Ballad Of Birmingham A Childs Safety The “Ballad of Birmingham” wrote by Dudley Randall was about a church that was bombed in 1963. This ballad was wrote by an African American man who was forty-nine years old when the bombing occurred. This ballad features irony, symbolism, and discrimination. It is very ironic that the mother did not want her child to be on the streets of a big

Barn Burning Barn Burning “You’re getting to be a man. You got to learn. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you.” This quote from William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” does reveal a central issue in the story, as Jane Hiles suggests in her interpretation. The story is about blood ties, but more specifically, how these ties affect Sart

Barn Burning Barn Burning William Faulkner’s short story, “The Barn Burning,” discusses the problems of the sharecropper, in the late nineteenth century South; Primarily a story about the relationship between father and son, the story presents itself through the use of symbolism. The most vital symbol in the story is fire. The fire symbolizes the father’s anger and, his lack of re

Bartleby Bartleby, the scrivener, a sullen and depressed man who used to be of great help as a energetic, go getter copyist before he turned into a lack-luster lazy hermit, was a man of peculiarly odd behavior. Just as uncanny as his employees, the narrator exhibits unordinary and unreasonable behavior too, in his efforts to become famous among the bright lights of New York. As opposit

Bartleby Theme Analysis Could the world in 1984 ever really exist' This question haunts readers from the first to the last pages of Orwell’s novel. Sadly, the answer is ‘yes’; or at least Orwell hopes that readers will leave 1984 accepting the possibility enough to question government and tread cautiously into the future. Orwell intends to portray Oceania just realistically enough

Bartleby Most everyone remembers a favorite story that he or she has read. A book that just captivated the reader from beginning to end. But how do authors successfully grab the attention of their readers' Authors utilize specific techniques to convey the characters, setting, and plot effectively. The two short stories Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville and The Tenant by Bharati

Bartleby The Scrivener Bartleby, The Ingrate In his analysis of Melville’s Bartleby Mr. Liao presents his view of Bartleby’s estrangement from society. Mr. Liao believes that Bartleby’s alienation was due solely to “society’s lack of tolerance for social deviance.” This is simply not the case. In the story Bartleby is not directly hindered by society’s unwillingness to accept, quite

Baseball In April Baseball In April by Gary Soto is a pretty cool book. It interested me because it was written by a Mexican/ Chicano author. I regularly support People of my race. The book is composed of about 10 short stories, all about young people. It’s mostly about what kids go through in life. I liked the one titled “The Karate Kid”. Who doesn’t get that adrenaline going on a

Beneath The Surface Of The Inferno The Inferno by Dante Alighieri portrays a frighteningly vivid vision of the Christian hell using poetic prose. He writes of a journey through the many levels of hell where he shows what sins will merit what punishments. There are other reasons for Dante’s writing of the Inferno. Dante states his objections to the impure deeds done by corrupt members

Ben Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin: Oxford University Press, 1970. 201 pp. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin reveals the life of an important historical American. Franklin’s autobiography is a real story set in eighteenth century America. The book shares and reveals his life experiences, but the book is more than just a picture of his lif

Beloved Beloved Toni Morrison’s, Beloved, is a complex narrative about the love between mothers and daughters, and the agony of guilt. “ It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave.” These are the words, of Toni Morrison, used to describe the actions of Sethe, the central character in the novel. She, a former slave, chooses to kill her baby gi

Beloved Beloved Can a mother’s love be so strong that she could kill her own children to save them from being harmed by others' This is the question that is being asked throughout Toni Morrison’s Novel Beloved. The character Sethe, in the novel, had killed her own daughter beloved and attempted to kill the rest of her children in the fear that they would live the same tortured lif

Beloved The definition of literature is protean with personal interpretation. A broad meaning of literature is “anything written, even what you receive in the mail if you send for free information about a weight-reducing plan or motorcycle.” It is further defined as “a kind of art, usually written, which offers pleasure and illumination” (Kennedy, xxxviii). My personal definition of t

Bastard Out Of Carolina The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines moral as “conforming to a standard of right behavior and or being capable of right and wrong action” (481). Yet who is to say what actions are perceived as either right or wrong' Is someone who discovers that too little was taken out of his or her paycheck for federal taxes an immoral person just because they do not report it

Battle Royal The African Americans’ struggle for equality throughout history can be viewed through Ralph Ellison’s short story Battle Royal. The numerous hardships that the narrator must withstand, in his pursuit to read a speech, can be considered to represent the many hardships the African American people went through to gain equality. The narrator of the story is considered to be

Battle Royal Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison 1. Summarize the story. In the story “Battle Royal,” a young black boy is invited to deliver his graduation speech to some southern town’s prestigious white citizens. The story begins with the narrator receiving advice from his grandfather just before he dies. The narrator does not understand his grandfather’s advice and is left to ponde

Bean Trees Sexist' Is the Barbara Kingsolver book, The Bean Trees, sexist against men' The book is in fact sexist against men. The first reason the book is sexist is because of the way the men in the book are portrayed. The second way you can see the book is racist is by the narrator’s actions toward men. The first reason the book is sexist is because the men are portrayed negative

A Worn Path The short story I read "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, is the tale of the unstoppable love and care of a grandmother for her grandson. It tells a story of determination of Phoenix Jackson "an elder Negro woman" and how she walks a journey through the woods and fields on her way to town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. As she begins her journey, she talks to

1984 1984 George Orwell - '1984' - a bookreport by Olivier Stulp - Author: George Orwell (his real name was Eric Blair), was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police, the following two years he lived in Paris and after that went back to England as a schoolteacher. Later he worked in a bookshop and went to Spain i

On the Money “On the Money”, an article written by Allison Hope Weiner, is a brief article written as an effort to help explain the controversy surrounding the celebrity telethon that was held almost three months ago. The telethon, America: A Tribute to Heroes, ended up receiving donations totaling an estimated one hundred and fifty million dollars all put into a fund overseen by the Un

The Californians Becoming Californian One of Gertrude Atherton’s many novels, “The Californians”, captured much about the lives of the privileged class of San Francisco during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. In chapter six of her novel, Atherton tells the story of two young women named Magdalena Yorba and Helena Belmont who reside in a very nice part of northern San Francisco. The

Article Review for Hope Leslie Article Review for Hope Leslie Bell, Michael Davitt. “History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.” American Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 2, Part I (Summer, 1970). 213-221 Michael Davitt Bell is a renowned literary researcher whose scholarly work has been mostly focused on nineteenth-century American fiction. He received h

Before The Law In Franz Kafka’s "Before the Law", a man from the country seeks admission to the Law. He can see through the open door into the house of the Law but the doorkeeper refuses him entry-and warns him that this is just the first of many doors and doorkeepers, each more forbidding and terrifying than the last. But the man is convinced that his salvation lay in the Law and yea

Beowulf John Gardener’s novel, Grendel retells the epic of Beowulf from Grendel’s point of view. Grendel lives in a large cavern under a lake with his mother in Hrothgar’s kingdom. For twelve-years Grendel has been at “war” with Hrothgar, king of the Danes, intent “on destroying him—slowly and cruelly.” When Grendel first meets Hrothgar he has no plan to destroy him, but after watching H

Beowolf “Grendel vs. Beowulf” In the epic poem Beowulf, a battle occurs between two characters: Grendel and Beowulf. Grendel portrays the evil character that is believed to be the descendant of Cain, the first murderer of the Bible. Beowulf is the hero of the story, who fights to protect his people. Both Grendel and Beowulf were courageous. Grendel was courageous for the fact that

Beowolf Beowulf The story of Beowulf is one of courage, nobility, and heroism. Beowulf possesses each of these attributes both as a young prince and an elder king. These qualities allow him to become the honored king that he was, yet they also lead to his death. His actions are to be viewed as a precedent for young princes and future kings. Clearly every young prince inspires to e

Beowolf Beowolf is an example of a typical Anglo-Sazon hero. He has the attitude and legacy of a hero. He is bigger then the average man. He shows immortal powers all through the story. There are many times when he shows off this power. He fought Grendal with no weapon. Grendal has already been killing many men at one time who had fought him with weapons. Beowolf pretended to sleep and

As For Me and My House "As For Me and My House" is a very complex novel by Sinclair Ross. The novel is told to the reader as journal recordings of Mrs. Bentley. The main character consist in the journal are Mrs. Bentley's husband Philip, a school teacher Paul, choir girl in church Judith and abandon child Steve. Because the story is told as a journal, so everything is in a view through M

Beowulf In the old English epic, Beowulf, a pattern is begun of making monsters out to be outsiders, witnessed through the descriptions, attitudes, and actions of the fiend Grendel and his horrific Mother. In this and many other stories throughout ancient times, the antagonistic monsters have been the focus for the problems within society, causing any number of woes for the people. Howev

Beowulf Beowulf… an Epic' In Beowulf, the main character, Beowulf, is proclaimed a hero for slaying three large animals. In actuality, Beowulf is a cold-blooded murderer. Grendel, the first animal that Beowulf slaughtered, did nothing but mind his own business. He lived at the bottom of a lake, for cryin’ out loud. He did eat the occasional human, but is that really a crime' Humans eat