… 11/17/2000- Literary Analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird Throughout her 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee employs many literary strategies to perfect her prose. These said methods are difficult to categoriz…

… Tom Sawyer and Treasure Island. Comparing the themes fo Treasure Island, which is Robert Louis Stevenson's monst famous work of fiction, and the theme of the novel Tom Sawyer, by the beloved and very well-known American author and writer, Samuel Clemens…

… watched thus far, at least one or more characters live in constant struggle because of their western beliefs. In the novel Blood Brothers, by Pham Van Ky, the narrator after studying in France for ten years, is faced with returning to a community…

… Budd, Herman Melville reveals his feelings on society; he believes justice should prevail over evil, however, evil overcomes goodness and innocence. Each character defines a specific characteristic of society. Billy Budd represents goodness and innocence…

… the Wizard of Oz is usually thought of as a children’s story, it has numerous and very obvious political and monetary metaphors throughout the story. The story is set in the late 1800’s during the time the gold standard was under serious scrutiny.…

… has been seriously accused by some of being a \"racist writer,\" whose writing is offensive to black readers, perpetuates cheap slave-era stereotypes, and deserves no place on today\'s bookshelves. Huck Finn is a fantastic example of the racist…

… the Cave is a short story specifically discussing the parallels between the shadows the prisoners sees on the wall of the cave, and the illusion, which passes off as truth in today\'s society. The Allegory of the Cave is about Socrates teaching his…

… be read in two ways. At first glance, it seems to be just an adventure story about some kids on an island. However, upon closer inspection, it is found that the book contains much symbolism and reference to people and how they unction. There is…

… writers was Stephen Crane. Born in Newark, New Jersey, on November 1, 1871, he was his parent’s fourteenth (and last) child. Crane spent less then two years in collage and then went to New York to live in a medical students’ boardinghouse while freelanci…

… repeatedly foreshadows the impending revolution. In Chapter Five of Book One, Dickens includes the breaking of a wine cask to show a large, impoverished crowd gathered in a united cause. Later, we find find Madame Defarge symbolically knitting, what…