Essays on Literature

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...

Taking this course has made a positive impact to my writing skills as the class has helped me to improve my writing skills, hence will help me to become a better writer in future. Additionally, I had a good professor who guided me during the process. I brainstormed the ideas...

The poem "Chimney Sweeper" in Experience Songs and Innocence Songs illustrates Blake's single view presented in two different ways. To create a more accurate picture, the two poems must complement each other. The two poems are based on the narrators' activities of cleaning of chimneys and are representations of political...

Introduction Most students including me assumed that writing is one of the simplest courses in college that entails research on the internet followed by a simple compilation of what we find. I realized that Writing is however rather complex as it involves several steps. The steps include prewriting, followed by drafting,...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a Kenyan scholar recognized for essays, short stories, novels, social criticism, and plays. He was on January 5th 1938 in Limuru Kenya. He is the leading novelist in East Africa. Currently, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a professor in English at the United States’ University of California....

The Cultural Meaning of Zombie Films The first zombie film in the film industry came from the Das Cabinet Dr. Caligari released in 1921. Recently the Zombie theme is a growing popularity for most filmmakers in the world today. The demand and consumption of zombie films are sending movie directors in...

Introduction Literary work is inspired by the surrounding environment that allows the artists to represent the elements surrounding human life in a creative manner with hidden messages as witnessed in poetry, music, short stories, and novels. While literature can be deemed as a tool for entertainment, authors of literary work use...

Edward Rochester is a controversial and fictitious character in the two books; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. In both novels, Mr. Rochester played a significant role though it is challenging to draw parallels between the two works. In both books, Rochester plays the...

“The Retreat” by Henry Vaughan “The Retreat” by Henry Vaughan has a close connection with the era of romanticism, reminding the audience of William Wordsworth and Thomas Hood amongst others through its yearning vision of early days as a time of spiritual wholeness, happiness and guiltlessness. Influence of George Herbert Much of Vaughan’s...

Kate Chopin is one of the most celebrated figures in 19th century American literary fields. Born in 1850, Chopin published novels and short stories that have remained relevant to date. She is a renowned feminist and author whose work reached peak with publication of Bayou Folk and A Night in...

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...