Fiction Essays

Take honor from me and my life is done.” This statement suggest that the honor is part of life without it people can’t live. This quote is true because if the person doesn’t have honor he/she is not considering as a human been. Nobody will respect or count with their …

Les Miserables After reading Les Miserables, it is without a doubt that there are many reoccurring themes of biographical outlines for characters. Along with that, there is the aspect of forgiveness, courage, and sacrifice. These are only a few of the main themes Hugo wanted to build up in Les …

Gilman’s perception of her “reality” and Chopin’s Calixta in “The Storm,” are women who just might have been suffering the same feeling’s of depression and routine. The only difference might be how they dealt with this depression. Gilman suffered from depression after the birth of her child, using this depression …

In this excerpt, from A White Heron, by Sarah Orne Jewett, a number of literary techniques were used. All of them contributing to the excerpt’s excellent flow. This essay will focus on three literary techniques Jewett used “” imagery, tone, and symbolism. Imagery is an important literary device which, when …

This paper is a review of “Vanka” by Anton Chekhov. Chekhov was a nineteenth-century Russian writer whose grandfather had been a serf and became famous as a playwright ans as a writer of short stories. The short story “Vanka” is about youth and adolescence and adopts a limited point of …

Professional success and personal failure of James M. Barrie In researching the many odd and bizarre happenings of our unique culture, it is certain that truth is often stranger than fiction. The first paragraph of James Barrie’s classic story “Peter Pan” introduced its central theme: “All children except one, grow …

Setting the Mood in Greasy Lake “Greasy Lake” is a short story that gradually unfolds as the narrator’s night on the town suddenly goes from bad to worse. It all begins when the three “bad characters” mistake a car at Greasy Lake for one of their friends. Although the three …

In all great novels besides telling the normal story, the author tries to express something else. This something else would be known as the theme. The theme in Dickens A Tale of Two Cities would be Resurrection, or “recalled to life”. When receiving the message from Jerry Cruncher, Mr. Lorry …

Alienation, as defined by the Webster’s Dictionary, “is the act of estrangement or withdrawing affections” – www.dictionary.com. There are many factors that lead to the alienation of humans and alienation can take many forms, within a family or within society. When a person is considered ‘different’, they are pushed out …

In the haunting novel 1984, George Orwell effectively warns his readers about the dangers of totalitarianism and the horrific measures governments are willing to take in order to sustain power over its people. In order to create the desired effect and instill terror among his readers, Orwell wove a powerful …