In the short story “The things they carried”, the soldiers each had their own unique items that they carried doing the dangerous war. The items that the soldiers carried had a special meaning behind them whether it came from their family background, personality, or their very own personal item. Kiowa is a Native America soldier […]
Every family has their eccentricity. Jeannette lived a challenging lifestyle because her mother, Rose Mary, and father, Rex Walls, were cruel to her and her siblings. By analyzing their characteristics, character development, and finding the irony in The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, readers are able to better understand how the story unfolds. Jeannette is […]
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Get startedIn the short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, an unnamed narrator has committed a murder to a man that had an “eye of a vulture”. He does not say why he killed him, other than that the man’s eye bothered him. Throughout the story there are many instances where the readers question […]
“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story wherein Edgar Allan Poe exposes the quintessential conflict of humanity. That is, to surrender to the voice in our heads encouraging action deleterious to ourselves, or to muffle that voice in exchange for internal torment. Poe gives a name to this voice, the imp of the perverse, which […]
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 short story “The Tell-Tale Heart “ illustrates the dangers of insanity and how it has an upper hand in the lives of individuals who suffer from it through his speech ,behaviour and thoughts .How would on best define insanity ?.The oxford dictionary states that insanity is similar to mental illness, the […]
The consequences of Black Death or the Plague had both short and long-term effects on the populations across Europe. The Black Death was one of the worst epidemics in history. It hit its peak in Eurasia, the combined continental landmasses of Europe and Asia, in about 1347, killing one third of the planet’s population. In […]
It is absolutely critical for a child to form a secure attachment for their development:when a child is unable to form a secure attachment they become a risk in numerous way. The ability to form secure attachments is critical to a child’s development; children who cannot form secure attachments may be at risk in numerous […]
As average citizens, you may know, generally, refers to when a person “rescues” a larger number of animals than they’re able to take care of. However, many people don’t realize, most cases of animal hoarding transpire because the person has a psychological disorder or has experienced trauma in the past. This disorder causes them to […]
Animal abuse and animal cruelty is one of the most violent crimes in America today but not a lot of people talk about it. Animal abuse includes many factors such as, abuse, neglect, terror taunting, and any form of distress upon an animal. Although in most cases animal abuse is physical, there is a factor […]
Imagine a tiny puppy, or small kitten in a laboratory being tested on, or used as bait in a dog fight. Well, this is the reality for many animals today. These instances are both forms of animal abuse. This type of abuse comes in many forms like animal testing, neglect, and fighting. Animal abuse is […]
Pride is a feeling of satisfaction one derives from one’s own achievements, the accomplishments of those with whom one closely associates with, or from qualities or possessions that one widely admires. Pride is known as man’s greatest sin since it was pride that led to Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden. The […]
The Cask of Amontillado is an Edgar Allen Poe short story that was published in 1847. The story opens to Montressor narrating to an unknown audience he is familiar with. He begins talking about the “thousand injuries” (Poe, 4) Fortunato has given him and his plan for revenge. His plan is simple, to entomb Fortunato […]
In Edgar Allan poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrators of the two stories are also the main characters of the stories, which forms the unreliable narrators. “The Tell-Tale Heart” talked about a story that an extremely sensitive person tried to kill an old man just because the old man’s eyes […]
The House on Mango Street is a novel written by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros depicts the life of a twelve-year-old girl, Esperanza, who within a year transforms into a woman. She outlines Esperanza’s life as she grows hips, starts to be curious about boys, evolves emotionally, and suffers sexual assault. In The House on […]
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 story of Esperanza is one that many minorities face, even in today’s society. Every day she had to deal with things from both a poverty and racist standpoint. She talks about how the poverty she faced affected the way she looked at her self. She also goes on to talk about how the racial […]
The Author Sandra Cisneros writes and describes a novel about the life from a perspective teenage Latina, Esperanza Cordero. She tells about this young girls living in a poor Chicano and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Chicago. Growing up in the poor neighborhood on a street called Mango Street. Where you have to have good sense, […]
One of most noteworthy poems composed everything being equal, ‘The Road Not Taken’. Everyone is a traveler, picking the ways to pursue on the guide of the persistent adventure of their future life. There will never be a straight way that leaves somebody with a solitary bearing to head. Notwithstanding, the message that Robert Frost […]
Throughout life, we are required to make decisions that can be life changing. This is part of our nature as humans. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is a Poem in which the speaker has two roads in front of him and needs to decide which one to take. ‘Two roads diverged in a […]
Have you ever read a work of literature that had a simple theme, like about nature or animals that you can connect to real life situations? For instance, many authors of poems write a moral in their poems to teach the readers a life lesson. They convey their message through characters’ actions and life decisions, […]
Throughout Robert Frost’ poem, “The Road Not Taken”, he takes two roads that diverged in a yellow wood and connected them to everyday choices an individual has to make. It represents an individual’s journey throughout life. He uses scholarly words throughout his poem rather than simple words. An example of this is “In leaves no […]
Throughout the poem of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Sir Gawain is approached by the hosts’ wife, as she challenges the value he has placed on his courtesy and chastity. The Lady imposes her sexual desires with Sir Gawain in the three bedroom scenes throughout the play. The Lady challenges Sir Gawain’s politeness as […]
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been studied for years, and is considered a stupendous piece of literature, that should continue to be read and analyzed. In Chinua Achebe’s criticism titled, “An Image in Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” he argues Conrad’s novella should no longer be taught because of it’s racist atmosphere, […]
In the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, women symbolize “pretty illusions” and the European civilization’s capability to hide its bigotry and racism behind “pretty” ideals. In many areas in the book, women are described to be “out of touch” with the truth, and oblivious to the horrific events happening around them. This depiction […]
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness tells of the horrifying tragedies that expose the true evils of European imperialism and civilization that occurred throughout the African Congo during the late nineteenth century. The novel’s main character, Charles Marlow, serves as the narrator who tells of his experiences as the captain of a steamship on the Congo […]
The short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” has a lot of different themes involved. Since a long time ago there has being a issue of good versus evil, and that’s one of the themes. It also has other themes like: family, religion, society, and class. Good versus evil is developed because the […]
In Flannery O’Connor’s short story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a southern family is taking a vacation to Florida, but the real journey takes place inside the family’s lives. One question that comes up in the story is what the definition of a good man is and how there is so few of […]
In Flannery O’Connor’s story, a family plans a trip but there is a dispute between the adults on a destination. Bailey and his wife decide they will go to Florida. “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing every chance […]
‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ and ‘The Necklace’ uncover two hero characters to be specific Grandmother and Mathilde separately. Beginning with the contrasts between the two characters, Mathilde, in The Necklace, is a youthful and dynamic woman who has been married not while ago, while the grandma in A Good Man is Hard […]
Freedom is a natural birthright which permits individuals to act, speak, or think as they please without any restrictions. It is something that can not be taken or given away, touched, seen, nor felt, however, freedom is not absolute. In other words, people are “free” within limits. In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the […]
