa. What did the predominant element in the story-plot, theme, character, and setting? […]

Much African American folklore has the characteristics of “local color”. Local color is literature that focuses on the, dialect, customs, characters, and other features of a region. (Regionalism and Local Color Fiction:) A couple of good examples of “local color” would be “Sympathy” and “An Ante-Bellum Sermon”. Both of these have dialect, customs, characters and […]

In the novels, “The Nose”, and The Metamorphosis Gogol, and Kafka demonstrates how identity does not depend on what society depicts you to be, it’s whatever you (as a sole proprietor of your life) decide what and who you are, they both portray this idea by transforming their protagonists into what society sought them to […]

I was particularly fond of the opening quote, “The dragon is by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you,” in the story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” Initially, the quote “We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon” […]

Secret of Thornfield Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre at first gives off as a romantic novel. But there are multiple parts in the book that shows that Jane Eyre is also in the gothic/mystery genre. In Jane Eyre, after Jane entered Thornfield, there were many current of events that led me to believe that Mr. Rochester […]

Abstract This paper aims to explore Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour from a cognitive poetics/stylistics perspective. The analysis emphasizes integration of language and literature and draws upon theories developed in the general field of cognitive poetics/stylistics (Stockwell 2002; Gavins and Steen 2003). For the purposes of this research, using Stockwell’s model of Deictic […]

The short story has a rich history rooted in the oral tradition of storytelling. It was influenced by early written tales such as Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio’s Decameron, as well as the French translation of The Thousand and One Nights. In the 19th century, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Hawthorne’s Twice Told Tales set standards […]

Elizabeth is one of the main characters of “Pride and prejudice”. She can be compared with her sister Jane with whom she has lots of things in common and contrast with her mother Mrs. Bennet. Firstly, Mrs. Bennet is very immature and she shows us this when she says to Mr. Bennet: “you have no […]