Essays on Literary Genres

1939

The Story Free Fruit for Young Widows: Summary and Main Theme

1 page / 414 words

Nathan Englander’s “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is strong story full of morality. In the center of the story is Professor Tendler, who escaped from the concentration camp during the Holocaust to get back to his family home. He finds his babysitter with her family...

Fiction Short Story

1940

Another Last Chance

3 pages / 1526 words

We were in a hurry. I had less than an hour before the race and we were still stuck in Melbourne CBD traffic. Breathe. Sigh. My dad tried to get us through the gridlocked streets surrounding Albert Park. We were going to be late. Breathe...

Plot Short Story Writing Experience

1941

"On The Pulse of Morning" Analysis

2 pages / 781 words

One cannot discuss Maya Angelou’s “On the Pulse of Morning” without providing proper background concerning the context within which it came to be. The first emergence of the poem came in January of 1993 at Bill Clinton’s initial inauguration into the presidency. It was the...

Maya Angelou Poetry

1942

The Enigma of Ghosts: Fact Or Fiction?

2 pages / 850 words

Does ghost exist is most popular question that is been asked from everyone. There will be some people who will say ghost exist and other will argue there is no existence of ghost. In this argumentative essay, it will be clear who are ghost, why...

Ghost

1943

An Attitude of Elites Towards New Migrants in The Novel How The Other Half Lives

5 pages / 2253 words

With mass immigration from Central, Southern, Eastern Europe, and Asia into New York City and the Great Migration of Blacks from the South into Chicago and other Northern cities around the turn of the twentieth century, the Northern old-stock White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite came into...

Novel Self Identity

1944

The Battle Against Substance Addiction in a Million Little Pieces, a Book by James Frey

2 pages / 709 words

Battling Drug Abuse in A Million Little Pieces A Million Little Pieces is the memoir of James Frey, a reformed addict of cocaine, alcohol, glue, and much more. This book served as a diary as he suffered through six weeks in the world’s best rehabilitation...

A Million Little Pieces Novel

1945

George Eliot’s Autibiographical Elements in His Book The Mill on The Floss

4 pages / 1814 words

The Mill on the Floss is regarded as the most autobiographical novel of George Eliot which reflects her early childhood memories and her own relationship with her father and brother Isaac. The reader is able to see many examples and similarities between Eliot’s own life...

Narrator Novel Plot

1946

Teachings of Terror and Optimism in The Theatrical Performance The Second Shepherds and Everyman

2 pages / 934 words

Fear in Morality Plays and Hope in Mystery Plays Both morality plays and mystery plays had important messages that the church hoped to teach the people. One of the most well-known mystery plays was The Second Shepherds’ Play while the most infamous moral play was...

Drama Literature Review

1947

Evaluation of The Conceptualized Tradition of Love Depicted in Medieval Writing and Arthurian Folk Tales

5 pages / 2149 words

Everyone has heard a story about a young, handsome, and virtuous man who sets out on a quest to either save or win the heart of a young and beautiful woman. This type of story is known as a tale of courtly love. The Theme...

Courtly Love

1948

Analysis of The Old Love Tradition Illustrated in Poems by Chaucer

8 pages / 3506 words

Chaucer’s literature was spread across many different spheres of interest throughout his life, often focussing on society and religion. An observer of his own social group, he wrote satirical interpretations of those surrounding him, subverting the traditional writing styles of Beowulf (900AD-1100AD), Sir Gawain and...

Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer Poetry

1949

Humanity as an Enemy of Itself in "Enders Game"

3 pages / 1316 words

Imagine the world has been invaded by an alien race that humans call “Buggers.” They have invaded twice and the third invasion is being anticipated. That is the idea behind the book “Enders Game” by Orson Card. In “Ender’s Game,” the main character Ender is...

Ender’s Game Science Fiction

1950

Ways of Loving Someone in Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare

2 pages / 1094 words

In Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett shows all the ways in which she is capable of loving someone and how great and strong love truly is. She presents all the possible ways in which she can love someone and also she presents the strength of the...

Sonnet William Shakespeare

1951

Complexity of Love in Sonnet by Elizabeth Barrett

2 pages / 699 words

“XXXV” is one of the Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; written in first person narrative, and centralized based on the complexity that love involves such as loss and change. Browning writes this poem as if she is speaking to a person whose...

Literature Review Sonnet

1952

Black Boy: Richard Wright’s Autobiographical Novel

2 pages / 1156 words

Richard Wright’s “Black Boy” is a profound work that provides readers with an unvarnished look into the life of a young African American in the racially charged American South during the early 20th century. This autobiographical novel is a striking depiction of the struggles, injustices,...

Black Boy Novel Richard Wright

1953

Anne Sexton’s Twisted Version of Sleeping Beauty

3 pages / 1321 words

Parents often use fairytales as bedtime stories for their children. Anne Sexton takes these often light-hearted and whimsical tales and spins them into a creation of her own. According to Diana Hume George in “An Overview of Sexton’s Canon,” Sexton, “updated their contexts and language...

Fairy Tale Literary Criticism

1954

Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: Plot Summary

1 page / 475 words

In the light of the story, the reader discovers the relationship that would have strained and disturbed the lives of each of these four characters due to the investigation of Inspector Godfrey in the assassination of the personalities of Kimria, Choi and Zigu. Made-to-order essay...

Blood Novel

1955

The Values of The Patriarchal Culture of The 20th Century Society in The Trivia by Susan Glasper

5 pages / 2351 words

Susan Glasper, one of the major dramatists of the 20th century whose masterpiece “trivia” has always been considered a classic feminist drama. Although the performance of this one-act play was only half an hour, it described a thought-provoking murder case and analyzed the spiritual world...

Drama

1956

My Impression of a Message to Garcia

1 page / 415 words

Based on the contents of the short story “A Message To Garcia”. My thoughts are such as these, they correlate with each other. Let me explain, Rowan was summoned and given a letter contents are unknown for whom it was unknown he didn’t ask a...

Impressionism Short Story

1957

The Boy in The Striped Pajamas - The Holocaust Drama

2 pages / 1097 words

Ah, you just have to love little boys. They are a lot to handle. Moms stress a little because of their shenanigans. One thing they cannot do is ignore a chance to explore what is around them, not knowing that a little bit of exploring....

Drama Holocaust The Boy in The Striped Pajamas