āThe Fault in Our Starsā and āHolding Up the Universeā are two books written by award winning authors. They each have a unique and intriguing storyline that catches the readerās attention and has them at the edge of their seat throughout the whole story. Although both stories are not in the action genre and are both love stories, they completely...
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The book is about a quirky fifteen year old called Charlie and his first year of high school. Something traumatic occurs to Charlie and he becomes anxious about starting high school. When Charlie starts high school, he begins to write letters to a person he refers to as a friend. He thinks that the person will understand and listen to...
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Dickens presents each of the four ghosts in very different ways as they contrast one another throughout the novel. He uses the views and reactions of the character Scrooge and the physical descriptions of the ghosts to portray their moral significance. The novel is split into five staves (or chapters) with the three ghosts of the past, present and future...
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Psychological criticism is an approach to literary criticism that interprets writings, authors, and readers through a psychological lens. In William Faulknerās āA Rose for Emilyā, Emily Grierson is a lonely old woman faced with death, and her actions to satisfy her immense desire to retain her 'love' show psychological issues. The story is broken into five different sections in which...
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In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah gives the readers a different perspective on the experience of child soldiers through imagery, personnification and flashbacks. A Long Way Gone is an autobiography by this author, Ishmael Beah who was he himself, a child soldier. In his book he tells the reader in exact detail the story of his life back in...
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The portrayal of a heritage-leaning protagonist who preserves her African-American traditions and a contrasting character that shares the same folklore, but renounces her American custom, invites us to question in Alice Walkerās āEveryday Useā about how these experiences of oppression can ignite change on an identity. The former describes the mother, having a strong sense of understanding on her own...
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The novel āThe Metamorphosis,ā by Franz Kafka illustrates a young man named Gregor Samsa who transforms into a beetle. At the beginning of the story, Gregorās life consists of his job as a salesman and helping his family to pay off their debt. Gregor wakes up in the morning, confused about his transformation into a bug. Due to his Metamorphosis,...
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Humanism and Modernism are two completely different stances that American writers have used within their writings. Humanism is a democratic and ethical life stance that affirms that all human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives. This ultimately means that humanism embodies that fact of building a more human society through a...
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An allegory is a story that has a second meaning beneath the surface, endowing a cluster of characters, objects, or events with added significance. āYoung Goodman Brownā, a story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is an allegory, and a fantasy. The story has many different symbols good and bad; such as light symbolizing purity and the darkness symbolizing evil. Each symbol...
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Corrupted youth in Henry Jamesās novel The Turn Of The Screw is a result of bad influences of faulty role models or even of the society which came to be due to lacking of basic roles of the family with the intend of properly raising children. As a consequence of such factors children are forced to grow up ahead of...
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A small fact: āyou are going to die ā1939. Nazi Germany: The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel a nine-year-old girl is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her...
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Introduction to Phoenix Jackson's Journey In literature, a walk is never just a walk. In Phoenix Jackson's case, her walk is more than just a walk to town; it is a journey. In the short story, āA Worn Pathā, Phoenix Jackson (an elderly African American woman) embarks on a journey to attain medicine for her sick grandson. The story starts...
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Many things were a part of the onset of the Civil War. The lead up to the civil war lasted many years until the war started in 1861. Some of the important events that lead up to the war is The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Uncle Tom's Cabin Novel in 1852, and the John Brown Raid of 1857. Each...
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The society we live in will always push and suppress our individual thoughts, freedom, action and integrity; whether we like it or not. These classic pieces of literature, George Orwellās ā1984ā and Arthur Millerās āThe Crucibleā, show us how our societyās loss of individuality is still being searched for even since the 1950s. A predominant theme in ā1984ā and āThe...
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Politicians, religious leaders, and group leaders alike have preyed on the weaknesses of their constituents and taken advantage of their disposition to be persuaded easily into circumstances with the lack of rational thinking and reasoning. In his controversial essay āA Modest Proposalā, Jonathan Swift, through his use of satire and logos, expresses the dangers of relying on speculative reason to...
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Introduction Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner, is not only a poignant exploration of personal redemption and friendship but also a vivid portrayal of the turbulent political landscape of Afghanistan. The story, which spans several decades, reflects how political upheaval affects the lives of its characters, shaping their destinies and moral compasses. Set against the backdrop of Afghanistan's transition from...
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The Historical Fiction novel āOf Mice and Menā, by John Steinbeck is about the journey of two friends George Milton and Lennie Small. The book takes place a few miles south of Soledad at the Salinas River. George and Lennie go to work on a ranch during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, one is able to tell that George...
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Itās true for any writer that there will be influence occurring from the world around them in their work. This is especially true for Mary Shelley when she wrote her novel, Frankenstien. Samuel Taylor Coleridgeās The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can easily be paralleled to much of the work of Shelleyās novel. This parallel could possibly be attributed to...
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Oliver Twist, a novel written by one of historyās most well-known authors, Charles Dickens, shows exactly how brutal life can be for a person without a proper place in society. Set during the Industrial Revolution era of Great Britain, Oliver Twist is a boy born with no place in society and is cast off into one of the lowest rungs...
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Introduction Human behavior, a complex interplay of psychological, social, and environmental factors, has been a focal point of many scholarly explorations. George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, and the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971, offer compelling insights into the malleability of human behavior under oppressive regimes and controlled environments. Orwell's narrative illustrates the extent of behavioral...
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If you haven't already been aware of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, then you've been living under a rock. This classic follows the misadventures of Scout and Jem Finch the children of a prominent lawyer, Atticus Finch, in the greatly depressed Maycomb County, Alabama. The misadventures provide plenty of dialogue from characters to analyze. I found...
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Tale as old as time, true as it can be barely even friends, then somebody bends unexpectedly, is the infamous beginning of the opening song that introduces the classic love story of Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast is a tale about a young woman held captive by a beast in his castle after taking her fatherās place...
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Into the Wild is a novel based on the true tales of Christopher McCandless, a wealthy young man, and his journey from the east coast to the Alaskan wilderness. Many ideas have been thrown around about Chris and what made him leave everything behind. Whether that be supporting him or heavily criticizing him. Two men Jon Krakauer and Sean Penn...
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Some people can find happiness in anything while others spend their lives seeking it and the later type of individuals often takes a path which can make them monsters in the eyes of our society. A very similar story is portrayed in the novel Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886 and the...
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There are many impacting written pieces that contribute to the different images of the status of self. However, with the many varying narratives and tones by the authors who have written these pieces, some may provide a contrast with others. An example of this contrast is the division in the status of self is between childhood and adulthood as it...
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Compelling texts draw in the responder to confront new ideas regarding the inconsistencies within personal and collective experiences. The Merchant of Venice depicts the struggle of the individual against the imposed obligations of society, while To Kill a Mockingbird, explores the human morality where the distinction between right and wrong can be seen. Throughout The Merchant of Venice, assumptions of...
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In Sophoclesā āAntigone,ā the main character, Antigone, displayed strong determination and loyalty to her family and god. However, I sympathize more with Kreon because he was a man of his words and he refused to break social peace and state laws. Throughout the play, Kreonās character exemplifies the traits of a tragic hero. Creon was suffering from his actions without...
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Summary The novel begins in 1775 concerning the two cities of Paris and London. An employee at Tellsonās bank, Mr. Lorry, reveals to Lucie Manette that her father, whom sheās presumed dead for years, is quite alive. He had been imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille by the EvrĆ©mondes for trying to do the right thing for an abused...
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About the author Herbert George wells was English writer born in 21 September 1866, he writes on various novels, short stories on social issues, science fiction, history, satire, biography. In his science fiction, he took the ideas and fear fantasy that haunted the mind of his age and gave them symbolic expression as brilliantly conceived made credible by the quiet...
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In The Turn of The Screw, Henry James presents the darkness of human nature through the use of ambiguity; the vagueness of the plot and the unreliability of the narrator which makes it difficult to distinguish between what is good and what is evil, however, the darkness of human nature is definitely present through the characters of Peter Quint and...
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