Essays on Literature

Alice Walker's Everyday Use: Analysis and Symbolism Alice Walker’s Everyday Use is told from the point of view of an unnamed woman called “Mama,” the matriarch of an African American family living in a heartland pasture. The story revolves around her daughter Dee’s visit back from her schooling in Augusta. The...

Story Overview is a short story that appears bizarre, which discusses the mix up of identity among people of the same race or ethnic written by Diana Chang. Chang is a writer from the Asian American women's collection of novels called The Forbidden Stitch. The book follows inconsistent and hyper-vigilant perception...

The Play Begins The play begins when the country attorney, George Henderson, and sheriff, Henry Peters arrives with witnesses Mrs. Hales, Lewis Hale, and Mrs. Peters at the farmhouse of John Wright. The house is apparently a murder sean of Mr. Wright. The Strange Behavior Lewis Hales narrates his encounter with Mrs. Wrights...

C.S Lewis, “We read to know that we are not alone” means that readers have the power to relate and comprehend the fictional characters created by the authors. In life, people do face many challenges that offer them joy, peace, or sadness. In many scenarios, majority of people find it...

In the novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dressier affirms that human beings are victims of chance, social forces, and instinct. Carrie and Hurstwood are the protagonists in the novel, and Carrie ends up rising from her previous condition of poverty while Hurstwood fell from a position of privilege. Their rise and...

The novel by William Faulkner is about Abner Snopes who is charged with arson. The charges are that he burnt his employer’s barn. At the beginning of the novel, he is shown being tried as his son Colonel Satoris ‘Sarty’ Snopes sits in the makeshift courtroom, and there is also...

Barn Burning can be classified as a short story written. The book is set in about 1930s, the decade of the great depression by William Faulkner. It is a story, not based on any facts, but gives insights into how people lived in those years. Harper’s Magazine published the book...

Alice Walker's "Everyday Use": A Story of Heritage and Education Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is a narrated story about a mother who has a conflicting relationship with her two daughters. The story is set in the sixties and seventies. Superficially, the story shows how the mother rejects her elder daughters' misplaced...

My decision to take the English class My decision to take the English class had a significant impact on my writing skills during the entire period. At first, I would have argued that my skills were perfect, but after my time in the English class, I eventually understood that my initial...

The Craft of Literature Articulates insights, sentiments in ways that sometimes the rest of us cannot—Gives voice to what is submerged and suppressed (the questions behind the questions)—Defamiliarizes the familiar. – Johanna Shapiro, Can Poetry Make Better Doctors? Abstract The essay supports Johanna Shapiro's idea of literature being used to articulate the sentiments...

"Who Cares?" - The Importance of Addressing the Reader “Who cares?” is always a good question to ask when you are asked to do, believe, or commit to something. It is also the central question to ask when you are putting together a piece. It is absolutely necessary for any writer...

Poe s The Raven - A Masterpiece of Literary Inspiration and Horror Poe s The Raven has served to inspire countless artistic works as well as a myriad number of literary readings regarding the themes and events of the masterpiece. The gist: a young man grieving the loss of his beloved...