English Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Report on Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (738 words, 1 pages)

The story begins abruptly, as we find our mock heroes out in the desert en route to the savvy resort of Las Vegas. The author uses a tense hitchhiker as a mode, or an excuse, for a flashback that exposes the plot. An uncertain character picked up in the middle ... Read More

Facts vs Fiction in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (996 words, 2 pages)

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, a fictional novel, was written in a factual manner. Brown took a controversial topic and created a written work of art. He used real organizations, real places, and even some real names. He also created fictional characters and places, but made no attempt to ... Read More

Position of Women in the 19th and 20th Century as Depicted in Susan Glasspell’s Trifles (1335 words, 2 pages)

In the early 1900's, women were not known to have high rank jobs or work full time at all. They were the one's who did all the cleaning, cooking, and the ones who took care of the children. Women didn't really start having jobs that paid till the 1920's - ... Read More

The Theme of Failure in Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (651 words, 1 pages)

Ethan Frome, the main character in the book entitled Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, has many complex problems going on at the same time. His family has died and he has a wife that is continually sick, and the only form of happiness he has is from his wife's cousin ... Read More

The Notion of Culture in the Main Characters in Alice Walker’s Everyday Use (421 words, 1 pages)

Culture is something picked up from one generation to next, not suddenly acquired. Making use of culture in everyday life shows a dedication and understanding to the culture. Maggie, the younger daughter, was an example that heritage passes from one generation to another through a learning and experience connection, while ... Read More

An Essay on the Portrayal of Jews in Elie Wiesel’s Novel Night (391 words, 1 pages)

Dyers Eve - Essay on "Night" written by Elie Wiese Life is cruel, take what little time you have and make the best of it. The novel Night supports the message by showing how the lives of the Jews were going fine then all of a sudden they got captured ... Read More

Meaningless of Life in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (1373 words, 2 pages)

In Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, he tries to put forth a theory whereby dreams and aspirations can only exist in the short run. In this case, the characters can only plan one step ahead, and that they can only move on if that step is accomplished. This short-sightedness of men ... Read More

An Analysis on the Disorders Observed In “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1059 words, 2 pages)

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark" you find a couple fairly prevalent disorders. Although psychology was as of yet not existence, Hawthorne describes them quite well. Alymer suffered from an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, while his actions caused Georgiana to develop a body dysmorphic disorder. Both of which attributed to the ... Read More

Mischief and Selfishness in R.L. Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (810 words, 2 pages)

In the novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by R. L Stevenson, a story of mischief and selfishness occurs. It's like this, there is a man called Dr. Jekyll he doesn't like who he is so one day he thinks of a potion that makes his good part split away ... Read More

Analysis of the Character of Ellie Arroway, the Protagonist in Contact, a Novel by Carl Sagan (619 words, 1 pages)

Contact Essay Ellie Arroway, the main character of Contact is forced to persevere through many obstacles, starting with the death of her father who she was close to. Project Argus (the team of researchers Ellie is over) has been unsuccessful after many attempts to achieve contact with another unearthly being. ... Read More

A Definition of Change in Different Contexts (2871 words, 4 pages)

English Assessment Task Area of Study - Change "Changes in a person are often the result of their learning more about themselves and how they fit into the world around them." As one journey's through life, countless opportunities arise which force us to challenge and question societies values and in ... Read More

Analysis of The Catcher in the Rye, a Novel by Jerome David Salinger (444 words, 1 pages)

"The Catcher in the Rye" is a novel written by Jerome David Salinger, an American writer born in 1919 in New York. The novel narrates the story of a 16 years old boy named Holden Caulfield, who's desperately seeking to find who he really is, and his purpose in life. ... Read More

Analysis of Tayo’s Struggle to Fit in in Ceremony, a Novel by Leslie Marmon Silko (1130 words, 2 pages)

The outsider looking in verses the insider looking out. Is it possible to be a part of something and have no connection to it? In the book Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, discusses how one can be a part of something but at the same time be viewed as an ... Read More

A Comparative Study on Life in Brave New World and the US of Today (1144 words, 2 pages)

Prompt Compare life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today. For more than half a century, science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, ... Read More

Has SARS Become One of the Predictions of Jose Saramago’s Blindness? (1322 words, 2 pages)

Blindness... The whole novel keeps the question "what if" in the back of your mind. You constantly wonder what if this really happened? What would I do? Well the world might just find out! SAARs the latest disease is very fatal and unfortunately very contagious. New York is already thinking ... Read More

Analysis of the Character of Captain Vere in Billy Budd, a Novella by Herman Melville (777 words, 1 pages)

Captain Vere Deals With his Burden of Knowledge On the ship, Indomitable, in Billy Budd, Foretopman, by Herman Mellville, Vere, the captain, gains the burden of knowledge, much like a man who finds a dying deer on the side of the road. Once he examines the deer, he realizes it ... Read More

Be Grateful for What You Have (218 words, 1 pages)

"Be thankful for what you have" If you find yourself stuck in a traffic dont despair. There are people in this world whom driving iss unheard privelege. Should you have bad day at work think of the man who has been out for work for years. Should you despair over ... Read More

Analysis of An Inspector Calls, a Play by J. B. Priestley (2333 words, 4 pages)

J.B. Priestley sets the play in a lavish and happy environment. Without Priestley even telling the audience that the play is set pre war it is obvious because of all the available luxuries and fineries such as 'champagne glasses' and 'dessert plates'. The war caused great shortages in goods and ... Read More

Striving for Survival in Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozal (1140 words, 2 pages)

"Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozal focuses on race and poverty by exploring lives of inner-city people in the Bronx. Author Jonathan Kozal focuses on the troubles of everyday life for children who live in the poorest district of the United States, Mott Haven, in New York City's Bronx. These black ... Read More

Analysis of All Quiet on the Western Front, a Novel by Erich Maria Remarque (4729 words, 5 pages)

All Quite on the Western Front The story takes place during World War I in Germany. The story is about a man named Paul Bumer and his friends Tjaden, Mller, Katczinsky, also known as Kat, Haie, Detering, Kropp and Kemmerich. Our story opens five miles behind the German front. Bumer ... Read More

The Enhancing Effect of Elia Kazan’s a “Streetcar Named Desire” on the Original Play (608 words, 1 pages)

One can only agree that, "A movie based on a Tennessee Williams play is a Tennessee Williams film." (Forster Hirsch.) If the words in the play and in the movie of A Streetcar Named Desire are compared, anyone can realize that they are almost one and the same. The plot ... Read More

A Book Review of A Southern Yarn by R.W. Richards (841 words, 2 pages)

Book Review The book I read was titled A Southern Yarn. It is an interesting story about what might have happened if General Lee had won a minor battle in the Civil War. The author, R. W. Richards, tries to convince you that the South might have possibly won, if ... Read More

An Opinionated Summary On “A Child Called It” by Dave Pelzer (838 words, 1 pages)

The book I read was " A child called it", by Dave Pelzer. I can't even believe the pain this child went through. How can someone be so cruel to treat his or her child this way? I am surprised that David even survived after being beat, burned, starved and ... Read More

A Psychological Analysis Of Ginny in “A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley (911 words, 1 pages)

In Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres", the main focus is one of the family and familial relationships. Smiley presents what at first seems to be a typical American farm family, but is quickly revealed to be anything but. Her message is quite clear (since she stole it from Shakespeare) love ... Read More

Self Realization and Self Discovery in A Separate Peace by John Knowles (596 words, 1 pages)

Gene Forrester's self realization and self discovery is the main theme of 'A Separate Peace' by John Knowles. This process begins when he pushes his best friend Phineas from a tree and it continues until he visits this tree fifteen years later. Gene must learn to face reality and the ... Read More

A Comparison between A Good Man is Hard to Find and Displaced Person by Flannery O’Conner (1400 words, 2 pages)

A good man is hard to find, and there are good and bad people in everyday settings. Flannery O'Conner is the author of "A Good Man is Hard to Find" in which there are many instances where people disrupt lives of others by great amounts. O'Connor chooses a theme for ... Read More

The Codependency of Individuality and Society as Presented By “A Doll’s House” (549 words, 1 pages)

Victorian texts either support or condone ways of thinking of 19th century English society predominantly through mediating the opinions of the author via characterisation in the texts. Individuals in the Victorian era generally conform to the dogmas and confines of society, its values and ideologies. However, ironically those who conform ... Read More

An Insight On “A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory” by Lucy Larcom (486 words, 1 pages)

A New England Girlhood Outlined from Memory By Lucy Larcom This book is not a diary nor a journal but seemingly a new genre, a collection of memories of Lucy Larcom. It follows the author from a toddler to early adulthood. The values and morals woven into her live should ... Read More

An Essay on Resistance to Oppression in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (3013 words, 4 pages)

In the play "A Dolls House", by Henrik Ibsen, a breakthrough author who put critical spotlights on Victorian era morals, and ethics presented in society, the strength of a woman, not common during Ibsen's time, was portrayed realistically. This realistic plot and what was considered an "immoral conclusion" in the ... Read More

Are We Defined Only by Numbers? (1092 words, 2 pages)

You Are Not A Number One will disagree with the statement, "You are a number" since a number is too simple to justify the person that one is. In fact, a number cannot show how sweet an individual?s personality is or how attractive heshe looks. What people observe with their ... Read More

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