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Introduction Sonny’s Blues is a tale about a Harlem family penned by James Baldwin. The narrative follows the adventures of two brothers, specifically the younger of them, Sonny, who becomes hooked on heroin and ends up in prison (Baldwin 4). The narrative is told from the perspective of the elder...
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is one of the most influential stories created in American culture and literature. The story is a narration of a village that holds an annual lottery. The fate of the lottery winner is dark and cruel. When readers are introduced to the story, they may think...
Introduction Fences is August Wilson’s arguably most outstanding work. Written in 1983, the moving drama examines the relationships and life of the Maxson family. Besides, the drama’s action starts in 1957, with the plot created through a period until 1965. The drama occurs in a run-down tenement of black people...
Introduction Literature plays a vital role in using narratology to communicate social issues through different lenses and thematic concerns. The Cask of Amontillado by Allan Poe shows how the author’s choice of characters and circumstances have more profound implications than the literal meanings. The interaction between Montresor and Fortunato during...
Introduction By nature of reasoning, knowledge is a form of conviction that differs from opinion or conjecture. A person’s or something’s awareness or knowledge, such as information, abilities, or things, contributes to one’s comprehension. At the same time, maladaptive pursuit of knowledge can generate adverse effects due to the presence...
Background Twelfth Night of What You Will by William Shakespeare is a romantic-comedy novel with intersecting plots and subplots. The major plot revolves around the love triangle between Orsino, Olivia, and Viola. The second plot is about the mistaken identity of Sebastian marrying Olivia thus breaking the love triangle. The...
Introduction “Inside the White cube” by Brian O’Doherty is an art book published in the 1970s that majorly employed the ideology of the gallery space. The art book critically examines the impacts of the post-war crisis on artwork and the museum gallery. The work by O’Doherty aims at rubbing off...
Introduction Each character in the play is of interest, as personal changes take place within them as the story progresses. One of the characters undergoing the most profound changes is Rose and Troy. However, in “Fences” by August Wilson, Cory is a character that is interesting and powerful to analyze....
Introduction James Baldwin is an American author well-known for his activism, poetry, and playwrights. Baldwin’s perseverance in the face of socioeconomic, gender, and primarily racial persecution in the West earned him many accolades in the arts. James Baldwin’s story “Sonny’s Blues” is about Sonny, who lives in Harlem in the...
Introduction The Narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper and Mrs. Mallard in The Story of an Hour are both products of their era, filled with a paternalistic attitude towards women’s lives, aspirations, and opportunities. Their husbands have become a burden to women, guards in prison, presented in the form of ordinary...
Introduction American fiction has had many authors with notable representations whose work has significantly influenced people. It would be sensible to claim that the author of the novel Hoot Carl Hiaasen and One Crazy Summer by Rita William-Garcia are prominent figures who left a significant mark in the genre. Hence...
Numerous books are dedicated to the topic of love – the sublime feeling which is portrayed differently throughout the literature. However, sometimes love has negative underpinnings, which cause this sense to fail. Dating Down by Stephanie Lyons is a perfect reflection of how risking everything for someone can turn into...
Summary Fences are August Wilson’s arguably most outstanding work. Written in 1983, the moving drama examines the relationships and life of the Maxson family. Besides, the drama’s action starts in 1957, with the plot created through a period until 1965. The drama occurs in a run-down tenement of black people...
“Hills Like White Elephants” is an outstanding short story written by Ernest Hemingway. At first sight, it describes a common situation in a life of a couple who spends time in a rail station bar while waiting for a coming train. A man and a woman are drinking beer and...
The distant, barely visible white hills are the first place that the reader can notice for himself. They are mentioned by the author in the title and indirectly reveal the theme of events. The heroine describes these things as being like “white elephants” (Hemingway, 1998). White elephants are unwanted things...
Introduction In the introduction to Jeff Bezos’s book Invent and Wander: The Collected Works of Jeff Bezos, Walter Isaacson provides some remarkable observations of the attributes that have made this person innovative and forward-thinking. Walter Isaacson wrote a large number of books in his life about famous figures of the...
“Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892. The story is about a woman with postnatal depression who moves to a “colonial mansion” with her husband, John, for the summer (Gilman 87). The main themes of the story are female repression, male domination, confinement, and...
This story tells about a woman’s decision to give family heirlooms to one of her daughters. Mama chooses Maggie when she realizes that Maggie’s perceptions of heritage and preserving culture are right and justified. Dee described those quilts as “old-fashioned, out of style,” while Maggie learned to create her own...
A common adage goes that destiny or fate can only be delayed but never stopped. Fate is a spiritual aspect thought by people to have the ability to control life. According to many cultural beliefs worldwide, not even the most vital human being can oppose fate. The need to control...
The Human Condition Hemmingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place illustrates that the human condition varies based on one’s appreciation of life and age. The author uses symbolism and characterization to illustrate these points through the four characters he portrays. The young waiter is depicted as an impatient and brash individual who...
The poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson explores death, eternity, its cyclical nature, and uncertainties associated with its occurrence. The poet personifies death from the beginning and allows the speaker to narrate experiences after death. At the start of the poem, the reader is introduced...
Introduction Irony can be generally defined as the expression of certain thoughts by using language that would normally mean something opposite to the intended message. Verbal irony refers to intentionally produced statements that convey one meaning when understood literally but need to be taken as the opposite of that literal...
Introduction Africa joined the process of world artistic creation relatively late. The anti-colonial movement and the emergence of national consciousness contributed to the awakening of cultural life. By the 40-the 50s of the XX century, there was already journalistic poetry in Nigeria, cheap amateur novels of book bazaars that met...
Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad is a story about the siege of Troy city by the Greeks and the Trojan War. The poem contains dramatic scenes of battle that require gods’ intervention on behalf of different characters. The Iliad introduces its readers to an entire society of the gods including...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a pure fictional story which is all about race acceptance as well as fitting in. Throughout the novel, the protagonist as well as narrator, who are both black and white, truly fight to determine his true identity. Despite the fact that the narrator...
The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennessee Williams and set in St. Louis in 1937, whose actions are based on the narrator’s memories, Tom Wingfield. Tom is a protagonist and a narrator who presents the analysis of past events directly to the audience, and he takes part...
A Doll’s House, a play by Henrik Ibsen, is a nineteenth-century drama that startled several theatre groups and literary readers at the time. It focuses on women’s responsibilities and expectations, particularly those of housewives. Ibsen goes into detail about the physiological responsibilities of those in the time. He depicts the...
Introduction During the early twentieth century, Robert Frost was discouraged from pursuing the life of letters. Thus, Frost turned their attention to raising chickens, selling eggs, and crafting local color-piece journals like Farm-poultry and The Eastern Poultryman (Rashid et al.). This proved to be a tragic time for the family...
The two plays portray conflicts that arise in society due to the assumptions that men hold about women. The communities are male-dominated. Gender roles come explicitly in the plays as male masculinity drives the notion of incapability of the women to think intelligently towards matters of great concern to society...
Some playwrights utilize intriguing approaches to setting up the scene; for example, by making a narrator a direct participant of the events, the writer can convey more meaning. “The Glass Menagerie” is a play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 (Williams, 1). Interestingly, the central character of this play, whose...
Alice Sebold’s novel, The Lovely Bones, tells the story of the Salmon family and the tragic murder of Susie Salmon. The Salmon family lives together in the quaint town of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Susie was the eldest of the Salmon’s three children whom George Harvey raped and murdered (p.15). He proceeded...
Introduction The Cask of Amontillado, a short story by Edgar Poe, revolves around secret murder, revenge, and deception. In an Italian-based setting, Poe shows how Montressor tricks his friend Fortunato into trapping him in a prehistoric catacomb. In the story, Poe uses the two main characters, Fortunato and Montresor, to...
The theme “A good man is hard to find” is the main idea of the short story written by Flannery O’Connor in 1953 year. In this piece of literature, the author describes a situation from the perspective of the main character, which is a Grandmother. In her work, an American...
Introduction Of all the social issues that have developed in the U.S. over the entire course of its existence, the question of race perpetuates all of its domains, including sociocultural, sociopolitical, and socioeconomic ones. The challenges of belonging and, quite often, even surviving the weight of racial and ethnic prejudices...
Poems have significant impacts on our social lives, as they pass the message and keep people informed. Understanding the message in a poem requires concentration and alertness of one’s mind. Poems have different styles, which content creators use to incorporate messages. Dylan Thomas wrote the poem entitled “Do not go...
Introduction Thesis: Edgar Allan Poe’s writing career was largely influenced by events that happened around him. Paragraphs Edgar Poe’s background information and his new family. Poe’s education history. The end of his education and the start of his writing career. The international copyright infringement saga and how it impacted Poe....
Introduction The poems written by Phillis Wheatley are unique literary works that reflect the life of slaves in the new country. However, the most significant piece seems to be “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” and its selection is conditional upon the fact that it represents the beginning of...
The short story Everyday Use was published by Alice Walker in 1973 and is included in the short stories collection In Love and Trouble. The critical theme in Alice Walker’s stories is racial discrimination, minority issues, and the infringement of women’s rights. In her novels and short stories, she often...
Summary William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is a short story told from a first-person narrative. The story begins with the narrator informing the audience about the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson (Faulkner 6). Although the “whole town” attended the funeral, the woman had been alone for at least a...
Introduction Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is an allegorical short story, disguising criticism about the British and American government behind an unusual story of a Dutchman. Irving used allegory to analyze and represent a different angle self-identification problem (N.N. Li and L.M. Li 307). Indeed, the resistance of Rip Van...
Harper Lee is an eminent author for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel was a resounding success and resulted in Lee winning the Pulitzer Prize. The common themes depicted in the novel include a young girl’s coming-of-age, racism, and prejudice. The novel To Kill Mockingbird centers on the...
Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published first in 1927, which later became a part of his storybook Men Without Women in 1955. The story focuses on a couple that travels from the valley of the Ebro to Madrid. The author does not provide...
In my imagination, Hope is dressed in a white dress – the color which makes people believe that tomorrow is a better day. She seems to be a nice woman, but she has cunning nature. This means that people’s comfort may disappear if they continue to do nothing but hope...
Introduction The play Death of a Salesman by the playwright Arthur Miller is one of the most famous literary works about the American Dream. The central character is Willy Loman, a salesman whose salary is not enough to pay his numerous debts. In twentieth-century literature, he is considered an example...
Introduction Despite decades of social progress and the continuous dialogue on the subject matter, racism remains a tragic yet inalienable part of American reality. Indeed, instances of racism as the notion that has been institutionalized and virtually become ubiquitous in the American social context has trickled into every single environment...
Early America was abundant in influential, prudent individuals that shaped the period and foundation of modern American culture and society. Both in crisis and prosperity, the Northern part of the continent produced people with creative minds that cared for the nation. The fruits of their works made the independence of...
Introduction Jay Gatsby was a man known and remembered by most people for his wealth and luxurious parties, which were attended by hundreds of guests. At first glance, Gatsby’s life looks like an American Dream because of his wealth and the fact that he achieved his status by perseverance and...
Introduction “The fly” is a short narrative written by one of the renowned authors called Katherine Mansfield. The author gives a narration about a former previous employee who visits his boss at the previous workplace. The visits’ main reason is to inform the author about his daughter’s visit to her...
The middle of the twentieth century was replete with both remarkable and notorious events, as well as diverse social movements, which have a complex long-term effect on American society. In particular, the mid-20th’s life and related events resonated in many people’s hearts, including ordinary and influential persons, who engraved their...
“Everyday Use” is a short story by Alice Walker, where through portraying contrasting characters, the author demonstrates diverse views on symbols of culture. Maggie and Dee are two sisters who are different from each other in so many ways. They oppose each other in appearances, personalities, and opinions on life....
Introduction The play, Death of a salesman is widely viewed as its author’s masterpiece and a valuable asset of contemporary American drama. Written by Arthur Miller, the work has attracted innumerable audiences and gathered several awards that include the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer award. Since...
Those responsible for teaching the young are one of the most responsible – if not always appreciated – jobs in any given society. Education is not merely a matter of knowledge: it is up to the teachers to communicate the base assumptions of their culture or challenge them if they...
Death is one of the central themes in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” The play opens with the vision of Hamlet’s deceased father, it is hinted at throughout the play as the prince himself contemplates the futility of life, and it leads to the tragic resolution as all characters die in the final...
Based on a real story, “Tuesdays with Morrie” is an excellent book for those seeking to find balance in life. The book by Mitch Albom is a great example of how two completely different people found such a perfect connection and, rather than having a teacher-student relationship, had a father-son...
The Fahrenheit 451 novel by Ray Bradbury focuses on multiple themes, including technology, freedom, and censorship. The main themes are portrayed as detrimental to societal growth because they consume a lot of television and radio but do not enjoy reading. To demonstrate the extent to which the citizens relied on...
In his poems, Robert Frost gives universal meaning to the modest local episodes and scenes. The central idea of the insolubility of life conflicts leads to the embodiment of the idea of the absurdity of earthly existence (Axelrod and Gerer 2). This essentially modernist idea is implemented in several Frost’s...
Introduction A Streetcar Named Desire is a chef-d’oeuvre play by Tennessee Williams, and it has many interesting characters. However, one of the protagonists, Blanche Dubois, stands out from the rest because she is dramatic and she adds flavor to the play. Williams presents Blanche as a two-faced character. On the...
Introduction One of the most important pieces of historical documents about the history of the abolitionist movement is the “Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass” by Fredrick Douglass, who was a slave in his early life, and later successfully escaped the life of a slave. In his later life,...
A short story “The Dream of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (2018) describes the events of one day when a very emotional woman with heart disease, Mrs. Mallard, learns about the death of her husband. Mrs. Mallard did not feel grief about this event, instead, she was experiencing a boost...
Alice Walker, an American activist and writer, is well known for her novel The Color Purple. For this book, the author was awarded the National Book Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. Except for this book, Alice Walker has written many other works: essays, short stories, and poems. Her short story...
In her short story, Everyday Use, Alice Walker gives insight into the dynamics within an African-American family in understanding African-American history and culture. The story is narrated by a rural African-American woman, Mrs. Johnson, whose daughter visits her with her male companion. Alice Walker employs quilts as a symbolic instrument...
In her short story Everyday Use, Alice Walker characterizes the daily life of a rural African-American family to show the clashing dynamics between different understandings of African-American culture. The story revolves around Mrs. Johnson’s, that is narrator’s, experience with the visit of her daughter and her male companion. The most...
In The Story of the Hour by Kate Chopin, the main character, Mrs. Mallard, is a married woman with heart disease. Her husband is leaving, and the news comes that he died on a terrible trip. Her sister tells the information to her, and quietly, Mrs. Mallard rejoices. It turns...
In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, various themes begin to develop and they show the experiences in her life. She wrote the novel while she was on a summer holiday in Switzerland with her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley whose wife was expecting a child. Later on Percy’s wife committed...
“The Story of an Hour” is a short story written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The title correlates with the moment when the main character, Louise Mallard, learns that her husband Brantley died in a train accident, and then she knows that he is still alive. This essay aims to...
The book “Red Azalea” narrates Anchee Min’s life in the era of Mao China prior to escaping this harsh regime and moving to the United States. Min’s story provides her readers with an overview of her early childhood memories and a description of the period she worked for the Communist...
Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) is an American poet whose poems mostly depicted rural life. He is known for such works as Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken, Acquainted with the Night, and others. Frost has received more than 40 honorary degrees, including four Pulitzer Prizes. During his life,...
Jane Austen’s “Emma” is a comedic interpretation of the social life and interactions between youth who lived in the 19th century. The main character of this novel, Emma, is an iconic character who charms the readers with her easy-going nature. However, she is also egoistical and lacks regard for the...
At first, it may seem that Stella and Blanche are opposites of each other. Blanche is a glamorous diva, popular among men, while Stella is an obedient wife, soon-to-be a mother, and a role model for any housewife. However, despite the differences, the sisters share one defining trait: both have...
Introduction Comparative analysis in literature is one of the most essential and illustrative techniques that allows for an effective demonstration of themes and images in several texts at once. This is particularly true when the pieces the analysis is focusing on were written within the same period and therefore share...
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human being can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind’ (James, 1842-1910): Discussing the quote The underlying concept of the human mind encompasses the complex challenges and aspects that impact and control people’s lives. American philosopher James emphasizes that one...
Introduction The play is called doll’s house written by Ibsen and was meant to deal with social issues. The play appears to be so discordant which has led Ibsen to write a second finale called a barbaric outrage (Blumenfeld 150). The play has used symbolism, where several themes have also...
In the story, A Soldier’s Home, Krebs a soldier returns home from war. He was in the war from 1917 to 1919. Soldiers who return from war find it hard to adjust to normal life again and this is exactly what Krebs is going through. He was picked to join...
Introduction The art of fiction is used extensively in literature because it tends to bring out more aspects than literature based on real life occurrences. Real life writings such as biographies limit writers with respect to the extent to which they can adventure with talent. Literature just like all forms...
Introduction Consisting of twenty-two interconnected stories, the Things They carried by William Timothy O’Brien is regarded as one the best fictional works on the true experiences of the American soldiers in the Vietnam War. The novel has received a huge commendation from reviewers because of the innovative application of memoir,...
Although it was written in 1894, Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is one of the earliest feminist texts popular today. Chopin’s short story narrates Louise Mallard’s life, a youthful woman who struggles in an oppressive marriage. Freedom is the central theme of “The Story of an Hour”. Chopin...
Modern people agree that a person can be satisfied or happy when their needs are met. Notably, this simple truth was widely accepted in earlier times as well. However, the way society saw the needs of an individual varied considerably throughout centuries and across the globe. For instance, development has...
“Sonny’s Blues” is a short story by James Baldwin wrote in 1957. This work talks about the memories of a black math teacher about his brother Sonny and his lifestyle. The story focuses on the most relevant topics of the 50s of the twentieth century: drug addiction, racism, and crime....
“The Lottery” The topic of human estrangement and irresponsiveness to the others’ suffering is one of the issues attracting both general minds and creative genius. What is better, a steady observance of ancient traditions and norms, or a flexible attitude to standards, depending on the level of their humanity or...
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka acts as a prolonged symbol of humans’ alienation in the present society. In this script, Gregor is the main actor, whose experiences reflect Kafka’s modern society’s detachment and separation from human interaction. The concepts of isolation and alienation are central to The Metamorphosis (Kafka et...
Both poems A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne and To His Coy Mistress Love by Andrew Marvell written in the 17th century talk about the topic of love. In the poem, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning the speaker has to part from his love and speaks to her before his...
Fitzgerald models the character of the Dick Driver in the manner of an archetypical hero. He is a bright young man with a degree and position to make a fine psychiatrist one day. Instead, like any of the modern heroes he goes on a quest to cure an incurable mental...
Introduction The Scarlet Letter is now considered by many literary critics as one of the greatest works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this novel, the author explored stressing issues of the then-American society, such as the position of women, the impact of religion in the behavior of community members, moral hypocrisy...
Langston Hughes had become one of the most resounding names in American Literature. Of course, the primary reason for his success would be his adept use of words and the message he wants to convey. However, his racial profile could have also come into play in his popularity. But no...
“Woman Hollering Creek”, a short story, written by Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros, focuses predominantly on the humiliation and suffering Chicano women endure in the patriarchal society. The present paper is intended to analyze the literary work from the feminist perspective, concerned with the interpretation of the works of women writers,...
Literature is a type of art that contains many other different sides of people’s life. Reading any book, people are looking for some relaxation; they want to leave everyday routine life and to appear in another world, full of some advantages and unpredictable situations. People are looking for some answers...
Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald, in all his novels, recounts the problems that were inherent in the American dream in the aftermath of the Civil War. The style and depiction of the characters in his fictional stories embody the American experience and identity. He criticises the American dream by depicting the...
Introduction Trifles was a play written by Susan Glaspell and has attracted a significant audience so far. The play features various styles of literature, including tragedy and legal intervention. The death of Mr. Wright has its roots in the difficult situations that entangle women. Disregarding women led to serious issues,...
I am, by Allah, fit for high positions. And am going my way, with pride! — Wallada Being a beautiful woman, Wallada created not less beautiful and sensual poems. As Segol mentions, Wallada was best identified for her self-presentation because she showed a heightened appreciation of her body (160). A...
It hasn’t been cleaned In what seems to be weeks, It has changed its color— Used to be blue, now brackish not even green. It had its loyalists Till around ten days ago. Now even they keep away from it As if from an HIV positive. There seem to be...
Introduction Naturalism is a discipline of literature that aims at reproducing the characters of humans with the help of factors such as heredity, environment, chance, and instinct. American literary naturalism is linked with literary realism which is influenced by the behavior of a person who is swayed by heredity and...
Introduction The Industrial Revolution was the cause of a great time of change, also referred to in literary circles as the Victorian period. The comfortable old social and cultural norms were being challenged in ways that had never before been experienced as new technology in the form of machines and...
The main character of Mary Shelley’s novel is the scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with creating a human prototype. Exalting science and knowledge which can be acquired, he works tirelessly to achieve success. However, when Victor manages to make his creation, he cannot control it, which brings him misfortune. It should...
Introduction This manuscript is the single most popular leadership and management book that has ever been published in modern times. The main maxim in the book’s caption is that it is dedicated to people’s well-being. Rather than embarking upon specific difficulties or making outward changes to procedures and schemes, Covey’s...
Fairy tales bring to reality the wishes of an individual. Based on this assumption, storytellers design their script to carry potent messages enveloped with fantasy. The Nightingale and the Rose is a fairy tale of love. In the story, we are introduced to a young student’s passion when he is...
“This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”, is a short story that discussed the physical and mental journey of Victor when he traveled from Washington to Phoenix. Victor is a Native American living on a reservation somewhere in the state of Washington. One day he found out that...
The United States of America today is one of the most multicultural countries in the world. The diversity of people living there and the correlation between their cultures, backgrounds, self-identifications, and roots are very intense. Many cultures neighboring the territory of this country have assimilated, changed, or adjusted to the...
Mark Twain Mention the big names of writers of all times and the name Mark Twain automatically comes up in the list. Born in 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he adopted the name Mark Twain in his writing career. The most outstanding technique used by Mark Twain in all his...
The short stories created by Edgar Allan Poe commonly present outstanding and complex characters whose feelings and actions captivate readers’ attention and analytical thinking. The short story under the title “The Tell-Tale Heart” presents such a character. The person who committed a seemingly perfect crime is subject to the ambiguity...
Introduction The Lost Letters of Pergamum is a book in the genre of historical fiction penned by the renowned author and professor Dr. Bruce Longenecker. It provides a fictional account of the origins of Christianity in Ancient Rome through a series of letters between Antipus, a Roman civic leader, and...
The story “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich takes place in 1974 when Lyman Lamartine resides with his family and tells a story of his elder half-brother, Henry, a war veteran. Erdrich uses Lyman as the narrator, who successfully accounts for his family relationship with Henry, who was previously deployed...
Leo Tolstoy’s story The Death of Ivan Ilyich is one of the most significant works in the genre of psychological prose. This story is a chronicle of the illness and death of a judicial official, which is preceded by the story of his life. This is a one-of-a-kind piece that...