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Short Stories A Good Man is Hard to Find and Sweat
Literature Review
Short Story
In O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Hurston’s “Sweat”, the author’s both utilize the element of foreshadowing to develop the central plot. The classic short story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, centers around a family taking a vacation to Florida. The trip took a turn for the worst, and the…
Novel “Bless Me Ultima” by by Rudolfo Anaya
Literature
Novel
Anaya uses syntax to create somewhat of a flow and or rhythm with short sentences appearing creating a passage with then the dialogue within or after to compliment the short sentences and give them much more detail and practicality as well as another way of interpreting the text. I will be using passage 2 which…
Traditions in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
American Literature
Short Story
The Lottery
As one knows, whether the story is fiction, or nonfiction every story develops a real-life message known as a theme. All authors are great at developing a theme. For example, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. The story “The Lottery” catches a reader’s attention even when there is no interest. In the story “The Lottery” the…
Satire in Voltaire’s Candide
Novel
Philosophy
Satire
Satire has been a very effective form of social criticism because authors like Voltaire and many others during the Age of Enlightenment could just write books about the problems that affected them, but they found in satire the best way to make critics about all of the imperfections that disturbed a great part of the…
Different Character Traits in The Outsiders Personal Essay
Fiction
Literature
The Outsiders
Greatly impact your life and the choices you make within it. They can also teach you a lesson or two at times. The question is, however, how can this really affect you? The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton focuses on cherishing loved ones and youth. While the characters are learning and growing up, there are many…
Beloved by Toni Morrison: A Story Not to Pass On
Beloved
Slavery
Toni Morrison
The words are ironic: “this is not a story to pass on,” a Pulitzer Prize novel literally asking to not be spread around (Morrison 290). The author repeats this phrase three times in the novel’s final chapter, drawing attention to their significance. Throughout the novel, graphic images of figurative and literal slavery mar the minds of…
Importance of Sight in Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”
Novel
The Bluest Eye
“The eyes are the window to the soul” is a common saying used by many individuals today. This statement is especially true in the case of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. In this novel, Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to have blue eyes because she believes it will make her beautiful and she believes…
The Real Cost of Intelligence in “Flowers for Algernon”
Flowers for Algernon
Novel
Being born with harsh cognitive impairment can be difficult and daunting to understand the basic things in life. In Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon born with an unusually low I.Q takes undergoes a crazy surgery which morphed him from being cognitively impaired to having unbelievable high level of I.Q. He progresses from…
The Tell-Tale Heart Summary
Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story
The Tell Tale Heart
The story is about a man who suffers from madness, fear, suspicion and inability to control his urges. He is sensitive to sounds and images and is capable of doing anything when triggered by them. He has few friends and one of them is an old man who lives in the same building as him….
Greek Tragedy about King Oedipus
Oedipus
Oedipus Rex
Tragedy
Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy which tells the tale of King Oedipus, a man who sets out to find King Laius’ killer and ends up finding out more about who he is and what he has done. He finds that all along it was he who had killed King Laius, who turns out to…