Category: Literature

Table of Contents Scansion and Analysis Explication Work Cited Scansion and Analysis A thorough analysis of any poem cannot be done without providing the background on the time it was written at. Langston Hughes, the author of the poem, was quite a significant person during the Harlem Renaissance – a movement for the revival of…

Charlotte Perkins is the author of Herland, a 1915 novel. It is a narrative about a community where only women were allowed to participate in the workforce, giving birth asexually. They have fought back against male dominance by creating a sisterly alliance. Van (the narrator), Jeff, and Terry are three American males who uncover and…

Table of Contents Introduction “Goblin Market” as a guide to behavior for children and adolescents Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Poems, short stories, novels, narratives among other literary works offers us a means through which we can see and understand our nature as human beings, as well as, various cultural, social, and political features of our…

Poetry often has a way of expressing thoughts and feelings that are considered inexpressible in English or any other actual language. It does this by using a variety of tools and literary devices that enable the author to make a bid for the reader’s (or listener’s) attention and emotional involvement. By moving directly toward the…

Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club illustrates the experiences of Chinese families, especially the conflict between mothers and daughters. The screen adaption of this literary work also enables the viewers to understand the nature of this conflict. This paper is aimed at comparing and contrasting the novel and its film adaptation. One should focus…

Several literary writers have portrayed the lives and experiences of minority groups in America. These minorities experienced difficulties in integrating with the dominant white societies of America. Majority suffered cultural identity crisis, racism, segregation, and all manner of discrimination. This essay compares and contrasts Amy Tan’s short story, Fish Cheeks and Brent Staple’s short story,…

Robert Hayden was one of those American authors, who created unbelievably deep and captivating poems with certain meaning and intention. Usually, his poems concentrate readers’ attention on such themes like black man’s place in this world, his desire to find out own identity, and numerous fights, a black man has to face in the streets…

This paper argues that the third person narrative point of view used in Mao Dun’s “Spring Silkworms” and Huang Chun-ming’s “The Drowning of an Old Cat” is necessary for the authors to represent the complete picture of the people’s struggles against the unjust social rules and conditions, and the authors’ use of this narrative point…

Table of Contents Introduction Content Summary Discussion Conclusion Work cited Introduction Impoverished children never imagine a world of possibilities, but a journey full of struggle, which at any given moment starvation, the rage of alcoholic parents, and threats of misfortunes may take them away before they make it to their destinations (Miranda, pp. 192-193). This…

Table of Contents Introduction Political activities undertaken by Sartre due to the World war Conclusion References Introduction The Second World War had a significant impact on the Works of Sartre as a whole. He turned his entire attention to the concept of social responsibility portraying the great concern he had for the poor who suffered…