Category: Literature Review

Have you ever had an impression of an individual to have it then proven wrong? In the short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, we respond to the narrative of the protagonist with a variety of emotions. As he begins his narrative, we feel alienated from him because we cannot identify with him…

By simply reading the titles of Mary Olivers poems you can see how she connects with nature, not only nature its self but with the characteristics of nature such as animals and seasons. Mary Olivers poems are titled after an animal with a characteristic of nature for instance Turtle, Black Snake, The Snow Cricket and…

The Moment Before the Gun Went Off is a story written by Nadine Gordimer. It is a narrative of a white farmer named Marais Van der Vyver, whose gun accidentally shoots and kills his young black man farmer, Lucas. The story’s plot is strongly influenced by the apartheid policy, the segregation of whites and non-whites…

This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona. By using background stories and third-person narratives, it introduces readers to tense relationships and seeks self-identity from the perspective of Native Americans. Alexei showed the audience the personal conflict and broken relationship between loved ones leading to the guidance, understanding, and guidance of the internal struggle.…

The Outsiders is a bildungsroman novel, written by S.E. Hinton when she was a teenager. Although it was written in the 70s, the themes of loyalty, isolation, and identity explored throughout the novel are still pertinent to teenagers today. In The Outsiders, loyalty is a recurrent theme and a point of pride, honor, and principle…

Composed as a literary novel that narrates through a legend of redemption and inscribed in the context of Ancient Troy is Ransom by David Malouf, which unravels how changes come to the reception of individuals in worlds. Such can also be said of the film Invictus, the two texts applaud the power of a changed…

In a general sense, women are supposed to share the same rights as men; however, throughout the centuries, women have suffered under mens control. Men have been viewing women as their personal property in varying degrees, using their power to create a pattern that shapes womens characters in our society and to create rules for…

Why are Machiavellis ideas in The Prince often described as a handbook for tyrants? Are they compatible with his republican views in the Discourses on Livy? Machiavelli was born in Florence in the year 1469. At this point Italy was not a unified state, Florence was a city state and a republic. Machiavelli was not…

When readers of Margaret Atwoods Oryx and Crake are first introduced to the Children of Crake, we observe their foreign appearance through the eyes of Snowman, to whom their sound of tooth, smooth of skin and no body hair feel deeply uncanny and leave him chilled. These Crakers possess, to an extent, the features and…

Relative clauses found in the novel entitled The Pearl by Steinbeck in 1947. This analysis based on the theory of Generative Transformation via Chomsky in his book. Syntactic Structure (1971) and supported through Bradford in his e-book Transformational Syntax: A Student Guide to Chomsky’s Extended Theory (1988). The findings of this learn about show that…