Essays on Book

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is a short story written by Ursula Le Guin. The setting of this story takes place in a Utopian society where joy and prosperity can only exist if one child is locked away in constant abuse and neglect under the city. Just imagine living Life carefree, Life in...

The short story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Márquez which is about a mysterious decaying angel who falls to earth and is kept in a backyard chicken coop by a family who is annoyed by his presence and treated poorly, while another character in the story was a young girl who...

Death of a salesman has conveyed a deeper meaning of the American Dream by presenting Willy Lomans American dream to he be his ultimate goal in life in order to be liked and above all. Physiologically speaking Willy is seen as narcissistic because of how he was brought up in his childhood, his defensive self...

In Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, an epic about a family’s tragic undoing and their subsequent rebuilding in postcolonial Africa, Kingsolver explores the theme of an inevitable power struggle between preservation native religion and the spread of Christianity. Through the voice of Ruth May, the youngest girl in the Price family, Kingsolver depicts an encounter...

Jack London’s short story titled, ‘To Build A Fire’ is one of the most emblematically splendid stories that has added to the advancement of our American writing. It is too simple to even think about going endlessly about the concealed lessons that Jack needed his perusers to gain from and contemplate over. In this way,...

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is a multifaceted novel, which uses an array of complex symbols which runs parallel to the main plot and adds as a concentrated form of the whole storyline. Certain scenes in the novel have got ample attention and critical research for their multipurpose approach to the whole theme of Tolstoy’s work. One...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a haunting story about a young girl named Dolores Haze, who is seduced and coerced into a sexual relationship by a man who uses the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. Humbert develops a fascination with Dolores and eventually marries her mother so he can stay close to her. This obsession makes him...

The Outsiders demonstrates the hero’s Journey better than Santiagos by showing the following hero’s journey stages: meeting the mentor, a refusal to the call and crossing the threshold. Ponyboy has a better mentor than Santiago because he gives the boys life saving advice. In the Outsiders, the mentor is Dallas Winston. Dallas Winston gives Ponyboy...

A warrior is often viewed as someone that competes in physical battles, however, in the memoir, “The Woman Warrior”, that is not so. A character by the name of Kingston is portrayed as a warrior but the so-called warrior qualities of a physically competitive individual have no match against the mental capabilities a real warrior...

Kino and his family were appreciative of everything they had, but when Kino discovers the pearl it shapes him to become a different person. He sees the pearl as a symbol of hope and protection. It holds wealth, which drives Kino into an ambition to get money. What he doesn’t know is that the pearl...