Category: Literature 5177

Two stories by Tiphanie Yanique, namely “Where Tourists Don’t Go” and “Saving Work,” were selected to identify the inherent conflicts. Religion is a recurring theme in both narratives; race and ethnic identity are at stake. “A church is burning down” begins “Saving Work” (Yanique 41). Both white American ladies, Diedre Thompson and Violet de Flaubert,…

Author’s Main Message Brain on Fire – My Month of Madness touches on several important themes related to mental illness and the treatment process. Susannah Cahalan writes about the love and care demonstrated by her parents and her boyfriend, Stephen, which were vital for her recovery. She exposes the unprofessionalism of healthcare workers such as…

It is important to note that Les Misérables, written by Victor Hugo, is an outstanding piece of literature that explores many aspects of living in a broken society and a personal will to act. The book’s core idea is centered around one’s freedom to resist the social degradation and evil imposed on people by focusing…

A.E. Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” is about a record-breaking athlete regarded as a legend. The poem’s tone abruptly changes, causing the reader to realize that the athlete has died. The poem is notable for its themes of the bitterness of death at the pinnacle of greatness. Housman depicts the idea of glory…

A&P is a comic short story written by John Updike in 1961. The story tells about a cashier guy in a store who was shocked by the appearance of three young female customers who came to the store in swimsuits. After the manager, as the main hero thought, disgraced girls by reprimanding them, Sammy, the…

The short story “Recitatif” is the only published story by Morrison. “It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the morning-it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race (Morrison 1)”. The two main characters in this story, Twyla…

Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Free choice and free will did not exist for slaves, and the difference between “good” and “bad” owners was nothing more than an illusion. Harriet Jacobs writes about this in her autobiographical novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Telling her story of slavery…

Table of Contents Introduction Consumption and Lack of Discipline Lust is an Example of Indulging Human Weakness Conclusion Work Cited Introduction The second circle of hell, described by Dante in the Divine Comedy, is lust and describes the sinners who fell from it. Traitor spouses and libertines personify what the Middle Ages literature represents as…

A folk ballad is typically written by an unidentified author, and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a lyrical ballad produced in that style. A ballad is a narrative song poem that can be sung or chanted rhythmically and tells the story of a single, dramatic episode or story (Güngör, 2020). William Wordsworth is…

The book with the selected poems of Langston Hughes contains the chapter “Afro-American Fragments”. The chapter is illustrated as a multitude of poems describing the black experience at the time the poet was publishing his work, hence, in the 1930s. The narrator’s personal approach to expressing raw emotions and perception creates a deeply sentimental yet…