Essays, Research Reports & Book Reports on North American Literature (8,227) essays
North American essays:
Political Allegory In The Book Animal Farm
... class, the rich or higher class. The Revolution was started by men who believed with Karl Marx's theory that the history of the world was the history of a struggle between classes between oppressors and oppressed. This happened in the book ' Animal Farm by George Orwell' Orwell ...
The suffering of May in the "Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton
... shape how her life turned out. The death of May's husband shaped the person that she was and how she acted towards others. Leading finally to her tragic death. One major cause of May's suffering was the death of the love her life, Willard Jenson. "The year was 1941 and Pearl Harbor ...
The theme of manhood in "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane.
... The Red Badge of Courage AP English Per. 1st Manhood is hard to describe and even harder to achieve. In Stephen Crane's book the theme of not only manhood, but also maturity is spread throughout the novel. The story's protagonist Henry Fleming becomes a man through the course of the book ...
"I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou: an analysis on the use of diction throughout the story.
... the widespread novel by Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Yet, do we really know? The connotations of the title can drastically alter the perspective of the novel and the meaning it leaves on the readers. Angelou wrote an amazing and entertaining autobiography ...
"The Miracle Worker" By William Gibson.
... the end of the third act of the book. Prior to the end of the third act, Annie had been away from the house, and alone in the guest house with Helen for 2 weeks teaching Helen eighteen nouns, and three verbs in the process of teaching her to be civilised. Once the ...
"Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville.
... the uncivilized beheading of Babo, all in all, Delano stands as a Superior American referee, presumably outside the tragic history of which he was, in fact, an accomplice. Where is the justification? It's ironically implied by the trial. This is the ...
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith.
... the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the world which she creates for the previously mentioned Francie Nolan. It can be said that she was trying to write a fictional autobiography of her life, because like Francie Nolan, Betty Smith left school at an early age and worked ...
James Hurst's "The Scarlet Ibis".
... the story, their relationship grows but the narrator is still unable to accept Doodle 's limitations. At the end of the story, the narrator pushes Doodle so hard that he eventually killed him. In the beginning of the story, the narrator is unable to accept the ...
Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried".
... the weight of these many items at your fingertips. In the very beginning of the story First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is carrying love letters from a girl named Martha. [77] Throughout the story he is truly distracted by the ...
A report on several of Vonnegut's works.
... of the Dresden Massacre, the subject of his book Slaughter-House-Five (Verde 86-88). This novel is Vonnegut's most widely recognized work, and it brought him the literary recognition that his earlier guise of science fiction writer denied him. The ...