Essays, Research Papers & Book Reports on North American Authors (1,479) essays
- Edgar Allan Poe (147)
- Ernest Hemingway (129)
- John Steinbeck (344)
- Mark Twain (200)
Authors essays:
Freudian Slip: D.H. Lawrence and Odour of Chrysanthemums
... character analysis of Walter's mother in D. H. Lawrence's short story, Odour of Chrysanthemums. However, as fate likes to taunt, the intentions became askew while nearing the end. The thought of why Lawrence would write such a character sat back, plaguing the back of my mind ...
Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell: Prevailing Themes
... the world around him. W.O. Mitchell starts by setting the stage; "Here was the least common denominator of nature, the skeleton requirements of simply land and sky (...)" (1) and follows by introducing his semi-biographical protagonist, Brian O'Connal. Brian, a boy of ...
Edgar Allen Poe: Beware
... of thoughts. The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all living things and of all mankind." Edgar Allen Poe 's uses of characteristics when it comes to the victims' fate are very expressive and detailed. In "The Cask of Amontillado"; "My heart grew sick- on account of the dampness of ...
Point of View in Edith Wharton's "Souls Belated".
... the tumult of his sensations, it was that he must let her go if she wished it. He had spoken last night of his rights: what were they? At the last issue, he and she were two separate beings, not made one by the miracle of common ...
A Chauvinst with a a Dream ("A&P", by John Updike).
... short story "A&P", Sammy serves as the 'male chauvinist' character, providing explicit descriptions of woman. On a Thursday afternoon in the summer, this young supermarket checkout boy, uses the innocence of three young girls to acquire his aspiration for a better life. From the very beginning of ...
Analysis of Elisa's character in the short story "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck.
... the cause of women's sufferings. The battle for equality has not come to pass because men hinder their ways. For a long time this has been accepted in society as the ways things are. John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums ...
Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience through Imagination.
... write from. Experience was the most important factor to these writers. Thoreau states, "I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust...I confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my ...
Analysis of the Works of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
... the first time, takes a good look at his life. "Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ahab felt he was a victim of destiny, "O ...
Group Analysis of the Imagery, Symbolism, Figurative Language, Ironic Devices and more for "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood.
... the first time in awhile: "drawn down into my lungs, filling me in a long rich dirty cinnamon sigh" (270). Again Atwood makes something unappealing into something desirable. Ironic Devices: Atwood uses ironic devices to show that the Gilead regime is full of contradiction. A piece of ...
"The Lottery" and Shirley Jackson.
... The Road Through The Wall, Hangsaman, The Bird's Nest, and a collection of short stories, The Lottery. Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. (1) What she thinks about Vermont and her life in Vermont could affect her writings. Especially the setting in The ...