Essays on Writers

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, then he became the dominant person to spread Christianity. However, the higher class of Jewish criticized the idea of Jesus and treated him badly. After the death of Jesus, his apostles continued spreading Christianity. In conception of Christianity, Christianity was...

Wheatley begins her eight-line block form poem with “‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land’”, meaning how much of a blessing it is for her to be brought from Africa through the Almighty God’s compassion. Her use of imagery relates directly to her experience...

It can easily be argued that all efforts of creative writings from African Americans are forms of protest. To understand what a protest in literature is. By definition the practice within African American literature of setting things right or to remedy wrongdoing. Protest literature contains...

Religion, especially Christianity, offers an outlet for Phillis Wheatley to communicate with and influence her audience. Religion was a subject that Wheatley could easily relate to with her audience considering the vast differences between herself and her audience. She was a former slave, a reformed...

Life after death is a topic that humans know the least about, as a result this leaves us with a sense of uncertainty. Emily Dickinson wrote a poem in iambic meter called “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to tell a story about a...

At least at surface level of Emily Dickinson’s famous poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” the poem includes a personified Death who contradicts his classic trope of a terror educing entity in American literature, especially at the time. Upon meeting Death, the narrator...

Do people fear death? Without life, there is no death. It is a reality we can’t escape from. Emily Dickinson seemed to have been afraid of it, yet she embraced it. She addressed this topic in two of her famous poems “I heard a Fly...

“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson is a poem about a woman who is looking back on the day she goes on a carriage ride with death and revisits her life before going forward to immortality. Dickinson’s use of personification and...

Emily Dickinson was one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. However, her unique theme especially Death and Eternity brings her a special position and separates her from the contemporary writers. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” consists of the same kind of...

Marriage has always been an innate part of a person’s life. The perception of marriage differs from person to person. Upon analysing the two stories ‘The gift of the magi’ by O. Henry and ‘The kiss’ by Kate Chopin, we could see that the main...

‘The Call of the Wild’ is a book by Jack London that is set in the midst of the gold discovery that influenced large masses of people to travel into Canada’s regions hunting for gold. The narration follows Bucks story in his journey as a...

In the novel The Call of the Wild written by Jack London, Buck was stationed as a compelling leading character who undergoes multiple character developments throughout the novel due to nature and nurture. London’s approach of characterizing Buck has been highly recognized by Donald E....

The literary analysis I’m writing over is “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston. She is an African American Modernist writer who conveyed a surprisingly positive, opportunistic, and realistic outlook on what it was like for her to live through racism....

In this novel Mark Twain shows how this young boy named Tom acts as he progresses through childhood. He lives with an aunt named Aunt Polly who is a very strict person. When Tom does things that he should not do she punishes him. Even...

In this essay we are taking a look into poetry and try to see what Robert Frost was conveying when he wrote this poem. “Mending wall”, a short poem that has two neighbors whom have a wall that continues to decay over time and they...

In the movie Dead Poets Society, Mr. Keating teaches his students to seize the day. While showing them a picture of some alumni on the walls of the academy, he draws them in close to hear their legacy, “carpe diem, seize the day.” The lesson...

“A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story written by Ray Bradbury, the story follows the protagonist Eckels who pays $10,000 to a time travel company called Time Safari Inc, they conduct dangerous trips which consist of taking people back to any time...

An extreme amount of wealth can cause corrupt literally anyone causing them to act unethically towards situations. Many people who are wealthy would believe that they would have an advantage under those who aren’t. In Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, he...

“A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury is an interesting commentary on causality and destiny. Bradbury, who was well-known for his science fiction stories, utilizes the concept of time travel to demonstrate how our decisions have great consequences. The story explores themes relating to the...