Essays on Book

Shirely Jackson, writer of many art works, in her short story “The Lottery”(1948) argues that tradition should not be followed in every situation when men are always first, and women take the backseat. Jackson shows her argument with different examples that include traditional living versus newer living. She writes to an audience of all ages...

Why ‘Of Mice And Men’? The answer is that Steinbeck’s classic is short, comprising only six chapters, and that its themes continue to be considered relevant to 21st Century society. The novella is powerful and an exceptionally passionate portrayal of fellowship between two homestead hands for enlist (George Milton and Lennie Small) who structure a...

Religion- The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Lily is a teenage girl whose mother died when she was young and uses religious symbols to find connect with her mother. She grows up with her unloving father. Lily is closer with Rosaleen her nanny who is...

Coming of age is the transition from childhood to adulthood, often children undergoing changes, with time, become more mature. In The Secret Life of Bees, Lily is a teenage girl living in a small town in South Carolina. Lily’s mother passed away when she was young and Lily struggles to cope with her mother’s death...

Published in 1961, Catch-22 is an absurd novel that spoke to the preoccupations of the second half of the 20th century. One can detect its absurdity from the very first chapter as Joseph Heller intentionally flouts the conventions of traditional novel form with a non-linear chronology, a fragmented plot, and aimless actions that highlight the...

In the short story “The Necklace,” we could see that a fake mein especially that of wealth is frequently overlaid with reality. To look wealthy, Mathilde proceeded to borrow a costly diamond necklace from her friend and then proceeds to misplace it at the ball. This placed Mathilde and her husband in a horrible predicament...

Epiphany refers to the point in a literary text when a character has a sudden realization or insight that affects his or her views in some significant way. In both short stories “Araby” by James Joyce and “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver the narrators both go through an epiphany. In “Abary” the narrator and also the...

A very powerful quote by Andy Biersack, “Stand up for what you believe in even if it means standing alone” represents John Proctors dignity throughout the book. His lust for Abigail Williams at the beginning of the play leads to a secretive affair that throws both him, Abigail, and those they care about in a...

The Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood and William Faulkner’s short story of Barn Burning are both influential in expressing what society expects of men and women in different periods. In the familiar tale of Red Riding Hood, the author focuses primarily on a young girl who shows vulnerability to strangers. Similarly...

All stories can be segmented into beginning middle and an end. A worn path by Eudora weity follows this pattern. In the beginning we meet phoenix as she makes her lonely journey encountering various obstacles in the natural world such as a steep hill, thorns which snag on her clothes, a log laid across a...