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:
This essay attempts to explain the message behind Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find".
... to be. I think this is O'Connor's way of urging us not to wait until that moment. Works Cited O'Connor, Flannery. "A good Man is Hard to Find" The Short Story and it's Writer. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2003 1142-1153 ---. "A Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable" The Short Story ...
Autobiography of Mark Twain
... river. Soon everybody called Samuel Clemens , Mark Twain. He could never stay in one place. Mark left Nevada and to work in San Francisco to work for another newspaper. There he wrote the famous funny story "Jim Smiley and his jumping frog" He sold it to paper in New York City ...
The Themes Portrayed In Faulkner's "Barn Burning".
... Barn Burning". The works of William Faulkner are drenched with the ambiance of the South. Faulkner, a master when it comes to southern dialect, is highly revered as a "Southern writer". His works include, but are not limited to: "All the Dead Pilots", "Barn Burning", "Country Mice ...
"The Life and Times of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
... is one of his works that is not often studied, like one of its predecessors The Scarlet Letter (1850). Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Young Goodman Brown " has a creative underlying mood of good verses evil that is throughout this short story. Hawthorne makes use of colors as an indirect literary way to ...
The Thin Line Between Bravery and Cowardice in the Things They Carried
... of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion." This belief is held true throughout Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried." A story whose setting is ...
The Two Towers by: J.R.R.Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)
... to those who have read The Fellowship of the Ring and have a strong desire to find out what happens next in the trilogy, and /or to those who are extremely curious and like to read. Otherwise do not pick up this book; it is a waste of ...
Heroes. Comparative essay about Hemmingway's "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"
... finds himself shipwrecked on a seemingly deserted island and is thus placed in mortal danger. Macomber, the protagonist in Hemingway's short story, is caught in the dullness and routine of his marriage, which seems doomed to failure. While being a ...
"Tituba's Troubles" Examines Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" and Tituba's role particularly
... is responsible in some ways for many of the deaths sentenced in the play, particularly that of John Proctor, but Tituba really started Salem's troubles when she falsely confessed to Reverend John Hale that she was a witch. Abigail's uncle, the Reverend Parris, finds ...
Literally Analysis..."Of Mice and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath", by Steinbeck
... a new vision. Tired of the corrupt police and the lazy authorities, he decides to try to find a way to fix the depression by himself. He thinks the government has failed to cope with the problems, and knows he can at least try to ...
Symbols of a Great Author
... is a story told with two levels of meaning: a literal and a symbolic one. The symbolic meaning reflects moral themes. Hawthorne uses one item to represent another. In this story for example, the names have a deeper meaning. Young Goodman Brown is called so because he sees himself as a good man ...