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 […]
When reading a short story, often readers look for certain things that make the story insightful and unique. In the short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the author really starts off by giving the reader an insight between good versus evil. It begins with what a reader would describe […]
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Get startedMargaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a dystopic and totalitarian society called Gilead, formed in response to the crisis caused by decreasing birthrates and, consequently, with one main goal: total control of reproduction. Therefore, the state intercepts the problem head-on by assuming complete control of women’s bodies through their politics supported by religious […]
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 […]
I believe it’s the struggle or balance between good and evil. The grandmother is suppose to represent the peace and and happiness while the Misfit is suppose to represent evil and darkness. The grandma was a nasty and mean old lady who deserved to die. According to the novel,” only death can bring out the […]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood takes place in the dystopian society of Gilead. Offred the story’s narrator lives in Gilead and was taken against her will to become an Handmaid. The woman in Gilead have lost their freedom and are succumbed to the strict orders of Gilead. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the class divisions […]
‘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 […]
In Flannery O’Connor’s story, a family wants to go on vacation but there’s a disagreement about where to go, Bailey wants to take his family to Florida. His mother doesn’t want to go there; “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she […]
The story begins in Atlanta and the family travels few hours south to the Town of Toomsboro. The second half of the story and the most important scenes take place in a ditch in the middle of nowhere. Throughout the story, the narrator seems to bring out the worst in each character. She points the […]
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 […]
Margaret Atwood evolves feminist focused literature with her novel The Handmaid’s Talee, empowering an unconventional development of a dynamic female character, Offred. Instead of portraying the oppression of women in a static manner, she parallels the unequal distribution of power between men and women of modern society through representation of the extreme totalitarian government, Gilead. […]
Dystopian novels emphasize a sense of the powerlessness of the individual in the face of the oppressive and brutal government. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and George Orwell 1984 intensely dramatic scenes to heighten the idea of the powerlessness of the individual. George Orwell’s in his novel 1984 presents a totalitarian regime that uses […]
The Handmaid’s Tale is an astonishing novel filled with well-executed symbolism and figurative language used to engage readers with the underlying themes and morals of the story. Margaret Atwood depicts the remarkable story of Offred, the narrator of the novel who lives in a patriarchal dystopian society and is directly affected by its morals. We […]
As a reader, it’s our job to know the author’s purpose, Margaret Atwood’s book “The Handmaid’s Tale” may be a dystopian novel that was published in 1985 during the backlash against the progress of second-wave feminism. To people that don’t know what the second- wave feminism period was, it had been the women’s movement of […]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood shows us the literal impact of power and the identity of the people of Gilead. As it is shown and represented that commanders have the power and can do whatever they want but the handmaids rank in the lowest position and have no freedom and no right to speak. […]
On the 28th of May 1830, the president at the time, Andrew Jackson, signed into effect a now controversial law. This law was the Indian Removal Act which allowed the removal of Native Americans from their homes to lands west of the Mississippi River. One tribe who was forcefully removed from their homes was the […]
Genocides all around the world have been responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Many human’s beings are singled out and killed because of the race, ethnic, group religion and being part of a specific national. One of the saddest tragedies in American history is the United States Government the Indian Removal Act of […]
On millions of acres in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida is where over 100,000 Natives American would call home in the early 1830s. Due to white settlers who wanted to harvest cotton where the Natives were settled, the federal government would soon force Native Americans to travel thousands of miles across the Mississippi […]
In the early 1830s the United States Supreme Court had two important decision to make, and along with the actions of President Jackson, the fate of the Cherokee Nation was decided. Cherokee nation v. Georgia was a case where Georgia passed a law about taking the Native American’s lands; Worcester v. Georgia was a case […]
In today’s society most people know what career path they are going to pursue before entering college and have known exactly the purpose of their career. However, I had no idea the career path that I wanted to pursue until I was encouraged by peers and instructors to look into nursing. While upon doing research […]
First published in 1892, in the New England Magazine “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a symbolic story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The challenge of a woman trying to escape her postpartum depression. She has developed a mental state she believes she is trapped in. Her husband put her in a room to help her get […]
Bullying is now a widespread problem in schools because it implicates consequences for children who bully and for victims. This issue can’t be solved without the help if parents and teachers addressing the reasons why children humiliate others. If teachers and parents would help the children learn to work through their problems instead of bullying, […]
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story that takes place in the 19th century about a woman driven insane by postpartum depression and a “treatment” that only makes the mental illness worse. However, an examination of the narrator’s characterization portrays that the story is partly about identity. The narrator sees an imaginary […]
The Great Gatsby, an American classic and one of Fitzgerald’s most outstanding works, tells a tangled story of love, lies, liquor and wealth in the 1920s. The narrator, Nick Carraway, moves from the west to Long Island, New York; West Egg to be more specific. There he meets the eccentric and exceedingly wealthy Jay Gatsby […]
Technology, to me, is becoming known as “The Real Nightmare.” Many young teens and adults are affected by this monster in many unbelievable ways. Technology affects people’s lives, health and most importantly the negative impacts it brings.Technology has affected In today’s society, the interaction we have is through a small rectangular screen. The scary thing […]
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty four days a year. This is how much Andrew Carnegie’s workers worked. Roughly half of their life was spent in his steel factories. This took place in the late 1800s, when large corporations were on the rise and small businesses were dwindling and […]
As I ended my senior year of high school, I already knew that I planned on furthering my education. A question I heard a lot was if I was going to a university or a local community college. Well, what exactly is the difference? For a while I contemplated on which route was best for […]
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Why should kids have year-round schools? Imagine having school for a year that never ends. Frequent breaks are good for students; They become more eager to learn. The fear that year-round school takes away your free summers is not completely true. Depending on the type of year-round school, it simply means spreading part of the […]
The famous football coach Johan Cruff once said : ”Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.”Football played by young and old is the most popular type of sport around the world. Some people play it in the open air , others prefer to play it on a PC. Having experienced […]
