Essays on Literature

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,...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

The main motivation or purpose of writing the final draft is to analyze some of the rhetorical skills that the author of the core source uses to explore the issue of the water crisis in Cape Town. On the other hand, on the audience, my first audience is the instructor...

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...

The Destruction of the Perfect World The poem provides an intriguing topic of how the human beings have destroyed the world that was originally perfect. People were given this world when everything was in order such that they could all things freely. Everybody was living happily in such a world where...

The Wastelands by T.S. Eliot and Seafarer by Ezra Pound are two texts that articulate the themes and characteristics of modernism and postmodernism. The text wastelands by Eliot is more of a modernism oriented text that displays such a science-leaning society while Pounds Seafarer reveals the themes and characteristics of...

"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...

The concept of critique is the assessment and analysis of a particular phenomenon or occasion. However, in the Colors of the Mind by Angus Fletcher, criticism or the idea of critiquing and analysis of a work of literature is a demonstration of the use of thought. According to Fletcher, thinking...

Gatto (1997) contends that education in school is not a perfect education. He outlines the challenges he experienced with his learners that led him to this conclusion. First, he notes that school is a psychopathic institution with no conscience. According to him, schools only teach how to obey rules rather...