Essays on Literature

Have you ever wondered, “why do people lie?” Throughout all the stories we read this unit, 3 stories stuck out to me on how they lied and ended up getting caught. A story that portrays my theme statement is Charles. Another story that illustrates my theme statement is The Jacket. The last story that caught...

The 1937 novel ​Of Mice and Men​ by John Steinbeck tells the tale of two workers who have a dream. The two workers by the name of George Milton and Lennie Smalls. These two men have two different personalities that do not take long to understand. They have a lifelong friendship together and are on...

First appearances can be deceptive; blind trusts can be deadly. Trusting a person that might look honest and truthful on the surface doesn’t always turn out the way you expected the person to be. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the character, general Zaroff is a psychopath which hunts people that pass by the...

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter is arguably the best novel series of mankind. This whirlwind of magic, drama, love, action. Good vs. Evil, and friendship can leave you holding the book 3 inches from your nose, completely taken aback, and breathing in fumes of ink and paper. Whether you devote a week to indulge in this...

Should child soldiers be given amnesty is a dispute that has been brought up recently. Lots of news and articles are discussing and informing what a child soldier is and what they have done. “Child soldier” is a shorthand term for a girl or boy under the age of 18 recruited or used by any...

Throughout the years, scientist have discovered many outstanding findings or work with the help of technology. As in De-Extinction by, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, and Silent Springs by Rachel Carson, all share the same idea. All of these show the good and bad behind the use of technology. Some people...

The great writer Vicki Harrison is known for saying the famous quote “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it’s overwhelming. All we can do is learn how to swim”. In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet encounters the loss of many...

Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is a well-known comedic love story behind the walls of humor and satire. It revolves around Cyrano de Bergerac’s failed pursuit of love of a maiden named Roxanne because of his many personal flaws. Ironically, these are the exact flaws that prompt many to regard Cyrano as a tragic hero. Although...

Feminism is a branch of social theory which symbolizes the struggle for the participation of women in social and political formulation specifically, both at domestic and social levels of life; women are relegated to the background and subordinates to their male counterparts. In African society, feminism has been deployed through a hostile barrier as the...

There are many controversial topics in society today, and religion is one of the few; religion is the dogma and reverence of an individual(s) of a higher controlling power whether that means it is one God or multiple gods/goddesses. Although it may be controversial, there are a vast amount of novels that have tried to...