Essays on Fiction

There are two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two human beings who are the size of mice named Hem and Haw. They live in a maze and must continuously discover cheese as food to survive. The mice have an easy strategy. They check every…

Being sometimes an adult or rushing through childhood isn’t necessary the most wanted thing when you look back at your “old days”. Young people and specifically teenagers’ desires to be an adult as fast as they can and wants to be treated like a grown…

The short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence depicts a dysfunctional family whose thirst for money and the desire to uphold their social position eventually results in the death of the firstborn child. In How To Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively…

Woman Hollering Creek, Story of an Hour and A Rose for Miss Emily have many similarities with symbolism, characters, and societies expectation of women around that time period. With such dominant societal views concerning female gender roles, these three stories all have connections of how…

The overcoat is a short story written by Nikolai Gogol, a Russian writer. This book is about a man named Akakiy Akakievich, he was not poor but he did not have very good resources, he lived in St. Petersburg, and everyday he needed to go…

Nova glanced up from her phone. The few people in the library were still busy doing their thing. Glancing at her watch, Nova realised that it was five minutes past her shift and cursed under her breath as she waved off Estella and hurried into…

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to have a family vacation ruined?When your parents want you to have fun, but they no your not because of where you went. Well in Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Getaway the twelfth…

I chose the tale about the Happy Prince. The story is about the statue of the prince who died, and who gave out all of his belongings to the poor with the help of the Swallow. The reasons why I chose, and like this tale…

Thomas King’s “Borders”, written in 1993, is a short fiction story showing an indirect characterization about Mother. The story allows the reader to understand the difficulties Mother encounters, of not disclosing the citizenship of the country she belongs to. However, taking the pride, of showcasing…

The author in his foreword defines the work as a psychomyth whose central idea is the theme of a “scapegoat”, which means thinking about the price that people are willing to pay for their prosperous existence . The author’s subtitle – “variations on a theme…