Essays on Literature Review

Plot Summary This is the story of a family called the Tucks. They came to a place called Treegap woods to settle down. One day they drank from a strange spring at the centre of the woods they wanted to stop and take a break….

In the novel so long a letter by Mariana Ba Ramatoulaye a woman in Daka Sengal begins a diary with the intention to send to her friend Aissatou who live in America, what recently brought on her behavior was the death of he late husband…

The story ‘Bet’ was written by Chekhov in 1888, six years before his death. Anton Pavlovich already knew that he had only a little time left to live, and his last works had the character of rethinking life, summing it up. ‘Bet’ in its content…

The Beginning, Spread and Divergion of Humans In the first chapter of Guns, Germs, and Steel, The author Jared Diamond talks about the beginnings of the human species. He describes how we broke off from other animals around 7 million years ago. This process happened…

In the novel BONE we are introduced to a Chinese family living San Francisco’s Chinatown where they find themselves grieving from the recent suicide death of the three daughters Ona Leong. The emphasis is on how the family grieves after their loss, their cultural clashes…

The story revolves around a guy named Ray Kroc who is working as a salesman selling milkshake mixer to different food outlets across. He goes across the United States hoping to make a sale but he fails to convince any restaurant manager. Ray despite not…

Claude Mckay’s Home to Harlem is a most popular cyclical novel, which is won the Harman Gold award for literature, Mckay is a famous Twentieth century African American writer, he is born in central Jmaica in 1889, to a black poor peasants parents, who is…

We all know true war stories cannot be trusted and taken account of, the story of Mary Anne was not a trustworthy story either. Months after her escape into the wilderness Mary Anne had a rendezvous with Fossie and their confrontation was not a small…

Today I will be talking about the book “My Favorite Chaperone,” by Jean Davies Okimoto. This story talks about how a foreign family migrated to Chicago from Kazakhstan. The parents were unfamiliar with the customs in the US since they have been in Kazakhstan for…

The book “One of us is Lying” opens with the four main characters, Bronwyn, headed to detention alongside Simon, a social outcast of the school who came up with a gossip app that he uses to spread gossip and negative chit chat about the other…

“The ‘Blue Blood’ Cruise” is one of the essay collections in Roland Barthes’s book called “Mythologies.” The cruise refers to the meeting of “hundred members of European royalty” hosted by the Queen Frederika of Greece (26). In the essay, Barthes’s mentions about the monarchy, the…

Feudal Relations and Knighthood Upended The Effects of Courtly Love in Lancelot as Mediated Through Female Figures In Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot, multiple female figures continually frame the narrative and push it forward. Major shifts and turns in plot development carefully hinge upon the speech…

Chapter 1: Quick Summary: The author, Nicholas Carr, shares his own personal experiences without technology as a youth, when he has to find information and contact people through the real world, and recounts his first encounters with computers and the helpfulness of having so much…

Andrew Marvell’s “Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay Ropes” is an entertaining critique of the limitations in the 16th century. The oppression applied by the those who occupied power on literature had deeply influenced the characteristic of classic literature that is still being analyzed and as…

Any action that humankind takes is a decision that could lead to either progression or degeneration. A civilization is comprised of a system that is created to serve the well-being of a people, not a corrupted one that has been succumbed to indifference, lack of…

Le Morte d’Arthur is believed to be written by Thomas Malory during the last three years of his life at Newgate Prison and published by William Caxton in fourteen thousand and eighty-five. The story is about the legend of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, the knights…

Introduction In The Trial by Franz Kafka uses visual and spatial imagery to place his readers in the shoes of Joseph K. (K.), who represents the people as a whole, who are constantly the subjects of the Court, which is a paradoxical mix of machinery…

Looking at the Piece of Art This article written by John Berger focuses on the ways in which we view art as well as how women are perceived. He starts by stating that “the way we see things is affected by what we know or…

John Berger What We See and What We Know In the book Ways Of Seeing by John Berger, he indicates the connection between what we see and what we know is never appointed. We are surrounded by this thing called the world, however, in order…

Introduction I went to Cineplex movie theatre to watch John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. I arrived at the theatre half past noon and the people who were mostly attending the theatre were young kids, adults and couples. The theatre was not that full and I…

Introduction Both poems share a common theme but Langston Hughes uses different literary devices to express the theme of never giving up. In “Mother to Son,” the author uses a first person point of view to explain someone’s struggles in life. In the poem “Dreams,”…

Introduction Since the beginning of time, people were born different; everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, but some flaws are seen worse than others; discrimination, therefore, becomes a common occurrence. In the essays, “Stranger in the Village” and “On Being a Cripple”, two types…

The history of mighty using the weak for their own gain is as long as time itself. However, within the last few centuries the scale at which this forces can operate especially when dealing with Europeans to non-Europeans. With this new found power the Europeans…

All of the events that transpired throughout the text created an unbreakable bond between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. This friendship is developed through all of the near-death experiences and solidified even more after Enkidu’s death. Their friendship can be described as complex. One could argue that…

Throughout the novel, Ishiguro depicts several situations in which Kathy as an individual being still asks herself who she is. Even Though she gives the reader a description of herself right in the beginning of her story “My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years…

In the work of the novelist Edgar Allan Poe, sensory experiences of heroes play a very important role. In many of the works of the American writer, we find numerous references to visual and auditory sensations. Stories in which Poe used elements are particularly interesting…

Today I’ll be analysing the poem ‘Little Red Cap’ which is a part of collection ‘The World’s Wife’ by Carol Ann Duffy. She links fantasy with real life experiences and writes poetry on feminism and aims to empower women. Little Red Cap is a poem…

Feminist criticism examines whether the political, economic, social and psychological oppression of women have been enhanced or undermined. Based on the play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell, she had criticised the treatment of women in the patriarchal society as one of the earliest feminist critics…

When Thomas More published in 1516 his infamous novel ‘Utopia’ he could not think that he founded a new stream in the literature which was called after his novel. The genre of utopia is peculiar for depicting an ideal society without poverty, crimes, abuse of…

Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” to eight skeptical clergymen addressed their criticism directed towards his actions to combat racism. After hearing and analyzing the clergymen’s bigoted proposition that King’s actions were both “unwise and untimely,” he created his counterargument to disprove their…

Many people think of marriage as a beautiful thing however data is showing us that nearly fifty percent of marriages end in divorce or separation.The story of an hour is set in the 1800’s when women didn’t have many rights. In the story of an…

A room of one’s ownIntroduction In 1928 Virginia Woolf was invited by a college to deliver lecturers. She delivered lecturer on the issue of women and fiction. She expended her lecturers and revised them into an essay ‘A Room Of One’s Own’ which was printed…

It was a warm, sunny day and Sara thought of walking down to the city near the harbor. On her way down to the harbor, she saw her friends James and Henri. She ran to them and asked, “Can you guys come with me down…

In A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Wheelwright reflects on all the impactful memories he experienced throughout his childhood, highlighting the ones he shared with his best friend Owen Meany. During the course of this novel these characters enter a transition from childhood to adulthood,…

With stunning cinematography, accompanied by exceptional performances. Sean Penn pulls of what can only be described as a masterpiece. Have you ever just sat on a beach or on a mountain side somewhere, watching the world go by, as the sun sets? That feeling you…

What exactly is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who originally developed Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. To this day entrepreneurs believe in self-motivation to reach an individual’s end goals and success of their careers. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is grouped by five…

In the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson uses imagery to enhance the central message of Good Vs Evil. For instance, “Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury,…

In the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, he presents several symbols one of them being blood. Blood is very crucial and its significance is expressed in the novel. John Grady Cole’s devotion is compensated in blood. The brutal image of blood and…

In the first fairy tale Eleanor tells herself while on her way to Hill House, she sees a large house with, “a pair of stone lions guarding the steps”. In her imagination, not only do the lions serve as her protection, but there is a…

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt well demonstrated the motif of personal growth versus moral standards. The play insinuates that most men allow their lust for personal growth affect their integrity towards others. The general idea of personal growth contradicting moral standards is…

The ones from Omelas go away as a result of they are doing not need to be a celebration to the terrible crime of scapegoating the one wretched kid. They decide that it’s not worthwhile.The individuals of Omelas settle for the sacrifice of the kid…

Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, included in the In Love and Trouble short story collection, was published in 1973, a moment in history known as the ‘Black Power Movement’. This movement encouraged racial pride and equality. Everyday Use relates the struggles of African American women due…

On February 11,1990 in Cape Town Nelson Mandela delivered a speech sending gratitude to the millions of people who followed in his footsteps and campaigned for his release. He acknowledged that Cape Town had been his home for nearly three decades and the mass marches…