Essays on Book

The author Kate Chopin fights a battle to bring her readers thoughts provoking literature in a world where one cannot conflict with beliefs in the traditional society. In her book, The Story of an Hour Kate uses irony, character development, and plot control to bring her readers into a world of emotions that society does...

Beloved, Toni Morrison’s novel, is considered a most representative work. The novel tells the story of a runaway slave Sethe who kills her daughter in order to get her out of slavery. Beloved is the name that Sethe gave her dead daughter. The most striking artistic feature of this novel is that the author uses...

1. Introduction The picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic novel written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1890. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of London’s most popular playwrights in 1890. With “The Picture of Dorian Gray” which would be his first and only novel, he...

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a novel about Meursault, a character who’s different and even threatening views on life take him to pay the highest price a person can pay: his life. The novel embodies philosophies of existentialism and absurdism. Existentialist and absurdist philosophies entail principles regarding that one’s identity is not based on...

The Crucible is a play about the witch trials of Salem in 1692. In these trials, many women and some men were falsely accused and were either put in jail or hanged for not confessing to witchcraft. These accusations started when Abigail and many other teens got caught by Reverend Parris dancing in the woods...

The infamous book The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger in 1951. During the book, Holden expresses his feelings between the equality of men and women. Explaining how men are superior to men. Seeing them just for their curves and good looks, more-so as an object rather than a person. Not having really...

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and A Separate Peace by John Knowles both focus on true friendship and obstacles that will try and block this bond. I believe that these two novels are worthwhile to be compared because they both share many common themes such as guilt within inner self, redemption of one’s self,...

The book The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man named James Gatsby and his way of pursuing the American dream in the 1920s. Taking place in the villages of east and west egg, Narrated by Nick Caraway a young man who finds himself in a situation with an American man named...

Throughout the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, readers are given an in-depth glimpse into the thoughts and actions of the women of the Price family during their time in the Congo. Within this time, the audience learns many things about the characters and primarily the daughters, such as how twins Leah and Adah...

Chapter 1-2 While reading this chapter I noticed Melville’s technique when it comes to his writing style. His sentences are long, complex, and tough. In comparison, he’s nearly like Shakespeare within the sense that he has been influenced by him. This is shown in the way he’s cramming the sentences to its maximum capacity. I...