Essays on Literary Genres

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Santiago’s Life Obstacles in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

4 pages / 1744 words

The greatest and most important adventure in our lives is discovering our true purpose in this world. Whether we are embarking on a new-found love interest or wanting to explore our utmost life’s aspirations, we will always experience obstacles along the way. In Paulo Coelho’s...

Novel The Alchemist

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The Alchemist: The Importance of Following Dreams

1 page / 499 words

The Concept of Personal Legends Nobody follows their dreams; in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist it is stressed that everyone has a designated personal legend. In the reading, it demonstrates “people’s inability to choose their own personal legends” inflicted by the world’s greatest lie: “our lives...

Novel The Alchemist

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A Theme of Fear in The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

3 pages / 1332 words

Fear is in all human beings that always pulls us back into the darkness. It is also something that will protect us by signaling danger and preparing us to deal with it. But behind that fear is your Personal Legend. A Personal Legend is your...

Novel The Alchemist

745

Bartleby, The Scrivener: Alienation and Loss Od Individuality

3 pages / 1571 words

Living in the 21th century, with unprecedented material abundance, we post-modern people, on the one hand, feel lucky to be blessed with the glories of this productive industrial era; on the other hand, however, we are frequently confronted with the problem of relocating ourselves in...

Bartleby The Scrivener Short Story

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The Quarrel of Social Responsibility Vs Social Isolation in Bartleby, The Scrivener

2 pages / 752 words

Written by Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener, is a short story that tells the tale of a fortunate lawyer on Wall Street who hires a scrivener named Bartleby to serve for his law firm. In the beginning, he is an excellent copyist but as the...

Bartleby The Scrivener Short Story

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Literary Analysis of The Monkey’s Paw by William Jacobs

3 pages / 1262 words

In “The Monkey’s Paw,” author William Jacobs delivers a cautionary tale about unexpected consequences and how achieving what we wish for might prove catastrophic in ways we would not expect. This terrifying story follows the White family who receive a talisman, a monkey’s paw that...

Short Story The Monkey’S Paw

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How Richard Louv Influences The Audience in The Last Child in The Woods

3 pages / 1250 words

In Richard Louv’s novel, The Last Child in the Woods, Louv argues that our society’s advancement in technology is furthering the separation between today’s generation and nature itself. Louv’s use of indirectly implying his main idea, having a narrative that consists of countless thought provoking...

Book Review Novel

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A Theme of The Loss of Identity in When The Emperor Was Divine

3 pages / 1582 words

Ever since the Pearl Harbour Attack on December 7th 1941, the United States opened hostilities with Japan and the relationship between the two nations reached an extremely tense situation. The profound effect of the war was that numerous Japanese started their hardships and sufferings in...

Novel When The Emperor Was Divine

750

Ancestral Trauma in Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

2 pages / 846 words

Ancestral Trauma in Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat Ancestral trauma can be inherited in Black and communities of color. In Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, Sophie Caco is a Haitian woman who immigrated to the United States to be with her mother (Martine)...

Breath, Eyes, Memory Novel

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Religion and Prejudice in Silas Marner by George Eliot

7 pages / 3210 words

In this essay I am going to analyse religion and prejudice in Silas Marner by giving quotations both from the book and articles. Firstly, I will give some information about George Eliot and her point of view on religion. Then, I am going to summarize...

Novel Silas Marner

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Summary and Analysis of The Novel Touching Spirit Bear

3 pages / 1160 words

Ben Mikaelsen’s heart-warming novel, Touching Spirit Bear, revolves around the story of Cole Matthews and the life-changing experience he undergoes. Cole’s one year banishment to an isolated island completely transforms the temperamental teenager from Minneapolis, who finds satisfaction in beating up others, into a human...

Novel Touching Spirit Bear

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The Theme of Suffering in Fever 1793 by Laurie Anderson

2 pages / 694 words

The Theme of Suffering in Fever 1793 by Laurie Anderson Bryant Hill once said, “Suffering is one of life’s greatest teachers,” and he couldn’t have been more correct. Suffering teaches a person how to persevere and be patient in the hardest of times. People also...

Fever 1793 Novel

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Literary Analysis of The Last Child in The Woods by Richard Louv

1 page / 564 words

Since the beginning of mankind, even before civilization, man lived off the land and depended on it for it survival even in the first civilization, nature controlled all aspects of life. Slowly we began to learn how to control nature and use it to our...

Literary Devices Novel

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Analysis of Jake Brigance's Character in a Time to Kill

2 pages / 998 words

A Time To Kill was written by John Grisham and published in 1989 by Wynwood Press. A Time To Kill takes place in Clanton, Mississippi during the 1980s. This story is about a black father’s vengeance on two white men who committed a violent rape...

Novel

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Analysis and Review of The Book Salvage of The Bones

5 pages / 2434 words

“Salvage the Bones” is a woman’s coming of age fiction novel that follows along with a poor African American family living in Bois Sauvage Mississippi in the year of 2005. Facing the tragedy of following twelve days leading upon the arrival of hurricane Katrina. Made-to-order...

Book Review Novel Salvage the Bones

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Displacement in When The Emperor Was Divine by Julia Otsuka

2 pages / 877 words

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julia Otsuka depicts the situation of the Japanese American families at the time of World War II. The story begins after the attack on Pearl Harbour in the spring of 1942 and revolves around the life of a Japanese...

Novel When The Emperor Was Divine

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The Effects of War on One’s Life in All The Light We Cannot See

2 pages / 705 words

Despite disabilities, everyone is affected by warfare one way or another. Anthony Doerr touches on this topic in his novel, All The Light We Cannot See. It focuses on Marie-Laure Leblanc, a French girl who loses her eyesight at the age of six. After fleeing...

All The Light We Cannot See Novel

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When The Emperor Was Divine: Perspectives & Culture

3 pages / 1156 words

When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka is a novel about the difficult experiences of à Japanese-American family in an internment camp during World War II. The head of the family, the father, is suspected of being a spy by the Federal Bureau of...

Novel When The Emperor Was Divine

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Stylistic Devices Used in Silas Marner by George Eliot

6 pages / 2644 words

Introduction One crucial component of any literature text is the associated literary devices used by the author. Stylistic devices, also known as figures of speech, refer to the vital tools of writing that are employed in literary works to create lively and interesting texts. They...

Novel Silas Marner