Category: Essays Samples on Literature

Hard work, harsh conditions of climate and no food are the hallmarks of life as a Gulag detainee. Many prison novels have documented the horrifying treatment that prisoners received. The description of conditions can vary depending on what the author wants to achieve. Some authors exaggerate horrors to elicit outrage in the reader. Others prefer to portray the horrors more subtly to achieve the...

It is fitting that Code Name Verity, a book about World War II, is filled with stories of bravery, courage and heroism. The book has many characters who have a lot of courage in them. The focus of this paper is on Julie, Maddie, and. In order to identify the most brave character, we will compare characters from Code Name Verity. Lady Julia Lindsey's courage is the strongest in this story. She is...

The Lottery Symbolic Meaning Shirley Jackson uses a morbid system of lottery to represent issues in modern society. The author warns readers about the dangers of blindly following distorted and misconceived traditions rooted in traditional beliefs by using the symbolism of the raggedy black boxes and the horror lottery. The blackbox in the short-story can represent ancient customs, traditions and...

Michael Frayn penned the 2002 meta-fiction 'Spies', which is set in the 1940s. The story revolves around World War II. Frayn's mother's death led to a decline in his family's finances. He has also lived upper-class and lower-class lifestyles. In 'Spies', a theme is masculinity. Because the book takes place in a war setting, it's obvious that men who are able and willing to fight were seen as more...

It is useful to compare Huck's relation with Jim in Huckleberry Finn to Ishmael in "Moby Dick". The "savages" in both stories actually humanize and civilize the character who is supposed to have been "civilized". What will interest readers is how each author has used a similar and different process. Melville uses the same relationships as Twain to show the hypocrisy that exists in our society. In...

"A Long Way Gone", a book about Ishmael, a boy from Sierra Leone, is the subject of this story. Ishmael, who was born 1980, lived with his two brothers, his mother, and father in the village. The Sierra Leone Civil War began in 1991. Beah, who was born in Mogbwemo - a town located in Southern Province Sierra Leone - fled when rebels invaded his hometown. He wandered for months in the south with...

He sings, "Just as every cop is a criminal / And all the sinners, Saints / As heads are tails, / Just call me Lucifer..." He sings "Just like all cops are criminals / And sinners and Saints alike / As heads and tails is, / Please call me Lucifer ..." Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, however, does not explicitly reveal its identity. The novel is mostly narrated by the narrator in multiple...

Richard Rodriguez is both writer and reader as he responds to Richard Hoggart’s book The Uses of Literacy. Rodriguez sees parallels between his life and that of the "scholarship boys" described by Hoggart. The scholarship boys are children from working-class families who feel they "cannot pay respect to their parents...so, they concentrate on the benefits education will provide for them."...

The Times magazine published its August 1 issue this year. They avoided many of the most important economic and political issues and chose instead to focus on the ancient Ibn Battuta. The cover story was an attempt to understand the evolution of Islam in this age. He was from Morocco, which is in the Arab region. Battuta is a great example of a Western European traveler. Ibn Battuta's name is...

D.H. Lawrence is the author of The Horse Seller's Girl, a short piece. This story is about a girl struggling with the inner-self. Mabel Pervin lives with her brothers. She lost both her parents when she was fourteen. She was in debt when her father died. She is depressed following the loss of her parents. Her relationship with her brother's will fade. She was treated with disrespect. She drowned...