Essays on Book

In reading Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont, Jr.’s philosophical translation of The Analects of Confucius, alongside Stephen Mitchell’s translation of the timeless Bhagavad Gita, I found that both texts overlap in the clear precedent placed upon the idea of one’s duty, but differ immensely in their explanation as their formulaic structures contrast, and in...

The poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou and the novel “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest J. Gaines explore what it means to condemn hatred while maintaining a positive attitude. Both texts demonstrate the universal idea of overcoming prejudice, specifically the suffering of African-Americans throughout history. A theme statement that is common to both...

In the novel, White Noise, Don DeLillo, the author, leads us on a journey that follows the life of Jack, a chairman of Hitler Studies, and his wife Babette, who eventually shares the same fear of death as her husband. Throughout, the novel Babette makes morally ambiguous decisions that affect her family because of her...

In the third section of White Noise by Don DeLillo, the protagonist, Jack, digs for information about his wife, Babette’s, secret medication, Dylar. As Babette reveals that “Mr. Gray let [her] use [Dylar]” after she “offered [her] body” a critical shift is seen in White Noise. In the above quotation, Babette introduces Mr. Gray, the...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” displays that we as a people persecute and torture the people who are different because we refuse to put in the effort to know and understand them as people. No one in the entire town shows the elderly man any form of sympathy...

Eudora Welty born 13 April 1909 and died 23 July 2001, both in Jackson, Mississippi. Welty went to Mississippi State College before she transferred to the University of Wisconsin. Her first short story was published in 1936. Before her book won, she worked at a radio station in Jackson, Mississippi. Even after she passed away...

The Great Gatsby is very relevant nowadays in modern-day society. It’s “The Great America Tragedy” that speaks to common, unchanged themes of the made obtaining riches, the poor obtaining poorer, which you can’t perpetually get what you would like. Gatsby remains relevant because it prevents the dark facet of the ambition and will therefore with...

‘The Bath’ by ‘Janet Frame’ is about a frail and lonely elderly lady who struggles to complete simple tasks such as taking a bath. She visits her husband’s grave every year, without fail, on the anniversary of his death, as it is revealed that this is the only place in which she feels safe and...

Have you ever wished you could have whatever you want? A scary story is a type of story that mainly focuses on creating a sensation of fear in the readers. Readers love to read scary stories because it gives them a bit of a thrill, an adrenaline rush from being scared out of their minds,...

Characters: Anne Shirley: Protagonist, red headed orphan, very intelligent, high spirited and talks a lot, sometimes she can be stubborn but determined, she imagines a lot of stuff , she is very self conscious of her red hair. Marilla Cuthbert: Anne´s adoptive mother, she is Mathew´s sister, she is very strict and often cold and...