Everyone has sadness and fear but if we pass them we will become truly happy. This story is “The perks of being a Wallflower” gives the reader as Charlie during maturation. This story talks about when Charlie met to drugs, sexuality, and friendship while struggling...
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter is a short story written by D.H. Lawrence. In this story he presents the situation of a girl who is struggling with her inner-self. Mabel Pervin, the main character of this story lives with her three brothers. She lost her mother...
Karen Russell’s modern Southern novel, Swamplandia! is informed by various works of Southern Literature through different time periods. It is through the use of themes and motifs specific to literature of the American South that Swamplandia! gets its confirmation as a modern interpretation of the...
Death is not an end, but a new cycle of life through which the deceased get an opportunity to have a more thorough understanding of their life. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, Eddie’s meeting with five different people provides...
As children, numerous individuals can recall reading Dr. Seuss’s books from time to time. In his book The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss illustrates a silly fight about butter as a way of showing classic judgment of our world. There are two different groups of...
Despite being faced with adverse conditions while growing up, humankind possesses resilience and the capacity to accept and forgive those responsible. In The Glass Castle (2005) by Jeannette Walls, Walls demonstrates a child’s ability to develop resilience in the face of trouble, early autonomy, and...
Diary of a wimpy kid by Jeff Kinney is Humor. Greg is a 12-year-old kid who loves to get in trouble with his friends, family, and even the people he doesn’t know. He likes to talk about how he is cool and he has “every...
“Each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge...
In the play Fences, written by August Wilson, the theatrical is full of symbolism that shows the meaning to growth and death through; baseball seeds and blues. At the same time, Fences views the African-American experience and relations. Troy an ex-Negro Baseball League player deals...
Title: A Universal Loss of Innocence: Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front” Author: Katherine Perry Words: 1,139 Written: January 23, 2009 Paul Bäumer lives in a world where killing is the only way to live, memories are as foreign as the enemy himself, and...
The crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953. Miller aimed to draw attention to the dangers of living in extremes. The period of time play was written in was troubling at some senses for the USA. McCarthyism was the dominating idea in...
The book the giver by Lois Lowry is supposed to show what would happen if everyone is the same. It shows us that it’s good to be different and if people tried to make us all the same our lives would be boring. The author...
The book, “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance begins by explaining that he is not a politician, just simply somebody who grew up in the working class of Appalachia, who found a way to achieve upward mobility against the statistical odds. This indicated that as the...
Suspense is a feeling that engulfs people in its sea. It will grasp readers by their throat and leave them desperate. John Green not only leaves the reader in suspense throughout the story but also the characters in the story. The mystery follows Quentin as...
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she...
Alchemist is novel on the struggle of a young Andalusian shepherd named, Santiago, written by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian author, in 1987 and published in 1988. The constant theme in The Alchemist is to pursue your dreams by following what your heart desires. This book...
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” (Louisa May Alcott, Little Women). It is a quote from character Amy March in Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women. I first fell in love with Little Women, when...
I have decided to analyse the short story rules of games by Amy Tan.This critical essay is informative and its sole purpose sole is to emphasize author’s literary work.Development of central ideas cultural conflict and identity moreover the continuous psychological bettle between daughter and mother...
The Tree of Heaven It is a fact of life that people encounter hardships, setbacks, and disappointments constantly. However, in the end, people learn to rise above the challenges and grow their strength and character further than before. In the novel A Tree Grows In...
A loaf of bread by Rana Bitar is a collection of poems that mirrors the background of the author who lived in Syria during the civil war and experienced great losses. In this heartrending piece, Rana Bitar highlighted the impact of war on people and...
The late 1950s and ’60s saw a merging of government and corporation. For the most part, this took place during the Eisenhower administration. This new political climate seemed to be too powerful to many in the beatnik generation. One of these is Ken Kesey, whose...
In Demian, Herman Hesse discusses the meaning behind an apparently futile war under the guise of one boy’s search for personal identity. While Hesse spends much of the novel illustrating Emil Sinclair’s search for meaning, the tying in of the Great War at the end...
The seventy-year-old Moll Flanders who narrates her own life story considers herself a reformed criminal. But to what degree should her perceived transgressions cause her to actually be understood as such? After all, Defoe’s novel makes it clear that a number of different factors ultimately...
The Bluest Eye: Tough Love at the Core of Color We as humans strive for many things- comfort, success, money, beauty, but among everything, our core revolves around love. A child is born and is innocent, and as that child grows through their experiences, love...
I was amazed by the book Twelve Years A Slave which the author, Solomon Northup depicts the life of an African American from the North, Saratoga Springs in New York is kidnapped in Washington DC and live a suffering and slavery life in Louisiana until...
Ben Tomlin, an average thirteen-year-old boy, isn’t so sure about his father’s newestexperiment. Dr. Tomlin, Ben’s father, a well-known scientist in the field of behavioural science, has abruptly moved his family to a new university in a new city to pursue a new scientific study,...
But ain’t nobody gonna beat me at nothing’ is an ironic choice of words coming from a lower-class young African American girl growing up in the brutal streets of in New York City. In the short story, ‘The Lesson’ Toni Cade Bambara illustrates the lack...
Joseph Heller’s most famous novel, Catch-22 was published on November 10, 1961. The novel was so successful the title even got a spot in the dictionary as a catchphrase. Catch-22 is a satirical war comedy that shows the times Heller had when he was in...
A quest is a search or longing for something, it is a journey that has to be taken in order to find what you are yearning/looking for, it is a goal; it is something in which you pursue. In this story Gilgamesh goes on many...
Most of us go through life wondering how different our lives would be if we would have chosen a different path. When we made it to that fork in the road, instead of going left, we go right. This was no different for Jason Denson,...
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