DREAM DEFERRED Langston Hughess poem Dream Deferred is basically about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold Hughes probably intended for the poem to focus on the dreams of African Americans in particular because he originally entitled the poem Harlem which is the capital of African American life in the United States however it is just as easy to read the poem as being about dreams in general and what happens when people postpone making them come true Ultimately Hughes uses a careful
One of the partys problem within Oceania is the brotherhood a secret organization that does everything in its power to make Big Brother and his oppressive ways of ruling disappear Or is it the party that created a fictitious organization to attract all the thought criminals For Winston and Julia the Brotherhood is reality and they want to be a part of the organization that fights for their rights In order to achieve this Winston and Julia managed to get in contact with someone they believe is w
The world contains many different groups of people obviously These groups divide the world into class race gender age and so on But even with all these different physical descriptions of people people can form into three main groups This concept did not come clear until I read Ernest Hemingways The Battler in his collection of short stories In Our Time In this story Hemingway uses three main characters to explain who exactly those three main groups of people are According to Hemingway people oc
Throughout Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain uses satire to attack what he sees as the hypocritical views of the midwestern society Nothing is sacred to his words especially not slavery politics human nature or religion From the first chapter with Miss Watsons preaching about heaven and hell to the performance of the Royal Nonesuch to the dramatic escape planned for Jim Twain infuses the story with satire to the detriment of our opinion of the river society he is describing Religion is one of the key
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde at start as a reader I assume it is about homosexuality but the novel actually focuses on different elements such as crime politics and society However the most important element appears to be the influence that people or objects have on a persons soul or inner conscious that makes them choose a particular path We have many people who influence our lives it can be in a small way that we dont notice or something that completely changes us Such is the cas