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:
Character Analysis in Joyce Oates "Where are you going, where have you been?"
... different paths to take, which take us to many different ends. It is one's character that determines the destination and the forgoing of one's inevitability. However, in life there are so many distractions ...
Analysis of The Innocents based on Turn of the Screw
... the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. In the story "The Innocents", based on Turn of the Screw, Flora and Miles were perfectly content with everyday living until Miss Giddons came along to take care of them. Flora and Miles's parents died, and so did their caretakers (Quint ...
An analysis of the metophorics themes in the book "Obasan" written by Joy Kogawa
... War II? Racism and racial conflict have caused great turmoil all over the world for centuries; events such as the Holocaust are very well know but the dark past of Canada is not. In the time of our grandfathers during and after World War II the Japanese-Canadians were being mistreated by the ...
Hemingway's Cat in the rain :The lack of communication nowadays and its consequences
... The short story, "The Cat in the rain", is a typical Hemingway's story where he hides the messages and the real shape. Hemingway was a man who directly experienced some of the saddest wars of human history. He was even injured in a war-front, bringing back sexually handicaps. Hemingway ...
Edgar Allan Poe
... history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us memorable short stories ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
... a whole volume devoted ... the fact that he went through so much grief in the ... the public, readers, and him. Due to the great literature presented in The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne was appointed by the Democratic administration, but shortly the Whigs won a national election which presented the public the ...
"The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture, Edited by Holly George-Warren.
... the form and vitality of many different literary and aesthetic traditions" (Ball 241). The Beats were able to not only embody former literary movements, but were able to adapt such movements in order to create a new, modern ...
The Hope and Hopelessness of Moira: "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood: Argumentative essay: Moira as a symbolic character of hope to the main character.
... the most difficult to surrender. Such strong defiance and independence is shown in Margaret Atwood's, "The Handmaid's Tale", through the minor character of Moira. This character is referred to throughout the novel as strong-willed and independent until Offred finds her near the end, different ...
Compulsory Education
... Jerome Ellig have written, "Private education was widely demanded in the late 18th and 19th centuries in Great Britain and America. The private supply of education was highly responsive to that demand, with the consequence that large numbers of children from all classes of ...
The Life of R.L. Stine (W/ Works Cited)
... the second installment of the Fear Street series. Having read the first book some time ago, it was initially hard to comprehend with the plot of the book. However, after reading a summary of the first installment, The Betrayal, I was able to somewhat accommodate myself to the storyline. The story ...