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I read Hard Times by Charles Dickens. Hard Times by Charles Dickens was published in 1854. After reading A Christmas Carol I wanted to read more Charles Dickens. I didn’t really know what to expect when I picked Hard Times. I figured it would be good since Charles Dickens is considered a great English writer….

In the book, 1984 written by George Orwell, it is based on the how the government is able to control its people. The idea of propaganda is used immensely due to the community being “discourse”. Propaganda is defined as “information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution,…

Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen are two novels that show the different class structures and ranks of society during the 19th century. Throughout the novels the theme of marriage is portrayed because it often determines a women’s success. Jane Austen’s novels took place in a time when women relied on…

Did you know that William Shakespeare wrote nearly 40 known plays, covering comedies, tragedies, historical plays, tragicomedies, and romances, and more than 150 sonnets? William Shakespeare was born in April of 1564 and passed away from an unknown cause in April 23, 1616. He was the oldest surviving child of John and Mary Shakespeare. While…

The book Night took place in the 1940s during the horrific World War II. A young boy named Elie Wiesel once lived in Sighet, a city in Romania. He began to tell us his journey through the years of concentration camps he was forced to live in. In the first chapters in the book, Elie…

Mythology has been prevalent in various forms of writing, and still is to this day. Mythology affected how the Montagues and Capulets believed planets and the world around them worked because they had no other explanation for how the world worked. All throughout Romeo and Juliet there are either direct or subtle references back to…

Language Analyst My favourite word does not appear in the table above. The word is ‘salao’. In the first paragraph of the story, this word is defined that “it is the worst form of unlucky”. This adjective describes the unluckiness of Santiago. He had not caught any fish for eighty-four days. For a fisherman like…

“What does your grandeur mean, Master of the Universe, in the face of all this cowardice, this decay, and this misery?”(66 Wiesel). Many Jews often asked this question while suffering through the adverse circumstances of the Nazi concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, the author, and main protagonist, often questioned God, and his reasons behind the suffering…

Langston Hughes’ Harlem is a timeless lyrical poem. It is designed to evoke emotion from the reader using Hughes lived experiences, wherein he conveys them with simplicity. Hughes’ role in the Harlem renaissance enabled him to write this poem; it is a poem that can be used as a primary source for how black enlightenment…

William Shakespeare was an English poet and a playwright. He wrote thirty eight plays and one hundred fifty four sonnets. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest writer in the English language. His work included tragedy, comedy, and historical works. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth. William Shakespeare…