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The terrible event of the Holocaust consisted of many Jews being seen and treated as less than a person, all because of their beliefs. Dehumanization is a key theme in Eliezer Wiesel’s book, Night, where he recounts his experience with his father in the concentration camps created by the Nazis. Throughout the book, Elie not…

Through relationships in life many outcomes become possible. Those outcomes, or the consequences of the relationship, can lead to a deep impact on a person. In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, Hurst uses these relationships and consequences of the relationships to create a meaningful theme. In “The Scarlet Ibis” there is…

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is one of the most directly shocking, insightful, and relatable of all literary works regarding dystopian societies. Written during the era of McCarthyism, Fahrenheit 451 is set in a United States of the future, is about a government that has banned books and a society where books are illegal and…

Mark Twain writes dialogues in his book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, causing the characters to sound like real people. Twain, however, didn’t make all his characters sound and act the same; instead, they each have a unique voice. Through the story, the protagonist, Huckleberry Finn, shows his process of learning with the sense of…

George Orwell wrote his novel 1984 and showed what the world will become if the government is taken by totalitarian leaders. In 1984 there is demonstrated the government’s attempts, used to control people. In the novel, Oceanians, who were in the Party, had only one truth; the Party and the leader, Big Brother, are always…

Allan Poe uses his words sparingly in the “Tell-Tale Heart”. The story provides an examination of Paranoia and a deterioration of the mind. Poe explains abundantly the detail of an approach to increase the killer’s obsession based on certain entities like the eyes of the old man, the heartbeat, and the psychological problems facing the…

The novel “1984” famously begins with the phrase “it was bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”, the word order of “bright cold” is strange as “bright” is usually associated with light and warmth and so by writing these two words in this order without the use of a comma in…

The epic hero is an archaic character that is attached to many illustrious stories throughout history. “Beowulf” is the oldest text that can be found today, Dating back to 1000 AD, Beowulf is the epic poem of a supernaturally gifted warrior who defeats surreal opponents feats and is ultimately defeated by his own flaw. The…

The purpose of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is to rail against the English for their brutal treatment of the Irish. Swift uses political satire to show readers exactly what the Irish faced in this particular time period. He portrays the landlords as insatiable beast intent on devouring Irish tenants; this affects the pose of…

The book The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a story that takes place in Salem Massachusetts and 1762 about the townspeople there and their paranoia of witches and Witchcraft. John Proctor is one of the main characters in the story. Proctor’s the one who wants to show everyone that witchcraft is not real. Abigail another…