Essays on Plot

Before the truth surrounding the strange fate of Benito Cereno becomes apparent, Herman Melville effects an intriguing juxtaposition between Don Benito and Babo while the latter adheres to the toilette of his “master.” Captain Delano, while watching this masquerade of owner and slave, congratulates the...

Suzan-Lori Parks once explained that her play Topdog/Underdog “isn’t just confined to a man’s experience,” furthermore, “I think it’s about what it means to be family and, in the biggest sense, the family of man, what it means to be connected with somebody else.” A...

Catch-22 begins with Yossarian faking a liver ailment in order to stay at the hospital and avoid going back into combat. While Yossarian is there, the chaplain visits him and likes him. The chaplain is also comfortable talking to him as well, and Yossarian invites...

Henry James’s novel, The Turn of the Screw, presents a plot that can be interpreted several different ways depending on how the reader wishes to interpret it. Many readers believe the governess is really seeing the ghosts of Peter Quint and his mistress as well...

In science fiction films, it is often hard to juggle real science, fiction, and plot. Sometimes, only two of these things are able to be well maintained throughout a movie. Gattaca manages to handle all three in a way that, although futuristic, seems realistic and...

We were in a hurry. I had less than an hour before the race and we were still stuck in Melbourne CBD traffic. Breathe. Sigh. My dad tried to get us through the gridlocked streets surrounding Albert Park. We were going to be late. Breathe...

This is the stop of season 1 episode six of Serial which describes the story of Mrs. Lee getting manually strangled and left in Leakin park alone, putting a boy in prison who later turned into a man, lost his childhood, claimed he slaughtered the...

Jurassic Park is a decent book compared to the movie. Although many today won’t read the book due to the famous movie there is a lot of things that are different. The basic plot is similar to that of the movie however most notably it...

“The tree” tells the story of two women of different social backgrounds: Marta, economically well positioned and Luisa, an Indian. Luisa, a woman of lower class, arrives at Marta’s house, fleeing from a violent husband, from whom, despite the mistreatment, she cannot break free. Marta...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath hounds Esther Greenwood who spends the summer of 1953, “the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs” away from hometown Massachusetts, sent off to intern in New York at a reputable fashion magazine with eleven other lucky girls. She is meant...

In the book Gone With The Wind written by Margaret Mitchell, a book of Drama filled romance, a young women named Scarlett O’Hara lived during the Civil War times in Atlanta, Georgia. She wants to move back to her childhood home in Tara because the...

The #1 New York Times Best Seller Just Mercy, written by Bryan Stevenson, is a thrilling narrative about Bryan’s career as a lawyer and co-founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in the 1980s. This novel goes into Mr. Stevenson’s life story, from growing up poor,...

The story White Fang begins with two men, Bill and Henry, along with their team of 6 sled dogs on a long journey to deliver a coffin of a deceased Lord to a remote town named Fort McGurry. Although during the trip they have to...

Sing Unburied Sing is a Novel by Jesmyn Ward, its a boy about Jojo who is 13 years old. His mom, Leonie, is an active drug addict, and his sister Kayla looks up to Jojo as a parental figure because their mom doesn’t do much...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling is about an eleven-year-old boy named Harry Potter. Harry soon discovers on his eleventh’s birthday that he is an orphaned son of two powerful wizards and that he possesses unique magical powers of his own. This...

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....

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...

The novel opens with a fight happening amongst a boys from Devil’s Row and Rum Alley, two different parts of town. A young boy named Jimmie is in the center of the fight, and he is one if the main characters in the novel. While...

In this novel, we learn a lot about Emma on how she really feels and what she really wants. From what I have read, I personally think she is extremely selfish, inconsiderate and definitely crazy. Emma’s need for stimulation which may include sex or maybe...

Writers are influenced by the historical times in which they write because probably everyday of their lives their actions and what they say is influenced by the time within which they live. Communicating with other people changes the way they speak, the way they use...

“The Cheater’s Guide to Love,” written by Junot Diaz in 2012, tells the story of a cheater who struggles to get over the fiancée he cheated with, while “Girl,” written in 1978 by Jamaica Kincaid, simply mentions what a girl is expected to do and...

The Lottery and Course Themes The Lottery, which is written by Shirley Jackson was written in the year 1948. The story is very similar to that of Hunger Games, which is a modern movie that most people have seen. In this story, the author tells...

There are many literary works that are entirely centred around the Empire and its’ colonies. One of the most notable is Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, the novel set within the British Empire, therefore highlighting how some books were highly representative of it. The novel is unraveled...