English Essays

Devines Catcher in the Rye
Devine’s Catcher in the Rye Catcher in the Rye In the novel Catcher in the Rye there are a few characters that play a large part in Holden’s life but are very rarely seen. Even though some of these characters have a big effect on Holden and his decisions the author chooses not to mention them much in the story. One of the characters in the story that is never seen but plays a very large part in Holden’s life is his younger brother Allie. Since Allie...

Discussing Charles Bresslers interpretation of Marxism as a literary theory
Discussing Charles Bressler’s interpretation of Marxism as a literary theory Marxism is not the hot topic it once was. With the collapse of Communist U.S.S.R., mainstream North America had thought it had seen the last of Marxism and the communist party.However, with the People’s Republic of China becoming a reality, those early beliefs may have proven to be premature. Defining Marxism is not difficult. Marxism is the belief that the common workingman (the proletar...

Don Quixote
Don Quixote In medieval times, knight-errants roamed the countryside of Europe, rescuing damsels and vanquishing evil lords and enchanters. This may sound absurd to many people in this time, but what if a person read so many books about these so-called knight-errants that he could not determine the real from that which was read? Such is the case in The Adventures of Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes wh...

Double Edged Sword
Double Edged Sword Double Edged Sword The bible often refers to human tongue as a “double edged sword” because the human tongue is fierce and can inflict more pain than anything a person can physically imagine. This form of pain has made itself apparent to me by means of name-calling. Name-calling has been a part of my life since the day I was born; however, it has helped mold me into the strong self sufficient, and self-driven individual I am today. My early school years,...

Dream
Dream Through the Darkness My parents and I were in the airport awaiting our airplane bound for New York. The Airport was full of crying people; relatives and friends bidding their farewells. I was sad myself to be leaving, especially since it was my first time moving from my friends and family whom I have never lived without. I fell asleep on my mothers lap, I knew I had time to sleep because we had been two hours early for our flight. When I woke up my mother was acting stra...

Dubliners by James Joyce Freedom versus Entrapment
Dubliners by James Joyce - Freedom versus Entrapment A collection of short stories published in 1907, Dubliners, by James Joyce, revolves around the everyday lives of ordinary citizens in Dublin, Ireland (Freidrich 166). According to Joyce himself, his intention was to “write a chapter of the moral history of [his] country and [he] chose Dublin for the scene because the city seemed to [b]e the centre of paralysis” (Friedrich 166). True to his goal, each of the fifteen storie...

Catcher in the Rye Themes
Catcher in the Rye - Themes For my summer reading, I chose to read Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. I decided to do my essay on the themes of the story. The only problem was, I couldn’t think of any. After reading the book twice, and still coming up without any, I decided to do some research on the web. I found out what some of the themes are, and now they make sense to me. There were four major themes that ran throughout the story. One of the major themes in Catc...

Cathedral Raymond Carver
Cathedral - Raymond Carver Most people know the common attributes of prejudice, but Raymond Carver takes the analysis of this flaw of human nature one step further and writes of how it affects the lives of its holders and their views of the world in a very profound way. There is a beauty that surrounds us all. However, sometimes it takes a dramatic event, a revelation, to make us see this. Raymond Carver gives his protagonist, the husband, this gift of sight in the story of C...

Cather in the Rye Language
Cather in the Rye - Language The passage of adolescence has served as the central theme for many novels, but J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, long a staple in academic lesson plans, has captured the spirit of this stage of life in hyper-sensitive form, dramatizing Holden Caulfield’s vulgar language and melodramatic reactions. Written as the autobiographical account of a fictional teenage prep school student Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye deals with m...

Charles Dickens 2
Charles Dickens 2 Charles Dickens has been acclaimed as one of the foremost satirists of the nineteenth century. In his novel A Tale of Two Cities Dickens finds fault with the social structure of the society. A few of these social problems are the difference between the classes, the lunacy of the revolution, and the judicial system in effect as this time. The first of the faults in the social structure of the society is the difference between the classes. It is not just the diff...

Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens INTRODUCTION This report will talk about the life of a famous author, Charles Dickens. It will tell you about his early, middle, and later years of his life. It will also talk about one of his great works of literature. In conclusion, this report will show a comparison of his work to his life. EARLY LIFE Charles Dickens was born at Landport, in Portsea, on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the Navy Pay-Office, and was temporarily on duty in the neigh...

Chaucer Biography
Chaucer Biography Although we can see some changes in types of characters, people today are relatively the same as they were during the Middle Ages. Some Chaucerian characters, such as the Parson, the Summoner, or even the Doctor, can relate characteristically to modern-day characters. When compared with the Chaucerian Doctor, the stereotypical, modern-day witch doctor relates similarly. With few exceptions, such as types of clothing, the Doctor and witch doctor are different...

Chaucer
Chaucer Although we can see some changes in types of characters, people today are relatively the same as they were during the Middle Ages. Some Chaucerian characters, such as the Parson, the Summoner, or even the Doctor, can relate characteristically to modern-day characters. When compared with the Chaucerian Doctor, the stereotypical, modern-day witch doctor relates similarly. With few exceptions, such as types of clothing, the Doctor and witch doctor are different The brig...

Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus is the most well known explorer by most school age children. When children are young, teachers tell them that Columbus was a very good person, a hero even. To be politically correct though, Christopher Columbus brought death and destruction with him to the Americas. He stole , killed, and tortured the natives. Christopher Columbus was not a true explorer, but he was a conqueror of people. When Christopher Columbus set out on his voy...

Chronicle of a Death Fortold by Gabriel Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Fortold by Gabriel Marquez Chronicle of a Death Fortold, by Gabriel Marquez, is concerned with death in life and life in death. It was rainy on the day of Santiago Nasar’s murder, and yet by the account of others, it was not. His death is so mingled with illusory images that everything seems mystified: much like death itself. The fact that the story is about how a death consumes the lives of the entire town as well as the victim, shows that it is concer...

Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith
Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith In Virginia Woolf’s book, Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Warren Smith grow up under the same social institutions. Although social classes are drawn upon wealth, it can be conceived that two people may have very similar opinions of the society that created them. Woolf presents individuals that are uncannily similar in Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa and Septimus share the quality of expr...

Cold Mountain Summary
Cold Mountain Summary The setting for Cold Mountain is in the state of North Carolina during the Civil War. The plot of Cold Mountain is to reunite Inman and Ada. Inman leaves the Confederate army a few years into the war, and tries to go back to Cold Mountain where he can find his love, Ada. Inman is a Confederate soldier that receives a neck wound from a battle and is forced to go to the hospital. After he goes to the hospital he stays there for a few weeks. While in the hosp...

Communication
Communication Different types of communication happen together or simultaneously. For example, you may read a memo (written) to a person in a meeting (interpersonal) while you are sitting in a chair, grimacing (nonverbal). However, by recognizing the modes in which you are communicating, you are better able to choose strategies to communicate more effectively. For instance, let’s take the scenario that I just described. Perhaps I am unhappy about the memo, but I do not want th...

Compare and Contrast Sir Percy vs Chauvelin from the Scarlet Pimpernel
Compare and Contrast - Sir Percy vs Chauvelin from the Scarlet Pimpernel Many objects and people these days have the ability to be compared and contrasted. For example, you could compare and contrast a dog and a cat. A dog is most commonly a house pet, like the cat. But a dog has more of an ability to be trained, unlike the cat. But it’s not the subject of comparing a dog and a cat. It’s time to begin comparing and contrasting Sir Percy and Chauvelin from The Scarlet...

Comparison and Contrast of Emerson and Hawthorne
Comparison and Contrast of Emerson and Hawthorne The transcendental period of American writing was a very important time for American literature. It produced many of the most famous authors in America’s history. Webster’s dictionary defines transcendentalism as a philosophy that asserts the primacy of the spiritual and transcendental over the material. What that means is that spirituality was more important than material possessions. Two very famous authors of...

Comparison between the Red Room and the Farthing House
Comparison between the Red Room and the Farthing House In the two stories that we have read each story explores the feeling of horror and fear. We are examining how each character in each story reacts to the ghost that they encounter. In each story the characters react very different to the different types of ghost that they meet. Well’s story of the ‘The Red Room’ boasts a young, very energetic and arrogant man who thinks that it ‘Will take a very tangible ghost’ ...

Comparison of tones used by Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass
Comparison of tones used by Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass Two of the most well known black writers that were for the abolishnist movement in America were Frederik Douglass and Phillis Wheatley. At a time when a literate Negro would have only existed in a nightmare and when even the majority of the white women in the country were illiterate, these two authors of distinguished valor managed to write literature and recite speeches that inspired some of the most impenetrab...

Comparsion between Hearst and Citizen Kane
Comparsion between Hearst and Citizen Kane Citizen Kane is said to be one of the greatest movies of all-time, but it did not come without controversy. The controversy around this movie is based on the idea that Charles Foster Kane is the fictionalization of William Randolph Hearst, a narcissistic newspaper publisher, politician, and wealthy millionaire. The remarkable parallels between Kane and Hearst include their houses, their newspapers and their use of money. Both Kane and...

Connie
Connie Connie a pretty young girl at age fifteen is in high school. Connie constantly looks in the mirror to make sure she looks good. Her mother warns her repeatedly not to worry about her looks. She too was once pretty and now has lost it. On the other hand, June her sister, a plain and simple 24 year-old, works at Connie’s high school. Connie is extremely embarrassed by this. Connie’s mother always tells her of how she should be more like her sister. As a teenager, Connie...

Convergence of the Twain
Convergence of the Twain “The Convergence of the Twain” Personification is “endowing inanimate objects or abstract ideas with life or human characteristics” (Kirszner 2058). In the poem “The Convergence of the Twain” the author’s use of personification allows the reader to make a more fluid transition from the past to the present. A poets use of personification can create visual image or capture a feeling of empathy. “Deep from hum...