Betty Keller's Short story Tea Party Betty Keller's Short story Tea Party is an interesting story about two aged sisters Alma and Hester who recall about their experience as they wait for the paper boy. Betty has effectively employed all the literary skills to make the story interesting and to pass...
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Most individuals believe that they have the ability to improve their lives if they could be provided with the strange thing known as willpower. Possessing great self-control would enable individuals to eat right, avoid alcohol and drugs, save for retirement, avoid procrastination and attain every sort of noble objective. For...
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-street by Herman Melville is an intriguingly comic story that ridicules the nature of work and its function in assigning meaning to human lives. The humor in the story also brings about questions on the degree to which people have a moral obligation to...
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Triffles is a one-demonstration play composed by Susan Glaspell – who is, noted by John Corbin (a theater faultfinder for the New York Times) as one of the few premiers and most encouraging contemporaneous authors of the one-demonstration play (Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times 200). She utilized this play...
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In the article 'Starting over' Malcolm Gladwell describes the lives of the New Orleans residents after the Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm, the population of New Orleans comprised majorly of the African Americans in a community with high crime rate, not so good schools or poor quality of education, and...
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In his book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas Foster brings out the importance of deep reading as a way of exploring and understanding the main themes brought out within a particular piece of writing. In his chapter “Nice to Eat with You: Acts of Communion,” for example,...
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A Rose for Emily A rose for Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner, and it reveals a dark tale of Emily, the protagonist of the story. The story is placed in the 1930s in the South. In the short story, Emily's father was not able to find a...
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Annie Dillard: Exploring the Meaning of Sight Annie Dillard is an American author and a poet. In his story, “Seeing,” she chronicles complex ideas concerning nature and sight. The author delves into the meaning of sight and draws an understating of the world and life. Seeing is the second chapter in...
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The essay is an account of Malcolm X and Frederick Douglas The essay is an account of Malcolm X and Frederick Douglas who narrate different real-life happenings of their journeys towards learning how to read and write. Malcolm X learned how to read while in prison while Douglas learned as a...
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“The Great Gatsby” is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 while the movie adaptation, “Gatsby,” was released in 2013. The film is entertaining and captivating. The film’s producer and director, Luhrmann, appeals to the pop culture audience by including hip-hop soundtracks, yet Fitzgerald wrote his book in...
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The Glass Castle is a memoir by Jeanette Walls which recounts the bad experiences that the author and her siblings had to contend with in the growth process. Mainly, the author details the dysfunctional nature of the parent-child relationship in her family. Living in poverty, the author and her siblings...
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"Literature goes beyond life" [L]iterature goes beyond life. It is art; it is an imaginative creation that can tell truths gracefully, subtly through narrative, poetry and the movement of characters on a stage. Any imaginative act suggests possibility, and this is another reason to continue studying literature. [Florence Dee...
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