Book Summary Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 22

Plenty of youth turns to gangs because they think it’ll enhance their life but really it could get them locked up for life or put them six feet under. The Outsiders represents the idea of groupthink by taking away the individuality of the Outsiders and becoming part of a gang. Some ways that the Outsiders…

The story of “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe is full of conflict from beginning to end. Being that this is said to be one of Poe’s best pieces, it contains a chilling plot weaving themes tied to character, setting, and a haunting narrative voice. Montresor makes a vow of revenge against Fortunato…

According to MedicineNet, “Teenage depression does not have one single definitive cause but rather several psychological, biological, and environmental risk factors.” Depression affects many teenagers before they reach adulthood. According to an excerpt from “Mental Health, Adulthood,” depression is one of the most widely recognized disorders in the populace and is the absolute most psychiatric…

In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the upper class uses art to assert their dominance in a hierarchical society. Art and literature are prominently displayed in the places Jane stays. At George’s Inn, she encounters portraits of the royal family. The paintings at the inn show the importance of the monarchy as the leaders of society….

Holden 17-year-old is the main character of the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”. After Allie, his younger brother dies from Leukaemia, Holden gets mentally ill and becomes depressed. Throughout Holden’s life, there are times when he has trouble building friendships. There were times that he simply turned away just before the friendship became solid….

This essay will explain how “alienation” presents itself, in each of the three reading texts by: “Hands” by Sherwood Anderson, “A Rose For Emily” by William Faulkner, and “Outcast” by Claude McKay. Alienation is defined as the state of being an outsider or feeling of being isolated from society. This condition may be caused for…

People may not tell you everything, however they will show you by other means; you just have to look for them. In the Catcher in the Rye, Holden is a liar and does not tell you everything, therefore you have to look deeper for what he is trying to tell you. Salinger uses Holden’s internal experience…

I chose the scene between Antigone and Creon from pages 20-24 because the theme of power and women’s rights is introduced and it is very important in today’s society. Women still need to prove themselves to men even today. Antigone stands up for herself and her family against Creon, she is a protagonist who challenges…

In his novel “Between the World and Me,” Ta-Nehisi Coates utilizes a combination of diction, symbolism, and narratives in a well-organized structure to show the complexities of African American life in the United States. Through his use of these rhetorical devices, he demonstrates how these difficulties affect fatherhood and his desire to prosper to justify…

The narrator in The Scarlet Letter is the lens through which the reader interprets the narrative. A reading of the novel, however, becomes complicated since there are, possibly, different narrative perspectives. The novel is set in the seventeenth-century; therefore characters cannot see beyond the religious ideology of the time, Puritanism. Yet, The Scarlet Letter was…