Essays on Literature

At the heart of every immigrant's experience is a dream of hope, which is realized at the end of their trip. Migrants in The Grapes of Wrath had a misunderstanding of the American Dream. They thought the American Dream was a bed of flowers. They believed that once they arrived...

Analysis of the Poem Because there is only one stanza with 14 lines, the poem is easier to understand. Reading from the first line merely makes it easier to establish the overall idea of the poem. The Exhaustion of the Modern World The speaker seemed to be attempting to discuss the exhaustion that...

Beowulf was written around the eighth century in Britain by an unknown author. The plan is straightforward and respectable. Beowulf is a prince of the Geats, a tribe thought to have lived in what is now southern Sweden. He is trustworthy, brave, and honorable. According to the author, each of...

Bienvenido Santos' short story 'The Smell of Apples' concentrates around the lives of Filipinos in the past and today. The story revolves around two individuals, Santos and Celestino Fabia, a Filipino farmer from Indiana. One was a typical Filipino, while the other was an Asian American. The book is a...

Carmen Maria Machado is an author whose writing talents can captivate any reader with the reading of her novel, which is a first collection in any case. "Her Body and Other Part" blends numerous literary styles and settings since it embodies part of its writing as a fictitious book, but...

Comics as Illustrated Publications Comics are publications that employ images and other visual and linguistic information to illustrate ideas. "Comic books were originally centered on short stories in serial style, but now comic books feature long-arched narratives with complicated storylines," writes Paul Douglas Lopes in his book (Kukkonen, 2013). Comics come...

Concha Mendez: A Spanish Poet Who Captivates With Intimacy and Realism Concha Mendez, a well-known Spanish poet, wrote the poem "Me gusta andar de noche" among others. The poem is only two verses long, yet it draws the reader's attention with its direct, intimate, and real style, which is uncommon in...

Conflict Management Strategies Conflict is defined as a major disagreement between two or more parties, as author Hari Singh outlines in his book "Conflict Management in Asia" during and after the cold war. According to Singh, totalitarian countries frequently have problems, either locally or internationally, as compared to countries that practice...

Commanding Heights: A War of Economic Concepts Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw's Commanding Heights is largely a war of economic concepts. In the globalization era, this struggle of ideas was between the free market and various government controls. The process of shifting from one ideology to the next was fraught with...

Doubt: A Parable Doubt, a tale by Patrick Stanley, opens with the question "what do individuals do when they are unsure? So inquires Father Lynn, a beloved priest at St. Nicholas Church in the Bronx" (Shanley 13). The play begins with the priest speaking to his audience about the value of...

Ciaran Cronin's translation of Habermas' book makes the most recent contribution to ethical theory, explaining and expanding on discourse ethics. It is divided into five chapters that are chronologically ordered. The book begins with a translator's note and an introductory note by the translator. Later, it discusses themes like "On...

Every author aims for authenticity in their work, and Williams Tempest unquestionably achieves this goal in her article The Clan of One-Breasted Women. The report thoroughly informs the reader on how the Utah nuclear testing induced cancer in humans, which was a negative aspect that had a huge impact on...