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An Analysis of the Essay Our Secret Which Uses Fragments Throughout the Essay to Symbolize all the Topics and People That are Involved (588 words, 1 pages)

In "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin, the essay uses fragments throughout the essay to symbolize all the topics and people that are involved. The fragments in the essay tie together insides and outsides, human nature, everything affected by past, secrets, cause and effect, and development with the content. These subjects ... Read More

The Life of Puritans in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (630 words, 1 pages)

How would you like to live in a time where you were to be as perfect as possible, with as little sin as possible? That is the way it was in the Puritan times. Puritans were supposedly the more pure and righteous religious group. In the Scarlet Letter and The ... Read More

The Use of Symbolism in John Steinbeck’s Short Story “The Chrysanthemums” (844 words, 1 pages)

A good writer has many tools at hand that help them develope good story lines. There are literary techniques such as voice, point of view, character, theme, and symbolism. One very interesting technique is that of symbolism. With symbolism the author is able to write a story in which many ... Read More

An Analysis of The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde (2577 words, 3 pages)

'The Nightingale and the Rose' by Oscar Wilde'Nineteenth Century Short Stories' is a collection of tales from the nineteen hundreds. This essay will concentrate on just one of these stories. It will include a thorough analysis of the story including my views and opinions towards the language, imagery and setting ... Read More

An Analysis of Language, Tone and Structure of Stephen King’s Suffer the Little Children (645 words, 1 pages)

In this paper, Im going to take a formalist approach to look at language, tone and structure of Suffer the Little Children by Stephen King. This story is not just about a particular teacher or a particular student it is more about a disturbed ladys state of mind, and my ... Read More

Literary Analysis of the Diary Type Story Adrian Mole the Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (1327 words, 3 pages)

In all the aspects of literature, authors use literary devices to add suspense, depth and significance to their works. This concept is valid in Adrian Mole The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend . The diary-type story revolves around a young adult named Adrian, who constantly goes through the tragedies of ... Read More

Literary Analysis of the Novel the Adventures of Hucleberry Finn by Mark Twain (910 words, 2 pages)

The Satire of SlaveryThere it is it doesn t make any difference who we are or what we are, there s always somebody to look down on! Somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about. Mark Twain (1835 1910), U.S. author. Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes, ... Read More

The Use of Symbolism in the Book Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (2072 words, 3 pages)

Q. If you studied two written texts this year, show how the authors use similar or different techniques to express their ideas.Literature is based on a series of ideas. The way that these are expressed within texts are always dependent on an author s individual techniques. Through the utilisation of ... Read More

A Comparison of the Color Purple by Alice Walker and Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger (1434 words, 2 pages)

The Color Purple By Alice Walker And Franny and Zooey by J.D. SalingerAlice Walker and J.D Salinger demonstrate how faith helps their main characters to discover their true potential. Both authors use their novels to show the readers how faith, religion, and human interventions can promote a positive and meditative ... Read More

Literary Analysis of the Novel the Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (642 words, 2 pages)

The Crossing In Cormac McCarthy s novel The Crossing, there is a dramatic sequence described by the narrator. The author uses many different techniques to convey the impact of the experience on the narrator. Some of these such techniques are repetition, diction, and simile.Of the aforementioned techniques, the most obvious ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (952 words, 2 pages)

The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of ... Read More

Fairy Tales and Child Abuse (786 words, 1 pages)

Never Take Candy From StrangersDuring the times the story was written, there was much child abuse in society. The child's welfare was often put aside because the family was more important. The unknown author of the Fairy Tale "Hansel and Gretel" used many rhetorical devices such as symbolism and diction ... Read More

An Analysis of the Relationship with Mother in A Prose-Poem by June Jordan and an Essay by Carol Saline (525 words, 1 pages)

How is your relationship with you mother? A mother to daughter relationship is very important. In both passages the daughter admires their mother, but they don't want to become them. In passage A prose-poem by June Jordan and passage B an essay by Carol Saline, both daughter discuss their admiration ... Read More

An Analysis of the Death of Jefferson in A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (647 words, 1 pages)

Jefferson Dies, But Is Not DefeatedJefferson, a black man condemned to die by the electric chair in the novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, is perhaps the strongest character in African-American literature today. Jefferson is a courageous young black man that a jury of all white men ... Read More

A Comparison of Lot’s Wife in the Bible and the Version of Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Akhmatova (1650 words, 2 pages)

Lot s Wife depicts the fate of a woman following her husband Lot on his departure of their native town Sodom. Sodom was a town that God destroyed, yet he granted Lot and his wife permission to flee the town before this occurrence. Wislawa Szymborska and Anna Akhmatova offer different ... Read More

A Review of Leornard Adame’s Poem “Black and White” (529 words, 1 pages)

In Leonard Adame s poem, Black and White, he describes how the ruling minority of the whites treated blacks. The main idea of the poem is to tell the reader of that time, how the blacks were being treated. He uses great diction to describe the treatment. For instance he ... Read More

An Analysis of the Four Main Themes in Erich Maria Remarque’s Book All Quiet on the Western Front, on the Reader’s Perspective (939 words, 2 pages)

Some authors use themes to show the reader some perspective. Erich Maria Remarque s book All Quiet on the Western Front uses many themes but there are four main ones. Those four themes are the Lost Generation, futility of war, sound imagery, and the institutionalization or depersonalization of war. Some ... Read More

An Analysis of Dream Deferred, a Poem by Langston Hughes (574 words, 1 pages)

The poem, "Dream Deferred", which was written by Langston Hughes in 1951 , described the trials that minorities in that time period underwent. Hughes uses heavy symbolism and imagery in this poem. The dream he discussed in the poem was futile at the time of his writing of the poem. ... Read More

A Comparison of Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and 1984 by George Orwell (561 words, 2 pages)

Harrison Bergeron vs. 1984Harrison Bergeron and 1984 were both based on a similar concept. This concept is creating peace by limiting and controlling the population. In George Orwell s 1984 , it was done through brainwashing and doublethink. In Kurt Vonnegut s Harrison Bergeron , it was done by limiting ... Read More

A Comparison of The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (878 words, 2 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were both successful in making the objects of their stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Yellow Wallpaper," form their own identities, and even points of reason, through their use of syntax, point of view, and personification. The authors use major characters in the ... Read More

The Theme of Death in The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer (642 words, 1 pages)

The use of irony and personification are techniques that writers often use that may take only a few paragraphs or 5 pages to describe. An event that is frequently used in these short stories to these two methods is death. "The Pardoners Tale", "The Masque of the Red Death", and ... Read More

How Evil Is Explored in the Play Macbeth (1188 words, 2 pages)

How is evil explored in the Play Macbeth.A dark night and a dark place are both symbolic of diablerie in the play Macbeth. Authors use these symbols to describe an evil character or setting. William Shakespeare employs the imagery of darkness in Act 4 and Act 1 of his play ... Read More

An Introduction to How to Make More Successful Deals (1174 words, 2 pages)

Negotiate to CloseHow to Make More Successful DealsIn this book the author uses the salesperson relationship of the buyer and seller to discuss negotiation. The author identifies the sources of power that a seller has when negotiating, and the tactics used by buyers to get what they want. Recognizing these ... Read More

A Comparison of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy in Expressing the Passage of Boyhood Into Manhood (596 words, 1 pages)

William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy are known for their unusual, yet honest, styles of writing. Using a variety of sentence structure, vocabulary, and syntax, the two authors allow readers to explore deeper into the true meanings behind the well-told story lines. In Faulkner s The Unvanquished and McCarthy s All ... Read More

Author’s Different Voices Throughout the Story in Exiles by Carolyn Steedman (693 words, 1 pages)

Exiles ResponseIn the essay "Exiles," Carolyn Steedman uses different voices throughout the story. Steedman uses her mom, dad, and grandma's voice to speak her essay to the reader. She does this by either using someone else's memories of the instant by referring to what their mom did, told by the ... Read More

An Analysis of Foucalt’s Book “The Discipline and Punish” (1792 words, 3 pages)

Aristotle once stated in Metaphysics that, "All men by nature desire Knowledge." If one accepts the claim that knowledge is power, then it will be logical to assert that all people want power. The person or persons that have knowledge also acquire the power of that knowledge. In Michel Foucault's ... Read More

An Analysis of Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro (344 words, 1 pages)

The Explication of Ezra Pound s In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound s words portray a moment frozen in time. The poem, In a Station of the Metro, is a poem of imagery. Through imagery, Pound imbues his vision and thoughts of his surroundings while on a subway ... Read More

A Comparison of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death in Using Symbolism (942 words, 2 pages)

In Edgar Allan Poe s The Pit and the Pendulum and The Masque of the Red Death , the author uses different symbolism to illustrate the image of death. In both of these stories, death is the final result of a punishment, the end of a human s life. However, ... Read More

A Critical Analysis of the Poem Jungle Night (545 words, 1 pages)

Critical Analysis of Jungle NightThe speaker of the poem is a civilian observer, probably a local. There is a sense of tension and fear in the speaker s tone. The speaker uses an observatory tone in the poem, a combination between 1st and 3rd person. The author shows us that ... Read More

Darkness, the Sign of Destruction in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (491 words, 1 pages)

Darkness, Sign of Chaos in MacbethDarkness in our society is indicative of evil. For instance, a black cat, a dark night, and a dark place are all symbolic of diablerie. Authors use these symbols to describe an evil character or setting. William Shakespeare employs the imagery of darkness in Act ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013