The plot for The Giver is very fresh and original. Children’s Literature states that, “The plot is the plan of action; it tells what the characters do and what happened to them”(3rd edition, pg.10). The Giver starts off in a society where a boy name Jonas lives. The main conflict is man vs. society. Jonas […]
Jonas is an eleven-year-old that lives in a world without feelings, color, and choice. Citizens can also apply for spouses and children. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in the society. Then they spend their last years being cared […]
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INICIARIn the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, she infers that the strongest way for a government to control its people is to eliminate the people’s ability to question their way of life and heavily influence their ideologies. One strong way that for a government to control its people is to censor their people’s ability […]
It’s hard to imagine that in a country like the United States there is a book ban, but that has happened. In 2012, the American Library Association received 464 applications for the ban on various books, and according to its representative, since 1990, the number of applications has exceeded 17,700 leaves. Although controversial in terms […]
The banning of books has been something that has happened in the United States for several years now. Parents, teachers, and other people in the community challenge a book when they believe it is not suitable or clean enough for the young readers. It has been a battle between parents and public schools now for […]
The author of this novel, O’Brien recounts his experiences from the Vietnam war. Joining the war was a battle in itself for O’Brien, after receiving his draft notice in June of 1968, he almost fled out of the strong desire not to enlist. O’Brien describes himself as ‘too good for this war, too smart, too […]
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a description about Jeannette’s childhood which she portrays with sheer imagery and figurative language that illuminates the major themes woven into the adventure of her past filled with hardships and struggles including her family problems leading Jeannette and her siblings on a different path and to a better […]
In stories, there are some characters who play very disturbing roles but are their actions always intentional or unintentional? There are many contributing factors that give the reader the idea of the characters intent. These can be summed up in two questions. How do they play their role in the story? There are often context […]
Poe was an influential 19th century writer. During this century, Romanticism was the artistic period. Gothicism and Science Fiction grew out of the Romantic Era, which was Poe’s style of writing. “His influential theory of “unity of effect” states that the author of a short story should construct a tale to fit one overall purpose […]
Edgar Allan Poe, a worldwide renowned author, lived a short, yet otherworldly life, and made a prosperous living writing his iconic themes of horror, murder, and mystery, all recognized throughout his famous short story, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ In Poe’s, ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ he does not specifically characterize the narrator’s gender, contradicting the motive to kill […]
Setting analysis is defined as the context in which a narration or story occurs, which includes elements like geographical location, time, physical, and social environments. The primary purpose of establishing a concrete setting in a story is to enable readers to have a comprehensive feel and experience while reading it. Based on the type of […]
The Cask of Amontillado is one of Poe’s most famous short stories. In the story a man named Montresor takes revenge upon his friend, Fortunato. Readers don’t know what Fortunato did to deserve revenge. During the 1700’s in a European city Montresor had a plan to get revenge on Fortunato. The both of them meet […]
In “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe, I find it very interesting because of the setting and the way Montresor’s scheme was planned. The problem in the short story is the Montresor was unable to manage the situation and insult about his last name that Fortunato had said. The setting of “The Cask […]
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe, the dark side of human nature is illustrated by the character of Montresor and his victim Fortunato. Montresor is a manipulator and avenger. These qualities led to the death of Fortunato, a man who hurt him. Through the actions, words and thoughts of the character, we can […]
Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th, 1809. His mother and father died before he was 3 years old. In the year of 1827, Poe enlisted to be part of the United States Army. Poe had a gambling and a drinking addiction. He couldn’t control himself. In 1836, he marries a […]
A female is not weak nor fragile, she is strong and all she needs is a little bit of love. In the novella The House on Mango Street Cisneros uses the motif trapped. Most of the females in The House On Mango Street feel imprisoned by the ones they love most and restricted from living […]
Coming of age is like a plant, starts off as nothing but a seed, small, sweet, and innocent but slowly over time begins to grow into something much bigger. Much like a plant is a person, that can grow and learn and this can be seen in the novel “House On Mango Street” written by […]
The House on Mango Street, a fictional novel written by Sandra Cisneros in 2009, takes place in a poor city in Mexico. Esperanza, the narrator and the main character of this novel feels insecure about herself and feels like she doesn’t belong in her neighborhood. The book shows how Esperanza has grown throughout the year. […]
Esperanza was happy for the house and she thought it was going to be like their dream house. The house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. When they got to the house it was very different but they were happy anyway. They never had […]
The poem «The road not taken» is written by Robert Frost. The poem begins with a dilemma about which path he should follow, whether if he should go with the mainstream or go alone. Eventually he chose the road to go alone, not knowing if it was the right choice or not. He keeps telling […]
Has anyone wondered what writings were written in Middle English and was written in the epic poem form? The epic poem Sir Gawain, who has an anonymous author, was written in 1350 to 1400 A.D.. While no one knows who the author is, it is translated by Burton Raffel. The poem takes first takes place […]
You hear individuals educate you concerning how some critical occasion or individual in their lives went along and made a huge difference. You know about some phenomenal disclosure some time or another up on the mountain, or a nearby experience with nature, even a brush with some crazy catastrophe, bringing the individual onto the doorstep […]
Henry Louis Gates, a American literary critic, stated about his parents, “Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. In Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son” he emphasizes how parents work hard all their lives to teach their children to not fail in life. Mothers and fathers spend lots […]
Andy Warhola was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His family were immigrants from Carpatho-Rusyn, which is now known as Eastern Slovakia (Andy Warhol’s Life). Warhol’s family was a religious one, being devout Catholics, they attended mass regularly and kept to their heritage (Andy Warhol’s Life). When he was six years old, they […]
Andy Warhol is not only a Pop artist, but also he is an American artist who was known as the master of Pop Art. In the 1950s, commercial products entered into the highly valued fine art space. In the 1960s, everyday life inspired Andy Warhol, and source material became mass-produced products and commercial artifacts. The content […]
The short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury and Sara Teasdale’s poem take place after a nuclear war. The stories can be compared through reference to man dying and nature continously being carried on. The story and poem express the fire which creates horrible effects on life such as people, animals and […]
Angie Thomas’ outstanding best-selling novel, The Hate U Give, was inspired by the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and Tupac Shakur’s break down of the acronym “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.”. Tupac explained that the acronym stands for, “The Hate U Give Little Infants ‘Effs’ Everybody.” This descriptor means that the lack of opportunities the minority class are given ends up […]
In A1S5, we see Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth stepping in helping with advising Macbeth to come off as deceitful. She warns Macbeth “to look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.” Then later on we’re shown Lady Macbeth alone welcoming the guests into the castle, these guests are Banquo and Duncan. It […]
Having decoded the Sphinx’s riddle and rescued the city of Thebes from destruction, Oedipus is named their king. Although a plague is devastating Thebe’s people, and many bird entrails and oracles strongly propose it is due to the murderer of the last king, Laius, still living in the kingdom and is unpunished. In order to […]
Each era has many different aspects of representation. The Bayeux Tapestry in the Early Middle Ages represents the idea of feudalism in its story of the Song of Roland. The architecture of the Gothic Age is represented on a grand scale in the cathedral of Chartres. The music in the Contemporary era expressed the feelings […]