Books Essays

The definition of classism is the belief that people from certain social or economic classes are superior to others. When viewed from a Marxist perspective, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness can be seen as a comment on negative treatment of lower …

There comes a time in life when one believes that they are surrounded by nothing but fallaciousness and deception. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, a 16-year-old boy, travels to New York to try to escape the corrupt events that have transpired in his life. While …

A battle started within man. Two instincts equally strong, Have been inside us all along. Each trying to take control. Different desires and different needs, Possessing our thoughts and our deeds; Two instincts control them all. Savagery is the vicious one. Thirst for blood and inclination to destroy. The end …

In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid uses a variety of literary devices to create the tone of confusion and agitation. By doing so, Mohsin Hamid also develops a theme of change. All these literary features combine to make an enthralling page-turner. One literary device used by the author to create …

While I was reading, I was looking for what it would feel like to be invisible. This quote was a little after the invisible man arrived in Iping. He wears bandages on his face, a hat, and a coat, no matter where he is. He never even talks to anyone …

Imagine yourself on display in front of your whole town, being punished for cheating on your husband or wife. Today adultery is looked down on, but in reality nobody makes a huge deal out of it. Sin can affect a person in many ways, but whether it’s good or bad …

The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, in Salem Massachusetts. Some refer to the novel as a recollection of the story of Adam and Eve. Just as Adam and Eve were exiled for eating an apple from the Garden of Eden, Hester is exiled from the Puritan …

A straw man fallacy in which an opponent’s argument is overstated or misrepresented in order to be more easily attacked or refuted. The straw man fallacy happens quite a bit in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, but especially in on page 211 in the 4th column which reads, “(Procter): I …

The basic question is not whether terrorism can be defeated; even third-rate dictatorships have shown that it can be put down with great ease. The real problem is the price that has to be paid by liberal societies valuing their democratic traditions. Over the last two decades considerable academic debate …

Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926. She is an American novelist, who has published only one novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Born in Monroeville, Alabama, she studied law at the University of Alabama, then spent a year in the United Kingdom, studying at Oxford. Living in New York …