Time continues to pass; and yet with each passing era humanity continually seems to be terrified, and equally fascinated, by the realm of the supernatural. Creations of literary over the centuries have plagiarised what has provided a means for indulging in this fantastical dominion and…
Essays on Books
Karen Russell’s story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” deals with the idea of conformity and formation of identity. Collision often leads to situations of having to adapt to a new culture. This comes with some sort of needing to change, along with…
Karen Russell’s short story, “St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves,” explores the idea that culture plays a major role in the formation of identity in each individual. Culture is a synthesis of a particular group’s values beliefs and practices. Since each person’s identity…
In ‘St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,’ Karen Russell utilizes a postcolonial lens to show the consequences of colonization. The story is about girls raised by wolves, who are learning how to conform to a different environment. The readers follow the uncomfortable transformations…
In this essay, this writer will attempt to compare and contrast the topics of isolation and feelings of being an outcast that many young people feel during their journey” to adulthood. In both “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell and…
What is necessary, essential to survive these awful situations? Well, there are lots and lots of examples out there of things people have done to make it out of unfortunate circumstances and overcome obstacles to make their way back home. Whether it’s a film, or…
Man’s Search for Meaning is a book composed by Victor Frankl. He was an Austrian nervous system specialist, analysts and therapists. All the more strikingly, he was a detainee in Nazi death camp. Frankl created a strategy for logotherapy. This strategy turned into a reason…
The draft. It brought many men into a war that they did not understand. It brought them across the Pacific Ocean to a small country in a civil war. This country was Vietnam. The Things They Carried is a fictional book based in Vietnam during…
To survive is to continue on with life, even when it seems to be a continuous loop of despair. Authors Murakami, Steinbeck, and Hannaford each bring the idea of survival to life through their work. Murakami’s work focuses on survivor’s guilt, while Steinbeck exaggerates dependence,…
Medieval literature was a period filled with many characteristics and elements such as extended metaphors, romances, and the Church. In the Canterbury Tales, many different genres took place such as romance, beast fable, religion, and poetry. Iambic pentameter is used in the Miller’s Tale as…
‘The Lottery,’ written by Shirley Jackson, is a short story about an obscure village that holds a ‘lottery’ in which an individual of any age is randomly chosen to be stoned to death. The story illustrates the process and which villager was selected to be…
Style, tone, and language are crucial aspects used in writing. It gives the story meaning, or a certain feeling, and helps the reader know what the author is trying to say in a story. The style that the “The Story of an Hour” uses is…
In The Things They Carried, Tim O’brien shows how symbolism enforces the power of storytelling through the many personality shifts within a variation of characters. Throughout the novel, one is exposed to a various amount of ideas and concepts that all connect together in an…
Ancient German philosopher, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once said, “Equality which we demand is the most tolerant degree of inequality”. For centuries, humankind has worked towards an equal society, but at what expense and limit? In the short story,” Harrison Bergeron” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. depicts a…
As a famous actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, once said, “When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you”. This meaning that through experience, humans can gain empathy to learn many important and beneficial lessons from…
