… interesting manner. His language is simple yet he creates an artfully designed plot. Within the story of an old man who goes out to sea to capture a large fish, Hemingway expresses the plot through the usage of narrative voice, symbolism, and personifi…

… dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin” (The Metamorphosis, 3). So begins Franz Kafka’s masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis," written in 1912. This work can be viewed as an exploration of the outcast in European society.…

… individual and his reasoning capacity. Rand was not a fan of collective power and control over society; sacrificing for the sake of one’s brother is not simply inefficient and impractical to Rand, but diametrically opposed to man’s human essence. Once…

… to explore the competing idealism and materialism of the upper classes and the belittling effects of poverty on the human soul. The conflict between the Schlegel family and the Wilcox family is a recurring theme that reflects the ideologies that are…

… second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott and Abigail "Abba" May was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on November 29, 1832. At an early age, Louisa and her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts where her father pursued his teaching career by setting up…

… of different writers and philosophers. Three of them are Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Martin Buber. Each of them wrote different essays on their thoughts of goodness. Some people think pleasure is good; others think that pleasure is bad. Aristotle…

… are not always as they seem. Discuss. “Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.” This is perhaps one of the strongest issues brought up in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The hundreds of pages in this novel…

… “Tender at the Bone”, that she grew up in a far from ordinary family, her mother being the cause of much of this weirdness. Her mother plays the central role in her family and thus has a powerful impact on Ruth. This impact is vast and cannot be define…

… write Mending Wall after talking with one of his farming friend Napoleon Guay. He learned from talking with his neighbor that writing in the tones of real life is an important factor in his poetic form (Liu,Tam). Henry David Thoreau once stated that,…

… town's A&P grocery store. Sammy, the narrator, is introduced as a grocery checker and an observer of the store's patrons. He finds himself fascinated by a particular group of girls. Just in from the beach and still in their bathing suits, they…