Introduction Science fiction is a speculative fiction genre that usually deals with imaginative and futuristic literature of time travel, science and technology, parallel universes, space exploration, and extraterrestrial life. The story by Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder,” and Gloria Skurzynski’s story, “Nethergrave,” fit well in the genre of science...
The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir as he makes a quest to try and rectify the mistakes that he made during his childhood. The story revolves around Amir and his previous relationship with Hassan’s closest childhood friend. Amir recalls how he was unfair to Hassan and how he...
This poem is about death at its core. Throughout the poem, the speaker comes to terms with the transition from life to death. Dickinson’s main preoccupation is the journey to death. When Death picks up the speaker for their carriage ride, they go along a country road where the speaker...
Introduction One of Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, Death of a Salesman, depicts the last 24 hours of Willy Loman’s life, an unsuccessful salesperson with warped views on the American dream and the path towards it. The play is a sociological critique of certain ideals, ideas, and morals prevalent in...
Douglass endured many awful and enlightening experiences in his early life. However, as he grew up, he believed that a rise in the number of slaves would end slavery as the power of enslaved would overthrow that of the masters. His tough treatment encounter, hatred for slavery, and desire for...
This analysis essay entails the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. It was accessed on YouTube, and its associated script was downloaded for analysis. Macbeth is a classic tragedy in which the protagonist embarks on a dark path of betrayal and bloodshed that leads to his ruin and death (Shakespeare, 2009). Macbeth...
“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a brief narrative written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer, first published in 1843. An unnamed relator describes the story, who embarks on convincing the readers about his lucidity while simultaneously unfolding the murder he committed. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator is damaged, and...
Introduction In his book Goodbye to Berlin, published in 1939, Christopher Isherwood shares his experience living in the German capital during the Weimar Republic’s fall and the rise of Nazism. Like any other author, Isherwood’s accounts are significantly influenced by the socio-economic context of the time he lived. Analysis of...
Introduction There are many women who face difficulties in their daily life. Leaving an abusive relationship can be difficult, and many people never do. On the other hand, some women are brave enough to stand up for themselves and leave the circumstance. Sandra Cisneros discusses the theme of the short...
Purpose: The report outline below seeks to inform about grief and how things can get back to normal after losing a loved one in the novel, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Summary of Novel and Research Content: The Lovely Bones by Alice narrates about a teenage girl who was...
Introduction The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara powerfully portrays the inherent presence of diverse social classes and income distribution. The premise of this narrative emphasizes the income disparity across different socioeconomic groups in the United States, how this separation frequently represents racial inequalities, and the significance of teaching people to...
Tim O’Brien’s short story The Things They Carried is the first of twenty-two stories in the book of the same name. This book tells about various episodes from the life of a company of soldiers serving in Vietnam. All narratives are connected, but each can be considered separately. The plots...
Only stories and recollections of a deceased person remain to honor their memory and bring comfort to their loved ones. However, The Things They Carried is more about Tim O’ Brien’s wish to honor and remember his fiancée, Linda, after her sad childhood death than it is about the Vietnam...
The Road Not Taken was written by award-winning American poet Richard Frost. He began writing poetry when he was twenty years old in England (Hart, 2017). Most of the best publishers refused to work with Frost as he struggled to get his work printed. Years later, after meeting with other...
The works of the most prominent Nigerian prose writer Chinua Achebe tell about the colonial past and the present day of an independent African state. The process of breaking the traditional way of life of the African community and the attempts of the British colonial administration to introduce the original...
Amy Tan’s “mother tongue” is a narrative essay initially delivered as a speech during a symposium “the state of the language” in 1989. Later on, in 1990, The Threepenny Review published the article. It has, since then, had a successful journey, having won remarkable honors and awards. In 1991, it...
Introduction The world of literature has undergone a revolution, with new genres being developed over the years. While authors intend to pass on their message and perspective on specific life issues, their works serve as guides to future writers. Every writer’s work is based on certain experiences, either personal or...
’… lead me, O my hero, hence —I know not sin—with confidence.Whate’er his lot, ‘tis far more sweetTo follow still a husband’s feetThan in rich palaces to lie,Or roam at pleasure through the sky.My mother and my sire have taughtWhat duty bids, and trained each thought,’” (542). These lines from...
“They look like white elephants,” she said. “I’ve never seen one,” the man drank his beer. “No, you wouldn’t have.” “I might have,” the man said (Hemingway). It was challenging to isolate a passage that would help explain the classicism of this literary work. After all, Hemingway uses symbols rather...
The Yellow Wallpaper, composed by Charlotte Gilman in 1892, is a short story, which depicts the life of the female narrator and her confrontation against traditional perspectives on medicine. In the 19th century, most mental health complications were considered temporary tendencies or matters of superstition. The physicians rejected the idea...
In Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” the author does an outstanding job creating descriptive images throughout history. Crane uses symbolism and powerful imagery to provide the reader with a compelling story of four people who fought against nature. Starting from the beginning of the book, Crane creates a storyline in...
The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe consists of three major parts that powerfully portray the significant events of Okonkwo’s life. The first part of the novel emphasizes Okonkwo’s childhood life and upbringing, where the readers clearly understand his relationship with his father. The second part highlights his life...
Introduction Dylan Thomas wrote the above poem, and its opening lines are superb as the composition commences. At first glance, the reading seems to be focusing on the transition from daytime to night-time. However, when the poem is critically analyzed, it emphasizes how unstoppable death is. As we all know,...
Introduction A Doll’s House is an act written by Henrik Ibsen from Norway. The play is important as it examines the life of a married woman who has limited access to fulfilling her dreams as a woman in a world where the male gender dominates, therefore the play appears to...
Marital relationships were highly patriarchal in the 19th century, but little is known about married women’s experiences. In her “The Story of an Hour,” written in 1894, Kate Chopin sheds light on this issue and expresses her distaste for the institution of marriage. While she does acknowledge the few moments...
The intriguing central moment in O’Connor’s story A Good Man is Hard to Find is its ending. Remarkable are the images of two interacting heroes, a grandmother, and the Misfit. A man is a criminal who has served in prison and does not understand why. However, he believes that since...
Langston Hughes is a world-famous and influential American poet, novelist, publicist, and writer of the “Harlem Renaissance.” He is also known for discovering “jazz poetry,” a combination of rhythmics with ballad intonations and blues motifs. Although shared with the literary world as a whole, his works were shaped by the...
Introduction The No Name Woman is a short story authored by Maxine Hong Kingston. The author’s mother warns her from disclosing to anybody about her aunt’s incident (Szmańko 190). The author’s mother does the narration of how different Chinese cultures were in the past days. The author listens and later...
Throughout the nineteenth century, many female authors covered the theme of marriage with a feminist approach, with stories about women forced to live under husbands’ rules without the opportunity to live happily. The short stories “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins...
In the play “Hamlet”, William Shakespeare raises an essential theme of revenge. The main character considers answering back for his father’s death committed by his uncle, King Claudius, a usurper of the throne. Being a hostage of his idea, prince Hamlet considers revenge the proper action to restore justice. With...
William Faulkner is one of the influential central figures of American literature of the last century. His works combine realism, historical drama, and social psychology. The writer was significantly influenced by the fact that he grew up in Mississippi when the defeat of the South in the Civil War was...
Abstract Screenwriting is a long, winding process, the submerged part of the iceberg, whereas the screen version of the film represents its tip. Screenwriting stands on a crossing between art and science, which means that it can be analyzed and broken down into smaller categories. This paper provides an overview...
“Roman Fever,” a short story written by Edith Wharton and first published in 1934, expresses deception, secrecy, resentment feelings, and betrayal. The reason is that the story describes two women who blame each other as sources of their unhappiness for failure to achieve their life goals. The story arouses complex...
Paradise Lost by John Milton unfolds much, and the most memorable part is when Eve eats the fruit of knowledge persuaded by Satan. It is not until recently that Satan’s motivation started to be looked at in literature. Adam and Eve were motivated by different things, as discussed in the...
Introduction In all forms of art, but especially in literature, one can observe the norms and customs of the distant past. Through writing, people have always expressed their thoughts, values, and desires, all of which can be analyzed through the lens of a certain historical context. As Anne Bradstreet and...
In the book, The Cold War: A New History John Lewis Gaddis proposes a unique vision of the Cold War and its impact on the world and relations between the USSR and America. The book consists of seven chapters devoted to different aspects of the Cold War and relations between...
Introduction “Everyday Use” is an allegorical story that intertwines the African heritage and modern world practices. Written by Alice Walker, the story focuses on the lives of the African Americans who struggle to the African legacy amid a world engrossed with diverse cultures. Therefore, the narrator struggles to reveal the...
Candide and Pangloss Characters and Relationship Analysis Although a well-known novel Candide ou l’Optimisme was written by Voltaire about three hundred years ago, it still holds an impressive relevance at present. In this work, the writer brilliantly combined the traditional literary genre, which reveals the cardinal questions of life, and...
“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, which follows a narrator who has murdered an old man but claims that he is innocent. The character has been taking care of an elderly individual and, eventually, started to fear his eye, which “resembled that of a vulture”...
In the seven-part lyrical ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge entitled The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the main character recounts a horrifying story of his youth. The mariner sailed on a ship towards the south, when a storm sent it farther, to the South Pole. Later the ship’s crew sees...
The Storm is one of the most popular short stories by the American writer Kate Chopin, who is famous for her brave illustration of sexuality in her works. The story tells about people waiting for the storm to pass. Though, during this storm, peculiarities of the relationships between the main...
Introduction The story of Alice Walker, an American writer and activist, is a story of complicated relationships between a mother and her daughters. Too many things separate them, and only a few unite them, showing they are a family. The conflict of this family is more than parent-children’s issues –...
Introduction This paper compares the epic heroes Gilgamesh and Odysseus, describes their similarities and differences and compares how each of them changes throughout their journey. The characters were both men of great power; they stood between people and gods, serving as a link from the divine beings to the mortals...
Sometimes reality is not consistent with personal expectations, and people turn out to escape into their made-up delusional world. The play by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, tells such a story about people who avoided facing reality (3) The current essay analyses one of the characters, Laura, and describes how...
“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe is an intimidating story about ideal revenge that is performed by the story’s narrator, Montresor. The story was first published in November 1846 (Britannica 1) and is set in carnival time in the unspecified Italian city. This short story is considered to...
Introduction There are two ways of looking at an incident – the immediate cause and the deep seated cause; did the individual pull the trigger or was it society that has been shaping the mind of the killer? Unfolding the story would lead us on to answering the pivotal question...
Introduction The night is a novel written by Elie Wiesel. The book is a famed work of art owing to its numerous twists in the plot. Elie uses this book to express his experiences with his father while they were in the Nazi German concentration camps (Weissman 55). This was...
Theseus is still important and depicted as a hero to this day, having spent his entire life as a warrior, completing daring feats, and being used as the hero character in contemporary media. The ancient Athenians saw the various heroic acts accredited to him as the actions that contributed to...
Introduction It is a boundless conviction that the acquisition of a second language is a lot simpler for kids compared to grown-ups. It is said that the younger the learner, the faster the language acquisition will be. The equivalent applies for the assumption that a grown-up student of an unknown...
For many centuries, literature has been used to teach, admonish, critique a people’s way of life, and establish a given theme in society. Flannery O’Connor’s piece “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” has stood as one of the most relevant literary works which serves many of the afore-mentioned roles....
Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself by Frederick Douglass is the most significant book among a hundred of American slave narratives. In this book Frederick Douglass reveals the story of his life (which he started as a slave and finished as orator, politician,...
Death of a salesman, written by Arthur Miller, exposes the real life of a typical American middle-class man who dedicates the most part of his life to a private company. The major themes of Miller’s Death of a salesman are the failure of American success myth and reality versus illusion....
Introduction Nasal assimilation is the conversion of a consonant into a nasal sound. Long-term phonological use of a language may affect how somebody pronounces words in another language; however, it does not hinder the recognition of the word pronounced. This issue is familiar to Koreans who speak English. The continued...
The New Negro is a work that was popular during the Harlem Renaissance. Behind it is a more outspoken defense of the dignity of black people and a refusal to obey laws on racial segregation. Alain Leroy Locke was the man who popularized the term through his anthology. Locke also...
Frankenstein (1818) or the Modern Prometheus is a novel written by a British author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. She was born on August 30th, 1797 in London, England. Shelly wrote this novel when she was only 18years old. She died in 1851 at the age of fifty three. The first edition...
Topic 2 DQ 1 Diagnostic assessments allow teachers to thoroughly evaluate students’ preliminary knowledge and abilities, thus helping to make sure that the planned lessons and activities are suitable. Also, thanks to diagnostic assessments, it is possible to learn more about students’ specific needs and required accommodations. This type of...
There are many different approaches to teaching students English. While some strategies demonstrate some shortcomings, others offer only a conscious description of the methods implemented by the teacher. For example, the use of ELL standards for English language students varies from state to state. In particular, Arizona’s methods were used...
Topic 1 DQ 1 Modern researchers in education and language learning distinguish between the so-called social and academic languages that differ in terms of their goals and the amount of time that their development takes. For teachers, it is important to know how to help English language learners to develop...
Written by Jung Chang, “The wild swans: three daughters of China” is a historical book that describes the chauvinistic nature of the male gender in China during the 20th century. Ruled by the oppressive Mao regime, Chang enlightens the world on the hardships that women experienced in China by giving...
Introduction Katrina Srigley’s book “Breadwinning Daughters” is both a historical and interview-based account of the lives of women in Toronto during the Great Depression-era of the 1930s. Through various interviews, Srigley paints a picture of how these women lived, what they experienced during this particular time of hardship, what the...
The place of the English language in the world has changed among other languages which are considered national and international. Al-Shehri (2020) states that the number of English language speakers has increased over the past decades. Over 350 million people speak English as their fast language, with an additional 250...
Introduction People seem to enjoy creating fascinating stories about almost anything they see and hear. Languages are no exception – there are many folklore tales about the origin of different words. Few of these versions reflect correct etymology of the words, though some of them are peculiar or funny. Exploring...
Edwidge Danticat is among the few writers who make extensive use of their early childhood experiences to write their different literature pieces. The author reckons the diverse incidences which transpired during her childhood and transition to adulthood. Danticat was born in the outskirts of Port au Prince city, Haiti, in...
Introduction Creators and producers of creative works over the last two centuries have been increasingly embracing the use of metamorphic bodies to bring out the central themes of the productions (Jeffery 12). Human-animal, animal-animal, and human-machine hybrids are gaining prominence in the creation of works of fiction. However, there is...
Background English language has become an international language over the last few decades. The number of people who speak English has increased significantly due to the importance of this language as an international language. Some non-English countries have begun to design new curricula that encourage people to learn the English...
Review Prior research demonstrates that international students encounter many difficulties as a result of language and cultural barriers, educational and financial difficulties, interpersonal challenges, racial intolerance, loss of social support, estrangement and homesickness (Sherry, Thomas & Chui 2010, p. 34). Language proficiency is the single most important factor that determines...
Despite the fact that learning languages has become rather popular, there are still those who believe in several myths and misconceptions and consider this process unnecessary, difficult, and problematic. However, there are many more advantages than it may seem at first. Moreover, proficiency in other languages is a crucial skill...
Introduction With extensive use as the formal language in many countries all over the world, the English language remains one of the most influential languages in the world. The English language has evolved to have many varieties, the most influential being American English due to dominance by the USA of...
As some languages face extinction, English is taking a majestic walk through the globe. It is spreading at a higher rate in England’s post imperial period than it did when England was a mighty empire with numerous colonies under its arm. Regions of the world that never appreciated the language...
William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest English playwright of all time. His works include 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and two narrative poems. His plays are performed nowadays more than works of any other playwright. Being one of the most famous Englishmen of all time, among other things he is...
Introduction As the celebrated literary icon, Robin Sharma, once said ‘it is not that things are hard that we do not dare; it is that we do not dare that things are seemingly hard’ (Mays & Winfree, 2009). Given the above, is it possible for an inmate to have any...
Introduction It is irrefutable that English has become a global language. People from both developing and developed countries communicate in English, and many of them have chosen it as their first international language. Clearly, this is an inexorable itinerary of globalisation. In fact, many linguistic experts retort that English is...
Overview The principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA) attempts to find answers to questions such as ‘what is CDA?’, ‘what are the different components of CDA?’ generally, the answers here culminate into a relation between various aspects including power, social inequalities, and discourse analysis with the social framework of relationships....
The use of the English language as a universal mode of communication has continued to increase at a rapid rate across the globe, specifically in developing countries (0000000). English has become an international “lingua franca” for speakers of different first languages to communicate in the areas of commerce, culture, research,...
Introduction Second language acquisition varies from one language to another. It is the learner who determines the speed in which they acquire a second language either through learning or a social interaction. Therefore, second language learners may have different pronunciation of some vowels and consonants due to first language interference...
Language and culture are inextricably linked (Eagleton 25). The idea that “languages are embedded in culture and are born in culture” (Berman 5) speaks to the vitality of culture. If language reflects culture, then being competent in a second language would also require one to be competent and comfortable in...
Introduction English language is being widely used world over as the most spoken international language. Many countries have as well adopted fully or partially the use of English as the official language or as a means of instruction in the schools. English therefore without doubt plays a very crucial role...
Introduction I work as a teacher assistant at the Asian Counselling Referred Service. Specifically, I assist the teacher in helping immigrants from Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, and China to pronounce English words and master simple vocabularies. The acquisition of a second language is a study area that is of huge interest...
Relationship of language and society According to Naom Chomsky, sociolinguistic is the study of a diversity of concepts including language that enhance communication. According to him, sociolinguistic is not the study of grammar as many linguists may put it. He further declares that emphasizing grammar as an element of linguistic...
Language is a powerful communication tool that brings together people of great diversity and different geographical backgrounds. Tan indicates in her article that she imagines how the language evokes emotion, vivifies visual images, and portrays simple truths in a manner that is completely incomprehensible by her. Just like everyone else,...
The essay aims to examine the role of Moll’s name and clothing as disguises in Moll Flanders. Disguises appear to be a central theme in Daniel Defoe’s novel, “Moll Flanders” on two levels. First, we have a physical disguise that Moll finds useful as a way of disguising her identity....
Plato’s Symposium This was a philosophical text written in the years 300s B.C. The main theme of the text is love. There were speeches given by individuals who were meditating on the concept of love. The participants in the symposium were seven individuals, Socrates, Aristophanes, Agathon, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, Eryximachus and...
Introduction Willa Cather’s story ‘Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament’ explores a world where the youth yearn for beauty, splendor and wealth. Cather’s story is similar to Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ (Quirk 579). Cather’s short story identifies how art is sometimes dangerous when exposed to a competitive and...
Literary critics have often commented that William Shakespeare developed the plot of his play King Lear based on Lear, an aged king of ancient Britain. Analyzing Shakespeare’s plays one can witness that much of the Shakespearean characters were suffered from the adversities of madness or severe psychological frustration. One can...
Extract 1 (from Chapter 1) One of the reasons the book has become immensely popular is the language and the type of narrative F. Scott Fitzgerald decided to use. The readers always want to believe the narrator, and Nick Carraway is described in a certain way, which addresses this desire...
Chapter 1 The first chapter of the book defines the setting for further events and introduces its narrator, Nick Carraway. He characterizes himself as an observer willing not to judge anybody and mentions that he recently moved from the East Coast due to a big disappointment. The story he is...
John Griffin conducted a life-changing experiment of turning into a black man. He documented his experience of struggle and survival, and in 1961 published the book called Black Like Me. The public criticized Griffin as he had dared to reveal an unpleasant truth. He took his experiment seriously, consulting dermatologists...
This paper will discuss The Story of an Hour written by Kate Chopin in 1894. The end of the 19th century became significant for the U.S. society that experienced rapid changes due to the Second Industrial Revolution. However, industrial progress only strengthened the power of gender roles. Only low-class women...
Introduction The story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker tells about the relationship between mother and two daughters with different views and beliefs, and how a mother’s attitude towards her younger daughter changed with time. This story also addresses the topic of cultural identity in a way of how this term...
“Careless Lovers” by Edward Ravenscroft is a comedy that puts forth the wrongs of a society and displays the irony of people’s emotions and morals. It demonstrates how people are led away from the rights that are expected and what is the price they pay later. The characters of the...
Introduction The Devil’s presence can be often seen in a variety of pieces of literature along with pieces of art such as films, songs, paintings, etc. Different descriptions of this mysterious and horrifying person are shown in those pieces of literature and art. In the following paper, the Devil’s presence...
The war in Vietnam…How much pain does this short word combination incorporates. This war can be listed among the strangest and the most unsuccessful military campaigns ever held by the United States. In his book, “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’Brien addresses numerous sad experiences which one of the American...
Caregiving can become a challenging task for a person who is responsible for the well-being of the relative. In her article “Daddy Issues”, Sandra Tsing Loh emotionally discusses her own experience in caregiving. Loh presents her personal story of a caregiver because she was responsible for caring of her 91-year-old...
Ernest Hemingway remains one of the greatest writers in the whole history of literature. This paper discusses and analyses his magnificent creation, which is called “Hills like White Elephants”. Although this novel seems to present a riddle for a non-experienced reader, it describes a widespread situation in today’s world. Therefore,...
Introduction “To be or not to be” — this dictum is one of the most prominent phrases in the world. Hamlet’s famous soliloquy starts with this expression. “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” is a play written by William Shakespeare. The speech under consideration is a representation of Shakespeare’s...
“Death of a Salesman” is a play concerning the disparities existing between the dreams of a New York family and the realism of their lives. This play is a scornful account of the American Dream and of the aggressive, money-oriented American society of the late 1950s. The plot depicts Willy...
Arthur Miller, acclaimed American playwright, essayist, and recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was a prominent figure in twentieth-century American theater. His Death of a Salesman is considered to be one of the best plays in the history of American drama. The play centers on the common man...
The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play retelling a fictionalized version of the famous story of the Salem witch trials. It explores the behavior of the participants and draws parallels with the phenomenon of McCarthyism which was contemporary to the author. The play tells an altered story of the...
Introduction Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is recognized as one of the greatest novels in the United States and the most frequently read classic book in American schools (Levy 15). It depicts American society in the middle of the nineteenth century, showing its low and middle class, and...
The story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” written by Richard Wright is a vivid example of prose that not only raises the acute problem of social inequality but also conveys a national flavor. Character dialogues are the key means of expressing the main idea, which is likely to...
Introduction The analysis of the literary works of ancient times is the necessary element of the understanding of the culture and the mode of life of people at that time. The plays of Sophocles take an important place in the historic and cultural legacy of Ancient Greece. The plays Oedipus...
Nella Larsen – a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance was a marvelous author to outline and highlight evident and invisible features of the mixed ancestry life. Her book Passing is a very prolific work that showcases the postwar society and what it meant to be born black – possible hardships...
