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Women's Fight for Gender Equality in Midaq Alley

Naguib Mahfouz’s novel, Midaq Alley, is a story about a group of people living in an alley in Egypt in the 1940’s. Already, from that description, the reader can see that the women of this tale have a significant disadvantage in equality. Surprisingly enough, the...

Feminism Fiction 1 Page

Links to the Past: Memory and Memorials in Melville’s “Pierre”

Herman Melville’s “Pierre” offers readers a world simultaneously driven by and struggling against its relationship with the past. Personal and ancestral histories dramatically affect the present interactions and psychology of the book’s main characters, particularly Pierre and Isabel. The link between present and past events...

Fiction 4 Pages

The Serpent King Summer Assignment

Dill, the son of Dillard Early, learns that rumors spread around like fire. He soon comes to realize that he’s the face of the son, whose father is in prison for possession of child pornography. At this time in his life, Dill only has two...

Books Fiction Literature 2 Pages

The Image of Home and Its Impact on the Fate of Main Characters in Robinson’s Housekeeping

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson portrays the life of its narrator, Ruthie, alongside her sister Lucille as the two grow from mere children to young women while being surrounded by the confusion of shifting guardians, as well as the influence of transiency. Once the final guardian...

Fiction Novel 3 Pages

Mr. Tough Guy: Understanding Kolya’s Character

It’s impossible to determine all the complexity of a character just based on first impressions. This is especially true for the character Kolya in David Benioff’s novel City of Thieves. On the surface, Kolya appears to be a fearless, comedic, womanizer who is careless and...

Fiction World War II 2 Pages

Holden Caulfield and Daniel Isaacson: Do They Share Anything?

Daniel Issacson, the narrator of Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel, is perhaps not as beloved and well-known as Holden Caulfield, the voice behind Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. It could be that we can empathize more easily with a misguided teenager than a moody,...

Fiction Holden Caulfield 4 Pages

Cloudstreet Analysis: Place and Identity in Winton’s Narrative

Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet (1991) is a fantastical and vivid exploration of the lives of the 20th century ‘Aussie battlers’ whose reputations fabricated the Australian identity present in today’s society. The novel resonates the idea that this identity was forged through hardship, tragedy, faith and luck...

Books Fiction 3 Pages

A Lack of Confrontation: Repression and Evasion in the Work of John Irving

In The Cider House Rules, Homer, the protagonist, after stifling all of the uncomfortable situations in his life would “lay awake [at night] because the phantoms of those days were not gone” (312). While Homer liked to think that he was in control of his...

Fiction 10 Pages

Novel Review: Everything I Never Told You

At one time, when Lydia and her brother, Nathan, were small, meditating on her mother’s failure at her personal goals sparked a decision in Marilyn that left Lydia wondering for a time “how everything had changed in just one day, how someone she loved so...

Fiction Novel 1 Page

Detective Fiction Essay

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction, thriller, and mystery, in which case a professional, and private detective investigates distinctly in a crime, and deal with real world struggles, and gain information or evidences through several methods and techniques in the process of his...

Crime and Punishment Fiction 3 Pages

wrest from the gods ideas identification

Small towns are often depicted as serene and bucolic places filled with caring people. Gopher Prairie appears, at first glance, to be one of these towns. But through the trials of Carol Kennicott the true nature of these towns is exposed. In this town the...

Fiction 1 Page

Effect of Flashback on the Present

Throughout Monkey Beach, author Eden Robinson effectively alternates passages transitioning between the present and flashbacks of Lisamarie’s life. It is through these flashbacks that Robinson is able to offer the reader a deep insight into Lisamarie’s childhood and upbringing. By placing these flashbacks in between...

Fiction 1 Page

The Tragedy of Permanence in “Nightwood”

In the chapter “Go Down, Matthew” of Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, Dr. Matthew O’Connor, speaking to an ex-priest at the Caf? de la Mairie du Vie after an extensive and exhausting session of consoling a lamenting Nora Flood, relates himself and the ex-priest to ducks...

Fiction 2 Pages