Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 6

During her time spent in New York City, within the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston created works which in return made her a focal point with the movement. Hurston wrote many works and published a handful of articles, short stories, her novel Jonah’s Gourd Vine and “Spunk”, an anthology of written pieces…

Jim Casy was an essential character to John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath. His character was an important part of Tom Joad’s life, the main character of Steinbeck’s piece of literature. Casy was the preacher who baptized Tom when he was little and has known the Joad family for a very long time. Jim Casy…

Albert Camus has never liked being considered a philosopher but he was granted such a status for his philosophical writing. He has used his writing flare to explore the characteristics of absurdity and presented us with his idea of life. One could go as far as considering him as existentialist because of his expression that…

Science fiction is a genre all about technology and scientific advancements. While some authors portray technology in a positive light in their novels, many portray it negatively. Ray Bradbury was one of the many who portrayed technological advancements in a negative light. He once stated, “‘Video games are a waste of time…real brains don’t do…

The community where Jonas lies has a secret that only Jonas and The Giver knows. A place that contains the past, present, and future, where all life began. “The Giver” is a dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry in 1993. The main characters in the story are The Giver, Asher, Gabriel, Jonas, and Lily. The…

Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” presents the themes of the relentless passage of time and the inevitability of loss through Kathy’s focus on her memories rather than her focus on her future. Chapter 1 states, “My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old… On the particular afternoon I’m now thinking of, we were standing…

In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” the characters play pivotal roles in illustrating the themes and messages that Bradbury intended to convey. One such character is Mildred Montag, the wife of the protagonist, Guy Montag. This essay delves into an analysis of Mildred’s character, the symbolic value she carries within the narrative, and her…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published in 1851. The two main influences that led to the creation of this book were the passing of her son from Cholera and the implement of the Fugitive Slave Law. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and wanted her book to…

The Iranian economy, government, and relations with other countries changed drastically in the time leading up to and immediately following the Islamic Revolution, and later the Iran-Iraq war. In her book Persepolis, Satrapi uses these events to depict a coming of age story based on her true life. Cultural and contextual clues aid in allowing…

The book Just Mercy, written by a lawyer named Bryan Stevenson, is a story about how Stevenson’s clients, who are on death row, are wrongly convicted of their crimes. Stevenson studied at Harvard and worked for a non-profit agency that provided lawyers to death row inmates for free. He then later developed his own non-profit…