Category: Literature

Carly Fischer Dr. Gregory Brown April 28, 2015 American Classics Everyday Use of Heritage in a Growing World Heritage is an essential tenet to human life. It is the faucet that allows people to connect and relate. In order for humans to continue to relate and evolve heritage needs to evolve as well. “Everyday Use” […]

Henrik Ibsen wrote the play “A Doll’s House” on December 21st, 1879. The play’s geographical setting is around the 1870’s in a Norwegian town. The era the play falls in is the Victorian era. In “A Doll’s House” Nora the main character goes through a sense of realization in her marriage with Torvald. We get […]

Doppelganger The text under study here is called “Another fine Mess” written by Ray Bradbury. Bradbury in this story talks about two women Bella and Zelda who are new to the old age . The story is set in the middle of the summer where on typical late night the protagonists hear voices of two […]

Darkness at Noon In his essay, The God That Failed, Arthur Koestler opens by saying that “a faith is not acquired by reasoning” (The God That Failed, 15). When creating his protagonist for Darkness at Noon, Koestler did not need to look far beyond his own experience. He became a member of the Communist Party in Germany […]

In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily,” the author manipulates time by beginning at the end.  He painstakingly provides details of Miss Emily’s life through the eyes of a narrator, who appears to be the town’s collective voice.  The story is told in a flashback fashion, starting at the end of Miss Emily’s life and […]

In James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues,” an unnamed narrator recounts his family’s struggle with death and addiction. The titular character, Sonny, is the brother of the aforementioned narrator and the focal point of the events that take place in the story. The narrator promised to always look out for his brother’s well-being to his […]

That Face is a Post-Modernist play that first premiered in London, in 2007.  The play was written by Polly Stenham and was written in the style of Realism.  That Face is considered a “Realistic play”, however, there are also some underlying elements of Freudian ideologies, as seen in the Psychological Realism, as well as elements from Pinteresque. When […]

Analysis of “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” “The Education of Dasmine Cathey” by Brad Wolverton is about a former University of Memphis football player and his struggles with reading. With both of his parents leaving the city to do their own thing, Dasmine Cathey took on the role of helping take care of his three […]

Does Banning Books Really Protect The Children? All across the world, throughout time, books have been challenged, banned, and outright censored due to “suggestive content” found in such literature. Such actions are taken by governments to avoid their citizens discovering anti-nationalistic propaganda in an effort to avoid revolts; banning literature is also utilized to protect […]

hey love. Escape Jewish, Pole people are described as pigs. Art not only use natural animal “pig” characteristic to represent, short-sight, stupid and dull. But also use the animal “symbol quality”. The word “pig” is considered to be an insult in the whole world. In many cultures,especial in Jewish, pigs are treat as dirty, filthy, […]