Books Essays

Masks have held countless uses and meanings throughout history. Masks have been used in plays, like those of Shakespeare, traditional dances, social gatherings, even as a form of casual or corporal punishment. Although masks have several different uses in different cultural situations, the meaning of the masks is generally the …

The short stories “Araby” by James Joyce and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne are both stories about change; however both characters change in very different ways. Organized religion imposes a rebut of prescribed behavior on natural curiosity and growth and in turn causes one to seek it out on …

In a literary work, the setting can have major effect on character. It can also play a role as an underlying major conflict of a story. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies”, the setting, being a deserted island in the middle of nowhere, takes effect in influencing character behavior …

How does Dickens criticize life during the Victorian times in the novel “Great Expectations”? Dickens uses satire to show the reality during Victorian times. What are three aspects of society, which Dickens satirizes? Three aspects of society, which he satirizes, are family, the class system and education. The first aspect …

Have you ever thought about the power of destiny that determines the events in your life? “Holes” by Louis Sachar is a story of Stanley Yelnats, who happened to be under a curse that was caused by his great-great-grandfather. As the story unfolds, we learn that the curse leads to …

A Separate Peace The rite of passage, according to Encarta, is an event or act that marks a significant transition in a human life usually referring to adulthood (Online 1). In many Indian tribes, ceremonies were held for youths trying to pass a series of tests in order to become …

My past history books and social studies classes provided the basis to my knowledge on America’s past events, like the Revolutionary War. These books, classes, and even historians that I was accustomed to, only told about the men’s part in wars like this, while women were extremely overlooked. In my …

In two of Flannery OConnors short stories, Revelation and A Good Man is Hard to find we find a lot of similarities in the authors portrayal of the characters as well as themes. OConnors stories are challenging because her characters, who initially seem radically different from people we know, turn …

Throughout the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, one?s name is a very important motif that is carried out. Reputation is the general estimation in which a person is held by the public, as referred to by dictionary.com. Reputation is very important in Salem because public and private moralities are …

What is a “nigger”? “Used as a disparaging term for a Black person” in the modern world, calling a black man, a nigger would be offensive and would be racist. What is racism? “Racism is a form of discrimination based on race, especially the belief that one race is superior …