Out of many, “The Gift Of Magi” is without a doubt, one of the most prominent short stories written by O. Henry. The center of consideration is focused on the thought of gift giving between financially devastated couples. Furthermore comparing the after-effects of giving and receiving. O. Henry’ use of symbolism and literary devices inside the story allows the audience...
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This essay will be comparing and contrasting the two sensational series that changed the world’s opinion on fantasy books: Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. Furthermore, Harry Potter is a book and film that targets children from mature adults. It is a series of fantasy novels written by a British author, J.K Rowling on 26 June 1997. The novel’s plot revolves...
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The Short story “Araby” by James Joyce, are told from the point of view of a young boy. The author James is one of the most famous writers throughout the 1900’s and the end of War II. The boy, whose name was never exposed, lives in North Richmond Street and was described as “being blind, was a quiet street except...
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As one reads the story of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the suspense and playful nature of exactly the lottery's purpose keeps the reader reading until the end. The story starts as one would consider being a town’s tradition to gather for this event. The lottery is kept a mystery until the very end, the little boys are gathering rocks,...
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Sophocles’s play, Antigone, expresses a journey of tragedy, nobility, and virtue through the actions of the tragic hero. A tragic hero, as defined by Aristotle, depicts one of high nobility, who experiences a tragic downfall due to their ignorance and blinding of their pride. However, the tragic hero also gains self-knowledge from their unacceptable actions. Creon’s tragic flaws of being...
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Texts can provide insight into the human condition, highlighting the effect of unchecked ambition on an individual’s conscience within the boundaries of their context. Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ outlines how disrupting the natural order of things; Macbeth cheating his way into power, has its consequences. Throughout the film A Simple Plan by Sam Raimi, we can clearly see how Raimi has...
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World War 1 was once famously labelled as the ‘war to end all wars’, by President Woodrow Wilson of America, but the grim truth of trench warfare and the senseless brutality was only exposed after the countless deaths of military and civilian lives, accumulating to a huge number of up to 40 millions deaths . One of history’s greatest wartime...
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Jay Gatsby is a young man who rose from an underclass status to becoming fabulously wealthy. It appears as if there is nothing more Gatsby could want out of life and he is living out the true American Dream. However, when looking deeper into his life the reader learns that there is more to Gatsby than what meets the eye....
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Essential Question: What does Toni Morrison mean when at the conclusion of Song of Solomon she says “it did not matter whether milkman or guitar died in the arms of his brother . . . you surrender to the air you could ride it.” What are things that impede flight, enable flight? And how does milkman acquire knowledge between the...
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“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is a novel written by Lewis Carrol in 1865. It is a famous children’s book that tells a fictional story of a young girl who got into a new dimension, a new and totally different world. Martin Gardner, an American writer, interested in mathematics and science, said that “life viewed rationally, and without illusion, appears to...
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Race, gender and class are socially constructed ideologies that shape the experience of individuals. The first social hierarchy is racial oppression which focuses on a specific race with cruel restraints. This social form of oppression includes mistreatment or exploitation which is socially supported. The second social oppression is class oppression which involves the discrimination based on social class; the socio-economic...
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The following article is a study that explores the group activity pattern in the novel by John Steinbeck, The Pearl. Individuals from Steinbeck show group behavior that has a major influence on others. We are the basis of human survival in the long span. The group-man theory of Steinbeck is based on the view of human psychology and the Darwinian...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, originally born as William Hawthorne (changed his name after college) was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem Massachusetts. From a very early age, he was rooted in American Literature and went from Porchester to England and then to Salem. He was the first speaker in the house of delegates. Hawthorne was the eldest grandson of one of...
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Giving women their rights was a great and serious issue in the past. Women were not treated equally as men do. This problem of females is also shown in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The yellow wallpaper”. In this story, the gender roles and feministic ideas are presented beautifully. Women earlier were under pressure to work as the male asked...
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The Outsider by Albert Camus challenges the reader’s opinions through a philosophical perspective on the meaning of life, and absurdist outlooks within a diverse range of settings throughout the novel. Meursault, the protagonist of the story, is represented as an emotionally repressive, misunderstood and unaffected individual who holds the value of indifference and triviality towards the many people surrounding him....
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Introduction to Religion's Role in "Jane Eyre" Religion is an integral part of the plot that is Jane Eyre’s life. In the Victorian Era, Christianity was the primary religion. Many of the Victorian’s believed that, in order to be a good Christian, you had to be willing to self-sacrifice (Blumberg). This idea comes from Ilana Blumberg’s “Victorian Sacrifice”. Blumberg talks...
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Life is all about making choices. Sometimes making the wrong choices can have a negative impact on life. Human nature is a prime example of life choices. Human nature is more than just feelings and compassion, it’s instinct, a way of living, the way someone was raised to think or believe. This has been portrayed in a plethora of different...
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Representation in media and industry is a constant topic of discussion these days. Being “seen” has taken on an entirely new meaning. Society has made a lot of strides as far as inclusion. Due to social media and cable television, the average person is exposed to a number of different types of people and cultures. Historically, segments of society were...
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‘The Fault in Our Stars’ and ‘Holding Up the Universe’ are two books written by award winning authors. They each have a unique and intriguing storyline that catches the reader’s 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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At the heels of the satirical Victorian morality delineated through Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, a judiciously executed perception directed at society is apparent. To study a text 120 years on, what’s the point? At the time Oscar Wilde’s satirical view and the way which he composed his judgments on the Victorian society was thought to be quite...
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Women throughout the ages have always been a part of literature. Unfortunately, they often portrayed themselves as a weaker, inferior, were unable to survive on their own, and were unable to do their work on their own. Women are beautiful and obedient, they couldn't think on their own, according to the guy.According to the novel of Alice Walker, most ladies...
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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 Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, 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 Walker’s “Everyday Use” 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 “The Metamorphosis,” by Franz Kafka illustrates a young man named Gregor Samsa who transforms into a beetle. At the beginning of the story, Gregor’s 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. “Young Goodman Brown”, 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 James’s 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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