Fiction Essays

“A boy who excited loathing in every respectable mind” (Dickens 304), Trabb’s Boy is a lively, trouble seeking, and brutally honest character in Charles Dickens’s, Great Expectations. Even though he appears only a handful of times in the novel his character plays a significant role. As Pip’s enemy, Trabb’s Boy …

Symbolism is one of the most important literary terms used often by many writers to convey their central idea. According to the Longman Contemporary Dictionary, symbolism can be defined as a device that evokes more than a literal meaning from a person, object, image or word. The author Isabel Allende …

In order for a writer to make his readers understand the hidden meanings of events, literary techniques such as characterization, point of view, symbolism, setting and them must be present. “The serious writer’s goal is not to tell us a story, to entertain or to move us, but to make …

Jamaica Kincaid, born Elaine Potter Richardson, is originally from St. John’s, Antigua (Britannica). She was born in 1949 and three years later she had learned to read by attending local schools which provided a british style education (Britannica). Her father was a cabinet maker and her mother was a political …

When analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations, by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively, one usually stops and ponders, what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you, quite a lot. To begin with, both are fictional autobiographies, narrated personally …

Love is a powerful force that drives one person to draw a deep affection towards another. When analyzed, the short story entitled “Love in L.A.,” by Dagoberto Gilb, shows how one can see many reasons in seeing irony and even satire by the story’s title. Through “Jake,” the protagonist’s definition …

a) The story is set in a small town outside of Pittsburgh named Sewickley, Pennsylvania. The family being dealt with throughout the story is well known in their town and are quite wealthy. The story takes place in the year of 1952 but is being retold twenty years later. Plot …

Film texts tell stories using words as well as other elements. Explore the way images have been used to create the narrative in The Truman Show. The narrative structure of The Truman Show is very multifaceted. The story moves between three different worlds and is not presented in straight chronological …

The characters in the short story, “The Stolen Party” demonstrate striking differences in their values and beliefs. Each character displays unique traits. It is these unique traits, which illustrate different aspects of society. Each character then, represents a portion of the values and beliefs of today’s society. Rosaura is the …

According to Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, the phrase “Oedipus complex” is defined as: “the positive libidinal feelings that a child develops toward the parent of the opposite sex and that when unresolved are conceived as a source of adult personality disorder.” The title of this story is said to …