Essays on Literary Genres

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The Dualities of Belonging in Cisneros' "The House on Mango Street"

6 pages / 2878 words

The quest for a belonging in life is something that everyone wants to achieve. Throughout our experiences, we discover new lessons that teach us about who we are in this society and what we strive to be in this life. With all these lessons that...

Novel The House on Mango Street

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A Comparative Analysis of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Anita and Me by Meera Syal

6 pages / 2871 words

Smith and Anita and Me by Meera Syal Zadie Smiths White Teeth is about three different cultures, and three families spanning three generations. Characters include Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, best friends who spend their teenage years together and raise families in the Cricklewood area...

Novel White Teeth

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Analyzing Human Craziness as Depicted in The Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

2 pages / 922 words

Randomness and Manipulation To define information as a probability function[…]implies that randomness always already interpenetrates pattern, for probability as a concept posits a situation in which there is no a priori way to distinguish between effects extrapolated from known causes and those generated by chance...

Book Review Novel

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May Days: a Literary Analysis

10 pages / 4427 words

May Days I liked putting these poems together because the choosing of them took me over and over the old bound volumes, and in doing that I discovered a continuity–and a severance. That is, I stepped back abruptly through the looking-glass into a literary and...

Poetry

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Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale": Don't Let Bastards Get You Down

3 pages / 1294 words

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum…Don’t Let the bastards get you down” (Handmaid’s Tale 186-187). This Latin phrase is cherished by main character Offred throughout Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Before discovering the meaning of the phrase, Offred becomes fond of the carving on the floor of...

Novel The Handmaid’s Tale

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Analyzing The Plot, Order and Use of Conflict in Stephanie Soileau Short Story The Boucherie

3 pages / 1401 words

“The Boucherie” is a short story by Stephanie Soileau that was published in the StoryQuarterly. Stephanie Soileau is a lecturer at Stanford University and she has written numerous short stories, she is also a Truman Capote Fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program. She is...

Short Story

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A Study of How Yunior Hides from Reality as Highlighted in Junot Diaz's Book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

5 pages / 2076 words

The novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, crosses boundaries between truth and fantasy. Junot Díaz take the reader through a complex story narrated through many voices while supplying the reader with many facts and references, but also embedding magic and myth to the...

Novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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A Study of The Ethical and Manly Nature as Illustrated in The Panchatantra's Fable

1 page / 450 words

A fable is a timeless piece of wisdom presented in story form. The Panchatantra contains three fables which teach about morals, but they also offer insights into human nature. We will identify these insights contained in the Panchatantra and analyze them. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Fable Literature Review

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A Literary Analysis of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights(the Golden Compass)

3 pages / 1206 words

Northern LightsThe Golden Compass (US) Author Philip Pullman Cover artist Philip Pullman & David Scutt Country United Kingdom Language English Series His Dark Materials Genre(s) Fantasy, Steampunk Publisher Scholastic Point Publication date 1995 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 416 pp ISBN ISBN 0-590-66054-3...

Book Review Fantasy

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Dr. Strangelove: a Look at The Threat of Nuclear War

1 page / 585 words

Dr. Strangelove is a 1964 political satire of the Cold War between the united States and the Soviet Union. It mainly focuses on the fear, at that time, of nuclear war. Within the story one witnesses a rogue U.S. Air force general who calls a...

Literary Criticism Satire

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An Analysis of The Final Chapter of Ralph Ellison Novel Invisible Man

1 page / 633 words

In the final chapters of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the reader may encounter many different obstacles, all of which lead back to the on-going issue of race and white supremacy in the 1930s. Specifically, in chapter 20, an issue is presented that, fifty years later,...

Literature Review Novel

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A Comparative Analysis of Ted Hughes' Wind and Ode to The West Wind

2 pages / 824 words

A comparison of Ted Hughes’ Wind and Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind The notion common to both Hughes’ and Shelley’s poems is that of the wind as a tremendous, uncontrollable force, and the need to reconnect humans with the natural world. There is a...

Ode

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Keats' Odes: Tone, Structure, and Syntax Analysis

2 pages / 1131 words

Close Reading of John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale,” by John Keats, details a speaker in thought whilst observing a nightingale singing nearby. This is not the only time in which Keats writes from the perspective of a pondering speaker, such as in “When I...

Ode

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John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale; Analyzing The Third Structure

2 pages / 704 words

“Ode to a Nightingale” Analysis The third stanza of John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” is one of particular significance. The poem is one that praises a nightingale that had built a nest outside of Charles Brown’s estate in Hampstead. The bird symbolizes nature, a...

Ode

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The Fear of Death: How Death Has Evolved Through Time

2 pages / 1004 words

In the story “On the Fear of Death,” I believe the author’s main purpose was to describe how death has evolved over time. I have seen the way things have changed throughout time and the differences between how people use to do things versus now....

Book Review Short Story

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Analyzing The Character of Jean Grenouille's as Depicted in Patrick Suskind's Story

3 pages / 1395 words

The 18th century was a time when romanticism, the industrial revolution, and the age of enlightenment came into play. Patrick Suskind, the author, develops the story, Perfume, during this era and does a stupendous job in using imagery to set up the story’s background to...

Character Novel Perfume

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A Study of The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutsky

1 page / 615 words

Beginning with his literary work The Performance of Becoming Human, Chilean-American author Daniel Borzutzky utilizes grotesque diction, to express societal issues such as state sanctioned violence, inequity, and immigration. Initially, after reading about the author I expected to encounter a literary work that expressed social...

Poetry

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A Lie's Poison as Illustrated in Billy Collins The History Teacher

1 page / 581 words

What if you found out that everything you learned in school was a lie? The entire time you sat learning math, in vein, all of the facts about the government only a softened truth, the wars that were fought to make America a great country...

Poetry

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Priscilla Roseberry Vs. Monk Klutter in Richard Peck's "Priscilla and The Wimps"

1 page / 555 words

The Rise of Priscilla Roseberry “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” The wise words of President Lincoln can relate to the story, “Priscilla and the Wimps”, by Richard Peck. The story displays a...

Short Story