Essays on Literature

'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...

Archetypal Literary Theory in the Postmodern Era is a journal article documented by Darrell Dobson in 2005. The main argument of this paper is to clear the difference that lies in archetype and archetype image. For a long time Fyre had a hard time responding to postmodern critics about his...

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...

Stephen King's Cell: A Horror Fiction Book Stephen King, one of the most preeminent writers once again wows his audience with a horror fiction book titled Cell. This book talks about zombies and how people in the contemporary world take pleasure in shows and novels about zombies as if their lives...

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...

The Use of Literary Elements The use of literary elements to make the narratives in Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood and Luis Rodriguez’s Always Running dramatic is evidently different, with Dillard preferring to use descriptions of the character’s actions in the environment and Rodriguez opting to use the environment itself to...

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...

In Neil Smith’s “Scrapbook”, he presents his characters as an aftermath of a massacre that has happened in Robertson Hall in Scotts University ten days ago. In the tragedy, ten victims lost their lives and more others like Thomas and Myuko narrowly escaped death. Although the survivors struggle to continue...

Through A Rose for Emily, Faulkner illustrates the fight that is brought about from an effort of maintaining culture and tradition when there is prevalent radical change. Characters such as Jefferson is seen to be at crossroads absorbing everything modern, hoping for a more commercial future while at the same...