Essays on Literature

It might seem like “ Everything is going to be ok” and “Raymond’s are very different kinds of stories. They are both the same kind of story Realistic fiction they are both about kids that do not have many friends and have one thing that they love. Now if you look a little closer, both...

Abstract Johnathan Kozol is one of the most prolific names in American education for almost 50 years. A passionate supporter of public schools, Kozol has spent the majority of his life fighting and advocating for equal educational opportunity so that all American students can be afforded an equitable education. He is a well known writer...

Twelfth Night is like. Similar to many of William Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth Night, has been around for many centuries and is still applicable in current society, because there are many important life lessons provided. Twelfth Night, moreover, provides important life lessons about love, friendship and deception. Twelfth Night, to begin with, provides lessons about the...

In the novel The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom there are examples of how hate grows and how it can be stopped. Hate is an intense and/or passionate dislike for someone or something; it can grow in size. It cannot grow into more hatred because if you hate something you already dislike it as...

In the novella, ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens, the themes of fear and guilt are utilised to exhibit the development of the protagonist, Scrooge. Personal attributes such as cold-hearted and selfish prolong his distaste of Christmas which refers to the bourgeois in the eighteen-forties who were ignorant and treated the proletariat without respect. The...

Poetry has been able to withstand the tests of time. You can find examples of poetry throughout history, going back to works like The Odyssey by Homer. Poetry has existed in one form or another as long as language has existed. Recently, you hear that poetry is dying. In reality, poetry is thriving. More people...

In the play Antigone, by Sophocles, the two sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices die fighting for the position of King. Their uncle, Creon, then turns to take the throne. Creon rules that Eteocles has a proper burial and since Polynices was fighting on the opposing side, he considered him a traitor, so he left...

In Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, The Martian Chronicles, isolation is the worst mental state you can be in when you’re the last man on Mars. In the chapter, The Silent Towns, we read about a man named Walter Gripp run happily around his town, Marlin Village. Then one night, he understands how lonely he...

The theme of a written work is known as the moral or lesson meant to be learned from that certain work. That varies from every written work to the next one, so themes often rely on the literary techniques that the author’s use. Authors can use any literary techniques such as similes and onomatopoeia to...

“The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker and “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs are short stories describing the struggles of being segregated because of diversity. In “The Stolen Party” the protagonist, Rosaura, a nine year-old Latina girl, goes to a party thinking she’s a guest but ends up being worked by her mother’s employer, Senora Ines,...