Literature Essays

The paper tells the story of the author who, equipped with his surfboard and a $10-million-dollar loan from the World Bank, makes an attempt to rehabilitate the ruined economy of Equatorial Guinea, one of the most backward countries in the world. Robert Klitgaard, a Harvard-trained economist, in the story, deals with several important questions.

Dust in the Wind, a phenomenal hit song by Kansas, has poetic lyrics that have the ability to induce its listener to think deeply over himself and his surroundings. It has this meditative quality, one that encourages the listener to detach herself from being an active player in the real world in order to view things more objectively.

This also has an influence on the level of value-based segmentation of these stakeholders owing to their balance between negative and positive practices where their perceptions taken in tandem with the relative importance of their sources of information, as well as the influence asserted by each individual on the natural environmental practices of the region, are concerned.

This paper explores not only the face of homelessness but answers the question as to how people unknowingly end up in such a situation without rhyme or reason. The broader picture is presented as the main character states that she tries to support her community and country but she depends only and solely on God because it is implied that the country, or government, has failed her.

Dickens criticizes heavily both the education system and the heartlessness of the industrialization of his times. He proves through the evolution of his characters that teaching which is based on only “fact, fact, fact” is ineffective and actually spell doom both at personal and professional levels of the individuals thus trained.

Despite promising to marry him, Kieu could not do that as her father was detained by local officials who started to torture him. Kieu asked her sister to marry Kim Trong and sold herself to Ma Giam-Sinh who was a wealthy merchant. She used the money to free her father (Mark W. McLeod, Thi Dieu Nguyen. 

Parents are often the link through which children perceive and understand the world. In the story, Atticus, as a significant parental figure, teaches his children the critical lessons of life which enables them to acquire proper qualities and become positive in life.

In an individual context, the feeling of not having any power over the social ambiance in which one lives, over the people and groups that one comes across in one’s day to day life, over the events that collectively constitute an individual’s life, or over the varied aspects of one’s personal life could indeed turn out to be very disturbing and enervating. 

The author explains that they adore them both. They just did not understand their differences. It was maybe differences of values. Besides, seldom was it physically manifested. After all the joy of material affluence bringing comfort clouts it all. Often, when grandma is around they were like the “seven dwarfs”.

The contribution of Maryse Condé to the literary domain is also outstanding, with many of her novels contributing towards issues of race and gender. Similarly, Chamoiseau is also a writer of great importance, having won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Texaco in 1992, which was then chosen as a New York Times book of the year.

Carol hung up the phone and glanced at her watch. It was 3:30 and still no message from Jim. She knew he was probably on his way home from his small real estate business downtown. The rain had probably delayed him, or there may have been heavy traffic on I-34 due to construction and the weather.   

The situation may occur that a substantial group of consumers who used (or did not used) Internet got low price due to another reason (seasonal discount, referral program, etc.), which is correlated with the use of the Internet. The impact of unobserved factors is not investigated enough in the presented hedonic regression model in the article.

The identical comic fools in the play Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus - the servants - are the ones who display most of the humour. Dromio of Syracuse's sense of humour is evident as he makes fun of a maid named Nell, and compares her to the globe.

The population, dominated by the bourgeois, the business class, ignores signs of danger until many of their own class fall prey to the disease. A quarantine is declared for those inside the walls of Oran. Dr. Rieux works along with the government and other citizens to take steps to defend against the worsening plague and the resulting social consequences.

The famous tragedy by the Bard of Avon deals with the story of Macbeth who, insisted on by his wife Lady Macbeth and prognosticated by prophecy, commits regicide so as to achieve the crown. 

The author states that the title gives the reader a sense of foreboding by associating the seven sins with the original story of the seven dwarves. Beneath the vulgar tone of the poem is a story of a religious girl who flirts with sin and eventually returns to the church. The poem is broken into ten stanzas of four lines each.

The narrative structure determines the overall development of the plot and story conflict. ‘Matigari’ and ‘One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich’ depict problems of racial relations and force readers to rethink the primary impression at the end of the work. Most assessments of political change in Africa focus on the formal aspects of the political order.

Women in the Glass Menagerie were modeled after women of the Victorian age, reflecting a Victorian culture in the South that required ladies be charming but not a breadwinner. They were said to live in a world of their own imagination and unable to cope with a highly competitive, commercial society. Moreover, they are not raised to be simple housewives but to be prim and proper.

The author states that this theme of desperation and frustration that he feels at not having control over the situation is woven throughout the stories as each is told. He did not enter the war with a strong sense of purpose other than to repay his debt to a government that had paid for his education.

The author of the paper states that Robert Walton is presented as writing Victor Frankenstein’s story as told to him in the form of letters to his sister. The story as presented by Frankenstein includes the monster’s story which in turn incorporates the story of a family he had been living among.

This is a practice that has been felt worldwide as these religions spread to other continents. Most nations do not permit sex between unrelated individuals of the same sex above the local age of consent. Some jurisdictions further recognize equal rights, protections and privileges for the family structures of same-sex couples, including marriage.In addition, some nations and religions mandate that homosexual and bisexual people restrict themselves to heterosexual relationships or abstinence.

We will see how Anaya uses Doa Sebastiana to criticize the Catholic Church and convey moral values. While Baltazar, the poor woodcutter, hides in the mountain to eat a chicken that he has just stolen, Jesus and the Virgin Mary appear and ask him to share his food with them.

The author states that in the story, characters are presented through action: symbolism intensifies character and action. Steinbeck relies heavily on metaphorical language to convey personal and dream-like states of consciousness. For Steinbeck, the setting and landscape constitutes a vital aspect of the story.

The author states that Shakespeare uses the rapidity of time to also make a connection between the timing of how things happened, how quickly human life passes, how fast love can be lost, and the ironic timing of the two lovers’ deaths. Shakespeare uses timing throughout the play to create the concept of “star crossed lovers.”

This paper tells that as a pioneer in the genre of mystery, Poe wrote several important stories of mystery including “The Gold-Bug”, the three Dupin tales, “Thou Art The Man” and “The Oblong Box”. Poe has been a master in using the right tools and elements of writing a mystery story including a series of clues, a series of false clues, atmosphere, something to be solved etc.

The conclusion from this study states that the protagonist’s character can be discerned as a person who possesses necessary knowledge but is devoid of the merit of true wisdom, which preempts him from listening to reason. He lands himself in trouble due to his ignorance. Later on in the story, he emerges as a determined person who keeps fighting against all odds for his survival.

Science fiction as popular entertainment appeals to many ages and across many cultural boundaries. The process of writing and producing such mass entertainment is always a gamble. This essay seeks to assess the relative meanings of the type of ‘realism’ used in a science fiction series and will consider this contested term via thematic content.

The author states that it has been believed that death has been transformed significantly along with the advancements in science. However, death remains the same in many aspects. The fear of death is still universal; it is still a frightening event. Kübler-Ross argues that death always raises multiple feelings and all in a mixed state.

All the things happening in the story are just glimpses of the real-life not just for the former rangers but also for the people surrounding them. Having the story as the main surface of Western history, we are given the picture of how the West and the Americans try to advance in different terms. This is also an obvious example of how the Americans try to look for the thrill.

This poem, included in the collection Vocation and other Poems, is an essential example of how the effectiveness of the poetic devices used in the poem can successfully highlight the central themes of the poem. John Robert Lee has been a poet who never compromises with the lyricism of personal Christian confession and ritualized testimony.

Initially, he praised the rail transport system for helping industrialization, the modern marsh of his time, but then contradicted himself when he said that the rails also disrupted the peace and conservation of the countryside. His sharp observation that the ‘railways are trenches to drain our modern marsh’ has another ambiguous meaning.

The theme of travel, based on real journeys or imaginary ones, is one of the most popular in world literature. In many stories, travel symbolizes life paths, experience, and eternal knowledge. Travel is used as a canvas to describe the deep personal feelings and life experiences of a human. Both books are based on the theme of travel and real journey.

The Workers Party discarded James’s declaration on Black Nationalism. Both the Socialist Workers Party and the Workers Party, the two mainly imperative Trotskyist assemblies in the United States, sustained to look upon the black resist as impressive to be included within the lower-class fight back as a whole.

Symbols in Beowulf were used to teach and entertain pagans while spreading the message that one should always do good to defeat evil.The heroic protagonist Beowulf was connected by relation or blood to many characters in this epic poem

According to Jervis Anderson's account, the working classes merely functioned as a literary topic and poetic subject for the black literati, virtually all of whom sprang from or were educated into the middle class. Similarly, David Levering Lewis declares that most Harlem artists were products of the 10,000 privileged Afro-Americans

According to the paper, by using examples from her own records and trying to help us to understand why she wrote the things she did, Didion really brings her message home. She struggles to remember what kind of person she was when she was younger and was visiting a certain city or state.

“Gaskell's fourth novel, North and South, was also a social consciousness work, although less alarming than the first two. Here she tries to present a more balanced picture of the perspectives of the mill owners and the laborers in Manchester. She also creates another strong heroine through which Gaskell represents her own variant of female empowerment: strength through femininity”.

As one turns to Gulliver’s Travels one finds that it is an equally unforgiving critique of English society, despite its supposed fictional setting.  As Corder (1961) observes, numerous critics, not to mention readers, have resisted interpretation of Gulliver’s Travels as a satirical representation of English society and norms, preferring instead to interpret the work as an expose of human nature. 

Aboriginal philosophy is a main component of a life in the Australian environment to ensure the continuation of the survival conditions. The author explains the traditional view of Australian people through the description of tabooed areas of experience in novels of the aboriginal writers.

The author states that Chuanqing appears incapable of loving another human being and acts as though he is emotionally dead. However, a professor’s daughter, Danzhu, develops an interest in befriending the troubled young man. Through his convoluted logic, Chuanqing passes through stages of dislike, hatred guided by jealousy.

Two Navajo tribal policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee work side by side to unravel a mysterious case. Jim Chee’s friend and co-worker Delbert Nez die in an apparent car burning. The actual cause of his death is senseless roadside shooting. The suspect is an elderly Navajo drunk man who has a lethal weapon.

The varying degrees of favoritism of this short story had to do with how Hemmingway often presented Women, not only in his literary work, but in his own life as well. His literary style had a prominent effect on the feminist movement.

Crimes are everywhere around the world but to identify and control them matters which the American government took the step towards. Not only American politicians but the authors and media players also participated to morally emphasis the citizens of the country for noticing and considering the crimes. 

Her letters demonstrate this preoccupation in her manner of addressing her daughter and in the concerns that she presents to her. In these four letters she brings out relations with her son, grandchild, neighbors, and the members of her high society. She appears to be at the hub of everything: the thread that holds together her family and the person that keeps them informed.

Lori hurries into the office at 8:30 am and greets her friends Mary, Anna and Rosie who are already at their desks. Janice, her direct supervisor gives her a stern look as she glances at the clock; late again. Anna has been working as the company accountant for about 7 years embezzles a small sum every month for the last three years. Rosie, like Lori, has been working as a designer for four years and has a huge workload.

The author states that both writers in their respective creations, Elisa Allen and the “American wife” bring out the stark reality of the times and an intimate glimpse of a woman’s secret needs and hidden desires. The predominant theme in both stories is suppression and the subsequent wilting of the female protagonists.

The author states that puritan writers have always strived to accomplish their functions which are to transform a mysterious God, to make Him more relevant to the universe, and to glorify God (Reuben). These beliefs and functions are clearly reflected in the works of the Puritan writers which are against ornateness.

The author states that the book focuses on the cultures around these important men it discusses in its nine essays. The nine essays contributed to the lives of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, Apache Chief Victorio, Geronimo, George Armstrong Custer, George Crook, Ranald Mackenzie, Lakota Chief Red Cloud, O.O. Howard, and Nelson A. Miles.  

The author states that target on exposing the simple and modest truth behind Willy's vision, Biff craves for the terrain covered by his father's blind trust in a twisted, materialist edition of the American Dream. Biff's personality crisis is a role of his and his father's disenchantment, which, so as to retrieve his identity, he ought to reveal.

All dark deeds happen behind those doors—Medea plotting to kill Creon and his daughter and her own sons, and the actual murder of the two children happen there. The audience only hears the screams. This is not a new device thought of by the director of this play—this is as visualized by Euripides himself.