Essays on American Literature

I chose a fire, a hatchet, and woods to represent the book, “Hatchet”, because he was lost in the woods, his hatchet was his main tool, and he learned how to build a fire for survival. How is Brian a Hero in Hatchet Brian is…

Gary Paulsen message for the readers is to change and adapt. He changed Brian’s perspective through out the novel regarding the wilderness. At the start of the story we see Brian’s plane crashed into the Canadian woods. Initially, perhaps due to his parent’s divorce we…

Hatchet is about a 13 year old boy named Brian who has divorced parents and is visiting his dad for the summer, but to visit his dad he takes an old Cessna 406 bush plane, these planes are small and can only fit 12 people….

Introduction Edgar Allan Poe is recognized as the father of love and death in American literature. Throughout the many years since Edgar Allan Poe became famous, we have come to realize that many of his works are very similar. In Edgar Allan Poe’s works, he…

Introduction “A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow” (Maxwell). Realism is a powerful tool many authors use to create a realistic picture in their work. Many authors such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells used this in their…

Edgar Allen Poe worked hard on his poems and stories which showed greatly in his work. Though many people believe his work, at first glance, is just nonsensical though behind the big words are deep meanings and connections they have towards us. Poe’s work has…

John Donne (1572-1631) is considered to be one of Britain’s greatest poets of the 17th century as his poetry holds a unique position in Renaissance literature. Those who admire his work consider him to be one of Britain’s greatest metaphysical love poets of his time….

“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a short story written by a renowned American writer Ambrose Bierce. Ambrose was also a Civil War veteran and knew very well about the hardships people face during a war. The writer takes us through the times of…

Meghan WalshHonors American Literature The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been called both a brilliant piece of satire and a piece of racist trash. The premise of this “American Classic” is that two socially outcasted characters, an abused boy escaping his drunken…

“The Grapes of Wrath” is still of the classics of American literature. This work remains banned in many school libraries across the nation because some critics said it contains full of lies of American life in that period and highly pro-communist. It is because Steinbeck…