Category: Literature

Table of Contents Introduction Main body Works Cited Introduction This paper compares Assata Shakur’s Assata: An Autobiography and Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South, two books written almost a decade apart but the similarities of the themes in the two works indicate that there has been change in the position of African American…

Jesmyn Ward describes how she lost five close men in her life within five years in her memoir Men We Reaped. The cause of death of these young men varied from accidents, drugs, suicide, and other misfortunes that befall people living in poverty, especially African American men. Women also suffer when they are left to…

Table of Contents Characterization: The explanation of the four traits A visual connection Passage Finder Making Connections Presentation Works cited Characterization: The explanation of the four traits John Green’s book Looking for Alaska is an interesting piece of literature which contains the life of a group of youngsters in an Alabama boarding school. The book…

Table of Contents Introduction The Shepherds Love Conclusion Works Cited Introduction For me, the nymph in her practicality is a far better choice than the shepherd who is trapped in his ideal illusionary world. In essence the poems of Marlowe and Raleigh reflect opposite sides of the coin of love, with Marlowe’s version reflecting an…

There are many theories regarding why we dream and what our dreams might mean. Theories have been proposed by Freud, who suggests dreams reflect hidden desires; Jung who agrees that dreams carry hidden meanings, not always desires, that can be interpreted by the dreamer; Cayce, who suggests dreams are the body’s means of developing our…

Table of Contents Introduction A Comprehensive Explanation of Key Issues in the Novel Conclusion Works Cited Introduction “The Crying of Lot 49” is constructed in such a way that new meanings are revealed with each reading. It has a love and a detective line, a bit of thriller or gothic, and a pinch of social…

Table of Contents Background discussion Literary devices at work in the “Love Song of S.Alfred Prufrock” Simile /Allusion Images and Imagination The Epigraph How these Figures of speech convey the meanings of the poem to the reader Background discussion T.S Eliot, in the era of artistic movement called modernism, created innovative original and influential poetry…

Table of Contents Introduction Plot Summary Themes Analysis Conclusion References Introduction The epic novel The Lord of the Rings was written by an outstanding English philologist and well-known writer J.R.R. Tolkien. This book refers to the high fantasy style disclosing the complex analysis of various origins and themes. The story is considered to be rather…

The poem “O Captain! My Captain” written by Walt Whitman has a unique historical value. Many years after it was written, it carries excellent historical connotations and takes the reader back to the days of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. Using all the power of literary language, the author masterfully portrays the American Civil War and the…

Table of Contents Introduction Thoreau concepts in the book Conclusions Works Cited Introduction Whether it is presented in a painted image or presented in a several hundred page novel, art can provide a profound reflection of the realities of life not only at the time that the novel is written, but also for future generations…