Essays on American Literature

The American Voice is defined in more ways than one person can count. It is perceived as a voice of freedom, a voice of praise, a voice of justice, a voice of peace, (to name a few). Yes the American Voice can be defined in…

Ghosts is a story written by Paul Auster. The story is taken from the book “The New York Trilogy”. All the story happens in the New York. There are some characters in the story but the main character is named Blue. All the characters name…

A cat goes missing. A girl uses her super powers to bring the cat back to a lady she doesn’t adore. She cooperates with the most disgusting boy in her class to save the day. Grace Stewart, the main character, is in third grade and…

Introduction Throughout the powerful novel Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini shows a relentless will to survive in extreme ways that most could not, also demonstrating many counts of leadership. Louis Zamperini has been innovative…

As a survey of American literature there are many influential and celebrated authors. Jack Kerouac has become a well known writer whose nontraditional style has led him to fame. In Jack Kerouac’s writings, he used a stream of consciousness, spoke chaotic and randomly, and used…

In The United States during the 60’s and 70’s, many U.S. citizens opposed the U.S involvement in the Vietnam war, as well as domestic issues that included racial discrimination. These lead to the counterculture movement, where younger generation of Americans rejected societal norms by taking…

‘‘Where are you going, Where have you Been? Is set to be in suburban of America in the 1960s, a global change the sex change or rebellion, women lacked important or significant control over their lives. Author, Joyce Carol Oates, one can see how she…

The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein, is a fictional novel that takes place in Seattle. The overall theme of this story is love. There is so much love in this story, everywhere you look. Enzo, Denny, Zoë, Eve, all of them…

“People should not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character” is one of the famous quotes of Martin Luther King which explicitly demonstrates the frivolousness of racism. It shows how people blindly segregated themselves from each other…

Ayn Rand had a lot of theme words and out of all of the theme’s I picked individual because it goes more with the theme and it explained the theme more than the other ones do. She had a lot of individual things in the…

Overview This essay is about a novel titled “Thirteen Reasons Why”. It is based on a true story about how a teenage girl named Hannah Baker suddenly took her own life while going through psychological disorders. She sought for help but there was no one…

In Chapter VII of My Antonia, Cather uses a rattlesnake to symbolize one of the most important moments in the book. At the beginning of this passage, it is well known that Antonia is not only older, but also more traveled than Jim. Because of…

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….

American writers have expressed their political and social views through their writing by attempting to establish a voice separate from Britain’s. Their fear of individual and national failure and their thirst for power consumes them and is evident in their writing. Washington Irving and Herman…

Bechdel and Contingency At first glance, Bechdel’s novel Fun Home depicts the unhappy relationship between father and daughter. Outside of chores and working, the pair rarely spend time together and appear to be polar opposites. As Alison describes, she was the “Butch to his Nelly….