Literature Essays

A Controversy of Power  Power can often be thought of as a physical characteristic, that can be portrayed in the media as a large and muscular person that can throw heavy objects to far distances; however, it is not so often remembered that power can also mean, as stated from To Kill a Mockingbird Mini-Q … Read more

Most often in life, people find themselves wandering aimlessly without a specific goal to achieve and complain of a pointless, boring life. This mindset is especially prevalent in my generation, where most teenagers in the United States feel entitled to numerous things, such as education, money, careers, and even relationships. Not many have a set … Read more

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader learns about the childhood of Scout Finch, a 6 year old girl from Maycomb County, Alabama. Scout lives with her brother, Jem, and father, Atticus. The book takes readers through a series of life events and lessons that affect the Finch family over the course of … Read more

The Truth Behind The Fault in Our Stars The Fault in Our Stars was written by John Michael Green. This novel came about as an outcome of both Green’s experience working with terminally ill children and his experiences with his online fans, and one specifically. Green gives credit for the novel to his friendship with … Read more

In the novel Of Mice and Men author John Steinbeck– winner of the nobel prize in literature– creates a very hostile environment in the bunkhouse which causes Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy  to create barriers against other people on the farm. As a result of them creating these barriers they have the effect and feeling … Read more

William Shakespeare, a name when uttered places pictures of Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet into the minds of many. Shakespeare, who is often regarded as the world’s most famous playwright was born in 1564 and died in the year 1616. In his lifetime, Shakespeare wrote many renowned plays. In 1611, he wrote his final play, The Tempest, … Read more

Some say one of the biggest controversies can be the issue that if Shakespeare wrote his plays or not, Although there is no real proof that Shakespeare did write his plays, the support that he didn’t outweighs the other theory. Shakespeare didn’t write his plays, Other more eligible writer did like a famous writer named … Read more

Earnest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” if read as written is a simple conversation about a couple drinking and taking in the scenery around a train station, but when broken down is actually a conversation about abortion. Many critics have analyzed the story from a descriptive and conversational stand point. From a descriptive stance they … Read more

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald has become one of the more popular authors. He has written numerous amounts of popular books, his most famous would have to be The Great Gatsby. It talks a lot about the American dream through the eyes of different characters in his story. By showing and describing how these wealthy people … Read more

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the clear contrast between the character traits of Macbeth and Banquo, Macbeth’s foil, stresses the extent of Macbeth’s darkness and lust for power. The three where the difference between the two is made most evident is their cautiousness, loyalty and ambition. The first trait that emphasizes the dissimilarity between Macbeth and Banquo … Read more

Executive Order 9066, passed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1942, forced all Japanese-Americans to pack up their lives and move to internment camps, a place where they would live in shabby barracks and get treated unfairly by guards. This order confined the American citizens in heinous camps for up to three years. Because of … Read more

In her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen acts as a skilled seamstress stitching together all of her perfectly crafted words to convey her message about Regency England. She perfectly juxtaposes relationships and characters and then her treatment of them to subtly but gorgeously reveal to the reader the superficiality of society. Having experienced the … Read more

Is a man better off conforming with evil or escaping from chains that hold him from being an individual? In the novel, Anthem, written by Ayn Rand, the narrator lives in a dystopian population where people must refer to themselves in first person as the great “WE”, because individuality is the prominent sin. The story … Read more

In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Gregor, the main character wakes up one morning as a gigantic insect. Gregor is the one who provides for the family and he is paying off their debts. However, it is ironic how such a hard worker turns into a hideous insect. Gregor is the one sacrificing his freedom and time … Read more

In the novel Lord of The Flies Ralph is one of the main characters but there is also something special about him that sets him apart from all the others. In the beginning of the novel, he started off as a proper British boy who was pretty much harmless. Not much later he turned into … Read more