Of Mice and Men is written by John Steinbeck published in 1937 The novel is set in the 1930s during the great depression in California The two protagonist characters George and Lennie are farm workers who have a dream of one day owning their own ranch They find work in a ranch near Soledad after escaping from Weed because of Georges incident They are met by different characters on the farm that all have a dream To be lonely means to lack friends or companionship and to feel isolated Most of the
In John Knowles book A Separate Peace he communicates how the war was taking its toll on him He uses the characters in a complicated plot to show the destructive forces of war The characters Gene and Finny are the opposing forces in a struggle between the reality of war World War II and a separate peace A peace away from the real war and the awful things that come from it Through their relationship which is a struggle on both sides Knowles establishes the reality of war through a relationship G
Imagine taking a train trip across the country all by yourself but you keep catching yourself admiring this one certain person In My Antonia a novel taking place in the late 1800s by Willa Cather Jim Burden the narrator of the novel takes a journey across the great midland plains of North America He is sent by train to his grandparents in Nebraska by his Virginia relatives On this train is when Jim first hears of Antonia Shimerda a Bohemian girl who he gains more and more interest for The admir
Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy The Greeks first defined dramatic tragedy it is evident that the Greek tragedies were a profound influence on Arthur Miller He was drawn to the Greek tragedies for their magnificent form the symmetry Aristotle wrote a significant thesis on tragedy in his Poetics His analogy was that there are four crucial elements that must be present in order to define a play as a classical tragedy Namely the play must incorp