Lord Of The Flies The Lord of the Flies by William Golding and The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell are two genres that are similar in some ways and certainly different in many other ways. The Lord of the Flies is a true novel while The Most Dangerous Game is a short story. However, their story lines have similar themes. The Lord of the Flies explores the savagery that lies be

Charlottes Web Important Lesson Taught in Charlottes Web In E.B. White’s, Charlottes Web, children are given the opportunity to learn about several life lessons. The book teaches a moral lesson, teaches of an animal's habits, and allows young readers to identify with humanized animals, all of which have deeper meanings. Children get to learn all of this while looking into the world of

Chaucer In his Canterbury Tales, Chaucer fully explicates the cultural standard known as curteisye through satire. In the fourteenth century curteisye embodied sophistication and an education in French international culture. The legends of chilvalric knights, conversing in the language of courtly love, matured during this later medieval period. Chaucer himself matured in the King's Court

Chaucer Canterbury Tales “Some say the things we most desire are these: / Freedom to do exactly as we please,” is an excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that directly correlates with the books easily recognizable thematic idea. Mankind will bring about his own fate by his behaviors. Within the three tales of The Franklin, The Merchant, and The Wife of Bath, the fortunateness

Gatsby And The American Dream The American Dream is an idea that has existed throughout the United States’ history. Before the United States of America was established, immigrants from all over Western Europe stormed to America. Some immigrants came to help expand their country’s empire, some were explorers searching for new adventures, but most came for the American Dream. The Americ

Migueal Street Vs. Annie John As a child my mother always told me you are what you eat. I never really understood that until I grew up and saw how people acted when they were together. I am going to show how outside influences affected Naipaul and Kincaid’s main characters, leading up to their deciding to leave their homes; as well as how the British migration to Antigua affected the A

ABC Murders Agatha Christie’s “The A.B.C. Murders” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of The Day” are alike and different in many ways. Both novels that are centered on English characters or themes. The A.B.C. Murders focuses on the murders and how and why they’re being committed, and The Remains of The Day focuses on status and tradition. While one pokes fun at English customs and tradi

Absalom Absalom, Absalom! Many novels have been set out and read by American Literature classes all over. Each novel teaching a political importance or pertaining the importance about the novel and its literary work. The novel Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner is set in the post-Civil War time period, where slavery has been set and prejudice still prevails. Absalom, Absal

Cheaper By The Dozen “ Cheaper by the Dozen”, based on a real-life story of the Gilbreth family, is a fantastic book. This hilarious comedy about a family with a dozen children kept me in stitches until the end! This family, run like a well oiled machine, took me on Sunday rides through the country, battles in the family court, summers at the sea, Father’s theories on motion stud

A Farewell to Arms In Hemingway’s book, A Farewell to Arms, there are many moral lessons to be learned. One of the primary lessons is to be prepared and expect the unexpected. Many instances in the novel support this idea. For instance, the main character, Frederic Henry, never dreams that he will fall in love with Catherine Barkley. At first, he only wishes to use her and take adva

Phoenix Jackson, Walking The Worn Path The short story “A Worn Path” displays a classic example of the Christ like figure, willing to give it all up for another. This work of interpretive literature makes the reader fill in the blanks of whether or not grandma Phoenix’s grandson will recover, whether grandma Phoenix will return home safely, and a host of other issues. “A Worn Path” is

Chekhov and Mauassant “The Darling” by Anton Chekhov and “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant are very similar pieces of writing even though they were written fifteen years apart and in two separate countries (Russia and France respectively). In both stories we have a woman who loses something at a point in her life, and she is forever a different person because of it. Precisely looking

Good Earth The Good Earth is the story of human struggle against the indifferent forces of temptation. As defined in Webster’s New World Dictionary, temptation is to induce or entice, as to something immoral. Temptation plays a sizeable role throughout the novel. Wang Lung is enticed a myriad of time to commit acts that go against his morals. Most of the time he is able to overcome a

Hobbit The Hobbit The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien takes place in a world of pure fantasy. This amazing new world has differences, as well as similarities, to our world. This fantasy world, Middle Earth has been created using both Tolkiens imagination and details of reality from our own world. By incorporating these realistic elements of our world into the book, the author allows the read

Pocahontas POCAHONTAS: The Life and the Legend This is a book written by Frances Mossiker about the life of the famous Native American Princess who is best known for keeping peace among the new English colonists and the Powhatan Nation; she is also credited with saving the life of John Smith. This book of 383 pages is well written and very thorough. It goes into great de

In The Woods With The Devil Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown is the story of a man who was just married, Goodman Brown, and a particular night he spends in the woods. While traveling into the forest one night, Goodman Brown meets an unnamed person who looks like him so much he thinks, “they might have been taken for father and son.” As they get deeper into the forest, he soon

Minor Characters Verses Major Characters In The Scarlet Letter Minor Characters Verses Major Characters The minor characters of Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, and Pearl in The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne play significant roles to the overall theme of the novel. These characters produce themes, and play important roles. Although they are minor ch

A Farewell to Arms Character Analysis Frederic Henry Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver and a lieutenant ("tenente") in the Italian army, is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. The focus of the novel revolves around his love with Catherine Barkley as well as his steady disillusionment with the war. Henry is characterized initially by a sort of detachment from life-thou

Plainsong In the compelling novel, Plainsong, abandonment is a frequent theme seen within the characters. Desertion, emotional withdrawal, and death are three examples in which will be further explained through three characters within the novel. Although, they experienced strong feelings of abandonment, the characters relied on their community for support and encouragement. Victoria

Intersection Of Differences An Intersection of Differences Samuel R. Delaney’s The Einstein Intersection is a part fantasy, part science fiction novel exploring a fresh re-telling of the story of Orpheus—a legendary Thracian poet and musician whose music had the power to move even inanimate objects and who almost succeeded in rescuing his wife, Eurydice, from Hades. Delany uniquely recr

A Doll House The function of the past in Ibsen’s play The Doll House is to generate conflict within Nora and between Torvald and her, and thus contribute to her decisive departure at the end. Nora and Torvald’s upbringing and experience cultivate their perception of conventional domestic roles. Moreover, other characters stories of their past reshape Nora’s point of view and give her enc

A Rose For Emily A Rose for Emily After reading the story, A Rose for Emily, I set the book down and thought about the story for a bit. I found that there was a lot of symbolism used in the story. From the information gathered, I decided to write about how the author compared the house to Emily so much. Instead of giving my opinion of why I didn’t like the story much, I am going to

Fahrenheit 451 Nobody likes to be told what to do. Censorship is not right we have natural rights and they should be honored. We shouldn’t be told what to do and our natural rights shouldn’t be violated. If so you should have the right to at least start the process of impeachment of the president or person in which ever political position. We do listen to our government for laws and we d

Countdown COUNTDOWN by, Ben Mikaelsen Setting: ƒæ Crazy Peak, MT ƒæ Dakar, Senegal, ƒæ Endeavor (space shuttle). Main Characters: ƒæ Elliot Schroeder, a 14-year-old boy who goes to space. ƒæ Vincent Ole Tome, a boy about the same age as Elliot who is from Kenya. ƒæ Vincent¡¦s father, a Maasai warrior. ƒæ Elliot¡¦s father, a rancher. Point of View: ƒæ Narrator

A Farewell to Arms A Farewell To Arms All fiction is autobiographical, no matter how obscure from the author's experience it may be, marks of their life can be detected in any of their tales. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's own personal experiences. The main character of the novel, Frederic Henry, experiences many of the same situations that H

Monkey In The Middle (an Analisis Of The Novel The Great Gatsby) Monkey in the Middle Within all live the forces of good and evil, tearing at the soul the heart and the mind. The good stands as the one to be desired, the one to strive for no matter what the cost, the evil lives in the dark, shut up and hid from the outside world. One hides evil, it is socially unacceptable to parade

The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Throughout history, every war has great stories that need to be heard. For the Vietnam War those great stories are captured in Tim O’Brien’s story “The things they carried”. Tim O’Brien was one of the most influential and talented writers of his time, and in his stories he unveils the truth and the facts of war and tells the readers that war is not

Odysseus A question that is asked regularly when analyzing The Odyssey, written by Homer, is whether Odysseus evolved as a character during the story, or whether his growth was stagnant. Before Odysseus left Ithaca to fight in Troy, he was a well-admired man and the quintessence of his society. Therefore, the changes in Odysseus’ character that occur throughout the book are less eviden

Bread and Wine Throughout the novel Bread and Wine, author Ignazio Silone uses different stories and anecdotes of peasant characters as both a break from the main plot and to help understand the main character, Pietro Spina/Don Paolo Spada better. Two examples of these subsidiary stories are Pietro Spina’s interaction with Uliva, a former violinist and revolutionary affiliate, and Don Pa

Play It As It Lays PLAY IT AS IT LAYS By: Joan Didion This is the story of a famous actress and a period in her life where everything was chaos. Maria the actress name, seem to be a women that had married a movie director or producer name Carter. Her life with him was complicated. It seemed that they both had a promiscuous life, her more than him. There was a lot of careless sex, d