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What is a Hero? A hero is someone that is admired for their courage, achievements, and noble qualities. In Anglo-Saxon culture to be a hero they had to be warriors, they had to be strong, intelligent, have courage, face and fight to the death for glory. The Anglo-Saxon hero could be all of this and…

It is human nature to be prideful and act superior. Unfortunately for some, it takes a traumatic experience to address that. In Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s story “The Return”, Kamau is a young man caught up in his pride. He expects all his village companions to remember him as the noble hero he was recognized as…

Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a “coming of age” narrative following the life of Jean Scout Finch. Written from a child’s point of view at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, it expressed views of racism and many other injustices. Lee’s use of actual events led to the foundation for this…

Theme Fahrenheit 451 is open for interpretation and the reader can derive many themes as it is read. A highlighted theme in the novel is the censorship of literature over society’s freedom of imagination. In the novel, society gives up on the idea of reading and being able to escape reality through literature. Captain Beatty…

Firstly, there is a slight difference between the author of Night, Elie Wiesel, and its narrator and protagonist, Eliezer. However, Night is not a fictional novel but does altercate certain minor details. For instance, Wiesel hurts his knee while Eliezer damages his foot, which places some distance between himself and the protagonist, Eliezer (Pfefferkorn 23)….

This is a fictional novel that won the Newbery Medal for American Literature. There are two main characters in the story, Jonas who is a twelve-year-old boy and the Giver. The Giver gives Jonas memories that no one else in their community has. Jonas’s parents, his sister Lily, and his friend named Asher are also…

“It (Beowulf) is a poem by a learned man writing of old times, who looking back on the heroism and sorrow feels in them something permanent.” –J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) Beowulf is an epic poem, for it is a heroic story narrated of a single individual, Beowulf, and his journey. (Beowulf) is considered…

“Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues” (Harry Belafonte). During the 1930s when To Kill a Mockingbird took place, slavery was abolished, but racism was still prevalent in society. In the historical fiction novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents the idea that…

Mark Twain wrote the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” about a boy named Huck, a young white 13-year-old who goes on an adventure down the Mississippi River with Jim, a slave who searches for freedom from people they want to forget and rules that need breaking. It was set in the 1830s-40s post-civil war…

From the beginning of time, civil disobedience has been a common theme in society. The word “disobedience” normally has a negative connotation. Disobedience is often defined as the refusal or neglect to obey. However, people still rationalize some forms of civil disobedience. In Sophocles’ Antigone, although written during the very first democracy of Athens, is…