Category: Literature

The novelette ‘Blackberry Winter’ recounts one eventful day in Seth’s childhood when he was years old. Blackberry winter is referring to a cold weather in June. The story happens in Tennessee. The story has a backward observation. For example, “But I did follow him, all the years,” (Warren 41), clearly indicates that the narrator is…

The short stories Cathedral by Raymond Carver and A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley, while they differ in characterization, both employ a detached narrative point of view to create an emotional experience of profound isolation in the reader. In Carver’s (2006) story, we learn the emotional isolation experienced by the narrator almost immediately,…

Table of Contents Introduction Plain life of Dodgson versus the colorful landscape of Wonderland Mathematics in Dodgson’s works and in his life New higher moral identity in Alice and Lewis Carroll Conclusion Bibliography Introduction Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) wrote two popular books for children – “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking-Glass and…

Introduction The Tale of Genji is an ancient Japanese writing credited to the Japanese novelist Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century. The book is sometimes referred to as the world’s first novel and its specific classification and influence in both the eastern and western cultures has been a subject of dispute. It was originally…

Table of Contents Introduction Historical Background The Symbolic Meaning on the Protagonist without a Name Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Reading any novel, people try to notice as much as they can to consider the main idea of the literature work and to understand the purpose for writing this specific information. Each novel has a specific…

Table of Contents Introduction Discussion of Camus’ Notions Conclusion Works Cited Introduction General idea The English proverb suggests the idea that the number of people on the earth equals the number of minds. However, it is possible to argue this statement because people change their mind during their life or every minute though a strong…

Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs can be considered as a semi-autobiographical play because the writer inserted his childhood memories of living in New York before the World War II. The play differs much from other Simon’s works because it represents a combination of two genres uniting skilful characterizations and humor. Brighton Beach Memoirs narrates the…

Leukemia felled American poet Charles Bukowski in 1994, but not before a long and eventful life battling a legion of demons: acne, booze, bad women, self-doubt, self-loathing, fear, aging, and the literary establishment. Though Bukowski penned some of American literature’s finest poems in his career, literary respect and recognition never materialized. Somehow, Bukowski never seemed…

An offspring of the first African American migration from the South to North and Northwest, the Harlem Renaissance spanned roughly twenty five years (1910-1935). With literature, art, and music as the primary vehicle, the epoch was characterized by racial pride and desire to “uplift” the race (Bean, 1991). Proof of humanity, the demand for equality,…

Table of Contents Jacobs, Harriet Ann Ferguson, Moira Yellin, Jean Fagan Titus, Mary Yarbrough, Fay A. Washington, Margaret Works Cited Jacobs, Harriet Ann Harriet Ann Jacobs is one of the most prominent female abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Her personal experience enabled people to give a clear insight into the whole scope of issues concerning…