‘Orange Is the New Black’ is an American comedy-drama series streaming on Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir about her experiences in a minimum-security federal prison. It covers themes such as racism, sexism, and the monetization of human beings. The Black Lives Matter movement is also an extremely important theme of the finale of Season 4, alongside...
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‘Sigfried’s Smelly Socks!’ by Len Foley is a funny story for children from 4 to 7 years old. A small boy Siegfried is trying to find out what's stinking so bad about the book. Every page of it reveals a new answer to the question: where could the bad smell possibly come from? The book invites us on a journey...
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‘Stargirl’ is a novel by the author Jerry Spinelli. Jerry is an American writer that grew up in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and he now lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He decided to become a writer at the age of 16 after a poem he wrote about sports was published in a local newspaper. Jerry went to Gettysburg College and he got his...
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One of the key themes in the novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens is the theme of the supernatural because it symbolizes all the aspects and the allegories of the two social problems of life. One aspect of the theme supernatural that the writer focuses on occurs at the beginning of the novel. Stave 1 embodies how the Ghost...
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In the essay ‘Mother Tongue’, the author, Amy Tan, offers a different, extra upbeat standpoint on the exclusive types of English that immigrants talk about adapting to American culture. Using easy language to increase her argument, she communicates casually to the target market rather than informs it in a way that helps the audience apprehend what is being presented more...
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In today's world, language plays a fundamental role in portraying the ideas of specific cultures over time. Some of the earliest forms have been around since the Common Era, Old English being one of the most developed languages. In the essay ‘Mother Tongue’ by Amy Tan, readers are engaged in her unique writing style as Tan expresses her childhood growing...
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When you think of a cult, what is the first thing you think of? KKK, Manson Family, or Heaven’s Gate? Would you consider the Internet to be a cult? “A system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object” is the definition according to the dictionary. Throughout history, there have been many real-life and fictional interpretations...
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Growing up, everyone wanted to become like Ricky, many people asked themselves what doesn't he have? Quickly becoming the best-scouted player in the nation for his abilities to play football, which led to his receiving full-ride scholarships. Having both parents, a spacious house, and his own car, from the outside Ricky, was perfect. Until the morning of Christmas Eve, when...
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“Meaning, while a slippery concept, seemed inextricable from human relationships and moral values”. Intending to find the ‘meaning’ of life, 36-year-old Paul Kalanithi pursues a career and devotes his life to a neurosurgeon. But everything takes a turn when the doctor turns a patient himself. The book is the journey of the author who was once an actor but now...
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When people of different cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds are living together, they tend to see themselves as a representation of a larger society. ‘The Book of Unknown Americans’ tells a story about people coming from different countries to the United States. Every character moved to the United States for a different reason: some moved because of better education and healthcare...
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A few stories can influence individuals inwardly, yet every so often a story can call an individual to run away from it. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is a captivating story with mind-blowing utilization of setting and shocking characters that draws in perusers and can move them to encounter life more profoundly. As a youngster, J.R.R. Tolkien lived in Africa...
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“The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream”. Azar Nafisi (a writer and professor of English literature) superbly captures how the pursuit of the American Dream can cause the oppression of others. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’ is a letter addressed to...
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Feasting, as defined by Linwood Fredericksen from the Encyclopedia Britannica, is “a day or period of time set aside to commemorate, ritually celebrate or reenact, or anticipate events or seasons—agricultural, religious, or sociocultural—that give meaning and cohesiveness to an individual and to the religious, political, or socioeconomic community”. Holiday feasts were an essential part of the social scene of the...
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Elizabethan play or theatre, also known as English Renaissance theatre, is referred to as the plays written and performed during the reign of Elizabeth I of England from 1558 to 1603 CE. The actors of the play were generally touring troupes and the plays were written in blank verse. The plays, more often than not, are based on non-religious themes....
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Rather than centralizing on postcolonial critiques of Caliban as the colonized ‘Other’ in The Tempest, Atwood reimagines a humanist critique of the Fletcher Correctional Players in Hag-Seed. Inspired by Canada’s reformative prison literature of the Shakespeare Behind Bar program, Atwood adapts the universality of Shakespeare’s language to allow the inmates to transgress their mundane existence through the rehabilitative power of...
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Discoveries can provide new insights that transform an individual’s perception of themselves and the world. Both William Shakespeare’s tragicomedy The Tempest (1611) and Laura Palmer’s memoir, Mystery is the Precinct Where I Found Peace (2002) highlight how introspection enables individuals to be emotionally transformed. Furthermore, both texts reveal how by reconsidering prior assumptions, individuals may discover renewed perspectives and future...
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Feminist literary criticism arose from the work of first-wave feminism but mostly came about from second-wave feminism in the early 1960s. Inspired by the civil rights movement in the US, women of all ages began fighting to secure a more prominent role in society. They strove for equality between men and women in the workforce. Post-colonial readings represent the aftermath...
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The Tempest is a challenging play to categorize because it is considered by most scholars to be Shakespeare's final solo piece. It has been classified as a 'problem plays,' and examination of the work has emphasized the work's straightforward nature. Many have sought to link Prospero to Shakespeare himself, viewing the play as a last act. Part of the problem...
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Textual conversations allow a perfect and personal amalgamation of our own experiences and the moral lessons taught by the texts. Textual conversations expose the benefit of the experience detailed in Literature and how they relate to our life and the human condition. All expectations, thoughts, and experiences are relative to our past experiences, our whole lives are experienced in comparisons...
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The successful reframing of prisons in texts engages an audience to explore the powerful change of perspectives on prisons through the isolation of characters and differing contexts. In the prose fiction ‘Hag-Seed,’ Atwood's appropriation of The Tempest, reframing the metaphorical prisons in Shakespeare's'‘ The Tempest’ to a literal representation has shifted the audience to a modern view of prisons. Thus,...
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Are you happy in your life? Did you find happiness in your life? This question has been asked by people of all ages from different many countries. They asked what this happiness feeling is, what it's like, and how it can be held longer. If you try asking people, what is happiness or what it means to them, you would...
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Throughout history, women have been constrained by their corresponding society’s beliefs, and nurture that instruct or compel them to be who they are not necessarily meant to be. This issue has been limiting feminine freedom and failed to admire the humanistic approach to consider all individuals to be equally free, fenced with no boundaries. This essay is subjected to outline...
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Relationships can often affect our sense of being to the point where we cannot discern the difference in how much we have changed within ourselves. Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl convey that one can easily lose their identity and self-being which can lead to one becoming easily vulnerable...
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In the nineteenth century, women were oppressed in American society at the time, and it was dangerous for women to fight back. The women’s role in society wasn’t pleasant either and no one could fully understand what it meant to be a woman or the hardships they were faced with at the time, to which they also weren’t allowed to...
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The story of Jeannette Walls is nothing short of what you could describe as nightmarish. From living in houses with caving walls to dealing with a narcissistic, alcoholic father, Walls endured a childhood of horrors. Through Walls’ traumatic childhood, we experience the constant turmoil, dysfunction, and broken promises that she lived with throughout these crucial years of her life. Walls’...
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“Instead of worrying about what cannot be controlled, an individual must shift their energy into what can be created” (Roy T. Bennett). Jeannette Walls from The Glass Castle and Baby from Lullabies For Little Criminals have been trapped in a state of disillusionment their entire lives. Delusion runs in the Walls family, and the children lack a rational parental influence...
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How the Mother is Psychoanalytically important in the story In The Glass Castle including her hierarchy of needs. Her Id and superego are used in many situations throughout the story. She abuses her lifestyle making there will always be a happy ending to her interactions and if there isn't there is always a fight or an argument about what happened....
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Could you imagine being forced to make your own meals at the age of three? Well, that is exactly what Jeanette Walls experiences in The Glass Castle, a novel written about her life growing up. Throughout the book, she tells her readers about difficult times in her life that she experienced during her childhood. Rex, the author’s father, displays anger...
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I think that many Americans don’t trust the government. Maybe it's part of that breaking off from the British. I think for most people this is a cultural thing, but for Rex Walls, a character in the memoir, The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls it is a reaction to his life experiences. Rex is an interesting person who is sometimes...
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For those unfortunate to have dealt with a near-death experience, combat exposure, childhood physical abuse, sexual violence, and physical assault have faced what is known as a traumatizing event. Many people are lucky enough to recover sooner than others; however, the rest often face at-risk exposure to ASD (Acute Stress Disorder), Adjustment Disorder, and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). According...
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