Essays on Literature Review

Lord of Flies: A Discussion of the Background and Plot Lord of Flies is a novel written by William Golding in 1954 focusing on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited highland and attempting to survive though they were unsupervised, uncivilized until they are rescued. The novel was well...

America and Discrimination America is one of the countries where cases of discrimination have raised a lot of concern over the years. When the author writes about the story; Native Son, these issues are pervasive with the American Negros minority group being affected. The Miserable Life of Bigger Thomas The story on Bigger...

The novel The Green House, was written by a well-known literature Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, published back in the year 1966. The writer of the novel, Mario Vargas Llosa was born on March 28, 1936, in Peru, and currently, he has established himself as one of distinguished...

“Let America be America again” is a poem by Langston Hughes which depicts all the distinct cultures and races in America and how it normally ends with the rich and powerful overpowering other races. Hughes was one of the greatest contributors to Harlem Renaissance. He lived in an era where...

In “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson uses ironic figures and ironies to weave the story and maintain the readers’ attraction as she brings in her spiky criticisms. The title of the story is ironical as most of us know that ‘lottery’ is all about winning money. We have heard of the...

'The Things They Carried' 'The Things They Carried' is a collection of twenty-two stories, all of which are based on the Alpha Company and the fate of the soldiers after their return to America from war. The soldiers carry along essential goods, and the war is isolating but exposes the truth...

Literature and its Evolution Literature evolves as life continues to change and develop. As with evolution of human beings and animals, literature follows the same trend when the need to do so arises. Fortunately, the need for literature to evolve arose in the Victorian era when Dr. Robert Luis Stevenson and...

In her essay Homeless, Anna Quindlen portrays the struggle that people who have lost their homes have to undergo. A homeless person just wants a place to call their own, and that's why some prefer not to go to shelters and seek refuge in the streets, subways, and parks because...

The poem by Kipling Rudyard is among the most inspirational lyrics. The poem is a real-life situation as it advises people on how to live their daily lives. The author gives several scenarios both positive and negative in ones live in every stanza and offers several solutions to key problems...

Hamlet: A Play by William Shakespeare Hamlet is one of the best and longest plays written by the famous Shakespeare. The play mainly focuses on the prince of Denmark, Hamlet. The tragedies of the prince Helmet and his revenge mission towards his uncle Claudius through the use of the spirit of...

The multiculturalism policy was first embraced by Canada in 1971. The country is committed to showing the significance of cultural diversity in the world today, and until to date, it is obvious that Canada still sees herself in the frontline when it comes to the side of interrelating with immigrants....

Narcissism in Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" Narcissism is one huge problem in the current society. In Tobias Wolff short story "Bullet in the Brain," narcissism has been portrayed as self-pitying, immature, and selfish. To some degree, all individuals are narcists, therefore, writing it is an act of futility. A...