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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…

“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…

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…

In Gothic literature the importance of setting and place is greatly influential. This investigation compares two gothic narratives, “The Castle of Otranto” (1764) by Horace Walpole and “Dracula” (1897) by Bram Stoker. This research essay considers how setting and place are established, how they are applicable to the gothic genre and how they contribute to…

The 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote was ratified 1920, yet today, almost 100 years later, women still face injustice in America. The House on Mango Street is a year in the life of Esperanza, a 12-year old Chicana (Mexican-American girl) and one of these such young women. It features her journey…

In 1904 Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” describing in graphic detail the unsanitary process of meat production, and today we have a modern case of the same issues Upton Sinclair brought up, described in the documentary “Food Inc.” America as a whole has grown greatly since 1904 in every way, the car industry, our foreign…

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is an amazing tear jerker of a book. It expands on the ideas of adolescence while communicating the hardships of illness. Hazel Grace Lancaster, the main character in this book, suffers from lung cancer. Through her struggles, she meets the charming and handsome Augustus Waters. Like any…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is set in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640. It is during that time Puritans left the Old World to settle in the new colony with the mission of “purifying” the Church of England because they believed that all mankind was depraved and sinful because of Adam and Eve’s…

Education is the only true escape from a cycle of oppression. In A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines, a simple, uneducated African-American boy, Jefferson, is charged with the murder of a white man. Relatives of the condemned task Grant, a family friend, with turning the mind of the condemned from that of a hog…

In Kite Runner Khalid Hosseini talks about his deeply troubled childhood and how he leads up to try and become good again in his adulthood.Amir and Hassan childhood live’s are dramatically different, that leads to Amir being quiet jealous and also has him performing outrageous behaviors but later down in his adulthood he try’s to…