Essays on Literary Genres

1939

Father-son Complicated Relationship in The Reunion

1 page / 557 words

The narrator of John Cheever’s “Reunion,” tells of the time the narrator reunited with his father only to be disappointed in the end. In the beginning of the story, the narrator mentions that his father was a stranger to him due to his parents being...

Book Review Novel The Reunion

1940

Emotional State of The Main Character in The Necklace Short Story

2 pages / 759 words

Guy de Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace” is about a woman who longs for another life that seems a world away. She has a loving husband and a comfortable home but does not appreciate what she has because of her desire to be wealthy. The...

Character Short Story The Necklace

1941

Romantic Relationships in The Poems The Origin of The Milky Way and Little Houses

3 pages / 1161 words

Tale As Old As Time: Storytelling and Relationships The creation of stories have allowed human history to continue to evolve and grow. Storytelling has been ingrained in cultures as a way of passing down lessons and history. The universal subject of love can be translated...

Frida Kahlo Literature Review Poetry

1942

The Differences Between The Novels "Trail of Tears" and "A Rumor of War"

2 pages / 699 words

The author of Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation and the author of A Rumor of War have very contrasting styles due to the different purposes of their books. John Ehle, the author of Trail of Tears, mainly writes to...

Literature Review Novel

1943

Witchcraft in Different Literary Works

4 pages / 1620 words

While humanity’s view of witchcraft has changed from hostile in the Middle Ages to playful enjoyment in the Harry Potter Age, the fact remains that humanity has an undeniable fascination with witchcraft. Similar to the religions of the world, witchcraft serves as an explanation for...

Literature Review Witchcraft

1944

Damaged Society in No. 6 by Atsuko Asano

3 pages / 1301 words

Humans strive to push their way to the top of society to create what they see as a utopia. This drive exists in all of us. Good things result from this trait. Horrible events occur too. Once on top and in power, others who oppose...

Book Review Novel

1945

Role of Protest Poetry

3 pages / 1208 words

Protest Poetry Essay The power of protest poetry is its ability to appeal to, and even influence the emotions of humans through the narration of people’s experiences. It is able to bring the attention of an audience to the faults of humanity and crimes it...

Poetry

1946

Idealistic View on Nature in Hardy's Poem Domicilium

2 pages / 1072 words

Introduction Domicilium is a poem portraying Hardy’s idealistic view of nature through his description of his childhood home and the surrounding landscape. The poem is split into two parts separated by a time shift; the first section is on the current state of the cottage...

Poetry Thomas Hardy

1947

An Analysis of "Evening Hawk" Poem by Robert Warren

3 pages / 760 words

Evening Hawk: poem analysis In his poem “Evening Hawk,” Robert Warren transforms the flight of a hawk during a sunset into a greater tale of the mankind’s history and the relentless cycle of time. Through a comparison of the hawk to a scythe that cuts...

Literature Review Poetry

1948

Main Ideas of Ready Player One Novel

6 pages / 2935 words

Set in the dismal future of planet Earth, player one, Wade lives in “the stacks” of Oklahoma City. Towers of RVs placed one on top of the other up to 24 units high, from the stacks and his home. As the world’s gas crisis continues...

Book Review Novel Ready Player One

1949

Stylistic Devices in The Balloon of The Mind

1 page / 634 words

The Fleeting Mind A poet’s struggle to write is one of the last places one would think to draw inspiration; yet, in W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Balloon of the Mind,” the narrator does just that. The four-lined poem, using personification, analogy, and an overarching metaphysical...

Poetry

1950

Analysis of Paradoxical Situations in Catch-22

2 pages / 1088 words

Paradoxical Situations in Literature and Reality Paradoxical situations arise all the time, and people cannot escape these situations or benefit from them because taking action is impossible. In Joseph Heller’s novel, Catch-22, these paradoxes recur many times. The paradoxes, called Catch-22’s, trap Yossarian, an Air...

Catch 22 Literature Review Novel

1951

Eileen Chang's Novel "Love in a Fallen City": Summary and Analysis

3 pages / 1238 words

The famous novella, Love in a Fallen City, is one of Eileen Chang’s most profound pieces of work. It doesn’t do justice to not state a brief history of Eileen Chang. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater...

Book Review Love Story Novel

1952

Analysis of The Poem "Kidnapped" by Ruperake Petaia

1 page / 398 words

This poem is considering the impact of the coloniser on the people’s culture and reflecs the negative effects on the colonies. It shows the emotional feeling by neglecting their land and ancestry. The poet at the first of the poem referred to the education system...

American Colonies Poetry

1953

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett – a Great Example of a Hardboiled Fiction

4 pages / 1633 words

The Maltese Falcon is widely considered to be one of the best mystery stories all time. It has a gritty style and realism about it that makes it unique in my opinion. When looking into more about this book I learned that Hammett (the author)...

Book Review Fantastic

1954

Analysis of a Poem "Enter Without so Much as Knocking" by Bruce Dawe

1 page / 489 words

The title ‘televistas’ indicates that our perspective of the world is seen only through our television sets, that our experience of life is limited and controlled. In the poem ‘Enter Without So Much as Knocking’ we are only identified in terms of the brand names...

Poetry

1955

Analysis of Kate Chopin’s Short Story "The Storm"

1 page / 635 words

Kate Chopin was an American author who I discovered by accident one day on the desk at my workplace. Kate Chopin short story “The Storm” was a very interesting read as I spent my time working at a help-desk for 8 hours. It caused me...

Book Review Short Story

1956

Social and Political Concerns in "Rock" by Lindiwe Nkutha

3 pages / 1191 words

Introduction The short story ‘’Rock‘’, written by Lindiwe Nkutha, is about Zibusiso, a girl that lives and grows up in poverty. Zibusiso stays in a shack in Soweto with her family. Zibusiso is called ‘’ rock “by the kids in the neighbourhood, because she is...

Short Story

1957

How to Express The Ineffable: a Review of Samuel Wagan Watson’s Smoke Encrypted Whispers

2 pages / 973 words

Narrative voice in Samuel Wagan Watson’s stunning suite of poems Smoke Encrypted Whispers is truly an exercise in multidimensionality, with Watson’s own tone moving effortlessly between autobiographical recollections across his life, more immediate “author’s notes” on his own writing process, and other more elusive forms...

Poetry