Fiction Essays

This has always been my fear, the fear of what is going to happen next? Am I going to blend in or will I become the odd? I knew from the beginning that it would never be easy and I would hate it, nevertheless, I took a shot at it …

A state of disillusion. After the first World War, Americans found it difficult to buy into the american dream because of how horrific the event was handled. Disillusionment is everywhere, but a prominent example of disillusionment is in the memory play, The Glass Menagerie. A memory play is a play …

First, I will talk about the major theme, which is Paul’s obsession with money. This theme also ties into all the other themes that I will bring up. Each theme plays an important role in the others. Smaller subthemes are Paul’s hopes and dreams in that he wishes to be …

Culture did impact the main characters in some way, but it wasn’t in major way. What truly played a big part in the characters lives was perseverance, trauma, and guilt. Amir witnessed his best friend Hassan get sexaully assaulted by Assef, the neighborhood bully. Amir just sat there and he …

The themes of O’ Brother Where Art Thou? and Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, are very tantamount to one another, both have strong leaders, Odysseus, and Ulysses (Everett), that take on relentless journeys and face tough situations. These two sources have various interpretations of events that occurred, due to the …

In both the following novels, All the Lights We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, imagery and tone is used to help reveal the stories that help portray how war took over numerous individuals’ lives regardless of whether they were fighting in the …

Motivational speaker Simon Sinek says, “It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.” This quote is saying it’s better to tell people the truth. Rather than it is to tell them a lie, to make them feel better. Just like in the …

1945 was a difficult time for America. There were so many people still recovering from World War II, and now the Vietnam War was starting. The Things They Carried told a story of how the war changed a person, in this case, it was Tim O’Brien. It showed the struggle …

It’s often said that Science Fiction is the literature of change. When a culture is undergoing a lot of changes due to scientific advances and technological, and developments expects to undergo more, it’s hardly surprising if stories about these changes become popular as a way of expressing people’s feelings (optimistic …

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, a fictional novel written by John Boyne in 2006, is about the life of a boy named Bruno during World War Two. Similarly, The Book Thief, directed by Brian Percival in 2014, is about the life of a girl also during World War Two. …