Writers Essays and Research Papers Page 2

Thoreau is one of those writers that was completely forthcoming with his thoughts and views as they are in his head yet, instead of changing the wording so that the reader will understand, he uses these metaphors to help drive his point home. These metaphors are simple and give a clearer image of what his…

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…

James Baldwin and Gloria Naylor have similar ideas when it comes to language for the black community. Although in their essays their tones are completely different. They see two views of the same argument. Baldwin and Naylor do not have the same influences which cause their styles to be different in their writings. Baldwin and…

This paper consists of known facts and maybe some unknown facts about William Shakespeare. Very little information is known about Shakespeare in the early years it was a very private person. He was born in 1564 in Stratford upon Avon to a middle-class merchant family he was the third of eight children. By the time…

In Apt Pupil, the main character, Todd, is a 13 year old boy who is fascinated and obsessed with the violent and gruesome details of the holocaust. He finds out that his neighbor, Dussander, was a nazi commander in a concentration camp during WWII, and through intimidation and exploitation, todd forces Dussander to relive his…

Harlem Renaissance was a social, artistic and intellectual wave of expressions by oppressed African-Americans spanning the nineteen twenties. It took place in Harlem, Manhattan, New York. The movement was previously known as The New Negro Movement. This name was gotten through Alan Locke’s anthology in the nineteen twenty five titled The New Negro (Harlem Renaissance…

Have you ever wondered why people are drawn to watching horror movies? Stephen King, a famous author for his outstanding horror novels, explains why people watch horror films in his article, “Why We Crave Horror Films”. The author examined the possible reasons why people choose to watch horror movies through a psychological perspective. King thinks…

The article “how and how not to love mankind”, written by Theodore Dalrymple, is about the humanity and welfare of humankind. The author talks about the two famous writers of the nineteenth century Ivan Turgenev and Karl Marx. Both being born and died at the same time, and living the lives paralleled to each other,…

Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Main on September 21st, of 1947 and grew up with separated parents, moving from place to place until settling permanently in Durham, Maine. King became inspired to write at a young age when he found a collection of his father’s short stories, The Lurker in the Shadows, and…

Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of the last 150 years, if not all time. Born in 1899 in Cicero, Illinois, Hemingway began writing at an early age about sports for his school newspaper. Upon graduating high school, Hemingway went and worked for Kansas City Star. It was here that he has said…