Due to the unconventional way that Tim OâBrien writes his novel, The Things They Carried, many cannot decide which genre it belongs to. The debate lies in the argument of whether the collection of short stories that are part of the book are of fiction, or true to word memoir. While reading the book, the reader has no way of knowing what is real and what is made up as they are exposed to a way of writing that is...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, a great famous writer in the United Stated, was born a serious Puritanism family, his ancestors are prominent in the Puritan theocracy of 17th New England, thus readers can know Puritanism in his work. However, he expressed his different viewpoint in his works like The Scarlet Letter, the bookâ plot develop in accordance with a beautiful wife derailed to a much-admired brilliant young clergyman, then the crime of adultery violate the mainstream consciousness of the society at that...
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Harper Leeâs classic novel, âTo Kill A Mockingbirdâ was published in 1960. The novel is based around the 1930s around the time slavery ended but racism and discrimination was very much alive. This would have a been around the same time as the great depression where everyone didnât have money. Kathryn Stockett film, The Help, was turned into a film in 2011. The film is set in the 1960s when African Americans were still being discriminated and treated differently and...
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In the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression, mental disabilities were seen as a burden on an already struggling society. This was during a time when America did not have the time or resources to commit to people who were not deemed fit, and as such were treated less than human. John Steinbeck portrays this very well in Of Mice and Men through the character Lennie, who has to prove to the society around him that he is...
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The problem with surviving is feeling a responsibility to live a life in a way that is âworthyâ for those who passed away in their presence. The novel The Catcher in the Rye demonstrates shows a teenager trying to be true to himself while facing the issues of growing up, his self-destructiveness, and most importantly, accepting the death of his younger brother Allie. Phoebe, Holden Caulfieldâs little sister, who serves not only as a guide for the readers when Holden...
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Get up with the melodious music played by smartphone. Drink a cup of coffee produced by the automatic coffee maker. Then enter the office by passing through a gate with facial recognition technology. Technology has already become immersed in everyoneâs daily life. In the society, technology has become increasingly important and also an indispensable part of running the society normally. However, technology development has harmful negative side effects, if it is overused because it can make relationships between humans farther...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by American writer, Mark Twain. It was published first in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. âMark Twainâ however, was only the writerâs pen name. Along with âJoshâ and âThomas Jefferson Snodgrass.â His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and he was born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri. This is significant because it is also where his story âHuckleberry Finnâ takes place. Mark...
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Mark Twainâs Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, despite being one of the best selling and top-rated books has brought about a lot of controversies that have stirred mixed emotions among his readers. One of the most popular controversies about his book is the character Jim, who provokes the strongest reactions from readers. Some readers argue that Twainâs characterization of Jim portrays him as racist and that his purpose of creating such a character was/is to ridicule Jim and all southern slaves...
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Puritans arenât anything like Americans today and there are many reasons as to why. Hester Prynne, a young Puritan unlike the rest, committed the sin of adultery. Throughout the book, âThe Scarlet Letterâ by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the story of Hester unfolds. The struggles Hester faces of heartless punishments and publicly being shamed by wearing a letter on her chest for the rest of her life is emphasized throughout the book. Nothing like this could ever happen in society today. American...
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Charles Dickens is considered by Dr. Diniejko of Warsaw University to be Englandâs first âgreat urban novelistâ (par. 1). When the Poor Law of 1834 was established, poverty escalated in the streets of London and the lower class citizens were forced to work in the egregious conditions of the workhouses. Through his traumatic childhood experiences, social involvement, and understanding of Industrial Englandâs flaws, Dickens was able to expose the âeconomic, social, and moral injusticesâ of the Victorian Era by drawing...
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The âHuman Conditionâ is used to reference the qualities that comprise the imperatives of human existence. Chinua Achebeâs âThings Fall Apart,â is one of literary merit, attracting readers worldwide for its use of universal themes. âThings Fall Apartâ takes readers into Umuofian society, where Okonkwo is initially regarded as a warrior of the clan. As the story develops forward and into the changes that meet the traditionalistic clanspeople, Okonkwo is proved to be comprised of many fatal flaws, creating a...
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The ideology of the American Dream was a common goal shared by many individuals in the 20th century and is often the underlying theme in many pieces of American literature. Two popular pieces of literature that portray this notion are F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs The Great Gatsby and John Steinbeckâs Of Mice and Men. Both novels are based around the time after the First World War. The Great Gatsby is set in the summer of 1922, during the Roaring Twenties, an...
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Money is an important topic to most adults in our society. It appears to be that our lives revolve around the journey for money. Although, this mentality often only applies to adults and not children. In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain their society is focused on money. In the novel, Huck, the protagonist and Jim,who is a slave, run away from their civilized town where Jim or Huck are allowed to be free. Pap, Huck's father, was...
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Introduction Eric Arthur Blair, George Orwell real name, was bone in India 1903 to a father of middle classes which was work with the British government. At 2 years old he was brought back to Britain with his mother and sister, finished hi school and failed in college while he was concerned more with writing and literature, he joined police and worked in India, later he joined the communist in Spain and participate in Spanish civil war, after succeed to...
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World War II is known to everyone as the last large-scale world war. This war revealed humanity's darkest and most frightening side. The war had two opposing sides: The Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, Soviet Union, and China) (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). These two groups had very different paths to power, with one path being morally unjust and the other being morally correct. The Axisâ groupâs immoral longing for power...
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One of the main reasons that books are banned across America is because of the numerous racial slurs, vulgarity, and treatment of women used in books. Is this enough to ban them? Some parents agree with the use of these things in âOf Mice and Menâ while others do not. American Experiences said that it teaches ethical and moral issues, they have noticed at their school, they have kids that are protective over those who have special needs. Other parents...
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Lost Youth: Escaping the Conformity of Adulthood Many movies, novels and stories featured in the media revolve around the idea of a hero, and the perfect person who comes in and saves the world. More recently, the idea of the antihero has become increasingly popular. The reader will often find themselves being able to relate to the antihero more, because their flaws are often more prominent than their positive traits. Jay Gatsby and Holden Caulfield are both antiheroes. Holden Caulfield...
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Although the community in The Giver may seem utopian, things are not always what they seem. Lois Lowry, author of many young adult novels, won two Newbery Medals for her books Number the Stars and The Giver. In 2014, The Giver became a film adaptation. The Giver has become a mandatory curriculum book in some schools. The community within the novel The Giver, is not a utopian society because no one had freedoms, they are all the same, and no...
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In the novel âThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finnâ, the family Because there are many parallels between the characters and events within Huck Finn and the events and individuals surrounding Twainâs life, an examination of the biographical and historical context surrounding the novelâs composition reveals that Twain was influenced both socially and personally by the declining moral and social conditions of the family in the late 1800s. The events of the period induced him to indirectly voice his concerns, cautions, and...
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Imagine being an animal on a farm which has been full of pain, overwork, constant hunger, and mistreatment. If there was even a slight chance that there could be an end to that, chances are, it will be taken. That is exactly what the animals on Animal Farm did with little to no knowledge of the possible consequences. If only they knew what they had just doomed themselves into. This book focuses on farm animals whose main focus was to...
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In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pearl is a complex character and has arguably the most depth and most similar to life. Pearl had issues with her own society and community, defined by ridicule and embarrassment. She changed from an imp to a noble lady. A bit of a drastic change by most standards. Pearl is an unusual character and hard to grasp in a full sense but some parts can be understood such as her childhood...
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To understand how the journal that Robinson Crusoe keeps during his stay on the island is a reflection on the genre of the novel we first must understand what a novel is. A novel is a literary work that consists of narration with the purpose of describing interesting events of a set of charactersâ lives which in some cases (like Robinsonâs) can serve as inputs for reflections and/or introspection. Some of the characteristic of the novel are: it tells facts...
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This paper focuses on a construction of a women in âScarlet Letterâ by Nathaniel Hawthorne and the way the woman is shown as a fallen one. Specific methodologies have been chosen to explain, identify and analyse information about this topic - gender, feminist as well as historical methodology. Human beings are differentiated into a man and a woman, women are judged by their looks and actions, and the public never likes them to be even slightly different, sinful or impure....
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sophisticated novel written by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows several uses of written styles to portray the society back then as accurately as possible. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses humour, satire, and his characters in order to create an accurate portrayal and condemnation of religion, education, and freedom in his society. Mark Twain was able to use humour correctly in his book. The book opens with...
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Saint Petersburg is introduced as a comfortable patron town in the âAdventures of Huckleberry Finnâ, but ironically the main characters of the text reveal the obvious social ills it satirizes. A young boy and an escaped slave, Huck, and Jim have many adventures in the book. Twain uses both these characters to satirize different religious views, stereotypes among white people, and other superstitions that make the audience aware of the social ills which ultimately reveals a theme. The first victim...
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Have you ever lost someone you cherish? Well so have the protagonists in the novels, âThe Catcher in the Ryeâ by J.D. Sallinger, and âIâm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughterâ by Erica L. Sanchez. Holden Caulfield and Julia Reyes both experience family disunity along with loss of innocence, trauma,and loss of a loved one. The novels portray the theme that people who genuinely care about you will help you get through the toughest moments. To begin, in the novel âThe...
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Throughout Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez symbolizes Santiago Nasar as a Christlike figure by utilizing numerous parallels with the physical and moral characteristics of Jesus Christ. While the shared themes of fate, sin, and honor are chronicled within both Marquezâs novel and The Bible, Marquez underlies his narrative with subliminal allusions between Santiago and Jesus Christ to provide commentary on cultural traditions and social order in Latin-American and Biblical societies. In his writing, Marquez draws upon these...
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In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck references the lonely lives of ranch hands in the 1930s. The 1930s were a rugged time period, featuring the Great Depression, which caused many workers to lose their jobs and find a new job as a worker or ranch hand. In this time period, ranch workers lived tough lives that usually resulted in them feeling isolated with company around. In the novel, multiple characters such as Curleyâs wife, the only woman on the...
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Abstract The impact of the traditions of the sublime and the picturesque upon American painting and the literature of the Romantic period has been frequently examined, but the importance of these traditions in determining the structure and elements of The Scarlet Letter, one of the chief literary masterpieces of the age, has been little noticed. In the following essay, the author Nathaniel Hawthorneâs depiction of the era after the post-classical age i.e. the seventeenth century is put forward, illustrated through...
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The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, consists of many messages and themes that can be interpreted by the readers. One theme that this novel continues to demonstrate throughout the story is the one of freedom, more specifically the freedom of the protagonist Huck Finn. This gives a short explanation in depth of why Huck ran away, âHuck is running from a civilization that attempts to control him, rather than running in pursuit of something tangible....
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