Essays on Fiction

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…

An unreliable narrator is a narrator that only tells their side of the story, or one side of the story, that’s why they are an unreliable narrator. In “Everyday Use” our narrator is telling this story about her life and her children, she is speaking…

Both seemingly created with an idea so outrageous and positively twisted beyond recognition, the worlds of Huxley and Scott when they were first presented were not quite understood, and furthermore, ridiculed for their ostensibly outlandish designs of humanity and our constantly changing world. Now, however,…

The book by Celeste Ng, “Everything I Never Told You,” is both a story of a family’s endeavor to adapt to misfortune and a puzzle. The issue of both identity and race is significant to deeply understand the contentions inside this novel. Ng expressively talks…

Rosemary a very unlucky lady as she lost her daughter “Susan” when she was only 19 years old. She is very hardworking girl and want to be an actress. On her death day she called her mom that she had a meeting with frank parker…

The Vendor of Sweets written in 1967 by R. K. Narayan is authored in simple language like his other books. The book is written in easy English that can be read and understood without turning and returning the pages after a single read, which makes…

Emile Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradise, published in 1883 is an important text in which Zola explores social perspectives and depicts extensive socio-economic experiences through his representation of the department store, based on Paris’ first department store of the Second Empire. Zola expressed that he wanted…

In “Sonny’s blue”, from the perspective of narrator, the fiction expresses his observations of the world and his thinking about life by describing Sonny’s experience. Also, the fiction depicts two very different lives by comparing the different experiences of narrator and Sonny and the different…

The sky was gloomy. The water by the hillside was completely still. Birds no longer chirped as they once did. The willow trees turned brown. Rabbits no longer came to sit in the sand by the river. It was very rare if you could hear…