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He is very intelligent and thoughtful, though he lacks social grace. The boys don‘t like him because he is fat, wears glasses, and has asthma. He would make an excellent leader if only people would listen to him. In my opinion, he would make the best leader among all the boys. I“ Piggy is an…

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucble, accusations of witchcraft ignite mass hysteria in the seventeenth-century town of Salem, Massachusetts. Presided over by Judge Danforth, the court of Salem plays a crucial role in arresting, convicting, and condemning to death the victims of the witch trials, all on the “evidence” provided by a group of young girls….

Monroeville, Alabama, is a town in Monroe County known as being the hometown of author Harper Lee, and her book “To Kill a Mockingbird” which brings some spotlight on this small town. This is where the production of the film adaptation of the book brought the famous actor Gregory Peck to do some scenes as…

Maycomb, Alabama is a small, simple county ln Maycomb, there is not one person that does not know the whole town. There, any one man‘s business is considered everyone‘s business, Nothing exciting or different has ever happened there That is, until yesterday Since last year, every person in Maycornb knew about the trail that would…

What is a hero? A hero could be the firefighter rushing into a fiery inferno, the woman who volunteers her time at the local soup kitchen, or even a parent who helps their child tend to a scraped knee. Although these people may not be like the heroes we read about in the comics or…

In the book A Catcher in the Rye there is one main character, Holden Caulfield. He is sort of a bad boy type, cause he has gotten kicked out of many schools. I could not relate to that because I am the total opposite a good girl, I would never get kicked out of school…

Throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter. written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne presents the seventeenth-century Puritan society as the setting for the main character known as Hester. Being branded as an adulteress by society, Hester was forced to confront the life of wearing the scarlet letter “A”, to observe the relationship between Dimmesdale and Chillingwonh, and…

Many works of literature can be seen as having more to it than just what the text says. This is seen true when psychoanalyzing Edgar Allan Poe’s short story. Reading through “The Tell-Tale Heart” one can sense the obsession and paranoia a killer has. The narrator is unconsciously a murderer and sees nothing wrong with…

In this essay I will be reflecting and analyzing a few short stories that I have read in the English 112 class. This essay will include; A&P, The Story of an Hour, and a Cask of Amontillado. In reading these stories and analyzing them in class I have captured themes and deeper level of thinking…

The American Dream is the idea that in society, upward mobility is possible for everyone irrespective of where they were born or what class they were born into, will attain their own version of success. I personally think that the “American Dream” has been overrated. Let’s face it, it’s gone. Not only is this a…