English Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

136161 total results

Our Near Perfect Attempt at Robbery and the Gas Valve that Cost Us Our Freedom (540 words, 1 pages)

It was perfect. The day was perfect the time was perfect, the equipment was perfect, everything was perfect. My friend Bob and I go back a long time, weve successfully completed many jobs together, but none of them were as well planned as this one. No mastermind could have thought ... Read More

A Personal Narrative on the Beauty of Spring in Henzel Park (380 words, 2 pages)

After a continuous rain the day before, I woke up to a mist of sunshine in the early spring and decided it was an ideal day to write my nature description. Walking out of the car in Henzel Park, with occasional breezes gently brushing my hair, I stepped onto the ... Read More

The Setting and Narrative Style of Edgar Allan Poe (1225 words, 4 pages)

The short story writer which I have chosen to research is Edgar Allen Poe. After reading one of his works in class, I realized that his mysterious style of writing greatly appealed to me. Although many critics have different views on Poe's writing style, I think that Harold Bloom summed ... Read More

Communication as the Foundation of a Healthy Relationship on the Example of The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross (867 words, 1 pages)

What holds a relationship together? How do relationships go the way they do? What in a relationship causes it to tremble and fall apart? According to this short story "The Painted Door", communication is what determines how the relationship would start and how it will end up. Communication is the ... Read More

The Inner Aspects of Dylan Thomas in His Poems (1410 words, 3 pages)

The Paradoxical Thomas Dylan Thomas outer life has little to do with his poetry, only occasionally having been inspired by some life-altering event. However, Thomas does contain some inner aspect of himself in each of his poems. Thomas states, I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, ... Read More

The Book I Will Be Rereading: The Passionate Teacher by Robert L. Fried (1608 words, 3 pages)

The Passionate Teacher By Robert L. Fried I have just finished reading a wonderful book titled, The Passionate Teacher, written by Robert L. Fried. I was so inspired by this book that I decided I needed to write about it. This book was written for both new teachers and teachers ... Read More

Question and Answer Sheet To “The Odyssey” by Homer (656 words, 4 pages)

Answer Sheet THE ODYSSEY 1) Whos having the baby? Queen Penelope is having the baby. 2)Who is the first man to hold baby Telemachus? Odysseus 3)Who does Odesseus pray to for help? Ahthena 4)What does Odysseus make Penelope promise before he leaves? That she will select another husband after their ... Read More

An Analysis on Odysseus’ Test for Penelope In “The Odyssey” by Homer (792 words, 1 pages)

Gentle waves lap against the Ithacian shore line as Odysseus has finally reached his native homeland. Rumors of the great turmoil that has rocked Odysseus home land and house has reached him abroad. After hearing the news, he decides to don a beggars disguise and so forth begins the great ... Read More

Thinking With Your Heart: An Analysis of The Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (549 words, 1 pages)

In the novel Great Expectations, Joe Gargery is at first glance considered "a good natured foolish man." He often displays characteristics of this, but in many ways is so much deeper. He almost always knows what to say and can use his wisdom to enlighten Pip. Joe is a very ... Read More

An Analysis of How Love Can Start by Two Totally Opposite Persons in “In a Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway (1419 words, 2 pages)

In A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway illustrates in a simple and pure style the development of the relationship between a young American ambulance driver and an English nurse during World War I in Italy. This love-story is marked, as John A. Sanford describes in The Invisible Partners, by identification ... Read More

An Analysis of Real Human’s Complexity That is Portrayed by The Characters in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (1145 words, 2 pages)

In this world of deceptive appearances, motives, and beliefs, the ability to be able to understand the complexity of human beings is simply a not-so-common skill. When William Shakespeare wrote, The Merchant of Venice, he included characters which are neither good nor evil instead, in order to make the play ... Read More

My Personal Experience Inside A Morgue (421 words, 1 pages)

The Morgue It was time to go now. The patient was in desperate need of repair. I had to go to the morgue. It never fails to be the most miserable type of weather when I make the trip. Cloudy, cold and dreary looking all around. So, off I went ... Read More

An Analysis of The Historical Morals Portrayed by The Characters in the Play “The Mill on the Floss” by Helen Edmundson (1192 words, 2 pages)

The Mill on the Floss was extracted from the novel by George Eliot and recently adapted by Helen Edmundson for Soulpepper. The play, which is set in the Victorian era, has a historical morals attached to it. These morals tend to revolve around the female sex and in this play ... Read More

The Warning from ‘the Other Side’ (875 words, 2 pages)

The Murderous Husband There are many ways in which people have believed that they are able to communicate with the spirits, or "the other side." One of them is by what is called "automatic writing." A spirit is supposed to seize control of a person's hand and force them to ... Read More

Franz Kafka Illustrated his Life Story and Personality in His Novella “The Metamorphosis” (848 words, 1 pages)

Franz Kafka published a relatively small amount of stories in his lifetime. Almost all of them are autobiographical in nature. In this way, his novella, The Metamorphosis, could be considered an allegory for his own life. The whole idea of a metamorphosis seems to come from Kafkas life. This story ... Read More

An Analysis of The People’s Struggle to Live During The Civil War in the Play “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson (1536 words, 2 pages)

William Gibson's play, The Miracle Worker, illustrates how people who triumph over hardships can succeed in achieving their goals. The play follows Annie Sullivan, a half-blind northern young woman, as she travels to Post-Civil War Tuscumbia, Alabama in order to teach Helen Keller, a blind and deaf little girl. When ... Read More

An Essay on the Short Story The Lamp at Noon (423 words, 1 pages)

Essay The short story The Lamp at Noon is the story of a struggle of a family to survive on their own in the desert. The struggle for survival is a common theme in Canadian Literature. It is used in many stories, including many famous ones by well known Canadian ... Read More

An Analysis of the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (868 words, 2 pages)

Significance of The Letter A The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a novel that takes place in a Puritan community during the middle of the seventeenth century. The story is concerning a woman named Hester Prynne who had an affair with a man by the name of Reverend ... Read More

A Biography of Samuel Clemens Also Known as Mark Twain (371 words, 1 pages)

Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens, who was born on November 30th, 1835. Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won many awards for his two most famous pieces "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and "Adventures of Tom Sawyer". He was born in the city ... Read More

A Paper on the Life and Tragedy of Jack Kerouac (1310 words, 2 pages)

The Life and Tragedy of Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac was a poet who focused on the forgotten people of the world. Wherever he traveled he found the places nobody wanted to find and turned the un-pretty into magnificent poetry. Kerouac used the people no one wanted to remember and turned ... Read More

The Lost Generation Writers Rises after the Cold War (1979 words, 3 pages)

THE LOST GENERATION With the beginning of World War I many things had changed for America. This war happened between in the years of 1914 and 1918. At first America did not join the war but in 1917 they joined it to support it. When it was finished, soldiers who ... Read More

A Paper on Knowledge in Oedipus the King (840 words, 1 pages)

Knowledge in Oedipus the King In Oedipus the King the knowledge that some characters in the play possess is very crucial in developing the plot. The knowledge in the play is the basic foundation of Oedipus future, either to remain as the King of Thebes or to be sentenced to ... Read More

An Analysis of a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (509 words, 1 pages)

The Mask of Carton In the book A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens there is a man that lives two. In one life he is an alcoholic with no manners and in the other life he a completely different person he is charming and caring. This man, Sydney ... Read More

An Analysis of How Diesis Affect A Country in the “Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe (356 words, 1 pages)

This story is about major diesis that passed through the country. It was a slow painful death. The diesis was called the "Red Death" when a person got that they started to bleed through all the pores in the body. There was a prince his name was Prince Prospero. When ... Read More

Reasons Why Sophocles Should Be Considered The Greatest Tragedian of The Greek Period (588 words, 1 pages)

So is Sophocles the greatest tragedian of the Greek period? No one could fully know this. Sophocles was an imaginative writer, and he is believed to have had a immense impact on play writing. If anyone were to read his Oedipus trilogy, they would be stunned on how amazing of ... Read More

Trouble of the Narrator Prufrock to Deal with Middle Age in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (1310 words, 4 pages)

In T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," the author is establishing the trouble the narrator is having dealing with middle age. Prufrock(the narrator) believes that age is a burden and is deeply troubled by it.. His love of some women cannot be because he feels the prime ... Read More

The Portail of the Narrator in the Short Story The Lunch by Joseph Monninger (653 words, 1 pages)

For each reader a short story can be a different experience. Each interpretation of a story can be just as different as they are. In Joseph Monningers short story, The Lunch, he keeps a continuous flow. The three things I liked most about The Lunch was how Monninger gives a ... Read More

The Three Main Characters in The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli (413 words, 1 pages)

The Magic Circle The Magic Circle, by Donna Jo Napoli dealt with three main characters. In the story a woman named The Ugly One possesses the power to heal. The woman has a beautiful daughter named Asa. The Ugly one is a sorcerer who also helps sick people who are ... Read More

An Analysis of the Short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson as an Allegory (579 words, 1 pages)

Jacksons "The Lottery" as an Allegory Shirley Jacksons "The Lottery" is an excellent example of an allegorical short story. In this story, the reader learns of a towns "lottery" that takes place once a year, every year. It has been a tradition in this small rural town for many years ... Read More

A Paper on the Issues of Women Characters in Miriam Tlali’s Muriel at Metropolitan (2460 words, 4 pages)

The Issues of Women Characters in Miriam Tlali's Muriel at Metropolitan A South Africa writer, Pamala Ryan, provides an interesting analysis of Miriam Tlali's Muriel at Metropolitan by arguing that "... black women do not have time to dream" (95). The lives of black women are besieged with restraints and ... Read More

English Essay Examples