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January 11, 2025
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Thematic Contrast in War and Peace by Tolstoy
In Tolstoy’s classic novel, War and Peace, the setting and tone the reader encounter at the opening of the book suggest that war and peace will be presented as opposing constructs, with the former being portrayed as a social vice to →
Plot Analysis of Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
The main character in Chopin’s “Story of an Hour” is, despite the lack of rich background details about her situation, quite obviously a typical married woman of the late noneteenth century, living under the thumb of her husband without much freedom →
Race and Hypocrisy in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Although Frederick Douglass’s life narrative and Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are works that represent two distinct literary genres—the first, an autobiographical text and the second a popular novel, the thematic preoccupation of each text is essentially the same. →
Short Story Comparison : The Open Boat, Winesburg Ohio, and The Hairy Ape
In Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat,” Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio,” and Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape,” all three authors locate their characters in a deterministic universe where they are left to struggle with the unpredictable and seemingly indifferent whims of →
Analysis of The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway : Major Themes Explored
Hemingway is as an author who presents readers with an “iceberg” scenario in which most of the substance lies far beneath the surface and cannot be seen or known. As a result, one is constantly forced to play detective and →
Analysis of Daisy Miller : Henry James and Social Class Critique
In a certain sense, Henry James’s “Daisy Miller” seems to reflect a time that has passed, a time in which the notion of literal physical and geographical mobility was just beginning to facilitate one’s social mobility. In “Daisy Miller,” the →
Character Analysis of Detective Mike in Night Train by Martin Amis
“[W]e want suicides to be homicides,” thinks the narrator, Detective Mike, as she is processing her boss’s reaction to learning about the news of his daughter’s death, allegedly committed by the daughter’s own hand (Amis 9). Detective Mike goes on →
Unpardonable Sin : Comparison of Young Goodman Brown, The Minister’s Black Veil, and Ethan Brand
One of the motifs that connects many, if not all, of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short stories is that of the unpardonable sin. In terms of themes, Hawthorne and his main characters are typically preoccupied with the effort of resolving the base desires →
Analysis of Racial Separation in Black Cuban, Black American by Evelio Grillo
The memoir by Evelio Grillo, Black Cuban, Black American does not immediately present readers with the racial issues that the title suggests are coming, but instead offers a distinct picture of a small child as he goes from Tampa (Ybor City) to →
Crossing Borders : An Analysis of Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood in La Frontera by Norma Elia Cantu
The book by Norma Elia Cantu, Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood in La Frontera is not only a work of fiction about growing up between two countries with drastically different cultures but is also, and perhaps more importantly, a statement on →
