Essays on Literature Review

On August 28, 1963, at Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC Martin Luther King delivered the speech “I have a dream “which he is famously known for. It was the culmination of the March to Washington protest. It gave the Civil rights movement in the United States a boost in their quest...

Language used in poetry or the works of literature affects the audience differently thus interpretation can also vary. Interpretation of words used can lead to varying ideas about the feelings of the writer even when he/she has not indicated in the work (Mayo 131). This essay compares and contrasts use...

Frank Baum's story Frank Baum’s story is a fairy tale about a girl named Dorothy, who was an orphan and lived with her uncle in Kansas. One day a wild cyclone swept across the community where Dorothy and her uncle had been living in and swept their house (Baum 7). At...

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...

The major events in Nicaragua in 1980s include the Sandinista regime and the US interventions in the country. The Sandinistas took power in 1979 after Nicaragua experienced an intense civil war in which over 30,000 people were killed in the fighting and about half million homeless (Hager Snyder,...

The Parable of the Sower The parable of the sower occurs in the post-apocalyptic Los Angeles that has been influenced with the disease, conflict, and poverty. The narrative is about the life of Lauren Olamina, an African American. At fifteen years, she stays with her family in Rodeblo a slum within...

The Death of Honesty by William Damon published by the Hover Institute in 2012 addresses issues related to dishonest that threatens democracy. Damon agrees that in some situations honesty has lost its importance especially in the society and is likely to cause downfall citing some examples in the...

Rabindranath Tagore s Contribution to Indian Society Rabindranath Tagore made a significant contribution to the Indian society through various aspects including politics, literature, and music. In 1913, Tagore was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature. He had a multitalented personality which made him be recognized in the world. He was a...

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...

Trifles by Susan Glaspell is a play with a unified plot and has verbal flashbacks to the events that led to the murder of John Wright. The themes highlighted in the play are based on the context of the events, and they include isolation, gender, patriarchy and plight of women....

Heaney Seamus is one of the greatest poets of his time for he focused on key cultural issues that the people of Northern Ireland experienced. During his era, society depended more on nature as a source of livelihood and strength and this reflects in the themes present in the poem....

The myth of Daedalus and his son Icarus tells the story of father and son trying to escape possible punishment. Daedalus is a genius and engineers two wings with which they can fly away. Unfortunately, Icarus flies close to the sun despite his father's warning and his wings are ripped...