Literature Essays

A man needs minimum of two gallons of water to survive here for a day. Luis Alberto Urrea tells a real story of 26 people who get lost in this track while attempting to cross over to the United States illegally in May 2001. Only twelve of them survived. The story is painful and raises issues of life in poverty and human rights.

The author states that this widely acclaimed story which takes place in Jefferson, Faulkner’s fictional city, is noted for its characterization, and it is possible to diagnose Faulkner on the basis of the characters in “A Rose for Emily.” The short story has special meanings, William Faulkner, with regard to the behavior of the men versus the women.

During the time in which they engage in recreation took put society frowned winning women asserting themselves? Women were hypothetical to play a role in which they support their husbands, took the mind of their children, and complete sure the whole thing was ideal around the house. Work, government, and decisions were absent to the males.

Not only is Bayardo a typical male of the time, but also the twin brothers of Angela; who just to live up to the standard social order, were ready to kill Santiago for having disgraced their sister. The women were bounded on all sides by traditions and were expected only to get married and have families.

When she came to the supposed land of milk and honey, she finds that her daughter although somewhat lonesome is unexpectedly looking forward to a life that is completely alien to her.

Collins illustrates this idea by citing that good companies start to develop into great ones once they face reality, no matter how brutal. As they say, reality bites. But once you’re bit, don’t let it prevent you from pushing forward. Again, face it. Confront it. Then with resolute character, move on and act.

Shawn refers to her as the scab, and does not like her. She has a little child, who is likely mistreated and under-cared. Other minor characters in the chapter include Bill and Karen, Shawn's managers, and Mark the new rookie employee.From Shawn's viewpoint Beady's new girlfriend starts to make a nuisance of herself.

The author of the paper is of the view that Aristotle’s words, as quoted from Generation of Animals, bring to mind, comparable proximity to the definition of the word ‘changeling’. As is largely understood, a changeling is a person who; by a twist of fate, or nature, or personality flaw; becomes the subject of either pity or disgust.

The author states that with Ahab's demise end the related pre-Darwinian beliefs that man, through his rational faculties, sits atop and controls the great chain of being; that civilized man is fundamentally different from and superior to uncivilized men and wild beasts; and that transformations in man and nature proceed according to design.

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Zola’s novel describes the working conditions of the coal miners but it would be reducing to consider Germinal only as a portrayal of a social class. While reading Germinal, it may seem natural to ask ourselves if the way the miners are described reinforces or challenges the assumptions about the working class.

Virgil guides Dante through the nine concentric circles of Hell., diving into deeper and graver sins, unrepentant, and culminating into absolute evil, as represented by Satan. The journey begins from the Dark wood, and into the Limbo. It is more of a pagan, unbaptized and a coarse yet virtuous crowd like Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan.

The real wonder of absolute pitch is that it helps people to qualitatively differentiate every tone and key, each with its own ‘flavor’ or ‘feel’. As the author maintains, while absolute pitch offers a delicious extra sense which helps one in singing or notating any music in the exact pitch, there are several problems associated with it.

The author considers how this method for becoming a citizen in the US is both far more difficult in reality than is thought, and how it has been used as a simple plot device for numerous television shows. Perez-Zeeb's point is that trivializing the legalities involved in this process and turning it into fodder for entertainment serves to further deepen the stereotype of lazy immigrants looking to illegally take advantage of wealth of the US economy. The article often reads more like a web blog entry than an actual exercise in journalism.

According to the findings, it can, therefore, be said that the poem “Driving Lessons” itself is structured by one popular metaphor – life is a road. Thus, following the road one tries his best to reach the destination fast, just like in our life we aspire to reach our goal, however, we are not always successful.

The author states that all measurements are given in metric and English equivalents. Because the text, feature boxes, pictures, drawings, and sketches are so well condensed and blended together, each two-page chapter contains a surprisingly large amount of technically and factually correct information in an easily understood fashion.

The essay discusses the relation of prefaces and expository introductions to Hawthorne’s plots. In Fanshawe, Hawthorne used the long expository introduction to introduce the setting of the novel. He apologized for the physical, moral, ethnics and various aspects of ‘Harley College’. His Romantic work rebelled against the formalism.

The author states that The Nightrunners of Bengal reads like fiction, the story revolves mostly around the revolt of 1857. Rodney Savage is the main character of the novel; he is an army officer who lives with his wife and son in the cantonments, Savage is represented as an officer who is deeply involved and committed to his British troops.

To understand the character flaw of “pride” in Homer’s Iliad, it must be emphasized that during the time of the story “Iliad”, both the Greek and Trojan people were still warrior societies. This is not a peculiar characteristic among the Greeks and Trojans because almost all societies first started as warrior societies until they evolved into a more mature and civilized societies.

It lacks a sense of humor that is somehow correct as can be observed by comparing the poems by William Shakespeare and Emily Bronte. William Shakespeare and Emily Bronte, both are poets who enjoy a good reputation for the poetry that they produced but their subject matters, style, and tone varies. However, this cannot be said that Emily Bronte.

Levertov addresses two concepts in her intriguing poem, the first being the annoyance that comes to a woman as she is catcalled while a group of men passes her, and the second concept is the disappointment that, to these men, attractive women are nothing more than a work of art to admire but never to love.

During his search he found the deer in the care of a lady known as Shakuntala. The King was very sorry to hurt her pet deer. The kind apologized with Shakuntala and they fell in love with each other. Dushyanta gave him a royal ring and promised to return back to her.

Closely based on his own life and presenting one of America's favorite dramatic themes of the dysfunctional family, 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night' is often hailed as O'Neill's greatest play. Written in the early 1940s the play was not performed until his death in 1953; when performed two years after his death it won O'Neill the Pulitzer Prize and gained him the reputation as America's foremost playwright and a status of eminence among world's greatest dramatists.

The novel deals with classic Dickensian themes of abuse of authority (Miss Havisham, Mrs. Joe, Publechook), the problems associated with an obsession with money and status, together with the general social inequalities of England.

The author states that Virgil's character is by and large comprehended by reviewers as symbolizing humanistic cause, who directs and defends not only Dante in particular but the mankind as a whole from all bad deeds. While seems appropriate as an eccentric which represents purpose. He establishes himself as solemn, calculated, determined and sensible.

The authors used comprehensive data from a whopping number of interviews-more than 80,000 managers from various companies, and from practically every field. They have also included relevant excerpts from the interview transcripts as well as anecdotal stories to support their points.

The clash between the Old Order and the New appears in many different forms throughout the story and becomes its principal unifying theme. An intuitive artist, Faulkner instinctively latched onto the technical devices of his time and perfected them to express the Southern myth. The past is represented through the characters of Emily, Colonel Sartoris, Tobe and Judge Stevens, whereas Homer Barron, the anonymous narrator and the new aldermen come to represent the present times.

Perhaps those who make that connection have a point. After all, since earliest days of recorded narratives, history has been nothing but a continuous bloodbath punctuated by the very occasional and short-lived cease-fire. Aggression has been the rule; peace the exception.

The author states that the result of using this technique is the creation of interesting images in the text. Figurative language is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. Appealing to the imagination, figurative language provides new ways of looking at the world. It is a figurative language that allows us to foreshadow an ending of a story.

A keen study of “Sleepy Hallow”, an essay by Washington Irving, and “Letters from an American Farmer” by Michel-Guillaume-Jean De Crevecoeur, a French emigrant settled in farmer Orange County, reveals the following similarities and differences between the rural bliss of Sleepy Hallow and rural life in American Farmer.

    Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl is an autobiography written by Harriet Jacobs who disguised herself as the protagonist called Linda Brent. It is her personal account of her life as a black slave girl in America.The female slave is stereotyped to receive treatment as a subordinate rank. (Moon 455). Female slaves were expected to surrender completely to their owners.

The idea portrayed by the writer shows how much time could actually change in a person’s being and how much it could do to the longing that one has for something or someone; hence, suggesting that real fondness or real longing roots from the heart and not simply from the mind which could easily be interchanged with other forms of emotion through time.

Thus, the final chapter witnesses the reunion between children and parents, the exposition of those who claim to possess virtue, while they do not, and the revelation of the true possessors of virtue and their subsequent reward. This final chapter and most evidently in the material recognition of parson Adam's worth as a truly virtuous character, resolves the novel's central thematic conflict between genuine and false virtue, further exposing the superficiality upon which prior judgments of character and worth were founded.

In fact, the early voices in the West Indian literature furnish a relevant and valid insight into the evolution of West Indian life and in a way are a reliable compilation of the actual exchange of ideas taking place in the West Indian, social, cultural and literary life (Brathwaite 24).

The author states that both of these stories focus on key moments that symbolize threats to an established order.  Obi, a self- professed proponent of progress, has little sympathy for the traditions of the un-educated masses.  Likewise, he is intent on trying to impress his superiors by making quick progress to his new commission. 

“The Birth-Mark” is a tragic tale about scientific devotion and beliefs, about fallacies and mistakes, about dangerous and unethical consequences of human involvement into the matters of Mother Nature, like trying to change elements of face and body, or whatever was given by God from the very birth.

The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include an assessment of the political "tendency" of a literary work, determining whether its social content or its literary form are "progressive"; this is by no means the only or the necessary goal.

The author states that a number of moments that are of immense importance in the novel signify the existence of fate and random chance. Sudden, horrible deaths take place often in Lolita which clearly shows that death is something unexpected and related to fate. Identifying the unexpected deaths of the story is not complicated.

"Death of Salesman" is troubled with the uneven edges of a devastated dream but on another more disastrous and bitter phase, it also suggests the regrets of a man into madness and the outcome this has on those surrounding him. Willy’s weakening of a man into madness is illustrated through his remembrance of his deceased brother.

Each of the ten texts chosen will be analyzed in-depth. The texts are 1984, Anna Karenina, Charlie, and the Chocolate Factory, Jane Eyre, Jude the Obscure, Julie of the Wolves, Of Mice and Men, The Secret Garden, Siddhartha, and Treasure Island. The content of the unit will consist of reading the selected works and then having discussions based on them. 

Nadya felt that everything in her house had become useless: everything in aristocracy and imperialism is no longer fit for a new social revolution. Sasha being representative of Chekhov in the story knew that the moment he dies Russia will experience a better future due to the revolution, as Nadya left her house in high spirits.       

The author states that the quince tree and the blackbird seemed to be metaphors for what life could be like for Mr. Nilson and his neighbor if only these ‘rules’ could be changed, if only they could take a chance. The bird and the tree were fully alive, truly natural; Mr. Nilson went through the emotions behind the façade of a wealthy businessman.

In her article "Don't Mess with Mother" Anna Quindlen analyzes some of the causes and effects of the recent catastrophes and emphasizes: "It's about changing the way we all live now." She means that we should rethink and change the way the natural resources are consumed in order to maintain the environmental equilibrium and secure the future.

This important tragedy intensely deals with a number of themes such as treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption and narrates the course of real and affected madness. Another major element of the play has been the playwright's treatment of the characters and themes to suit the demands of a classical tragedy and a profound analysis of the major characters in the play confirms that Shakespeare is the most skilled master-craftsman of characterization.

Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan.Nick stands in awe of them and relates the saga as if it were a fairy-tale come to life.For Gatsby and Daisy, life was a fairy-tale,filled with little reality,but rather the illusion that they created in their lives.Even the title conjures images of the performing magician.

Every character in a play is presented as a symbol of justice, who is always willing to perform just as to gain justice. No one has ever read or seen ‘Measure for Measure’ without experiencing some bewilderment especially when it comes to fairness. Even on first acquaintance, the variety of impressions gives a disquieting effect on the reader or on the audience.

Ruby does not trust money and would rather resort to bartering goods and working the land can offer so much trade if one knew what to do with one has in her surroundings. The cabriolet represents Ada’s first step in learning from Ruby’s practicality in the short time that they have known each other. 

Sebold focuses on identifying and commemorating all those women and children who were murdered or abused. Ruth is compelled to locate the places where these crimes occurred and to write the names of all such victims in her journal, doing “important work,” Susie tells us, “work that most people on Earth were too frightened even to contemplate” but which her “fans in heaven” cheer on.

The author states that Reb Smolinsky is the father to Sara in Bread Givers and he plays the role of an unemployed and strictly religious man who collects his daughter's wages and commands her and the rest of the family about under the ruling of the Holy Torah. Dr. Flint is a slaveholder and owns Linda who is a black slave on his plantation.

One of the most motivating parts of the book was his take on Africa. Not like several of our spotlessly clean international studies community who imitate each other, Ralph Peters takes an unpredicted position when he rejects to write Africa off as a basket case. His optimistic analysis of this troubled continent was conceivably the most astonishing thing in this book.