Novels Essays
The allegory of young goodman
The allegory of young goodman In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” the characters and settings are used to show allegory. The characters and setting are used in metaphor to represent something else. The whole story of “Young Goodman Brown,” represents the journey of everyman. It’s path that everyone follows, or so Hawthorne seems to believe. The main character, Young Goodman Brown represents the sense of everyone. His last name, Brown, is a common n...
The animal farm
The animal farm George Orwell’s, The Animal Farm, depicts how power can corrupt society. If one person receives too much power, one will most likely lead up to dictatorship. To exemplify this idea, Orwell uses a farm to represent a society and the animals inside to portray the people. Orwell’s use of the pigs and animals are also an analogy that people sometimes act as “mindless pigs”. Orwell makes the reader realize just how bad a society of dictatorship can real...
The apprenticeship of duddy kr
The apprenticeship of duddy kr THE APPRENTICESHIP OF DUDDY KRAVITZ The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler is a novel about the life of a young man named Duddy Kravitz growing up on Montreal's St. Urbain street. The novel chronicles his life from when he was a troublesome school boy up until he was a young man of nineteen desperately trying to make something of himself and own his very own piece of land. Along the way to becoming a success Duddy has to stomp...
The Lottery
The Lottery When one thinks of a lottery, they imagine winning a large sum of money. Shirley Jackson uses the setting in The Lottery to foreshadow an ironic ending. The peaceful and tranquil town described in this story has an annual lottery, and you can�t possibly guess what the �prize� is� The author foreshadows an ironic ending at the very beginning by establishing a cheerful setting. The story occurs �around ten o�clock� on June twenty-seventh, a time of day that is ve...
The Many Faces of Love In Arth
The Many Faces of Love In Arth The theme of love develops through several different levels in Arthurian Literature. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace equate love with sexual desire, and little else. The concept becomes less one-dimensional in Hartmann von Aue�s romances. In Erec and Iwein, Hartmann�s definition of love includes emotional attachment and a degree of commitment. He also discusses the importance of love in proper measure. Sex still plays an important part in Hartmann�s discuss...
The Mending Wall
The Mending Wall Humans have an uncanny ability to place themselves at a comfortable distance from each other and call it a �mutual understanding,� a �friendship,� or even �true love,� but it is all lies. The essence of man�s mystery is somewhat of a paradox. He yearns to become more familiar with those around him, yet he is unwilling to allow this to happen. The power of "Mending Wall," one of Frost's most often quoted poems, rests upon an opposition. Its two famous lines c...
The adventures of huck
The adventures of huck Freedom From Life "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be,"- Voltaire. This quote could no better sum up the quest for freedom in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. "Freedom in this book specifically means freedom from society and imperatives. Huck and Jim seek freedom not from a burden of individual guilt and sin, but from social constraint" (425). Throughout the book, Twain illustrates that the quest of the two is one of the breakaway from...
The adventures of huckleberry
The adventures of huckleberry In less than two years the twentieth century will come to an amazing finale. Racism, prejudiced feelings and hate almost no longer exist. These changes can be attributed to the education people now have by reading such novels as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain addresses these issues of racism, slavery and education in a humorous, almost childish way, yet the effective themes are clearly visible. Twain utilizes Huck Finn and Jim as ...
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club By: Ernie522 The Joy Luck Club is a story about four Chinese friends and their daughters. It tells the story of the mother�s struggles in China and their acceptance in America, and the daughter�s struggles of finding themselves as Chinese-Americans. The movie starts off with a story about a swan feather, and how it was brought over with only good intentions. Then the movie goes on, the setting is at a party for June the daughter of Suyuan. Suyuan has just past away ...
The Jungle
The Jungle This book was fact. Upton Sinclair visited Chicago in November 1904 to do research for the book. Sinclair lived in a neighborhood called Packingtown for seven weeks. While in Packingtown, Sinclair interviewed workers, lawyers, doctors, saloonkeepers, and social workers. The book deals with the greed and ruthless competition that turned America into a brutal country, which Sinclair referred to as a "jungle." The Jungle also tells how those at the bottom of the economi...
The Killer Angels (Gettysburg)
The Killer Angels (Gettysburg) By: j kelley When an author writes a book he has a message that he is trying to get across to the reader. This message is called a theme. In The Killer Angels Shaara�s theme was freedom for the slaves. The Northerners truly believed that the slaves deserved to be free, and their desire to set slaves free was the cause of the Civil War. Just before the Battle of Gettysburg, Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine gave a speech to a group of mutineer...
The Killing Floor
The Killing Floor By: Evita The Killing Floor Frank Custer leaves his young family in rural Mississippi in pursuit of industrial employment in the northern �Promised Land� of Chicago, Illinois. Little did he know about the true extent of the journey he was about to embark on. Initially a move to secure work and improve upon the conditions which surrounded him and his family; Frank was about to change more in his life then just his economical status. Immediately upon arriving in the b...
The Klan Unmasked
The Klan Unmasked The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority groups in America. Especially in the South, during and after the Reconstruction period, the Klan played a major part in formulating and forcefully employing many of the Jim Crow laws, that delaye...
The Hobbit ]
The Hobbit ] By: Jen The Hobbit tells the story of a comfortable, friendly creature named Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo, like most hobbits, is similar to a human, but about half the size, and much more nible because they have leathery soles on thier feet, and not nearly as loud. Bilbo gets caught up in mysterious affairs much greater than his own hobbit-life affairs when, at the recommendation of a mysterious old wizard named Gandalf, he is hired as a "burglar" by a group of dwarves. These dwarve...
The Hobbit Overview
The Hobbit: Overview & Review CHARACTER INTRODUCTION BILBO BAGGINS: The Hobbit who led the Dwarves to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their treasure from the dragon Smaug. He found the One Ring in Gollum's cave GANDALF: The Wizard that accompanies Bilbo and the dwarves on their quest. He is well versed in magic spells and often calls upon them to save his comrades. THORIN OAKENSHIELD: Son of the King of Dwarves who were driven from the Lonel y Mountain by Smaug. With the aid of Gandalf and Bi...
The Hobbit
The Hobbit Introduction The book I read and analyzed was �The Hobbit� by J.R.R. Tolkein. I shall discuss the plot and character development, setting, author�s style and my opinions about it. Plot Development There are too many characters in the story and so it is hard to follow and know each one of them. (There are many dwarves and it�s confusing.) In the beginning there is an introduction where the author tells a bit about what is a hobbit and the hobbit�s (Bilbo) family. ...
The Ingenu
The Ingenu By: BJM Le Connaissance Nouveau de L'Ingenu Francios-Marie Arouet's, assuming the pen-name of Voltaire, L'Ingenu is a satirical story that begins in 1689 when a ship of English merchants are coming to France to trade. This is when the Ingenu is first introduced. The French are most intrigued by his appearance. Because of a picture believed to be the brother and sister-in-law of the Abbe de Kerkabon and Mademoiselle de Kerkabon, the Kerkabons felt that they saw a resemblance an...
The Flamboyant Hester Prynne
The Flamboyant Hester Prynne Hester Prynne is a very well recognized character in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. She is a character about whom much gas been written such as, Toward Hester Prynn, by David Reynolds, and The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome, by Kristin Herzog. Reynold's essay dealt with Hester as a heroine, who is an artistic combination of disparate female types. Herzog's essay dealt with the idea that Hester is both wild and passionate, as well as, caring, conse...
The Giver
The Giver By: Hugh G. Rection The Giver The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in the future in an almost perfect community. Jonas is chosen to be the person who carries all the memories of the past, given to him by the giver. It is by Lois Lowry. There are many good and bad things in the Giver. Some good things are that hardly anyone gets hurt. When people do get hurt they take a pill and the pain goes right away. No one ever breaks bones or anything. There are no criminals, and...
The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby V
The Great Gatsby- Jay Gatsby V Jay Gatsby, the title character of The Great Gatsby, is really not all that the title might suggest. First of all, his real name is James Gatz. He changed it in an effort to leave behind his old life as a poor boy and create an entirely new identity. He is also a liar and a criminal, having accumulated his wealth and position by dishonest means. But he is still called �great,� and in a sense he is. Gatsby is made great by his unfaltering hope, and his deter...
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby Book Review The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920�s during the Jazz Age. Nick Carraway is a man in his late twenties residing on West Egg island in Long Island, New York living a �normal� life. That is, until he meets his mysterious neighbor, a wealthy man named Jay Gatsby. He is a man of mystery, living in a mansion that is constantly full of people, music, and fun. Nick�s �normal� life gets thrown topsy-turvy when he get...
The Hanmaids Tale
The Hanmaids Tale In Margaret Atwood�s, The Handmaid�s Tale, our eyes are open to an oppressive society of which seems to be the near future. Widespread sterility has led to the rich controlling young women of childbearing age, who are called �handmaidens�. The tale is narrated by Kate, also known as �Offred�, her handmaid name. She relates her struggle throughout in the most vivid of ways. The struggle around her: the oppressive Republic of Gilead, and the struggle within hersel...
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Chosen by Chaim Potok By: Deane In the novel, The Chosen, Chaim Potok successfully captures the strange customs of a Jewish community through wit and satire. Potok's novel focuses on two Jewish boys, who live in a world where high standards of achievement are expected of them by their families. The wish to become an insightful leader in the Jewish community was an always predominant custom of the two families. But with hard work and perseverance, the two boys (Rueven and Danny), find...
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok By: Mary Foley The Chosen The Chosen, a fiction novel written in 1967 by Chaim Potok, is about two young Jewish boys and their friendship. It takes us along with them on their journey from adolescence to adulthood. They face many conflicts, and through those trials the author makes his readers think more deeply into life�s true meanings. The novel was set in New York during the Second World War. Since the main characters are Jews, this period of time is very ...
The City of the Sun
The City of the Sun By: A. Student In Tommaso Campanella�s document, The City of the Sun, a new social order is introduced amongst the Solarians. Campanella presents his readers with a utopian society that is ordered by rationality and reason. This ideal visionary is a redeemed world, free from injustice and competition in the market structure. Campanella, however, grew up in a society that was exploited and based on irrational principles. Campanella, therefore, reconstructs a society ...