Literature Essays

Good and Evil in A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
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Introduction: Good and Evil The world is made up of two different types of people: the good and the evil. In the book “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” By Flannery O’Connor Grandma and the ...

Character Creon in Sophocles’ play Antigone
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Introduction: The Fall of King Creon  The character Creon in Sophocles’ play Antigone was an extremely controversial character. To truly and fully understand king Creon, it is important that w...

Themes and Concepts in Flannery O’Connor's Work
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Introduction: Research Essay The impact of an author’s writing is often influenced by their childhood, which helped lead them to the successful position they are in. Flannery O’Connor, an author ...

Effect of Moral and Values on Nineteenth-century Dramas and Novels
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Introduction: To what extent did traditional moral values affect the writing and production of nineteenth-century dramas and novels? Answer this question using the set texts. In examining the ways in...

Themes in Crispin’s Model and The Yellow Wallpaper
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Introduction: What is it that makes a story great? Is it the characters and what they are like, the setting, the problems that happen throughout the story to the characters? In eighteen ninety-two, Charlotte ...

Role of Narration in Camus’ The Outsider
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Introduction: The Role of Narration in Camus’ The Outsider   Reflective Statement: From my first reading of The Outsider by Camus, I had not fully grasped the importance of ...

Howl by Allen Ginsberg | Analysis
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Different Essays on Literature
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Introduction: Part One, Essay Option One: Short Term Profits for Long Term Problems  Image coming to a new land that was filled with peaceful streams and brooks, tranquil woodland creatures, and...

I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl | Analysis
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Conformity in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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American Dream in The Glass Castle
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Introduction: On the American Dream  According to The Epic of America, James Truslow Adams defines the American Dream as “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller f...

Cruel Society in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Introduction: Human Civilization: The Cruel Society in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn An African American girl is guided to school as she deals with the hate of the people around h...

“Where are you going, where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
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Introduction: There are always two sides to every story and Connie’s circumstances are no different.  The growing teen has two sides to herself; one when she is at home with her family and one when she...

The Role of Zionism in Bezmozgis’ The Betrayers
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Introduction: The Role of Zionism in Bezmozgis’ The Betrayers Baruch Kotler is a cabinet member in the Knesset and a Soviet-born Zionist hero. When Israel’s prime-minister announces to take down ...

So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans | Poem Analysis
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Introduction: Project 2: Literacy Analysis The purpose of this paper is to explore the poem, “So Mexicans Are Taking Jobs From Americans, (1979)” by Jimmy Santiago Baca. In the poem, Baca offers ...

Life and Works of Arthur Miller
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Introduction: Life and Works of Arthur Miller The paper aims to select a person and discuss his or her life and works. The chosen individual for the article is Arthur Miller. He was born in 1915, in ...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | Analysis
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Introduction: The Kite Runner Summary    The Kite Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, follows the narrator, Amir, and his memories from when he was a boy in Kabul, Afg...

“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson | Analysis
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Introduction:  Tradition Turns To Violence In Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” she uses imagery, irony, symbolism, and allegory to reveal her perspective on the themes of tradit...

Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker's Presentations of Entrapment
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Introduction: Explore how Tennessee Williams and Alice Walker present the idea of entrapment through the characters of Amanda and Celie? Entrapment is the enclosure of someone unwillingly, and usuall...

‘Chronicles of Female Triumph’: Romance Readership and The Pursuit for Empowerment.
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Introduction: “Chronicles of Female Triumph”[1]: Romance Readership and The Pursuit of Empowerment: Are readers of the romance genre oppressed by their seemingly unquestionable subscription to a ...

Talking Back by Bells Hooks, and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid | Comparison
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Introduction: How To Act Like A lady; Or Not Jamaica Kincaid wrote an interesting short fiction called “Girl”. At first glance, there seems to be a narrator listing multiple objectives and rules ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin | Analysis
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Introduction:  “Short lived Freedom”  The death of a loved one, better yet a spouse, can be devastating. This time can be very critical to the person depending on the type of support sy...

Bartleby and the Scrivener: Relationship of Bartleby and the Narrator
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Introduction: The Relationship of Bartleby and the Narrator  Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby and the Scrivener,” has provided readers and critics with enough material to make you ...

In Search of April Raintree: Three Stems of Racism
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Introduction:  In Search of April Raintree: Three Stems of Racism   In Search of April Raintree is the story of two Métis sisters who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba. April and Cher...

Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
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Introduction: Unbowed Critical Review  The main goal Wangari Maathai wants to accomplish in Unbowed is to use it as a platform to raise awareness that the planet is overwhelmed by carel...