Books Essays

The Jim Crow laws had a very strong influence on the way of life of many people in the late 1800’s up to the mid-1900’s. Segregation was very enforced and had the effect of people discriminating against each other. The Jim Crow laws had affected the southern part of the …

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels believed that Capitalist society, which is based on the right of each individual to own private property, is the cause of the main class divides evident in today’s society. That the basic right to own property results in the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, becoming obsessed …

In “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck there are many characters that show out to be greedy after Kino got the pearl. For example: the priest, the doctor and Kino. The priest turns out to be greedy when Kino gets the pearl. When the news came to Him he started to …

All books have themes and lessons in them that teach us something important after reading them. Sometimes these lessons are learned from the characters of the books. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby teaches us lessons about success, hope, and ethics or morals. Many of the characters in The Great …

In “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author illustrates the journey towards adulthood for three teenage boys in a time when it was hip to be “bad.” The narrator, the protagonist of the story, and his friends, Digby and Jeff, consider themselves to be “dangerous characters”(129) as they keep …

Prompt: Is Steinbeck advocating communism w/ “Grapes”? Thesis: John Steibeck severly criticizes capitalsim in his novel The Grapes of Wrath, but is not advocating communism. John Steinbeck took a chance when he published The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. He wrote a clear criticism of capitalism at a time when …

Amanda Wingfield is the most prominent and dynamic character in the play. She is described by Williams as “a little woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time and place”. In the play, Amanda appears to be a paranoiac as she was constantly worrying about her family’s …

Modern audiences would blame Paris for not courting Juliet, however in Shakespeare’s time Paris would have been considered as behaving in a much more proper fashion than Romeo. Private courting between young people, illustrated in Romeo and Juliet, was officially disapproved of. There are many types of love in the …

Grendel is one of the three major antagonists in the poem “Beowulf”. We are told he is a monster and a descendant of the biblical figure “Cain” early on in the text. “Till the monster stirred, that demon, that fiend/Grendel who haunted the moors, the wild /Marshes, and made his …

This quote by Duff Brenna, “All literature shows us the power of emotion, It is emotion, not reason, that motivates characters in literature.” To me means that it is emotion that affects characters in literature not reason or thought. I Agree with this statement because many stories characters do what …