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Dana in Kindred by Octavia Butler
Character
Essay samples
Kindred
Novel
In Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Dana’s time-traveling ability complicates the reader’s ability to empathize with trauma. Due to the uncontrolled time traveling that places Dana’s body in scenarios that degrade her body. During the 1800’s, Dana’s body was being treated as an object rather than in the 1900’s where it was treated as a human. In…
Beauty and Ugliness in “The Bluest Eye”
Novel
The Bluest Eye
Each character had their own way of seeing themselves as ugly. Mrs. Breedlove just kind of dealt with it and moved on with her life, Sammy adjusted his behavior to it and use it strategically, and Pecola hid behind her ugliness. Their relationship never really works, but it fills their psychological needs because they are…
Dystopian Societies in The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984
1984
Dystopia
Novel
Over the years both books The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984 have been attacked for many different reasons. Let’s start with how they dehumanize the citizens by ripping them of their individuality and taking away their ability to learn things on their own so that the citizens won’t overpower the government. They are caged in their…
Janie and Her Three Spouses in “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Character
Novel
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Janie, the hero of Zora Neale Hurston’s tale ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God,’ is regularly or often recognized and seen as a women’s activist character or in other words, a feminist. While she is absolutely an autonomous lady who has confidence in the balance of the genders, Janie does not lead an ordinarily women’s activist…
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Novel
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch purpose for writing this book was to help pay for his old professor, Morrie Schwartz, medical bills. Morrie’s wife was not financially stable to pay for all the expenses. Another example is to help teach people what love and compassion means, and that is love and compassion is the key to a person’s satisfaction….
Southern Gothic Literature Summary
A Rose for Emily
Edgar Allan Poe
Gothic Literature
Forever I will have the introduction “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,” (Poe, The Raven) engrained into my mind. Such an iconic writer that introduced a style of writing in which only gained fame upon his death. Edgar Allan Poe writing fiction based; Southern Gothic literature established a path for…
Relationships in The Stranger by Albert Camus
Novel
The Stranger
Relationships are often cherished, and typically help someone grow into a better person. Regardless of the type of relationship e.g friendships, romantic relationships, and family one always wants to improve a relationship, or at the very least end it on good terms. However, in the book, “The Stranger”, Albert Camus portrays relationships as a negative…
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Novel
Wuthering Heights
Bronte has Nelly describe Cathy as a “perfect recluse” to emphasize that Nelly thought it best that she was shielded from all of the drama and conflict surrounding her relatives in order to make a claim about the idea that “ignorance is bliss,” Later in the story we can see Cathy be beguiled by Heathcliff…
Fences: Triumph and Hypocrisy
Betrayal
Drama
Fences
In August Wilson’s “Fences” each character goes through things that will define the character in their life. The chooses they make will also affect each and every member of the family. In the Maxon family as a whole they juxtapose one another with their own personal struggles that they go through. All of the events…
Story of Amir in The Kite Runner
Character
Novel
The Kite Runner
Amir’s relationship with Baba at the start of the story is a very non mutual relationship in that Baba didn’t love Amir the way he wanted him to. On page 49, Amir describes his admiration for wintertime and kite flying in Kabul: “As the trees froze and ice sheathed the roads, the chill between Baba…