It is relevant to refer briefly to the previous studies and research in the related areas of the subject to find out and to fill up the research gaps. The following are the some studies conducted by the eminent authors and practitioners on the area...
In the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie, the reader learns about the life journeys of Arnold Spirit, a Native American teenager from WellPoint, Reservation in Spokane, Washington. He grows up on the Reservation with his mother and...
In the story “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the author Cofer discusses the how people stereotype Latin American woman generation after generation. Cofer begins her story with her own experience on a bus...
In Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt created Winnie, a personality World Health Organization feels that her life is unimportant and boring. The prospect of living forever is exciting to her. within the course of the novel, as she gets to understand the Tucks, Winnie listens to completely...
It is an undeniable fact that, character triats, attitude, upbringing, and education will shape an individual perception and mindset towards life. Lennie, Suyuan and Amir each has their own idea of what The American Dream should entail. Happiness as a concept is as ambiguous as...
Society is cutthroat. It’s a killer community where people battle every day to remain themselves while trying to remain in the group. Sherman Alexie portrays this in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by showing what being an individual in a community is...
In the short story, ‘The Jade Peony’ by Wayson Choy, Sek-Lung is devasted when his Grandmother dies at the age of 83 as he loved her immensely. Grandmama had a strong connection to her heritage and didn’t conform to the wishes of others. An innate...
A person’s’ childhood can be the reason for how they end up in life. This was the case for Jeannette Walls. In the memoir, Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, the Walls’ kids are forced to go through an unconventional childhood. They have to deal with...
The free-verse poem, “Down in the Valley”, written by Joshua Mehigan presents the return home of a college student. The poem’s speaker describes in minimal phrasing, as if to recall only the essential details, the young girl’s past and present experiences. The narration, although bare...
Desperately seeking a place to express one’s true personality and background is a major factor in the creation of internal conflicts. Additionally, as one approaches their coming-of-age, they are typically placed in a competitive environment that surrounds them with their peers. In private boarding schools,...
‘Where id was, there ego shall be” – Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founding father of psychoanalysis, developed a concept that the mind was split into three sections known as the id, ego, and superego. The id is the unconscious mind driven by...
Images of the idealized parent permeate the media, from advertisements to Hallmark cards and movies; however, the stereotypical theme of the conventional parent is not always true because of the prevalence of parental violence in modern society. For example, the American SPCC reported, “4.1 million...
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore demonstrates an array of rhetorical devices. Prevalent examples are imagery and foreshadowing. Imagery is visual or figurative descriptions, seen especially throughout literary work. Moore displays this through; “The Bronx was in its post-apocalyptic phase. Whole blocks were abandoned,...
In 1892, feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” describing an intense summer vacation for a woman recovering from mental illness. The story takes the reader through the narrator’s erratic journal entries of a three month stay in a rented...
Imagine being ripped away from your home and family, and only given the bare minimum to survive. This is how Elie Wiesel felt when he was just 12 years old. This book was written by Elie Wiesel and it explains all of his situations he...
A world with corruption and violence is what Elie Wiesel painfully dealt with as mentioned in the written memoir, Night. This novel describes of the horror and terror Wiesel went through in his childhood in the midst of the Holocaust. His family was taken from...
African Americans had to face a lot of adversity, even after the emancipation proclamation, Africans Americans were mistreated in a lot of places or even violently handled by who other than the white man. And in the southern states it’s even more detrimental to the...
When examining On the Rainy River from an archetypal perspective, O’Brien emphasizes the importance of free will and how it affects one’s life through the archetypal symbol of the owl, the archetypal symbol of the Rainy River, and the archetypal character of Elroy. Firstly, the...
This short essay will analyze the representation of violence in The lottery By Shirley Jackson. The late 1940’s were a great time to be alive, it had simple ties that made each day brighter. Dancing teen-agers, playful kids, and gossiping wives filled the town, all...
In Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson describes self-reliance as the perception of one’s interpretation of reality, or truth. “What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think,” Emerson says. He emphasizes on the dignity of the individual and advocates that every...
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ took place in England in the nineteenth century in the bedroom of the haunted rented mansion by the narrator named Jane and her husband. There’s yellow wallpaper in the house that Jane swears to see a...
Girls Like Us (2014), a novel by Gail Giles, takes the reader through the lives of Biddy and Quincy, two special education graduates. The structure of this book alternates between the two girls point of view, knowing their thoughts only makes Giles message stronger. Girls...
“Here begins the book of the Tales of Canterbury…” The Canterbury Tales is full of intrigue and sheds light on the life and times of the Middle Ages. These were times where hierarchy, feudalism, and chivalry were in effect. The tale is of twenty-nine individuals...
Amongst the many characters in The Diary Of Anne Frank that stand up for something that they believe in, there is one character in particular that stood out to me. That character is Otto Frank (Anne’s father). Without him, the world would never have known...
Christians believe God did not create evil nor is he to be blamed for the evil in the world. “I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things” (Isaiah 45:7 NIV). When God created...
The author who wrote “The Lady, or the Tiger”, Frank Richard Stockton, was an American popular novelist and short-story writer of mainly humorous fiction. Frank was born on April 5,1834 in Philadelphia, PA and died on April 20, 1902 in Washington, D.C. Most of his...
Marx argued that Europe lived under the darkness of the hegemonic authority led by oppressive aristocratic power. The economy was built on the labor of young, poor, exploited children whilst the aristocracies manipulate and exploit the machines of human power to increase their wealth and...
Education is an integral part of the identity formation process; it helps shape individuals and it often directs their lives after the educational process is over. The level and quality of education can determine one’s socioeconomic status and prospects; however, not everyone has equal access...
The author Charlotte Perkins Gillman wrote the “The Yellow Wallpaper” to express her thoughts and frustration on women’s oppression and how women were being constantly mistreated in the 1800’s. Gilman’s purpose for writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to show how women were being treated not...
The novel, What’s So Great About America, written by Dinesh D’Souza, dives deep into the mindset of American culture and uses historical examples to prove the author’s thesis on why America is the superior nation of the world and what makes America great. The main...
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