Books essays

Literary Devices in Into the Wild

2 Pages 1148 Words

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Chris McCandless was stuck in the wild. No food, no water, no compass. He was all alone. What if this was you? What if you were in this situation? In the book, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, this is that crazy situation. Chris McCandless was deep in the Alaskan wilderness and struggled to survive. He used his instincts and...

Chris McCandless Into The Wild Literary Devices

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Jon Krakauer's Purpose For Writing Into The Wild

2 Pages 795 Words

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American novelist and mountaineer, Jon Krakauer, in his book, Into The Wild, describes the life and death of Christopher McCandless. Krakauer’s purpose is to explain the exact details of McCandless’s final expedition. Krakauer adopts a sympathetic tone to convey to his readers that Chris is extremely gifted and did not die out of stupidity. Krakauer persuades the reader to develop...

Character Chris McCandless Into The Wild

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Father-son bond in Roethke's "My Papa’s Waltz" shows unconditional love

3 Pages 1540 Words

A father should be a role model for his son. Perhaps going to the kitchen with his son to turn the radio to an oldy and waltz together. They have fun as the child romps and tries to figure out what his father’s doing and follow his footsteps. Oftentimes, this perfect world isn’t reality. Sometimes kids have a father who...

My Papa’s Waltz

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American Values In Christopher Mccandless's Into The Wild

2 Pages 939 Words

In America we have values, a person’s principles or standards of belief or what a person finds important in life. Throughout history, we have acquired values that are still present to this day. In A Narrative of the Captivity, Rowlandson loses her child and has to continue working to be able to survive. During that time period, work was not...

American Values Chris McCandless Into The Wild

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Symbolism Imagery And Allegory In Flaubert's Madame Bovary

2 Pages 864 Words

In the novel ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert, I’ve noticed some stylistic features that he had used in the novel, those stylistic features are symbolism, imagery, allegory, and imaginary. With Emma’s appearance, it uses the stylistic features of symbolism, imagery, and allegory by how she transgresses, becoming more beautiful when she grows up. Another stylistic feature used in the novel...

Madame Bovary

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Lost Generation in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

4 Pages 1994 Words

The work that I choose to elaborate is called “Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises” which was written by the famous writer Ernest Hemingway and published in 1926, it is written in the first person – Jake Barnes, who is the narrator and the protagonist of the novel as well. The plot of this novel was a group of disillusioned expatriates...

The Sun Also Rises

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Absurdism In Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot

2 Pages 1138 Words

This research paper primarily explores the impact of absurdism in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. Absurdism as a philosophy stands on the idea that the whole universe is irrational and meaningless and that the look for order brings the person into conflict with the universe. During the period of the two world wars, the mass killing of millions of...

Drama Theatre Waiting for Godot

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Impact on Lives of Santiago Nasar and Bayardo San Roman in Chronicle

3 Pages 1292 Words

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of a gruesome murder in a small town of Sucre, Colombia. The murder victim was an attractive, wealthy, half Arab man by the name of Santiago Nasar. Marquez modeled the character after his own godbrother Cayetano Gentile who was described as the “ tall, elegant, and good-looking” son...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Exposing The Dark Side Of All American Food In Fast Food Nation

2 Pages 725 Words

Have you ever wondered how the meats in the meatpacking industry really are? How the animals are really being treated? What it’s like to work long draining hours slaughtering animals to feed the American society? Next time you decide to eat that Big Mac think of what’s really going into your body. Eric Schlosser wrote “Fast Food Nation” to expose...

Fast Food Nation

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Metaphorical Devices in Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

3 Pages 1491 Words

At its heart, Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilych is concerned with illness and dying within upper-middle class life. In his pursuit of wealth and hypocritical relations, Ivan’s terminal illness – read as a form of pancreatic cancer – is a figure for an “unhealthy” upper middle-class life lived at the wrong side emotionally, socially, and physically. When considering...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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Gulliver's Transformation In The Satirising Novel By Jonathan Swift

3 Pages 1471 Words

We travel the world to expand our horizons and look beyond the both the physical and metaphorical borders of our own cultures. When we travel we gain new perspectives on other cultures and their ultimate impact on our very own understanding of the world. One prime example of a new perspective comes from Lemul Gulliver himself in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s...

Gulliver’s Travels

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Society And The State Theme In Gulliver's Travels

4 Pages 1816 Words

The way a society runs heavily influences the thoughts and actions of the people who live there and will teach immigrants the differences between cultures. In Gulliver’s Travels, there are vast differences in the societies Gulliver visits, from the varied physical appearances of the inhabitants, to their laws and values. During his time abroad, Gulliver sees just how different societies...

Gulliver’s Travels

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Male Superiority Over Women in "A Jury of Her Peers"

3 Pages 1258 Words

Susan Glaspell’s Jury of Her Peers illustrates how women’s moral judgment is influenced by the authority of men and how a shared female experience gives insight that is ultimately more important to women’s moral judgment. Women’s awakening, their feminine solidarity, and political advocacy are inseparable from their awareness of the gender discrimination and oppression embedded in the existing legal system,...

A Jury of Her Peers Murder Short Story

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The Unspoken Privilege Of Atticus Finch

2 Pages 862 Words

Atticus Finch is regarded by many as a hero and an ideal role model. He’s known to be a proponent for humanity’s equal right to justice and his parenting was considered to be way ahead of his time. But no one’s perfect, and Atticus is no exception. Even though Atticus’s parenting is commendable, his idealism is a reflection of his...

Atticus Finch

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Investigate By Eric Schlosser Of The Fast Food Industry

3 Pages 1448 Words

The book discussed in this review is Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal written by Eric Schlosser. The book was published on January 17, 2001, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a publishing company that specializes in publishing instructional materials such as textbooks, based in Boston, Massachusetts. The copy being reviewed here was the first edition book....

Fast Food Nation

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Gender Roles And Relationship In Poem My Papa’s Waltz By Theodore Roethke

2 Pages 1001 Words

“My Papa’s Waltz” is a domestic ballad illustrating a jovial waltz around the kitchen – a snapshot- fueled by nostalgia, reflection, and love, allowing the reader to contemplate their childhood and family. Roethke’s expert use of rhythm, rhyme and language enraptures the reader, creating an emotive piece which universally resonates with the audience. Conversely, when this simplicity is abandoned, chaos...

My Papa’s Waltz

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Stereotypes, Racism, and Black Men in Public Spaces

3 Pages 1167 Words

Introduction The intersection of stereotypes and racism in public spaces is a critical issue that affects the lives of Black men in profound ways. These stereotypes often portray Black men as inherently dangerous or threatening, which perpetuates systemic racism and influences societal behavior. The manifestation of these stereotypes in public spaces not only affects the personal and professional lives of...

Black Men And Public Space

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Portraits of Main Characters in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

1 Page 628 Words

When reading a story about multiple characters do the readers ever notice anything they have in common or different? In the story “ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz the two characters Lola Delone and Oscar Delone have many similar dependencies yet are completely different people. Lola was the sibling that was outgoing and can handle...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Japanese-American Struggle in Farewell to Manzanar & Refusal to Register

1 Page 645 Words

The Japanese internment of 1942 showed that resistance is provoked in order to maintain identity under threat by ignoring stereotypes and not conforming to the society’s beliefs in forms such as volunteering to help his country as shown by Woody in Chapter 11 of Jeanne Wakatsuki’s memoir ‘Farewell to Manzanar’ and by providing justification against the internment as shown in...

Farewell to Manzanar

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Home in Black Boy & Songs: Never Gonna Let You Down & Home

1 Page 600 Words

People often say home is where the heart is, and personally, I believe this to be true. The technical definition of home is “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household” but I believe a home can be so much more than that. To me, a home is a place where you should...

Black Boy

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Man Vs Reality In The Story The Black Cat

1 Page 606 Words

The short story, “The Black Cat,” was written by Edgar Allan Poe. The main characters are the speaker, his wife, and a black cat named Pluto. The conflict occurs when the speaker constantly gets mad at everyone and suddenly snaps, committing a crime. The speaker grew up with a childhood filled with abuse, and as a form of protection, he...

Reality Short Story The Black Cat

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Fish Cheeks Story

2 Pages 684 Words

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Cultural differences and social status should not be used as a way to separate people. In many instances, individuals especially from low social status perceive those from higher social status as being superior. In addition, some people tend to view other cultural practices as more decent than theirs. These perceptions are some of the root causes of low confidence and...

Fish Cheeks

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Themes Of Rebirth And Gender Roles In My Antonia

2 Pages 938 Words

‘My Antonia’ by Willa Cather is a famous novel that takes place in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. It has been read by numerous classes through out the twentieth century and continues to be a famous piece of literature to this day. This story has been interrupted in multiple ways and continues to fascinate critics to this...

Gender Roles My Antonia

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Human Psychology in Poe's Gothic Tales: Cask, Usher, Heart, Raven

3 Pages 1411 Words

Edgar Allan Poe lived a life full of trauma, loss, and substance abuse. In his 40 years, Poe endured an unimaginable stream of deaths of loved ones, professional disruption, and alcoholism, which contributed to his untimely death. Ultimately, his experiences produced one of the most recognized, albeit posthumously, American authors of the 19th century. In the Sanglap: Journal of Literacy...

The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of The House of Usher The Raven

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Gender Bias And Stereotypes In The Novel And Then There Were None

1 Page 545 Words

In the novel, And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie touches on several social issues that include, race, gender, class, and age. In this post I want to discuss how Christie uses her novel to discuss the theme of gender bias and how this impacted the women on the island. Reading this novel, there are two ways that genders were...

And Then There Were None Gender Inequality/Gender Discrimination Gender Stereotypes

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Stylistic And Literary Devices In Black Men And Public Space

4 Pages 1658 Words

How many racism problems occur every year? The racism problem has happened for hundred years, and we never know when it ends. It often happens to the black people. Has anyone ever imagined ourselves as black people, living a life of them, and experiencing how others treat a black person? 'My first victim is a woman' (Staples 502) is a...

Black Men And Public Space

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The Idea Of Success In The Book Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

3 Pages 1196 Words

The notion of the “self made man” is defined as having achieved success or prominence by one’s own efforts. This is what many big entrepreneurs claim when they talk about their success: being a self made man. We as a society have come to believe that the self-made man attains their success through education, hard work, and sheer willpower. In...

Malcolm Gladwell Outliers

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What is the Theme of Annabel Lee

1 Page 558 Words

The poem' argues that love as the greatest force presents in the universe and no power can destroy it, not even in death. The poet stands against all of the opponents of the an eternal and undying love Poe uses the theme of love to illustrate on the undying strong bond of love that remains even after Annabelle's Lee death....

Annabel Lee

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The Morality Theme In The Novel And Then There Were None

2 Pages 771 Words

Moral principles function as a prerequisite for human life. Wargrave the retired judge and has a profession that signifies his character’s unique way of the perception of the ethical values, meant to reveal the virtue of judicial systems in fighting the will for crime in human beings. For Wargrave, his victims’ crimes are vicious doings they must be punished for....

And Then There Were None Morality

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Mothers Roles In Fish Cheeks And My Mother's Garden

1 Page 571 Words

Some mothers are role models. Both of the mothers in Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan and My Mothers Garden by Katlin Greenridge were role models because they both wanted what is best for their daughters and both of them are different from everyone else but they still make the best of things. In Fish Cheeks, the mom doesn't want her...

Character Fish Cheeks

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