The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston can largely be considered a work of resistance. Janie Crawford’s quest for fulfilment, freedom and autonomy, the development of her personal voice and the use of voice throughout the text, showcases the power of black people- particularly black women- to define their own futures and harness their voices. The...
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Although i have read so many books but i think this book is one of the best life changing and transforming books i have read. Who Moved My Cheese has really given me insight in some of the things that i have already done that i never knew that what i was going through was a direct implication of those...
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When Erich Maria Remarque’s first published, All Quiet on Western Front in 1929, scholars of historical medicine, and history, analyzed the effects of war on soldiers. Analyzing effects of war on individuals allowed various scholars and medical professionals to quantify war-trauma in terms of desensitization to life, and a loss of hope. Charles Hamilton Sorley’s poem, When You see Millions...
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In our world today there are a lot of people who deal with depression according to ADAA “322 million people worldwide live with depression. In 2014, around 15.7 million adults age 18 or older in the U.S. had experienced at least one major depressive episode in the last year (6.7% of adults in the U.S.)”. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte...
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A very compelling book, Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life written by Spencer Johnson. There are four main characters that the book talks about, Sniff and Scurry (who are little mice) and Hem and Haw (little beings who are human like) who find themselves in a “maze” looking...
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“Sonny’s Blues”, written by James Baldwin is a short fiction story published in 1957. The story takes place at the beginning of the civil rights movement. It describes the relationship between two brothers, one that has fallen in the drug cycle of Harlem, and the other who tried to not repeat the same pattern and become a successful man. Nonetheless,...
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Christopher McCandless was a young man who wanted to give the world a challenge and use his energy to survive in the wild. He had very few reasons for venturing out into the wild without the proper equipment and gear to survive for at least a month. But of those reasons was one of a determination to become a hero...
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The setting in all short stories is a very important part, setting is the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event happens. The setting is important in the stories “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’brien, “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin and “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway. It is important to establish...
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American Born Chinese, written by Gene Luen Yang, is a fictional graphic novel. It is a mix of realistic fiction and fantasy, where some parts of the story are more realistic and others more imaginative and fictional. I first read the book for my Language and Literature class at my previous school last year, and afterward went back to the...
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Abstract The thematic study sheds light upon the issues based on the identities. The immigrants were lost their originality because of the adaptation of new culture in Alien Nations. The immigrants have suffered a lot and also longing for their original life style. So, the paper deals with the identity crisis in the novel Namesake. The novel shows that how...
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In 2018, books that religion in them generated 593.7 million U.S. dollars in sales revenue. The text we will be analyzing is Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” This takes place in the present day and the genre of the story is a short story. Some characters we will be analyzing is the grandmother and The Misfit...
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Harrison Bergeron, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, displays many themes throughout the story. A main theme throughout the story is how a person in power feels threatened by those they control and how total equality is forced in society. While reading, the setting takes place in the United States of America in 2081 where the 211th, 212th, 213th amendment...
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In the story of “The Scarlet Ibis”, James hurts presents the Doodle’s disability to express that pride can cause people to be cruel even to those they love. Therefore, the narrator was embarrassed by his brother because of the disabilities that he has. To be more specific, the narrator states that, “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed...
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Today, women are and will continue to be rising up the ranks in culture. Unfortunately, this was not the case for women of the 1800s as seen in Charlotte Perkins Gillman’s shorty story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story is narrated by, as well as told about an upper-class, a married woman who has been diagnosed by her husband John, a...
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a novel that gives a graphic, realistic portrayal of the horrors of war through the narration of Paul Bäumer, a German soldier who enlists in World War I. The novel focuses on Paul's day to day life and fight to survive while stationed in the western front while the...
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More people in Auschwitz died than in any other Nazi concentration camp. Could you live bearing the fact that your life was at stake for just being yourself? Faith is required to keep hope, when we also see people's vulnerabilities, we grow closer. Night by Elie Weisel is a strong example of this belief. In this book, a father and...
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On a bleak and dreary Yukon day, the man in Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”, embarks on a quest searching for gold. Although an old-timer advises the man to not venture out in such frigid cold, the man decides that he is well-equipped for his journey and can make it alone using only his dog and naturalist abilities. The...
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It is safe to say that success is everyone’s goal in life. Throughout the book Outliers written by Malcolm Gladwell, there were different factors stated that would lead to success. Many of those will be stated and discussed throughout this essay. Some of the factors that contribute to success are the 10,000 rule, properly coping with failure, the idea that...
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The Illusion of Success: Willy Loman’s Pursuit of the American Dream In the play, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller establishes a variety of themes such as the American Dream and disillusionment. Under a Marxist perspective, Death of a Salesman is a critique of a capitalist American society and materialistic lies that are written deep within the American Dream. Willy...
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After watching the short film twice, the first thing I did was research the purposes of each character and who portrayed each character. Of course, I decided to research the character I found most interest in first, Mary Maloney, the story’s protagonist; she was the wife of Patrick Maloney. A happy and devoted housewife who was six months pregnant with...
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What if you lived your whole life without ever getting to know anyone in the world? What if you could never have a meaningful conversation with anyone at all? Human connection is a prominent theme in “Fahrenheit 451” because it shows the reclusive reality that the main character, Guy Montag, lives in. Although socialization is one of the most important...
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Robinson Crusoe prayed to God to help him survive his illness and he also repented to his sin because of his past doings; as he had quarreled with his family and pursuing his dreams. He regretted it because he was being put into danger and realized that if he obeys his parents in the first place, his life would not...
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The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger is a classic novel about a young man named Holden Caulfield and his journey into the adult world. Holden has been to many schools and kicked out many times. Holden tells the story of his expulsion and the adventures following it. He runs into a variety of characters on his journey...
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Women stepping into the masculine role is exemplified in both Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. In response to the men’s inability to fulfill their duties, these dynamic characters take on the masculine role to fill the void. Antigone must burry her brother against Creon’s demands when he refuses to perform the proper ritual rites. Lysistrata seeks to stop the war...
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Imagine seeing your best friend getting killed by a police officer in front of your eyes for no legal reason and doesn't get in trouble for it. The Hate U Give is a fictional book by Angie Thomas, about a boy named Khail and a girl named Starr, that is inspired by real life police brutality situations. Angie Thomas was...
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An analysis of Milton’s use of dreaming as a crucial motif and idea throughout Paradise Lost, especially in the four books preceding the fall, is one of the most revealing ways of analysing the reasoning and events leading to the Fall. Dreams, specifically Eve’s Satanically inspired dream in Books VI and V, have been the subject of fairly extensive critical...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude has been and continues to be a phenomenal success around the world. When the novel first came out, its Argentine publisher perfected gradual sales of 10,000 copies or so, followed by a drop in interest. Instead the first printing—of 8,000 copies—sold out within one week. The novel took all of Latin America by storm, and...
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African American author and professor Ernest James Gaines once said, “A writer tries to write about what he is a part of.” He has rendered representations of his personal life experiences into true literary depictions of African Americans. Gaines was born in 1933 as a sharecropper's oldest son on a poverty-ridden Louisiana plantation during the depression. As a young boy...
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Maya Angelou is a prolific writer who is regarded as women's poet laureate and her poems are considered as the anthems of African – Americans. She is not only a poet but also a memorist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, film maker and civil right activist. Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of the twentieth...
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Introduction to Connie's Character and Family Dynamics In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, Connie, a 15 years old who is protagonist, is constantly worried about her appearance. Her mother and aunts scolds her for simply admiring herself in the mirror and her looks, however Connie disregards her family's critiques. She...
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