Essays on Literary Genres

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The Pedestrian Analysis

1 page / 338 words

“The Pedestrian” gives a glance into the future, where a man named Leonard Mead, goes for long walks every night by himself. The year is 2053, and Mr. Mead is the only pedestrian near his home. He has never seen another person out walking during...

Ray Bradbury Short Story

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Analysis of "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway

3 pages / 1210 words

“Hills Like White Elephants,” is a short story, written by author Ernest Hemingway. It is a story about a man and a woman waiting at a train station talking about an issue that they never name. I believe this issue is abortion. In this paper,...

Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants Short Story

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Plot Overview of "The Maze Runner"

1 page / 536 words

Basically, people called Creators put a bunch of boys whose memories were erased into a Maze in Book One of The Maze Runner series. Thomas, the protagonist, was one of the last ones to be put in the Maze, along with a girl named Teresa,...

Dystopia Novel The Maze Runner

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My Short Story of an Afternoon at The Bus Station

1 page / 413 words

It was two o’clock in the afternoon. I was heading towards the bus station with Mohan after Mrs Wong’s extra class. The sun was beating mercilessly on my back and I could feel my sweat trickling down my spine. I have often wished that my...

Dream Short Story

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All You Need to Know About Crusades

2 pages / 689 words

The Crusades were a two-hundred-year battle between the Christians and the Muslims the over control of the Holy Lands that were important to both religions. The Crusades were a series of Holy Wars that were fought between the European Christians and the Middle Eastern Muslims,...

Crusades Short Story

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Heart of Darkness

1 page / 323 words

The two major themes of Heart of Darkness are the conflict between “reality” and “darkness,” and the idea of restraint and whether or not it is necessary. Conrad’s passage describing the restraint of the hungry cannibals exemplifies both themes: It describes how reality shapes human...

Heart of Darkness Literature Novel

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Review of "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner

2 pages / 1043 words

“A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner describes the peculiar life of Miss Emily, an unmarried and allegedly wealthy woman who is the talk of the town of Jefferson. Faulkner’s use of particular literary devices can be observed throughout the entire story. He carefully uses...

A Rose For Emily Short Story William Faulkner

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The Theme of Women's Mistreatment in "The Yellow Wallpaper"

1 page / 626 words

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, her personal experiences with postpartum depression was used to create powerful fictional short story which has broad importance for women. When the narrator recognizes that there is more than one trapped, creeping woman, Gilman indicates that the...

Short Story The Yellow Wallpaper

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The Robert Walton's Role in Frankenstein

1 page / 623 words

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the novel is the view of Robert Walton. Walton uses his letters during his journey on the Pacific Ocean to allow the reader to understand the tragedy of both the Monster and Frankenstein from an unbiased perspective, giving mankind a ray...

Frankenstein Mary Shelley Novel

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Short History of Ringsend & Irishtown

3 pages / 1247 words

Irishtown lies a short distance outside the medieval city walls of Dublin. Dublin was originally a Viking city and after 1171, when an Anglo-Norman army took it, Dublin became the centre of English rule in Ireland. The native Gaelic Irish were therefore viewed as an...

Ireland Short Story

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Literary Analysis of Samuel Taylor Cleridge's Poem "Love"

2 pages / 930 words

The time old cliché “It is better to have loved and lost to have never loved at all” is the foundation for Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Love,” as the narrator tells a tale within a tale about the perplexing idea of love’s ever changing emotions that...

Poetry

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"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst

2 pages / 717 words

The Scarlet Ibis is a heartbreaking story by James Hurst about two brothers; one brother is physically fit (narrator), while the other is physically disabled (Doodle). The story focuses on the idea that the older brother’s greediness, arrogance, and self-consciousness led to the death of...

Short Story The Scarlet Ibis

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The Poem "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson

2 pages / 835 words

The poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson tells the readers about the gap in social class between people and that outward appearances are not always what they seem to be. In other word, what you see on the outside might just different from what...

Poetry

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The Nature of Justice, Revenge, and Resolution in The Oresteia, a Trilogy of Greek Tragedies by Aeschylus

5 pages / 2140 words

“Sing sorrow, sorrow: but good win out in the end” (Oresteia, Agamemnon 121). Such is the chorus’ refrain in the opening lines of Aeschylus’ trilogy, the Oresteia. Written in the 5th century B.C.E., Aeschylus’ classic tragedy not only profoundly impacted the Athenians of his time,...

Justice Revenge Tragedy

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Friendship in a Separate Peace by John Knowles and The Movie Dead Poets Society

4 pages / 1764 words

One of the main elements in both the coming-of-age novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and the quirky movie Dead Poets Society, written by Tom Schulman and directed Peter Weir, is friendship. Friendship can involve many stages, and at times, can be very complex,...

A Separate Peace Dead Poets Society Poetry

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Evaluation of Brave New World, a Novel by Aldous Huxley

2 pages / 842 words

Through themes of depersonalization, scientific development and death; Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel ‘Brave New World’ critiques modern society. Brave New World is a totalitarian novel, free from war and greed, where Huxley manipulates many techniques to deliver the ideas that hypnopedia brainwashes society to control...

Brave New World Novel

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Analysis of Rona Jaffe’s Book, The Room-mating Season

1 page / 668 words

The Room-Mating Season, written by Rona Jaffe, is a novel of supreme quality, as it provokes thought and insists the reader contemplate their beliefs about relationships and their purpose in the world. It engages the reader by inviting them to think about love and how...

Book Review Novel

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The Life of The Poet Allen Ginsburg

9 pages / 4016 words

Ann Charters Ginsberg, Allen (3 June 1926-6 Apr. 1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the younger son of Louis Ginsberg, a high school English teacher and poet, and Naomi Levy Ginsberg. Ginsberg grew up with his older brother Eugene in a household shadowed...

Biography Famous Person Poetry

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Assessment of The Role of Jimmy Corrigan as Depicted by Chris Ware in The Smartest Kid on Earth

6 pages / 2649 words

Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid On Earth, by Chris Ware, is about a meek and lonely man in his mid-thirties who meets his father for the first time in a Michigan town over Thanksgiving weekend. Jimmy is an awkward and cheerless character with an overbearing...

Literature Review Novel