Literature Analysis

In Linda Hogan’s “Aunt Moon’s Young Man”, the narrator tells a tale of Bess Evening, whom she has given the name Aunt Moon. This story takes place in the small town of Pickens, Oklahoma during the 1950 war times. Linda Hogan portrays Aunt Moon as a wise knowledgeable woman having non- traditional Native-American values that […]

“Eleven” depicts a young and composite character, Rachel, whose birthday experience instills the connection between wisdom, intelligence, and maturity, using literary devices. In the story, Rachel’s teacher, Mrs. Price insists that Rachel wears a repulsive red sweater that does not even belong to her. Feeling powerless to her teacher’s authority, Rachel reluctantly obeys, but her […]

I. IntroductionDuring the mid 1950s, the pop music was rampant in cinema. It was also the time where audiences experienced on how read and go along with a film. One of interesting feature of pop music lying in a certain film is that music is not necessarily composed for a film. Besides, it may not […]

In his novel The Stranger, Albert Camus expresses his philosophy of the absurd: The irrationality of the universe, the meaninglessness of human life, the “importance” of the physical world. Camus is too concerned with the creation of meaning in a meaningless world through the process of living life. The novel is a first-person account of […]

In The Call Of The Wild, Jack London, the author, focuses on the extreme changes that need to be made to survive in the wild. Buck, a St. Bernard and Scotch half-breed dog, is used to show the changes made and is removed from his home and placed in the wild. After living in the […]

Comment that the sonnet 130 of Shakespeare is an unconventional poem. Most of the sonnet sequences in Elizabethan England were modelled after that of Petrarch. Petrarch’s famous sonnet sequence was written as a series of love poems to an idealized and idolized mistress, Laura. In those sonnets Petrarch praises her beauty, her worth, and her […]

Marge Piercy wrote the poem “Barbie Doll” in her 1973 collection, To Be Of Use. The story follows the life of a young girl growing up with modern expectations that she struggles to conform to. Barbie Doll uses different aspects of a woman’s life to express the different pressures on women in today’s society. The […]

In “Weimar Cinema and After”, Thomas Elsaesser explains expressionism as not only the style of films created in the early 1920s, but as a “generic term for most of the art cinema of the Weimar Republic in Germany, and beyond Germany, echoing down film history across the periods and genres, turning up in the description […]

Heart of Darkness: Futility of European Presence in Africa Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is both a dramatic tale of an arduous trek into the Belgian Congo at the turn of the twentieth century and a symbolic journey into the deepest recesses of human nature. On a literal level, through Marlow’s narration, Conrad provides a […]

Snails  high in protein (12-16%) and iron (45-50 mg/kg), low in fat, and contains almost all the amino acids needed by humans. A recent study has also shown that the glandular substances in edible snail meat cause agglutination of certain bacteria, which could be of value in fighting a variety of ailments, including whooping cough. […]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife (Austen, 1). The first sentence of Pride and Prejudice, one of Jane Austen’s classic works, is probably the most celebrated opening of all English comedies with reference to social manners. It puts […]

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises demonstrates elements of weakened masculinity throughout the novel. The lasting effects of WWI on the characters, Jake Barnes’ insecurities, and Lady Brett Ashley’s non-conformity all contribute to the minimized presence of masculinity. Hemingway began writing The Sun Also Rises in 1925 and it was later […]

The Slave Across the Street Introduction The Slave Across the Street, written by Theresa Flores and published by Ampelon Publishing in 2010, tells the story of the authors struggles as young trafficking victim in her suburban town. The title of the book connotes a close proximity between a possible slave and the reader; and in […]

Authors Gerald Graff and Cathy Berkenstein claim in their book, They Say, I Say, that academic writing is not about “playing it safe and… piling up truths and bits of knowledge,” like many people assume. Rather, it is about the dynamic interaction between other people’s points of view and the author’s response to those perspectives. […]

1. After reading the poem loud and trying pausing for a fraction of second at the end of every line although there is no punctuation at the end, I see that it makes more senses and evokes emotions, which helps me be able to understand the feeling of the speaker about mourning himself upon his […]

A critic once said, “Trifles is a lousy play. By the third page we know who dun it, so there isn’t much reason to sit through the rest of the play. ” This statement is a closed minded opinion. Susan Glaspell, the author of “Trifles”, does depict the murderer in this detective story but leaves […]

Firstly, we began to read Island Man as a class in lessons. This is written by Grace Nichols and is published in a book titled “Anthology”. The surface meaning of the poem is based on a man who used to live on a Caribbean island and still dreams of this place even now when he […]

Goblin Market has many recurring themes within its context. Perhaps one of the most prominent ones is that of sisterly comradery and love. From the beginning of the poem, it is evident that Lizzie and Laura’s relationship is close. Laura looks up to Lizzie, and Lizzie is very protective of her younger sister. The relationship […]

Johnny Cade, the sympathetic and lovable character from the classical realistic fiction novel “The Outsides” by renowned author S. E. Hinton is one of the most complex and confusing characters in the novel. Johnny is a very special character because he is so different in so many ways to the other protagonists in this novel. […]

The story I choose to do was the “Lamb to the Slaughter”, by Ronald Dahl. The theme is that the weak have more power than one may think. It’s the like ‘Mouse and the Lion’ story. The weak seem weak, but prove very powerful in the end. The husband doesn’t appreciate his wife, and he […]

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 […]

Individualism, Balance and Nature Hannah Costley Veering away from the conventional attitude, fuelled by ideas of individualism and political liberty, authors, poets, intellects and playwrights played a part in the Romantic Movement of 1790-1860. Influenced by the French Revolution and the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin, intellectuals and artists strove to breakaway […]