Essays on Literature

In life we require a great deal of motivation. Whether it comes to work love or any other relationship. However, sometimes the motivation from our colleagues, family, friends isn’t quite beneficial and we tend to drift away from the fact that we need motivation to...

The story of David comes from the first book of Samuel chapter seventeen in the Old Testament of the Bible. It is about a young man named David, who is brave enough to take on this terrible giant, named Goliath. Goliath is a great Philistine...

I am going to describe in a few paragraphs what the book Exterminate all the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide written by Sven Lindqvist is about. The main purpose of Exterminate All the Brutes is...

Societal places high expectations for young adults; they are expected to achieve independence and fulfill the expectations of their cultural heritage. These expectations are clear, but as young adults, they are sometimes hard to follow because of all the pressure that is put upon them....

The novel called The Testaments by Margaret Atwood has been a good representation of a dystopian future due to the fact that she makes good use of history in her book to make it more realistic. In this essay, I’ll be discussing how this novel’s...

The legitimacy issue that Gladwell established in the chapter 7 is very interesting because of the example of “The Troubles” he explains that when the law is applied and legitimacy is not involved instead of producing obedience it produces the opposite, it leads to backlash....

I read a book called “Holes” this first and second term. I found this book very rich in adventure, interesting, and humorous. I laughed a lot while I was reading it. And also, it has a great theme. I highly recommended it for all readers....

This is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood poem is a lyric, which means it’s spoken by someone who, as the title suggests, describes a photograph of them. We’re told the photo was taken ‘some time ago.’ The speaker describes the photograph’s contents to...

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Her mother passed away before little Maud was two years old, and she was gone to be raised by her maternal grandparents, whom she later characterized as stern and reserved. When she was...

Jorge Luis Borges, a Spanish author who writes novels and short stories that often refer to themes that are spatially linked to Dante’s structural ideas. Borges’ short story ‘The Library of Babel’ published 1941 is another allegorical text that contemplates the purpose of each one...

Considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, The Catcher in the Rye continues to affect readers around the world since its publication in 1951. While the vulgarity and adult matters in the book are undoubtedly inappropriate for young students, its underlying themes...

Since I was little, the first values my parents tried to instill into my brother and me were that of Christianity–and for most of my childhood, I was content adhering to these beliefs. It wasn’t until my disaster at Carnegie Hall that I began to...

An excellent book for young adults to start reading is definitely ‘Holes’, a comical short story for young adults, written by Louis Sachar highlighting many themes such as destiny, racism, peer group politics, justice and misuse of power. This book is full of humour, excitement...

Summary Gabriel and Young (2011) created a study in which they tested the hypothesis that reading a piece of a narrative will lead to psychological assimilation of the information described within the narrative. There were 140 college undergrad participants, consisting of 68 women and 72...

In the movie “Everyday,” the main character is a person who wakes up in a different body every day. They never wake up in the same body twice and they never get to know whose body they are going into next. It is always a...

“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to” Jorge Luis Borges, in an attempt to bridge the gap between the inner mind and outer perception in his essay “Borges & I,” narrates from the first-person perspective of his own private...

David was born in Bethlehem, the youngest son to Jesse. David’s life grows from a shepherd and then he was chosen by God to become the King. He was Israel’s second and most powerful ruler. He becomes one of King Saul’s associates after his heroic...

Throughout time we have given importance to notable works of different time periods, that range from greek mythology to the renaissances. We have called them classics, we made them valuable to our knowledge and imprinted them in our society as key pieces of time. Nonetheless,...

In this essay I will be speaking of the similarities between the book 1984 and the Soviet Union through the theme of the individual vs. collective identity. The Soviet Union occurred in the early 19th century. It was a federal sovereign state in northern Eurasia....