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In The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas there are many notable characters given throughout. Hailey, who is one of Starr Carter’s best friends at Williamson Prep, changes throughout the novel. Her and Starr started off as friends because they both experienced loss when they...
In “Rooming Houses are Old Women” by Audre Lorde and “The Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy, both poets express the lives of older women. Both poems express how older women feel about themselves now. They are not how they use to be, and they are...
The poem “Power” by Audre Lorde was made in 1978 and based on an event where a black ten-year-old was shot by a white policeman while being written through the narrator’s perspective. This poem is about the effects of police brutality and power over others....
The American Dream, in simple terms is the idea that anyone, regardless of race, gender, age, or social class can achieve their own version of success. For many people, it consists of getting a good education, finding a job with decent pay, meeting the love...
On May 20, 2014, a professor of English, Ersula Ore, was stopped by a Tempe police officer next to the Arizona State University Campus for jaywalking on a public street. As video footage of the initial arrest emerged the public and University’s reactions were noted....
Audre Lorde, author of “Hanging Fire” and Langston Hughe, author of “Ballad of the Landlord” both amazing African-American poets who gave voice to issues like race and social justice. Through their poems they talked about issues like race and social justice, for example A Dream...
The name of the play is “Beauty and the Beast.” It was executed at Disneyland Hollywood Studios, Bay Lake, Florida, USA on September 6, 2016. It is supervised and conducted, of course, because it is a play in Disneyland, by The Walt Disney Company. It...
introduces challenges that family members or friends go through in a bid to show commitment or allegiance to one’s beliefs or principles. This is a problem of two people failing to get along with each other on ideological differences. Antigone and Creon may share similar...
Born from years of observation and a heavy dose of imagination, Brokeback Mountain is the acclaimed short story that would go on to spark countless conversations. It has wiggled its way into the thoughts of a multitude of people, old and young and those yet...
As in many other novels, the use of multiple themes is evident throughout George Orwell’s 1984. Theme can be used in a variety of ways by the author to add to the complexity of a novel, and promote critical thinking by the audience. Orwell’s 1984...
The secret life of bees illustrates the specious of racism. It demonstrates how people are taught to hate just because the color of their skin. Characters such as the black and whites not only depict morality of humanity but also shows how Lily herself, struggles...
In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch demonstrates the traits of a brave gentleman and a heroic role model. At the beginning of the novel, Atticus’ character is respected and admired by most of the town, and by the end,...
Through symbolism, in trying to fit in according to societal expectations, one is conflicted about their identity which causes one to feel conflicted with their position in society, in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing. Gyasi utilizes the symbolism of language to demonstrate that language can make one...
Abstract This study aims at criticizing anarchism elements of Rick Riordan Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief main villain and how author vilifying anarchism as the antagonistic ideology compared to ideology that author believe. Anarchism elements of this book play an essential part...
Equality has been a goal for hundreds of years and maybe today is the day to finally change it. Equality has been an issue throughout generations upon generations. Native Americans, Hispanics, African Americans, and women have all been fighting the same battle. It was the...
Scrooge is a different type of person. He is cruel and rude to others and expects the same to him. Dickens illustrates that Scrooge has terrible way of treating others until, the Christmas Spirits helped him. The spirits change him in a few different ways....
The Secret Life of Bees has a lot of problems around the topic family relations. Family sucks but if you meet new people it could get better. Lily’s (the main character) family life is atrocious, her mother died when she was four, and her father...
In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five we observe multiple instances of post-colonialism and feminism as not much in the way of minorities or women is mentioned, this is true to itself, as in WWII combat was male-only role, generally white males. The book is told in a...
“For a text to truly engage its audience, it needs to offer us a different perspective of life as we know it.” The Hate U Give (T H U G) directed by George Tillman Jr is a compassionate, nuanced portrayal of a teen’s political arising....
In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, does try to depict, that women of the era, should be subjected to their husband and that their husbands was the head of the wives and home. It is clear that the wife of Beth, challenge and...
Rick Riordans fiction book ‘The Lightning Thief’ is a heart capturing story of a young teenage, boy Percy Jackson. Twelve-Year-Old Percy Jackson has had enough of school suspensions and has had to change School every year. Young as he is, he learns something about himself...
Women have faced social inequalities throughout history through the intersectionality of race, class and gender. The analysis of the social construct displays patchritical ideologies of systematic male dominated environments. The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker, demonstrates the construct of a hierarchical system of...
Throughout literature, it is clear that women’s social positions were more limited than the roles of men. Since men have published majority of early literature, discrimination conintues to taint the greater amount of it. The female characters are usually given negative traits such as, lying,...
Alongside Hamlet being considered a tragedy, by William Shakespeare, the growing lunacy of the characters brought a contrast between the evil and the innocent. Limits are breached and destroyed with the twists and turns close family and friends take unexpectedly take. Through the scenes of...
“Pac said Thug Life Stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody” (Kahlil 17). From as early as chapter two you can see the author’s music motifs that talk about SES. This quote is later brought up in the novel where “Starr” and...
Women have always fulfilled integral roles in society. However, the duties undertaken by women have been evolving as the society ages, with each subsequent era redefining the role of women in society. A good way of observing societal roles for either gender is by reviewing...
Often times, when someone says violence, he is always referring to the abuse of violence, such as gun violence, sexual violence, or school bullying, which hurt others. Abuse of violence has become a social problem that is being unsolved since the beginning of human society...
Dreams are shaped by one’s moral values and idea of happiness. However, being obsessed with another person’s goals rather than focus on their personal goals, one loses their identity in creating false appearances. In both Hamlet by Shakespeare and Death of a Salesman by Arthur...
In multiple forms of literature, we see characters struggle to develop their personal identities. These characters often struggle to develop these identities because of conflicts against their environment, society or within themselves that prevent such change. The qualities or beliefs of a character may change...
Atticus Finch, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, reveals an interesting fact about people. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). Finch’s...
A fictional play, the crucible that happened in 1953, written by Arthur Miller, is about back then Salem people would accuse one another of doing witchcraft. Some of a few main characters in the play were Abigail Williams in which people would accuse her of...
The Greek tragedy often leaves the audience in turmoil as they are left contemplating the fate of characters who often lose control of their own actions and are left to suffer. In Sophocles’s play Antigone, several characters become victims of uncontrollable predicament which leads to...
Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger unfolds through a series of messages sent from Balram Halwai to Mr. Jiabao in China. The messages are ironic, conversational, yet somewhat sympathetic as they uncover and explain a murder committed by Balram as a means of breaking out of...
In chapter three, the story sheds light on Beli during her youth years. A particular scene that attracts the concept of coming of age was the scene in which Beli develops into a beautiful woman, obtaining an astonishing physicality. Because of this transformation, Beli was...
During the Salem Witch trials there was a lot of people that were accused of doing or taking part in the craft. Some of the people that were accused of this are as following sarah good ,abigail williams, betty parris. Sarah osbome,and tituba. These ladies...
While The Color Purple isn’t your traditional slave narrative like Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl or Our Nig, the novel is still representative of a more contemporary form of slavery of the time. Walker created characters who fit the archetypes of post-slavery....
One of the most captivating and commonly translated characters in The Canterbury Stories by Geoffrey Chaucer is the Wife of Bath. She has had five awesome spouses and transparently confesses to wedding most of them for their money. The wife seems, by means of all...
The poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson is made up of four-line stanzas, and each of those stanzas has an ABAB rhyme scheme. That means that the first and third lines of each stanza rhyme, as do the second and fourth lines. This poem...
¨It was the Police Patrol, snooping into peopleś windows… only the Thought Police mattered.¨ (P.6) In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, people do not have privacy with the Thought Police always watching them. People do not feel safe knowing they are always being watched....
To begin, a constant theme in this novella is 19th-century gender norms for women. The strictness of these social standards caused Edna to rebel. Women of this time were expected to be the perfect wife and loving mother. They were under pressure to always obey...
Dame Alison gives an example at the end of the Wife of Bath’s Tale of a situation where the knights abuse their power over a girl and are disciplined. If the Knight rapes a virgin and steals her youth, he not only has the control...
Madame de Villeneuve’s The Story of The Beauty and The Beast is a fictional story. Set in France during the eighteenth century, in a town near the countryside. The story is told in third person point of view. Although it is fictional, many things can...
Similes are quite often used within the short story, “Lamb to the Slaughter”. An example of this can be identified in the title, which can also be interpreted as: “Like a lamb to the slaughter” the lamb in the story is used as a symbol...
There are many social groups that are not talked about in the text. There are many examples that are found in Slaughterhouse Five. Women are a huge example of a social group who is excluded. Another group that is silenced in the book is pro-war...
Power will take many alternative forms and meanings in life. Usually, people could be notional. Going against such individuals many result in them showing what they’re capable of, whether it’s painful for someone directly or manipulating other against him/her; it’s dangerous to underestimate people who...
The Awakening, the main character Edna is a realized feminist mother that struggles to attain her wish of emancipation caused by double standards during the time of sexual oppression. She started off being an obedient wife, mother, and woman, and ended up to be an...
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”, a series of characters named ‘pilgrims’ are presented, each with distinct personalities and characteristics. But one pilgrim especially stands out among the others – the Wife of Bath. Comparing her characterization with the portrait of the other women from...
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn others just to see a light. All throughout history people have tried to cheat and lie their way to success, to get what they desire. In 1693 a young woman named Abigail Williams caused...
In the novella “A Christmas Carol”, Charles Dickens consolidates a portrayal of hardships faced by the poor with a sad nostalgic festival of the Christmas season. The tale contains emotional and comic components just as a profound felt moral topic. In the start of the...
In Chaucer’s, General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the narrator starts off with a description of Spring. The narrator begins with this to situate the story with a particular time and place. He gives a detailed description of how April showers have made the ground...
You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to live is to press play. 13 Reasons Why the bestseller book is written in 2007 by Jay Asher. It’s a General Fiction. It’s about a girl named ‘Hannah Baker’ who has...
Introduction The issue of whether the environment should be protected for economic rather than ethical reasons has been widely debated in our community recently. It is an important issue because it concerns fundamental moral and economic questions about the way we ensure sustainability of the...
When talking about political ecology, we can find many theories to explain complex findings. According to Osborne, political ecology is not only limited on a local or national level, but it is focusing on environmental issues around the world. (Osborne, 2015, p. 67). The world...
Language, identity, and culture are closely linked together as the one determines the other. Language, any form, is not merely a string of words. It holds a power unknown to man as it is the foundation of both identity and culture. English is a globally...
Life has been unpredictable, it is because of complex diversity, differences in culture and tradition, racial discriminations, gender acceptance, religion considerations and language barriers. These factors can alter the dimension the diversion and contribute to the danger of single story, however, on the other hand,...
In the story The Outsider, composed by Stephen King, the fundamental characters are Ralph Anderson, Mr.Ritz and Ms.Stanhope. The principle setting is in Flint City, Oklahoma. In the start of the story, a police analyst named Ralph Anderson captures a youth baseball trainer Terry Maitland....
Trevor Noah was born in February of 1984, to a black mother and a white father of Swiss-German descent in South Africa. Trevor was born 10 years before the end of apartheid which Trevor liked to think of as ‘apart hate’ to describe the method...
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah was truly an amazing piece of work which portrays how Trevor Noah was quite literally born a crime. This was because his mother, a black Xhosa woman, and his father, a Swiss man, decided to have a child together...
In his book, Born A Crime, Trevor Noah describes encounters from his childhood in South Africa. Apartheid make hard for his situation on different pieces of his life because his parents are different races, so it causes a divide in the family and ultimately Trevor...
After reading Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, I finally understood why Bill Gates chose this book as one of his five favorite books in 2017. Trevor Noah’s birth, background, experience, ability, and his story are too exciting and interesting. He has more ups and...
Globalization as its defined is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale, however the word’s used today has developed to include more than just business. It can be used to define the movement of...
“An overpopulated world, a system of the commons leads to ruin….Even if an individual fully perceives the ultimate consequences of his actions he is most unlikely to act in any other way, for he cannot count on the restraint his conscience might dictate being matched...
The key message in Truth’s poem, “If woman has a pint and man a quart—why can’t she have her little pint full?”is directed to men and delivering the message about men and their irrational fear that there is a finite supply of rights that exists...
We want to believe we are better than the generations before us. People want to believe that the society they live in is not racist. While we have made strides to ensure equality for all, through laws, organizations, and social reform, racism has not been...
I have decided to compare a few of the poems between the poets Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickenson due to the common theme of death that exists between the two and analysis how the two go about in terms of discussing death and giving...
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, she creates a monster and it is either between Frankenstein the creator of the monster or the creature that he makes. The real monster in the book Frankenstein is Victor Frankenstein because he creates the monster, does not take responsibility, and...
In the novel Lord of the Flies, innocence was progressively lost through the boys. The boys were implanted in a situation where they had no other choice but to grow up and to develop faster. The boys were put in a very qisquenting situation and...
I have in paste month or so read a very interesting and inspiring book called “the absolute true diary of a part-time Indian”. This astonishing book is written by Sherman Alexie, and it’s about an Indian boy, named Arnold Spirit Junior who searches for hope...
The man in the short story ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ uttered the requiem statement ‘That’s the only thing that bothers us. It’s the only thing that’s made us unhappy.’ The instigator of this narrative, Ernest Hemingway is commonly regarded as unornamented for his nature in...
The well-known play by Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman is a profound consideration of the conflicts within one family along with connecting them to more generalized American national values. A lot of Americans really believed into the America Dream, which seemed to be both...
Anne Fadiman did a remarkable presentation of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. She carefully, without prejudice to either party, shared the intimate story of a young Hmong child torn between two different worlds and cultures. Ultimately, through many struggles suffered by all...
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?’ is a vivid and yet graphical short story. Joyce uses fiction to illuminate the life of most 21st century teenagers. Connie’s story resonates with the desires of most teenagers who live under their parents’ roof. It shows...
The 1950s was a decade plagued by traditional gender roles for women and men. It wasn’t uncommon for a book to mention that the best career for every woman is, of course, taking care of her husband and home. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that Ken...
In The Bear, William Faulkner’s use of language reveals the underlying meaning and moral lesson of the story. Through the symbolic relationship between the Wilderness, the bear, Boon, and Lion, Faulkner illustrates the destructive consequences of imposing man’s wants upon nature. The plot of the...
Rapid advances in technology and new knowledge about the world make scientists seek new explanations for certain things. In the center of attention of “Is Google making us stupid” by Carr and “The exclusive theory of everything” by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow are the...
The Odyssey is a well-known poem written by a Greek writer Homer and is considered as one of the most ancient masterpieces of literature. The story of the poem takes place when Odysseus, the brave and strategic warrior fought in the Trojan War in Troy...
Chinua Achebe is a well-known writer in African history, he was a Nigerian book writer, poet, and professor. Among college students, graduate students, and even adults Chinua Achebe’s book has become the most read book for African Literary studies. In 2007, he won the “Man...
In I am Not Your Perfect Mexican daughter by Erika Sánchez, is about a small mexican family that loses their oldest daughter, and start to struggle to survive. Throughout the book, I read about how Julia, and her parents learn how to cope with the...
In life, many of us will find one’s self in an unfamiliar situation and will be forced to make decisions and overcome them. In the maze runner by James Dasher, Thomas finds himself in this situation. He is trapped in a huge maze with a...
Juliet caused the death of herself and Romeo because she faked her death which caused Romeo to kill himself and then kills herself when she sees that Romeo is dead. Also she jumped blindly into a marriage with someone from her family’s mortal enemy. These...
Woman craving for freedom was a popular topic during the 18th century. Kate Chopin was one of among female writers tend to be feminist, expressing her desire to be autonomous and independent. She has achieved recognition in the 20th century especially with her 1899 novel...
Romeo’s impulsive actions from the opening to the end of the play lead to devastating costs, as well as his own death and Juliet’s suicide. When Romeo first falls in love with Juliet, he is on the rebound from being rejected by Rosaline. Romeo sees...
One of the key underlying themes of the now famous and once hated story The Great Gatsby is the now almost cliché idea of “American Dream”, “the ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to...
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston was published in 1937 amidst controversy as it went against the zeitgeist of the time that was all about exposing racial oppression through art and literature. Zora Neale Hurston rejected this outlook and chose to write...
Tuesday’s with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, introduces the two main characters, Mitch, himself the narrator, and Morrie. Morrie was a Sociology professor at Brandeis University where Mitch was one of his most valued students. During Mitch’s graduation ceremony, he promises Morrie that they will...
The play that moved me the most was A Doll’s House by Henrik Isben. It moved because of how real it was. Everyday stories are written in a fairy tale sense. Many stories are written to have a happy ending, that goes for plays as...
Nature is a beautiful and mysterious entity. It is vast and can have you wandering and wondering until you are lost both physically and mentally. Just being surrounded by nature can have you feeling up or feeling down. The immensity of it all can be...
This story connects to the issue of Identity because, at the beginning of the story, Junior’s problem of hydrocephalus and his angry best friend Rowdy is brought up, which puts awareness on how people’s characteristics since being born can outline their characteristics, inferring that Junior...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a novel by Sherman Alexie that narrates the perspectives of a fourteen-year-old American Indian boy called Arnold Spirit Jr. The novel follows a diary style in which Arnold, also known as Junior, expresses his thoughts as...
One of the most known examples of modern literature is the first published work of T.S.Eliot. ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is considered the shift from romanticism to modernism and the beginning of a new era of writers. Eliot was inspired a lot...
Water. As simple as it may sound, water has a much deeper and more powerful meaning. Water can express power in the form of a storm or a huge ocean wave. It can be used to clean off a bruise or to grow plants on...
The American Dream is the idea that anyone that comes to America has an equal opportunity for their dreams to come true. In Of Mice and Men by John Steinback, the main characters Lennie and George work hard to achieve the so-called American dream. The...
There are differences between ‘Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath and ‘Fences’ by August Wilson and obvious similarities between these two stories. “Fences” and “Daddy” have common themes and situations that both protagonists must deal with it. In both stories’ crime, race, and discrimination are prominent, Fences...
To His Mistress going to Bed by John Donne is taken into account because it is the greatest verbal striptease in English literature. Originally this poem spelled on His mistress attending bed. During this dramatic scenario, there’s a male speaker within the literary composition. He...
Refugees are people forced to flee from their country usually because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. While fleeing home their lives turn inside out because of loss, hunger, and homelessness. While finding home their lives turn back again because of moving forward, learning new...
The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is a touching story that takes place in the sleepy small town of Maycomb, Alabama. The story is centered around Scout Finch, daughter of the widowed Atticus Finch. Scout and her older brother Jem keep themselves busy by playing...
Four centuries have passed since the death of William Shakespeare, the great dramatist and classical poet of the English language, and in addition to the general acclaim for his work and the controversies over whether he really existed or was only the pseudonym or the...
In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper mental illness plays a central role. The author depicts the suffering a woman faced following the birth of her child. At this time women were dependent on men to provide shelter and live a maternal life....
The American dream is the primary goal of most Americans. Being able to succeed in life and having opportunities that allow the achievement of self-selected goals are cherished aspects of the freedom that come with living in America. The reality is not always the outcome...
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story about growing up and learning about the real world. Throughout the book, many of the characters, particularly the protagonists, experience the hard lesson of growing up. Some of the characters offer guidance to Jem and...
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