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Prejudice is a relevant and recurring theme in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The theme of prejudice is much like an application or software. People often browse the network of billions of apps and software, searching for the perfect one that fits their needs, however, there is not enough time to…

George Orwell drew upon his experience as a British Colonial official stationed in Burma and in India to write his story of “Shooting an Elephant.” He doesn’t personally want to shoot the elephant and cause it to suffer a painful death but because of his position as the representative of British Law he must, and…

In the novel, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Dallas Winston is a complex persona that wishes to protect the other greasers from experiencing prejudice and adversity. Dallas Winston is known as one of the most dangerous and spiteful greasers out there, he will not hesitate to go to jail for the sake of fellow…

Each of these seven short stories all exemplify important lessons and moral values that play into each of the character’s setting and conflict. Old Tom Crowley and James Turner from the story What You Need, were two opposites from each other. Old Tom Crowley was a very rich man, who did not think twice about…

In Frankenstein the creature is portrayed as the monster, but I believe that Victor is the true monster in this case. The Creature wasn’t the most friendliest (redundant) and kindest looking,(parallelism) but he isn’t as monstrous as his creator. The readers overlook what Ii consider an important point about the creature, his physical appearance did…

Sophocles’ Antigone is not a difficult play. Even that the play was original written in Greek over 2400 years ago, we have a modern translation in English, and the main storyline is very clear and easy to understand. The only part of the play that will probably be confusing is the Chorus. The opening events…

In order to understand a book, or any piece of literature, you have to dig deeper into the book’s true meaning. There are many books that can be understood by simply reading them, but there are some books where this task isn’t so easy. In some books, the plot and subplots that are intertwined together…

In Animal Farm propaganda and rhetoric are constantly used by the pigs. Squealer is one the many pigs that use propaganda. One would even call him the propaganda apparatus that spreads information to help Napoleon, the leader, gain popularity and trust with all the animals. For example when Squealer calls Snowball a “traitor” and a…

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by Jerome David Salinger. The novel was published in 1951. It is an iconic arguable typical American novel about an existence of coming of age. The novel is a young adult fiction about a 16-year old Holden Caulfield who recently got expelled from Pencey prep school…

In J.D. Sallinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, the title has a very significant meaning and is relevant to the novel in a number of ways. The title comes from the main character Holden’s misinterpretation of Robert Burns’s poem “Comin Thro’ the Rye”. In the novel, Holden misquotes the poem, believing that the correct…