Literature Essays

Dostoevsky’s story, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man” is something of a long monologue that details the process of the protagonist’s “metamorphosis” into the “madman” the he is. He begins by telling the reader that he is a ridiculous man, and while this suggests that he is inferior to other …

In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., used a wide range of his rhetoric to appeal to America for support for civil rights.  This letter begins with a friendly, open tone.  King wishes to reason, in a courteous response, with the seven clergymen who have criticized …

Characterization is defined as the change in personality description that occurs in a character throughout the story. The change can be either physical or emotional. In the play “The Miracle Worker”, William Gibson details and characterizes Helen Keller, a little girl who became blind, mute and deaf during her childhood …

            In the book, (Karwoski, 2004), “Quake: Disaster in San Francisco, 1906” by author Gail Karwoski, we read a story about a young boy by the name of Jacob Kaufman, who is the age of thirteen, living in the year, 1906 in San Francisco.             Jacob lives with his sister …

Everything started when Eastern Europeans grew tired of the restrictive communist government they were in and started wanting to have a democratic government similar to that of western countries. From 1956 until the final downfall of the soviets, there were various strikes and revolutions that served as calls for a …

You Love Me, You Are Sure Ironical as it may seem, I think the poet says she will find comfort in her lover’s declaration of true love yet she expects that this love will hurt her again. At first, she indicates that she will feel very secure when her lover …

As a result of his exposure into democracy, Ulysses S. Grant stood for it in the sense that he grow up in the middle of it and knew how it worked. He doesn’t believe in proper ordering of human society but for a chance of every individual to show how …

Death is a topic that is conventionally associated with either grief or fear.  The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman, which mourns and elevates the death of a young athlete, and the poem “Dog’s Death” by John Updike, which professes grief over a dog’s death, are two …

After becoming the first Republican elected Mayor of the City of New York in 1993, Rudolph Giuliani’s term was put into test when the United Stated suffered the worst terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. Fortunately for the people of New York City, their mayor has been working on his …

Rudolf Flesch contributed greatly to the English language through his study of what makes our writing easy to comprehend and quick to read as it is interesting. His writings are well organized and expertly done to the average reader or listener. Although he did not equate the plainness of “plain …