Essays on Literary Genres

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Hardcastle by John Yount: The Question of Superiority

6 pages / 2688 words

Switch County, Kentucky, is the rural area depicted in John Yount’s novel Hardcastle. Once a peaceful, rural farming community, it was transformed into a coal-mining region during the industrial revolution of the early 1900s. It soon lost its connections to subsistence farming and traded in...

Novel

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Similarities Between Hans Christian Andersen’s and Disney’s Mermaids

3 pages / 1150 words

Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” and Disney’s 1989 film adaptation differ in a multitude of notable ways, from key elements of plot to those of character. Perhaps the most distinct difference, aside from the highly contrasting endings, is the characterization of...

Disney Fairy Tale

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Distorting The Narrative in The Film Adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun

3 pages / 1452 words

The Distortion of Narrative in the Film Adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie is a literary tour de force that examines Nigerian culture through the lens of three main characters. The novel focuses on violence and...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novel

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Misogyny and Sexism in Hangover Square

3 pages / 1283 words

Patrick Hamilton represents women in such a misogynistic manner in Hangover Square that we do not get insight on a single positive portrayal of a woman that George, the novel’s protagonist, meets on his journeys. Instead, we only hear a remotely positive attitude about a...

Comedy Novel

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Research of G. Brooks's "The Bean Eaters"

2 pages / 948 words

Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “The Bean Eaters” highlights the loneliness and poverty of an old couple, people who have been forgotten by pretty much everyone. They have been forgotten by their kids who have grown up and moved out; they have been forgotten by the society...

Poetry

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The Role of Daily Sacrifice in The Rain Came

3 pages / 1301 words

People must make sacrifices every single day. Whether such sacrifice serves to benefit them, those around them, or society in general, people find that decisions to give up aspects of their lives are prevalent in human nature. Both spectrums of this theme are thoroughly explored...

Short Story

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Death, Ghosts, and The Afterlife: an Analysis of Guantanamo Diary

2 pages / 1057 words

Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s book Guanta?namo Diary is a work that deals heavily in complex themes. Questions of morality, accusations of terrorism, and descriptions of torture abound in his story, but it is the subtle undercurrent of death throughout the book that I find most intriguing....

Novel

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Green Grass, Running Water: Stylistic Means of Creating Ridicule

2 pages / 882 words

The Relation To and the Importance of Henry Dawes, and the Dawes Act, to Green Grass, Running Water Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Henry Dawes was...

Fiction

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Breaking Down The Features of Fairy Tales

2 pages / 941 words

Fairy tales were handed down orally until the 18th century when the Romantics began to collect them together and write them down. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, are the best-known recorders of European tales. In the classic fairy tale, laws of nature are suspended,...

Fairy Tale

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How The Perception of Home Changes as a Person Grows Up: Hansel and Gretel

7 pages / 3207 words

As a child coming of age in the mass-consumerist, technologically innovative, and media-influenced climate of the twentieth century, one’s exposure to fairy tales will have likely been informed by recurrent viewings of Disney film adaptations. Reared on such a diet of animated full-length features, as...

Fairy Tale

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How Grimms Created The Image of Curiosity

2 pages / 970 words

The Grimm brothers’ widely-known collection of fairy tales includes two especially significant stories: “Little Snow-White” and the lesser-known “The White Snake.” The main characters of each tale are, respectively, Snow White, a beautiful young princess, and an unnamed, lowly, but handsome servant boy. Though each...

Fairy Tale

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Gabriel’s Inventiveness in Go Tell It on The Mountain

6 pages / 2617 words

God’s Apostles Bring Redemption In Every Life. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay Shame, blame, all the same. Good Artists Breathe Reality Into Existence, Lies. Shame, blame,...

Novel

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Baldwin’s Fiction: Liminal Organization and The State of Obscurity

4 pages / 1842 words

James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk and “The Man Child” are both texts that demonstrate how the isolation of characters can yield overtly violent outcomes. Though the perspective from which Baldwin challenges dominant forces differs between the two texts, the race of the protagonists...

Fiction Novel

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Close Examination of Going after Cacciato

2 pages / 796 words

The reality of war unfortunately creates an oppressive system that causes soldiers to struggle with internal conflict and individual thought. In the book Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien, Paul Berlin’s thoughts and emotions are presented fluidly in the observation post as he accepts ideas...

Book Review Novel Tim O’Brien

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Post-structuralism in 'Going after Cacciato' by Tim O'brien

2 pages / 824 words

In Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien, one abundantly clear theme is disjunction. Much of the text is fragmented, split up and moving between locations, characters, and time periods. Coupled with what often seems like magical realism, this paints a rather indistinct picture of many...

Fiction Novel

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Good Omens as a Reactionary Gothic Novel

4 pages / 1975 words

“Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett challenges the stereotypical conventions of Gothic literature and provides a more modern approach to the genre. Conventionally, the Gothic is associated with terrifying creatures such as Frankenstein or Dracula, and remote, dark settings such as abandoned castles...

Fantasy Novel

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Go Tell It on The Mountain: Question of Who is More Moral a Saint Or a ‘sodomite'

5 pages / 2350 words

In James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, religion functions not only as form of worship but also as a covert site of sexual expression. In the novel’s opening chapters, Baldwin often characterizes religious worship in language that borders on the erotic. This undermines...

Novel Spirituality

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Giovanni’s Room: The Possibility of Same-sex Love

4 pages / 1904 words

In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, David is a heterosexual man with homosexual desires. This desire to be with men leads him desensitized to how he actually feels when he is with all four of his lovers – male and female. Each and every relationship he...

Giovanni’s Room Novel

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Trying to Find Your True Self: Metaphor in Coming Out Stories

4 pages / 1756 words

Every coming out story must deal with the characters’ struggles of being in the closet. The stage of not yet being able to be open about one’s identity can be the most difficult and turbulent point in dealing with their queer identity. It is a...

Giovanni’s Room Novel