American Literature Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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The Experience and People Who Taught Me to Be Talkative, Considerate, and Straightforward as a Person (947 words, 4 pages)

Although I moved from my hometown Chong Qing to live in the city of Zhong Shan about eight years ago,the place I lived for seven years might contain the most valuable memories in my life. I had met so many memorable people there that I will remember for my entire ... Read More

Symbolism of Rain in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (280 words, 1 pages)

One of the best novels of Ernest Hemingway is A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway takes much of his life story to his novels. A Farewell to Arms is the typical classic story that can refer to Romeo and his Juliet placed against the odds. In this novel, Romeo is Frederick ... Read More

Nolite Te Bastardes Carborundorum: The Inner Thoughts of Gileadan Women (676 words, 1 pages)

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum is what Offred always says in her prayer. She did not know the meaning of the phrase but she felt it was the right thing to say. Later on we learn that the phrase means Dont let the bastards get you down. This short phrase, which ... Read More

A Book Report on Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years by Sarah Louise Delany, Amy Hill Hearth, and Annie Elizabeth Delany (760 words, 1 pages)

History from eyes I can see through is the first thing I thought after turning the last page. The book took me for a ride through time with the Delany sisters it talked about there brothers and sisters (Lemuel, Julia, Henry JR, Lucius, William, Hubert, Laura, Samuel) there struggles as ... Read More

Symbolism of Pearl’s Name in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter (2551 words, 4 pages)

In Chapter 16 of The Scarlet Letter, "A Forest Walk," Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the majority of the passage to show how Pearl and Hester act when out of the public eye. Also, he uses the theme of nature to show what Pearl is like, who she really is, and how ... Read More

The Darkness and Depression in the Works of Hayden Carruth’s (938 words, 3 pages)

Scrambled Eggs Whiskey is Hayden Carruth's most recent collection of works. Published in 1996, it reflects a dark, boozed washed view of the world throw the eyes of a 76- year-old man. His works reflect his personal experiences and his opinion on world events. Despite technical merit Carruth works have ... Read More

Madness in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart (1212 words, 2 pages)

"Villains!" I shrieked, "Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! -- tear up the planks! Here, here! -- it is the beating of his hideous heart!" (p.116). This is how Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" catastrophically ends. Here, the erratic Narrator Poe deforms the story in such a way ... Read More

Do What Makes You Happy, Not What Makes You Money: The Importance of Job Satisfaction (1114 words, 2 pages)

Happiness seems to be one of those words that can only be de-fined in general terms, like love. It is easy to know when people are not happy, but determining happiness is a little harder. People often say that they feel happy or that something makes them happy. Greet-ing cards ... Read More

A Book Report of The Time Machine by Herbert George Wells (3201 words, 3 pages)

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 in Bromley, Kent, a few miles from London, the son of a house-maid and gardener. Wells died in 1946, a wealthy and famous author, having seen science fiction become a recognized literary form and having seen the world realize some of science fictions ... Read More

A Biography of Gwendolyn Brooks an American Poet (1207 words, 3 pages)

Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the communitys vision of itself. The constant in Brooks poetry has been her loyalty to characters who find themselves trapped in an environment scarred by racial discrimination, poverty, and violence. Gwendolyn ... Read More

Pride as the Central Theme of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (995 words, 3 pages)

ISU ESSAY Truly Jonathan Swifts Gullivers travels is filled with exhilarating voyages which resulted to great fascination. Dr. Lemuel Gullivers adventure to unique, extraordinary places brought out many themes, Swift had endowed. Such themes that can be found are mockery, imagination, amazing experiences and so on. Although, there are numerous ... Read More

My Brief Experience While Waiting on the Line (581 words, 1 pages)

Grocery Hell Waiting in line allows for the displeasure of dealing with many different types of people. Most are much like you and I however, we all to often encounter people that just need to be taken and summarily executed. These persons come in many different varieties some of which ... Read More

The American Dream as Seen in the Great Gatsby a Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald (723 words, 2 pages)

The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, deals with the difficulty of attaining the American dream. The American dream is different for every individual, but Jay Gatsby, the main character of the novel, believes the American dream is eternal ha iness through love. Gatsby thinks the only way ... Read More

A Brief Analysis of the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (641 words, 1 pages)

TITLE The Great Gatsby AUTHOR Scott Fitzgerald PLOT This story is told entirely through Nick Caraways eyes. He is the narrator. It takes place on Long Island in 1922. Nick is part of the new rich group. He is a newly rich man living in West Egg, a wealthy area ... Read More

An Analysis of Guns,Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (2449 words, 3 pages)

Guns, Germs, Steel, and controversy Diamonds unique look at evolution and history. Through out Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond attempts to explain the dominance of certain ethnicities. The backbone to this book and the questions that Diamond asks and answers, stem from a question asked of him in 1972 ... Read More

The Gothic Elements in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (817 words, 1 pages)

The Gothic is a formula of stock conventions. It is interested in nightmarish mindscapes and a unique style of writing. This scene from Dracula is very much Gothic as it contains the basic Gothic conventions. It is significant to the story as it is Lucys first encounter with Dracula. It ... Read More

An Analysis of the Golden Darters by Elizabeth Winthrop (763 words, 2 pages)

"The Golden Darters" We live in a changing society, where people have to deal with hardships, emotions and differences. The relationship of father to daughter is one of the hardest. We as people have come along way. It used to be that a father and daughter couldn't be close. The ... Read More

Miners’ Strike in South Africa and How It Relates to Literature (333 words, 2 pages)

Gold mining union plans one-day Free State strike An article dated March 17, 2000 NUM, or South Africas National Union of Mineworkers, is organizing a one-day strike at Free State gold mines. They are protesting the poverty and job losses from the mines. NUM is the countrys biggest mining union ... Read More

A Personal Story about Grandfather (641 words, 1 pages)

My Grandfather There are many people in my family that is special to me. There is one particular person who has really had an impact on my life. My grandfather, Luther James Marshall, was my inspiration. Although he died in March of 2001, he showed me how important life really ... Read More

A Personal Recount on Relationship with Authors Grandfather (888 words, 1 pages)

Grandpa The Hero I Hardly Knew It is often in life that you do not learn how to fully appreciate something until it is gone. This was the case with my grandpa Gordon Preilipp, who passed away on the 26th of March 2001. He looked to be a vivid image ... Read More

Multiple Protagonists of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (368 words, 1 pages)

All stories have a protagonist in which that character is the main character of the plot. Sometimes there is more than one protagonist. This is the case for The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, in which the plot revolves around the Wingfield family. The Wingfield family consists of Tom, a ... Read More

A Paper on Writings of Graham Green (558 words, 1 pages)

Greene, A Man of Few, Yet Elegant Words Graham Greene a literary master of the ages. A man who took a language of many words and summed up everything in a nice neat, pleasant to read package. As opposed to writing with the elegance of many words, he wrote with ... Read More

Giles Corey the Martyr: Review of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (724 words, 1 pages)

When a conflict arises, many people stand back and watch as their beliefs are trampled on, but sometimes one person will stand up and die for what they believe and inspire all those with similar beliefs. Of the many people who died in the Salem witch trials, one man stands ... Read More

An Analysis of the Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (723 words, 3 pages)

The play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion. The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape. ... Read More

Position of Women in Society in Charlotte Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1086 words, 2 pages)

"Gaining Freedom" "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman is a sad story of the repression that women face in the days of late 1800's as well as being representative of the turmoils that women face today. Gilman writes "The Yellow Wallpaper" from her own personal experiences of having to face ... Read More

Contradictions in Orwell’s Writing in Orwell’s Politics and the English Language (339 words, 1 pages)

In his essay Politics And The English Language, George Orwell exemplifies inconsistences with respect to his thought process and his writing style. The problems Orwell sees in political writing have to do with a lack of clarity on the writers behalf. Orwell himself uses the very literary devices he considers ... Read More

Contrasting Western Morals and Eastern Corruption in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1418 words, 2 pages)

In the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a literary classic contrasting Western morals and Eastern corruption. It follows the trail of a man, Nick, out of the West through the depraved and excessive society of the East during the Jazz age. His thoughts and feelings are ... Read More

Genogram Essay on Religion and Faith (634 words, 1 pages)

Genogram Essay My whole entire family, on both my mom and dads side, consists of Catholics. Yet, not all of them practice their faith as they claim to. I have a pretty average relationship with my family. Starting off on my mom's side, I have a more than awesome relationship ... Read More

A Paper on Reoccurring Themes in Dubliners and Grace (593 words, 2 pages)

"Grace" begins with a fall down the stairs for our main character Mr. Kernan. The unconscious and drunken Mr. Kernan is carried up the stairs and laid out on the bar floor. The manager of the bar repeatedly asks who the man is and who he was with, but to ... Read More

Impression of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (1043 words, 2 pages)

Geoffrey Chaucers Impression of Women during Medieval Times Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in the late 1400s. He came up with the idea of a pilgrimage to Canterbury in which each character attempts to tell the best story. In that setting Chaucer cleverly reveals a particular social condition of ... Read More

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