Writer Essays

An Analysis of Henry Gates Jr. and “The Signifying Monkey” It is certain that when you are exposed to an author’s work you want to categorize that author into a certain group. Perhaps this practice of categorizing a composer can help the reader understand the piece of literature. Henry Gates has helped understand and criticize […]

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken […]

It is, quite honestly, one of the best-written books I have ever read, ever. I think it took me such a long time to read because the first few pages or so didn’t really attract me, in terms of plot, but Chabon’s sentences, my goodness. His sentences are flawless. I want to marry his sentences. […]

The recognized experienced journalist, Clare Forrester, wrote the article. In 2006, she was distinguished with an award from the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) for her adept leadership skills and was praised for her effectiveness in journalism. The article was showcased by The Daily Gleaner on September 22, 2010, with the title “Is the Milk […]

Up to this point I’ve never really considered myself a writer at all. After skimming through the chapters and reading about all the processes, my assessment is, as a writer, I’m probably not very good. So this brings me to, what are you able to bring to the class? Well that’s easy. I’ve really wanted […]

Awarded the Booker Prize in 1981, Midnight’s Children is Salman Rushdie’s most highly regarded work of fiction. Rushdie was born on June 19, 1947, and his birth occurred simultaneously with a particularly meaningful moment in Indian history. After almost one hundred years of colonial rule, the British occupation of India was coming to an end. […]

Caroline Hwang’s essay is a perfect example of someone expressing his/her feeling and sending the message out that growing up between two different cultures is a difficult life style to live. I can relate with Hwang when she says ‘children are living paradoxes’; it reminds me a lot about my own life and how I […]

The content of this article is focused on a singer, Sharon Jones, and her band the Dap-Kings. The article is a review of a live performance by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings at KOKO, Camden in 2010. The piece was written by Gary Moskowitz and was published in the Telegraph newspaper. The review starts off […]

Almost from the outset of the revision of my previous work, I came to discover the particular tendency I have toward using informal language in formal works. While the structural aspect of the sentences I used were sound and the punctuation acceptable, the diction I chose to use throughout the paper lent an air of […]

Postcolonialism literature is a literary genre that deals with literature evident in countries that were once under the colonial rule of other countries, specifically Britain, France and Spain as foremost. The phenomenon of Postcolonialism, with all its subtexts and nuances, is evident not just in literature but also the philosophy, media, history and even human […]

Shirley Jackson, the author of the short story “The Lottery” is both a traditional and a non-traditional woman of her time. She is a wife to critic Stanley Edgar Hyman and a mother to four kids (Jackson, 922). She is a typical housewife. She does the house chores, takes care of her children, attends PTA […]

“I Want to Conquer the World” by Bad Religion – 1989 Bad Religion is a Los Angeles based band ot the punk rock genre that was formed In 1979. The punk rock genre began Its emergence In the mid 70’s and Is the basis of many genres since Its birth. The maln topics of punk […]

In his collection of short stories, ‘The things they carried’ Tim O’Brien attempts to explore the ‘bloody eccentricity’ of Vietnam- a war dominated by uncertainties and unlike any war which had gone before. The stories connect a group of fictional soldiers called the alpha company in their journey through the war. The Vietnam War divided […]

Later in his career, Yeats experienced a significant change in his style. The once romantic and dreamy quality of his early poetry transformed into a more concise, sharp, and masculine manner. This shift became evident in his new volume of poems, “The Green helmet and other poems,” which was published in 1910. It became even […]

Being one of the greatest poet in the modern world and a major figure devoting to the Celtic Twilight, which is a trial and a “popular desire for a revival of Irish traditional culture” (Kelen 32), William Butler Yeats died in January, 1939. Meanwhile, it was only eight months before the outbreak of World War […]

Poetry is often used to convey a strong message about humanity. With close reference to the language of two modern war poems, compare and contrast the anti-war messages each poet is trying to portray by describing pictures of conflict across the world and decide which of the two has the most impact on the reader. […]

In this essay, I will study how the distortion of virtuousness is portrayed in Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ and William Golding’s ‘Lord of the flies’. I am going to be concentrating on the characters of Jack and the ‘creation’ in the particular novels. My focus will follow their deterioration from innocuous characters with no past of […]

This is a comparison between two written works: Text A, an adaptation of an article from “The Observer” in 1996 by Duane Jones, and Text B, an excerpt from “London Snow” in 1979 by Paul Theroux. The theme shared by both texts is snow, and they contrast in how individuals react to the same situation […]

On one hand the writer describes the scene she sees in front of her a ‘glittering kingdom’ with evening light ‘turning butter-gold, glinting off man and whale’ suggesing an intense and exciting moment, yet, she ‘urged the narwhal to dive, to leave, to survive’ while the hunter was trying to hunt for the whale. Notice […]

The writer employs a range of techniques, including direct speech, to go beyond a straightforward depiction of what the journalist observed and with whom she conversed. The writer employs direct speech to evoke a range of emotions in the reader. For instance, when stating “We came to collect them, we were told they had gone,” […]

Someone’s culture is heir way of life and how they do things. Culture is like a religion where if you’re in a family that’s very religious then you have to go along with the things they do: – e. g. dress in certain clothing and pray when you’re told to. The themes are the way […]

In this essay, I will be comparing two stories: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ by Ray Bradbury and ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’ by Wilkie Collins. Despite being written in different centuries (one in the 19th Century and the other in the 20th Century), both authors successfully evoke fear in readers and create high-quality thriller stories. I […]