Books Essays

The book, Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture, is a compilation of articles written by anthropologists, sociologists and professors. It was edited by Phillip R. DeVita and James D. Armstrong. This is the third edition of the Distant Mirrors books. In the introduction to the book it is said …

The motif of baseball and Joe DiMaggio in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” implements the current events of the time, as well as providing Santiago a comparison between DiMaggio and himself. Hemingway incorporates the current events of the time. In Cuba, as well as in America, baseball …

In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” Atticus Finch was portrayed as the ideal man. This presentation of Atticus Finch is far too idealistic. Atticus never waivers from behaving perfectly, so perfectly that he exhibits no human foibles. The portrait painted of him is far too idealistic; he always acts …

Arthur Miller uses the title of his play “The Crucible” as a metaphor constantly throughout the text. A crucible is a container used to heat metals at a high temperature so the metal can be cast, often using intense pressure to do so. Crucibles are often also used to remove …

Growing up as a young girl is hard enough. For Anne Frank, the challenge was intensified by her captivity in the Secret Annex. She faces puberty within confined quarters and defines herself as a woman along the way. Anne goes from a young, immature girl to a growing woman despite …

Comrades, I stand here before you on this Sunday morning to bring forth my final solicitation to you for the ratification of the building of the windmill. In a minute or so, I will make all the beauties of the windmill known to you. Weeks ago, when I investigated our …

Mr Reverend Hale had a very controversial role in moving the story to the end how it had happened. Beside the other three main characters: Mr Proctor, Elizabeth and Abigail he was fourth biggest person who influenced the happenings the most. However, while the main characters played a kind of …

It is said that reading literary works is more than just setting the eyes on one individual story or another. Rather, it has been suggested that all possible connections between two or more works are taken into considerations so as to reach to better understanding of all. True enough, this …

In Jack Frost’s “A Considerable Speck”, the speaker is a writer who, before completing his piece notices “a speck that would have been beneath my sight” (line 1). Initially, the speaker remarks, the writer “poised my pen in air to stop it with a period of ink” before this microscopic …

Love and Betrayal Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is considered to be one of the greatest novels written in the English language. Due to Heathcliff and Catherine’s love relationship, Wuthering Heights is considered a romantic novel. Their powerful presence permeates throughout the novel, as well as their complex personalities. Their climatic …