Writers Essays

In Charles Dickens Victorian novel, Great Expectations, he develops many characters; one of these characters being Mr. Joe Gargery. Joe is Pip’s brother in law, but is more of a father figure as him and Pip’s sister Mrs. Joe Gargery has raised Pip by hand. Joe is a man of …

This poem was a poem describing the beautiful scene the poet saw one day he woke up in winter morning. Besides portraying the stunning scenery, the poet also wanted to relate the transformation in nature to human life cycle. The most prominent imagery used was snow, for example, brilliant, white, …

The novel’s protagonist, Guy Montag, takes pride in his work with the fire department. A third-generation fireman, Montag fits the stereotypical role, with his “black hair, black brows…fiery face, and …blue-steel shaved but unshaved look.” Montag takes great joy in his work and serves as a model of twenty-four century …

Guy Montag, the main character in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, goes through a huge change in his life. He changes from a typical fireman who follows the laws, into a person who challenges the law. Montag wakes up from being numbed and realizes that he is unhappy. Montag’s wife, …

“Thematic patterns of fire and blood, with their vivid imagery, are among the most immediately noticeable in the play.” (McMurty, 67) In Julius Caesar, the image of blood introduces the idea of violence into the readers mind. The fluidly creates a sinister mood, contributes to characterization, foreshadows, and reinforces the …

The novel of Mark Twain’sThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about a young boy, Huck, coming of age. It is a story of Huck’s struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim, a runway slave. The many adventures that Huck goes on become a learning process to maturity by learning …

In society today it is very hard to be ones own individual self. Peopled tend to see other people as either individualists or conformists. If a person doesn’t fall in with the “in” crowd then you are considered to be “weird” or “un-cool”. Ralph Waldo Emerson made this apparent in …

Swift uses logical appeal to support his suggestion about what to do regarding the poverty. He calculates the number of babies “the number of souls in Ireland being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couples whose wives are …

Slaughterhouse Five, a novel written by Kurt Vonnegut, contains numerous examples of symbolism, imagery, figurative language, tone, and theme. The story isn’t very chronological, every thing happens bunched up together. There are numerous settings in the novel. A large portion of the action of the story occurs in the small …

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 …