Essays on Literary Genres

1996

Analysis of The Lord of The Flies by William Golding

1 page / 448 words

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, adolescence is shown as a time of confusion and horror. The actions of the boys stranded on the island consistently correspond with their fear and or confusion towards the unknown things thought to be lurking on the...

Lord of The Flies Novel William Golding

1997

The Age of Miracles and The Glass Menagerie

2 pages / 1070 words

Passage: “Meanwhile my soccer team practiced mostly as usual, and my mother’s drama students continued to rehearse their production of Macbeth. All across the country, events like these were held as planned. Shows had to go on. We clung to anything previously scheduled. To cancel...

Novel The Glass Menagerie

1998

A True Tragic Story of Young Lovers

4 pages / 1878 words

Several years ago I met a lovely English man. He was visiting the neighbour of a friend. We were sitting on my friends front veranda having a couple of beers when this lovely man joined us and told us the tragic story about a young...

Love Tragedy

1999

The Tragedy of Sexuality in Hamlet

4 pages / 1820 words

The motive force in Hamlet’s experience lies in his ultimate identification with his father in death and God’s reality, including the implicit, favorable judgment assumed to have been bestowed on Hamlet’s father, in contrast to the present ignoble life of his mother with Claudius: Made-to-order...

Hamlet Sexual Health Tragedy

2000

Thirteen Reasons Why Book Review

3 pages / 1492 words

This essay is about a novel titled Thirteen Reasons Why book review based on how a teenage girl named Hannah Baker was in high school and suddenly took her own life while go through Psychological disorders like, depression, anxiety based on how she felt about...

Novel Suicide Teenagers

2001

Capitalism and Its Wickedness in The Jungle

2 pages / 780 words

The novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair narrates the life story of Jurgis and the tortures and destruction that he suffers since his arrival to Chicago with his family. Throughout the story, Sinclair describes the cruelties that Jurgis and his family faces in this capitalist...

Novel The Jungle Upton Sinclair

2002

Gender in "The Decameron" by Giovanni Boccaccio

5 pages / 2452 words

The Decameron is a collection of novellas written by Italian author Boccaccio by the 14th century. Gender is one of the main themes notable in The Decameron. It was set during a time when there was a plague in Italy, and many people had fled...

Gender Novel

2003

Consumerism in Fight Club and Brave New World

2 pages / 785 words

Chuck Palahniuk and Aldous Huxley make a vastly fascinating portrayal of the image of consumerism in their works. Miriam Webster, in her dictionary, defines consumerism as “the belief that it is good for people to spend a lot of money on goods and services.” Consumerism...

Brave New World Fight Club Novel

2004

Race Relations During The Era in The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man

7 pages / 3129 words

Tailing the end of the Post Reconstruction era and in the wake of the Harlem Renaissance comes the emergence of literary genius. Although it would come across as an insult to neglect the musical and artistic movements of the era, for the purpose of this...

Novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

2005

Assignment: Multimodal Essay

1 page / 587 words

For this assignment, you will remediate your Fairy Tale Analysis essay into a multimodal essay to be presented on Medium.com. Given the changing nature of writing and the role that technology plays in shaping how we share and consume information, it is important that we...

Fairy Tale Research

2006

Loss of Innocence Through Lack of a Moral Compass and Parental Care

3 pages / 1473 words

In her novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, author Heather O’Neill draws on the themes of neglect and addiction to poignantly depict Baby’s loss of innocence at a very early age. Raised by a heroin-addicted father without a stable place to live, Baby finds herself drifting...

Novel Songs of Innocence and of Experience

2007

Freudian Concepts of Masculinity in "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

7 pages / 1146 words

The Talented Mr. Ripley, a novel by Patricia Highsmith, follows the life of a young con artist turned psychopath. The novel is set in a period characterized by repression and depicts many Freudian ideas and concepts such as masculinity crisis, toxic masculinity, homosexual panic as...

Character Masculinity Novel

2008

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

2009

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

2010

"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

2011

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

2012

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

2013

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

2014

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