… by his or her actions, since many people believe that actions speak louder than words. However, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water provides a different way of characterization, since characters can be compared and contrasted through their register; the…

… enlists in the army mainly to escape his problems--a bad relationship with his mother, a lack of opportunity in Harlem, and an uncertainty about his future. He finds himself in the middle of a war that is more confusing and traumatic than the…

… Edge" by R.K. Narayan. Ranga was a product of his environment; being born into poverty he never really had a chance to be successful. He stayed in an abandoned building called Krishna's Hall while he worked at his knife sharpening business. He was…

… The poem identifies nature images with feelings in both stanzas. In the first one it compares a tree to a person (the poetic I) and wind to the You's cruelty. In the second one there is a link between backward and the green branches (an image of…

… one who undoes all the trouble in the play. Although he is said to be "good-for-nothing" and heartless, he is the most useful and heartful character in the play. At the end of the play, he makes Lady Chiltern realise how love and forgiveness can get…

… eighties there was a split in fiction. The first indication towards it was Henry James' essay "The Art of Fiction" (1884), which referred to the novelist's calling as a "Sacred office". Besides, there appeared a stratification of fiction due to primary…

… us be a Hero?" (Carlyle, qtd. in Hoyt' s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations). This statement makes heroism seem simple, but is being sincere enough to make you a hero? In modern society, the answer is likely to be yes, but in literature, it…

… held a great price to mankind, but no pearl had ever been earned at as high a cost to a person as Hester Prynne, a powerful heroine in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter. Pearl, born into a Puritan prison in more ways than one, is a mysteriou…

… that reveal how ill-prepared he is for his escape. One mistake that Crabbe did before he left for his adventure was to not bring a lifejacket. If he brought a lifejacket then he might not be as afraid to canoe in the water. Another mistake Crabbe…

… evil in the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker" can be shown in many ways, by Irvings' symbolism. In the short story, " Tom Walker" symbolizes all of mankind by portraying him as being "sinful" and evil. When there is an intent to destroy, then…