Essays on Writing Experience

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a fictional account of a migrant family’s struggles before and while traveling to California in hopes of a new beginning during the Great Depression. As one would know from any level US history course, the Great…

Spoiler Warning- major spoilers ahead.Once again we are presented with an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s masterpiece – her debut novel, Sharp Objects. If her name sounds familiar it is because she wrote the highly acclaimed book “Gone Girl” which was later adapted for a movie…

Through diving into Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”, one is given the opportunity to relive the culture of the Beat generation as if experiencing it first-hand. Though, with this comes reliving many viewpoints of the time period. One such view that would likely shock most…

Different themes are observed to be associated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe,but of the numerous the repeating topic of death is a steady focal point of his writing. With research it has been found that Poe viewed death in the way that humans…

Tahar Jelloun’s novel A Palace in the Old Village follows a fictional story of Mohammed, a Moroccan immigrant trying to fight acculturation by reuniting his family in his home village. The story reveals immigrant experience in the present day struggling to retain their culture and…

Rebecca, written by Daphne Du Maurier and published in 1938, is often viewed by most people as a mystery, thriller or romance. This novel takes place in beautiful Manderly, a mansion which is supposed to be symbolic to the British Empire at the time. The…

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Throughout the reading and discussion of Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent”, most readers are immediately drawn to the dynamic character of Winne Verloc; who is seemingly portrayed as the protagonist’s — or antagonist’s depending on one’s opinion — loving and obedient wife. However, as audiences…

In The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy demonstrates how the text communicates meaning through the usage of alternating narratives, flashbacks and flashforwards, which disrupts the flow of a conventional linear narrative. When coupled with the usage of symbolism and repetition, the novel mimics the…

Clarice’s outward femininity creates for her struggles within in which she battles with thow she is viewed by those surrounding her. Encircled by men as a student at the FBI Academy, Clarice experiences inequity of power as well as unwarranted and unwanted sexual advances not…