Writers Essays and Research Papers Page 4

Eric Arthur Blair, who is also known by his author name by George Orwell, is an English Novelist, journalist, and intellectual who wrote about awareness of social injustice, the opposition of totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism. He is own from his dystopian novels such as 1984 and Animal Farm. Orwell often wrote literary…

Throughout the years, literature has been used as a powerful tool to expose and denounce issues, controversies, or injustices surrounding the society at a certain time period. Indeed, in the world, there is nothing more powerful than words; most importantly the written words. Words on paper can be very convincing and persuasive such as books,…

I decided to concentrate on the writing of Ernest Hemingway. The first book I read, completed in 1926, is The Sun Also Rises. This novel is set in the 1920s, and recounts the story of a group of American and European expatriates in Paris. Jake Barnes, the narrator, concentrates mostly on the life of his…

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe an American abolitionist, author and one of the most influential women of the 19th century best known for her novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. Born into a prominent family, Beecher grew up with her father, Lyman Beecher, a Presbyterian preacher and her twelve…

The novel The Temple of My Familiar by Walker Alice is a work of literature, which has explicitly applied various literary elements to accomplish the author’s aim of showing moral truth. The Temple of My Familiar‘s first publication occurred in 1989 (Walker 1). Walker introduces multiple characters, plots, themes and locations by entwining various narratives…

Prior to the Vietnam War, the American people were mostly in favor of war. However, the Vietnam War was the first war to be televised, live, to the American people so they could see the horrific actions occurring during the war. This new-found information swiftly changed the American perception of those not involved with the…

Ray Bradbury, author of many famous book including Fahrenheit 451, was born August 22nd, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois and died June 5th in Los Angeles, California. Ray Bradbury’s parents were Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, who was a lineman for the Waukegan Bureau of Power and Light, and Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury. Ray Bradbury was an American…

The Harlem Renaissance was an informed individual, social, and innovative shoot focused in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, crossing the 1920s. By at that point, it was known as the ‘New Negro Movement’. The development in like way joined the new African-American social clarifications over the urban regions in the Northeast and Midwest United States…

Markus Zusak was born on June 23, 1975 in Sydney Australia. He came from humble beginnings as the son of a house painter and a maid. He is the youngest of four children and neither of his parents could read or write any English when they first arrived to Australia. Because Zusak’s parents were illiterate,…

On “On Writing,” Stephen King tells the reader how to write using specific examples. He mentions active and passive verbs, he explains why a writer should never use adverbs, and supplies examples of good and bad writing. In this section, King tells us what he does and does not do. He says these rules can…