Essays on Literature

In The Yellow Birds By Kevin Powers, a man named Bartle goes to war because he wanted to be a man and thought it would help him. Bartle and Murphy meet and they are both young that they become friends. They later find out that…

The Virgin Suicides is a novel about five sisters in the 1960s written by Jeffrey Eugenides. One of these young girls, Lux, living a sheltered and overprotected life, is strongly affected by Trip, the school’s heartthrob. When Trip abandons Lux the night of homecoming, she…

“The Virgin Suicides” is a 1999 film based on the best-selling debut novel written by Jeffery Eugenides in 1993. The story revolves around the lives of five beautiful Lisbon sisters: Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Therese, and Mary. The sisters live in a suburban Michigan home with…

The Virgin Suicides written by Jeffrey Eugenides is a debut. The novel takes the reader to a family of five girls who commit suicide, and the story unfolds in the narration of a group of boys. The underlining argument from the book is the existence…

In Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides, the literary device symbolism plays a crucial role in the creation of the novel. In literature, writers normally use symbolism to illustrate an idea that they want to depict. Symbols can be presented in several ways in literature such…

In the novels, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera and The Stranger, by Albert Camus, both authors provide morals to present the meaninglessness of human life. Though both authors present the same idea, they do so in different ways. Kundera concludes the novel…

This essay aims to conduct a comparative analysis between Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Sally Rooney’s Normal People. I will consider the different ways in which love and desire are depicted and how they can be interpreted. I will mention something about…

William Carlos Williams was of the view that the short story style was “a good medium for nailing down a single conviction. Emotionally.” Carlos Williams’s approach to writing poetry invented a fresh approach to articulate his ideas in the simple language of common text that…

The ability to imagine pervades the entirety of human existence and can be utilized in poetry, or literature as a whole. Influencing human nature, imagination camouflages reality, allowing an individual’s mind to paint a picture that personifies a told literature through unlimited horizons. Having an…

Judith Ortiz remains to be one of the most admirable authors since she wrote nonfiction stories. The story on the myth of the Latin woman plays around the different aspects of stereotypes that deal with the racism that she dealt with as a Latino. The…