Literary Genre Essay Examples and Research Papers Page 7

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…

The narrator of this story is Thomas from his point of view. Thomas is put through many things and we see it happen as if we are right next to him the whole time. In the book you see where he goes and what actions he makes and how he does them you are with…

Introduction Sophocles’ play Antigone is a tragedy of conflicts premised on Creon and Antigone who are both tragic characters. In the play of Antigone, Creon is the uncle to the two sisters Ismene and Antigone. Aristotle defined a tragedy as a drama about someone noble who makes a judgment error that leads to their downfall….

The Big Sleep is a novel which tells the story of a detective named Philip Marlowe. He is depicted as being true and honest, especially in the corrupt society of Los Angeles that the novel is set in. His integrity and morality allows him to be a man who is willing to fight to find…

Bryan Stevenson, lawyer and writer of the book Just Mercy, states “Many judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers do a poor job of recognizing the special needs of the mentally disabled, which leads to wrongful convictions, lengthier prison terms, and high rates of recidivism,” (Stevenson 189). Throughout “Just Mercy” the reader is provided with an insight…

In Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” Celie starts off as a young fourteen year old girl who has gone through and continues to go through abuse and rapes. During this time the lifestyles were very different in comparison to today’s society. Women were mentally and physically abused by men as they held the ‘power’ in…

Albert Camus, a writer as well as a philosopher, shares his existentialist and absurdist philosophy through the portrayal of the protagonist, Meursault in The Stranger. As the title of the novel suggests, Meursault is an emotionally and morally detached ‘stranger’. A stranger to society’s conventional values, love, religion, life, and friendship. Accordingly, Meursault is depicted…

To learn how to navigate life in an oppressive society is an important skill to know because there are many people around the world who live in these societies. One place where we can learn these skills is in novels and movies. The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi focuses on the story of a…

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, racism is “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Racism has been present in almost every society throughout history. In Author Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston character’s experience and express…

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer, born on July 22, 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of fifteen, she began writing her first novel, The Outsiders, which was published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was only seventeen. The novel sold more than four million copies in the United States. The success of…