Category: Literature
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“Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties” by Horowitz
Table of Contents Introduction Sympathy For The Devil For What It’s Worth The End Conclusion Reference Introduction Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties is a critical reflection upon the U.S. counterculture of the 1960s written by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. The authors were in the middle of events: they worked as editors in…
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“Empire of the Sun” by J. G. Ballard
Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion References Introduction “Empire of the Sun” is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballard which was rewarded with the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Even though like Ballard’s previous short story, “The Dead Time,” issued in the anthology Myths of the Near Future, it is mostly fiction, like the…
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The Novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a novel written by Khaled Hosseini that focuses on the life and struggles of two women who became wives of one man by chance. While the novel predominantly focuses on the tragedy of one family, it explores the lives of women and the society they live in through several generations…
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Review of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Table of Contents Introduction The Author’s Inner Demon’s Hesitation in Overcoming his Issues Moving Forward Works Cited Introduction The memoir, “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, by Nick Flynn can be aptly described as a tale of redemption, of finding one’s self and how despite the passage of time and the buildup of resentment family…
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The Rediscovery of Light by Paul Churchland
In writing “The Rediscovery of Light,” written by Paul Churchland, the author emphasizes the issue of confusing epistemological and ontological limits. In addition, he describes the phenomenon of light and thoroughly critiques the other perspectives on this question related to other researchers. In the same manner that Chalmers is making an argument for an anti-reductionist…
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Literature Analysis on “Girl”
Table of Contents Introduction Analysis Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The narrative “Girl” is a piece written by Jamaica Kincaid concerning a mother‘s attempt to teach her daughter about a woman’s role in society. The author’s intentions are evident through her feminist activities, familial relationship as well as the structure of the narrative. This short story…
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“Monster” by Walter Dean Myers: Characters & Style
Alongside with his poems, in 1999, Walter Dean Myers presented an excellent drama novel, Monster, about one 16-year-old black kid, Steve Harmon, who was charged with felony murder. One of the most attractive features of this book is its structure and style of writing. Monster by Walter Dean Myers essay shall provide an analysis of…
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White Noise by Don Delillo Literature Analysis
People have always tried to find the meaning in their life and understand what death is. The novel White Noise by Don Delillo dwells upon these eternal issues. The author explores the ways people see death, and it is clear that those are approaches apparent in society. It is necessary to note that ideas concerning…
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“A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell Review
“A Jury of Her Peers”, written by Susan Glaspell, is a beautiful story in which the writer proves that the female intelligence is not in any way inferior. Where man is blind, woman is capable of understanding things. Gaspell wrote the story based on an actual murder. This story is treated as one of the…
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Four American Authors Review
Richard Cory is the work of Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is a poem with four stanzas; with each stanza having four lines. Three of the four stanzas have a rhyme scheme that takes the pattern a, b, a, b. The other stanza, which is the second stanza has uniform rhyme with each line in the…