Literature Essays and Term Papers

of us, Franny and I... and both of those bastards are responsible...I could murder both without batting an eyelash... The great teachers, the great emancipators.' Childhood memories are ripples of waves crashing serenly throughout my mind.…

reaction to certain situations. There is one major difference in The Good Corn and Turned and that is the reactions of the wives to their husbands actions. In reality what the two men did was the same but how the two women reacted was entirely…

word lucky to describe the effects of money, greed, and selfishness. He is trying to show the reader just how blinding one's mind can be when dealing with topics like social status and family standards. A status symbol in society can be a good thing,…

of a literary course, the joy of reading it is immediately lost due to the fact that the particular novel may not be interest to the student, the student may hurry to finish the novel and by the extent to which the novel is studied. The joy of reading…

Shylock a victim or villain of the play? The merchant of Venice is a tragic-comedy play written by William Shakespeare in the Elizabethan period. It was set in Venice in the late 15th century. One of the main characters of the play is Shylock, who…

On Scrooge         Scrooge learned a great deal about himself during the visitations of the three ghosts in A Christmas Carol. He learned things that not only changed his life, but also the lives of others such as Tiny Tim and his family. At…

like I decided that I did not want anything I've ever read before. I wanted something interesting, something original, yet something that will keep my attention through out the whole book. This novel was one of the first that was suggested to me.…

"My Papa's Waltz" and Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays" are about a man's memories of his boyhood relationship with his father. Both are about communication, but beyond that, these two relationship could not be more different. Roethke had…

song written in the 1960's about the extent to which people suppressed their true views about the Vietnam War. The poetic voice is the poet himself and it is through his vision that we are made aware of the great disappointment that he feels at the peopl…

Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" is a very unique way to express a pregnancy. She uses metaphors to express her opinion about pregnancy instead of just saying what she feels. Plath uses nine syllables in each line, which is a symbol of a nine-month…