“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” (Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”). Theodor Seuss Geisel, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. After leaving his hometown, the Poetry Foundation states, “Geisel…
Essays on Writers
What do you think of when you hear the name Dr. Seuss? Nazi Germany, Anti-consumerism and the destruction of the environment? Dr. Seuss, whose birth name was Theodor Geisel, was a famous children’s author whose catalog included The Battle Book and The Lorax. At the…
Augustine wrote to Marcellinus: This work which I have begun makes incredible certification to you. In it I grasped nothing but actually the task of guarding the great City of God against the people who support their own one of a kind perfect creatures to…
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Harper Lee uses her novel To Kill a Mockingbird to show what courage really is. The theme of the true meaning of courage is presented in many ways throughout the novel, and its…
Love is a common theme topic in many works of literature. Love today is usually expressed by saying “I love you” and/or being intimate. There are different ways that you can still let someone know that you love them. William Shakespeare shows the types of…
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald has been rated as a masterpiece, perhaps even one of the best novels of all time. To be considered a work of art, a novel must have a quality of two that solidifies its place above the rest. The…
The Great Gatsby was written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, and is still to this day is one of the most popular novels to this day. It raises various relevant themes, such as wealth of so-called ‘old money’ society, segregation into classes, as well…
“If We Must Die” written by using Claude McKay, the novelist was stimulated to compose this piece of writing due to the brutality and race riots Part of the African American society that the us experienced in 1919. The novelist came to go to from…
Background of the poem Most of Emily’s works revolve around the subject of gender roles experienced by women during the 19th Century. Back then, marriages were made out of convenience and not love. Having been subjugated by their caste system, women were not allowed to…
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the setting of the book takes place during some time in the future and it tells us this society that is really similar to ours. The book follows Guy Montag, who is a fireman who burns down people’s houses…
