When people hear the words war, death, mental health, and pain, the last thing you would probably think about is satire. However in the book Catch 22, author Joseph Heller uses satire to bring light to all of these subjects, point out flaws in characters,...
Life of Pi is a novel telling the story of a teenage boy named ‘Pi’ and his survival through 227 days living in a lifeboat with a male, adult Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker in the Pacific Ocean. Pi’s original home is in India where...
I think that what has led me towards reading this book, besides the assignment that we have had, was the fact that I consider myself as a colder person, not really used to responding to emotions. To say more, the title itself seemed really catchy,...
“The Puritans were members of a religious reform movement known as Puritanism that arose within the Church of England in the late 16th century. They believed the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not...
Witnessing history through the lenses of literature can be a daunting one. It is evident that fiction and history share a bipolar relation within writing, and constructing a text which involving both elements is a sensitive issue in the intellectual community today. Journalist & novelist...
Setting One of the settings in the book is in Japan when Woody, Jeanne’s brother, was visiting his aunt. Woody entered a rock garden first. The sand was all white and raked and there was bamboo bordering it. When he got inside, it was mostly...
Adolescence is already or can be a troubling time all by itself. We are going through so many changes physically and in our cognitive development as well. Everything that we are subjected to can shape our development. We are a product of our environments. This...
Introduction Discrimination is a predominant phenomenon that has been experienced in daily life during the normal process of interaction between different people. Discrimination is defined as the process of mistreating people or particular individuals due to some specific features which they possess. Such kind of...
In The Crucible play, Arther Miller amplifies the theme of fear and hysteria in Salem’s community. Though this theme runs throughout the play, it is especially apparent after the witch trials start. The play starts with the girls dancing in the woods and getting caught....
Craig Silvey’s Australian novel Jasper Jones stresses the importance of truth and justice in formulating human experiences, shaping understandings of oneself and world. It highlights that events aren’t always positive; justice isn’t dealt out fairly, and truth can be a burden. Made-to-order essay as fast...
In Artificial Paradises, Baudelaire writes this of hashish: “Enthusiasts who would procure the magical delights of this substance at any price have continued to seek out hashish which has crossed the Mediterranean—that is, hashish made from Indian or Egyptian hemp”(15). Only hashish from the “Orient,”...
The United States of America is a country that, despite much of the relatively progress in race relations, remains gained by a history of prejudice. Even today, elements of our society have a significant impact on the life expectancy and mortality rates of African-Americans. According...
Horror has about a thousand different definitions in everyone’s minds and can be associated with anything from movies to video games. The definition of horror has changed over the past few centuries, and the media is the best example of change, morphing around what we’ve...
The Machine Stops_, written by English author E. M. Forster in 1909, is not only revered as a short story on it’s own merit, but increasingly relevant given current concerns about the effect of technology on employment and interpersonal relationships today.To understand Forster’s perspective, it...
The novel entitled Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina is an enlightening historical novel based in Annadel, West Virginia, a town that relies on coal to make a living, while also outlining the events leading up to the Battle of Blair Mountain. Things begin to take...
Women have always been looked down upon by society, especially in leadership roles. In The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, the female characters are the most important characters in the story. Petra and Rosalind have a big impact on the story, and in saving themselves and...
The time we live in now there is lots of rights and freedom we have. We live in a place where we have the opportunity to be our own person and we don’t even think twice about it. We have these privileges that we take...
In life there will are many challenges that people will be confronted with. Within those challenges there will be many people that will back down to the challenge and the few that will rise up not only facing the challenge, but defeating the task at...
“Champion of the World” is a chapter from a piece called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. It tells a story of a boxing event and describes what being African American in the early 1900’s was like. The nineteenth chapter of...
Marx argued that Europe lived under the darkness of the hegemonic authority led by oppressive aristocratic power. The economy was built on the labor of young, poor, exploited children whilst the aristocracies manipulate and exploit the machines of human power to increase their wealth and...
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” This is a quote from Walden, a prose written by the American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau who...
In my theater class, I read ‘Angels In America,’ and I was able to watch it on Youtube and HBO GO on my own time, alongside with a lot of the analysis videos for this play. This play uses a multi-line narrative approach to deeply...
Whilst children all over know him as E.B. White, his relatives and confidants call him Andy. He wrote classic stories such as Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Webb. These cute stories grabbed kid’s attentions and imaginations. Then a change of thought took place in Mr. White’s...
From a very early age; the Hunter-Gatherers bands (the hunters being the male and the gatherers of fruits, etc. being the female), to date the gender roles are predefined and associated with each gender by society. “Gender roles are sets of culturally defined behaviors such...
In Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film Gangs of New York, the two main characters—Amsterdam Vallon (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Bill “the Butcher” Cutting (played by Daniel Day-Lewis)—attend a ‘Tom’ show (a stage adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin) in New York City. In this scene, which...
In Song of Rowland, the author tells the story of Charlemagne’s attempted takeover of Saragossa, a land controlled by the Muslim king, Marsilla. The poem covers the feud between Rowland and his stepfather Ganelon, as well as the disastrous consequences that come from that feud,...
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique created a social revolution in the 1960s by addressing the role of women in society and its effects on their emotional and mental health. Her words opened the eyes of many American housewives who felt incomplete and lost. Friedan helped...
Sigmund Freud says that “a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish”. What he means is that every dream represents a wish fulfillment. Dreams represent the imaginary fulfillment of a wish or impulse in early childhood, before such wishes have been repressed. The...
Dublin Ireland in 1914 was a place of poverty and religious restraint, under the governing hand of the Christian Church. A place where literary diversity was primarily limited to that of Irish biblical poets. James Joyce, published the short story “Araby” as a modern activist...
The Value of Sacrifice What you value can often be determined by what you are willing to sacrifice. People may believe that they will honor what they value, but that usually only lasts until we are faced with benefits from sacrificing. Many people can say...