Edgar Allan Poe’s paintings, “The Cask of Amontillado” uses literary gadgets to create a dramatic and dark art work of art complete of irony, revenge, satisfaction, and deceit. The element and use of symbols will maintain the reader’s senses on excessive alert during the story, to the last sentence. Edgar Allan Poe makes use of […]
The works of Edgar Allan Poe including The Cask of Amontillado and The Tell Tale Heart show a much darker and sinister side of the human spirit compared to the selfless, humanitarian stories of O. Henry’s The GIft of the Magi and James Hurst’s The Scarlet Ibis. They are very similar in many ways. From […]
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Heroic Characteristics Creon is the leader or person of status in the play, “Antigone” by Sophocles. His status was the new king of Thebes right after the previous kings Laius and Oedipus had fled. As the king, he seems to care more about the loyalty and the obedience of the laws in his city than […]
Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both novels are set in the city of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which is located on the banks of the Mississippi River. At the end of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, a […]
Mark Twain’s exemplary The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is written according to the perspective of Huckberry Finn, a scarcely educated adolescent who fakes his own passing to get away from his oppressive, smashed dad. He experiences a runaway slave named Jim, and the two leave on a pontoon venture near to the Mississippi River. […]
Dystopia in The Giver Somewhere in the near future lies a world without freedom, emotion, or love. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian book that brings up a lot of questions about where society is going today. Lowry brings readers into a world in which people make no choices for themselves, and are […]
The end of Ernest Hemingway’s short story, A Clean Well-Lighted Place is significant to the story on the whole because it vaguely but poignantly describes the personal and existential sense of self that defines the human condition for some. Hemingway accomplishes this through expert use of short and vague transitions and parallels between the older […]
Throughout Steven Crane’s “The Open Boat”, a true story experienced by the author, there are expressions of both physical and mental courage. These courageous acts are what kept up the morale in dire times and resulted in the survival of the captain and his crew. This story shows that when humans are faced with physical […]
It is a well known fact that tablets, phones, e-books, and other technological equipments are advancing everyday and some of the people that once preferred to read printed books now have change their desire and prefer to read online books. Whether a person prefers to read paper books or prefers to read online books depends […]
This poem may be about a past memory of the poet. The title displays a nostalgic mood, when it is first read, and shows the poet’s desire to remember his childhood through this poem. He may explain his memories of the winter time, or winter break, and a specific event that occurred on Sundays. Paraphrase: […]
Beauty and the Beast is a tale as a old time, that has traveled across several countries, and has been translated and adapted by many authors. It tells the story of a girl named Belle who falls in love with a cursed beastly man. Belle’s love and kindness towards the Beast saves him from the […]
A large, all black bird with a hefty bill and shaggy neck feathers is the common identification of a raven. Being an antisocial bird and it’s all black completion allow it to be a figurative mascot of all things dark a dreary. In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it is easy to […]
Abstract The woman’s image in confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath shows her anxieties, and pictured at first as a stereotype woman, a wife a mother judged and controlled by men. Then she tries to break those images and stripe herself from any label or identity created for her even though she is lost and confuse […]
A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”- Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In the world we live in today women are only defined by their looks, when what truly defines them is their character. The poem “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou, explains […]
Have you ever wondered how your life in heaven is like? Some may immediately think of a paradise where all wishes come true. Some may imagine a peaceful life with only serenity. With the discrepancy in different religions and life experience, everyone might have a different interpretation of heaven. In the book The Five People […]
Today I will be talking about why both charter Zo from “Fear” and Hazel from “Raymond’s Run” are strong characters because they both protect themself and others they both never give up and both of them want to protect someone. When i first started reading these stories I thought there were both weak characters because […]
Psychology began blooming during the late 1800s in America with only a few major concepts and scientific experiments. Multiple diagnoses and theories were made without proper research, particularly the Rest Cure treatment developed by neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell. The Rest Cure was a treatment for hysteria, neurasthenia, and other nervous illnesses; this was most commonly […]
A person’s identity is crafted by their environment. This affects who they portray themselves as and directly corresponds with who they have relationships with. Junior’s identity and relationships in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie are primarily affected by poverty, race, and customs because of the reservation that he […]
Edwin Arlington Robinson, in his poem ‘Richard Cory’ portrays a man envied by people in his town due to his wealth and fashion. The people wish to be like him just at the sight of his magnificent look and place Richard Cory on a pedestal. The author portrays the main character to be richer than […]
Quite possibly the most fundamentally difficult thing for a man to do, is to examine himself, and come to the realization that his time is limited. We get an insight into this struggle in “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare. The excerpt of sonnet 73 that we are going to examine is written by William Shakespeare. […]
People who have endured love and the obstacles it encompasses will agree that life is nothing without love. This idea is strongly exemplified in the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. In this teenage romance, a plethora of health related obstacles are thrown at Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, two teenagers […]
Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan is a personal narrative about a young chinese american girl who has a crush on a blond American boy named Robert. On christmas eve, her parents invited Roberts family for dinner and Amy was mortified about the idea of him witnessing her chinese customs. Throughout the narrative the author uses […]
Elaine Potter Richardson is a Caribbean American writer, born May 25, 1948 in St. John’s, Antigua. At the young age of seventeen, Elaine left her home in St. John’s to live in New York City. According to the Britannica, Elaine worked as an au pair before winning a photography scholarship in New Hampshire. In 1973 […]
There were many different stories in the Summer Reading Collection that made me explore different aspects of writing. They each used several techniques to add to the complexity and overall understanding of the story. The one story that had brought the greatest reaction out of me was the short story, On The Rainy River, by […]
A masterpiece is a work that in style, execution, and resonance far exceeds what other writers have created in the same genre (Janaro & Altshuler, 2017). A masterpiece, has a timeless quality that can always stand on its own, whereas, a classic, may lose relevance based on time and circumstance (Janaro & Altshuler, 2017). A […]
It is my firm belief that leaders are made. When you’re born, your brain is a clean slate, ready to be filled with new knowledge and experiences. That’s why linguists encourage parents who wish for a bilingual child to start early, so that by the time they’re six or seven they speak two or more […]
A tragic hero can be deemed as virtuous character who makes a lapse of judgment, in turn, bringing on their own demise. Throughout The Crucible, the author depicts John Proctor as a tragic hero who has many vices including lust, lies, and adultery. In fear of being ousted, Proctor, who’s reputation is highly respected, attempts to suppress his […]
During the 18th and 19th centuries, women were seen as inferior to men by society. Similarly in the novel, Frankenstein, women lacked any leading roles. Throughout “Frankenstein”, the audience hears from three main perspectives, all of which are men. At first glance, it appears that the female characters in the story have no role in […]
Every family, social group, religion or even an individual has their own unique and special way of doing something. Tradition is something that one is born into, or later adapt to. Tradition is the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice. […]
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a gothic odiousness story made by Charlotte Perkins Gilman who was an excited and inventive creator and was consistently fiery to make the world all the more reasonable for women. Still up in the air to have unembellished example of horror after the presentation of her daughter. On account of her […]
