Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 25

Praise song for my mother is as said in the title, a praise song from Grace Nichols to her mother. It is a free verse poem with 5 stanzas, 3 tercets, and pentane. The writer comes from Guyana in Africa where it is very much the tradition to write praise songs and handing them down…

In the story “The Lottery”, Shirley Jackson dominates the readers’ minds and stuns them with a twisted ending. Jackson uses symbolism throughout the story that helps set the theme and nature of humankind in the village when it comes to tradition and violence. Using symbolism as a figurative language in this story can leave the…

The concept of a utopia often comes from science fiction novels. Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End and Lois Lowry’s The Giver both establish a utopia using control and advanced technology to maintain its perfection. Although society developed in the novels signify civilization reaching higher human potential, creating a utopia proves high cost for both societies…

Carl Sandburg was an American author, poet, biographer, journalist, and a platform artist (Sandburg 48). He was well known for the images he presented throughout his work. His images captured the spirit and soul of nature and the people. It also contained many dark and heavy subjects as well. He displayed the darker side of…

Select a novel or play in which a tragic figure functions as the instrument to the suffering of others. In August Wilson’s play ‘Fences’ the reader is introduced to its main protagonist and tragic hero, Troy Maxon. In this story Troy has made conflict with almost every character through his natural cynical ways. Troy has…

In the same way that the concept of outsider/immigrant, individual and the nations, and love and violence appear to all cross, in comparison between “ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz, and “The Cather in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger. On a closer analysis, both of these two works can be…

Based on what I read, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson tone has a distinct shift from a peaceful, normal, everyday kind of tone to a firmly horrific tone. “The Lottery” has two main characters, a housewife named Tessie Hutchinson, who is the person who wins the lottery at the end, and Mr. Summers, the man…

Sandra Cisneros’ ‘The House on Mango Street’ is begun when a young Latina girl named Esperanza, growing up in the city of Chicago in a small red house on Mango Street. This house is an upgrade from where her and her family used to live but is still to small for the family in a…

The theme of blindness revealing itself is very apparent in the African American novel, Native Son by Richard Wright. It is focused on American racial discrimination and segregation and how white supremacists forced African Americans to live a life they didn’t choose. In the story, both races have chosen to turn a blind eye and…

Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, shows us how status, wealth, and class were valued by people living in the late 18th century. In the beginning, we are introduced to a large family of many unmarried young women who are fond of a successful man known as Mr. Bingley. Although none of the women have…