The Jungle Social criticism through fiction has been used worldwide by writers over the ages Creative works found in novels short stories poems and plays offer a long list of social concerns addressed by authors Upton Sinclairs novel The Jungle and Lorraine Hansberrys play A Raisin in the Sun are both clever tales of families seeking the American Dream while uncovering a profound prejudice and human injustices Sinclairs book The Jungle tells the story of Jurgis Rudkus a Lithuanian immigrant who
The Yellow Wallpaper Reading The Yellow Wallpaper by Perkins Gilman is enough to make anyone feel crazy enough to relate to the storys narrator This story effectively uses fast paced descriptive language to describe the main focus of the story which is the wallpaper This constant recurrent picture is analyzed over and over to the point where it is nearly impossible to picture the vivid details of the ever changing design With this repetitive text I believe that Gilman is trying to simultaneousl
In the world we live in today it is broken up into different wealth and social classes In Richard Connells The Most dangerous Game he uses Ivan Rainsford and General Zaroff to represent the state of class the narrative In The Most Dangerous Game Rainsford is thrown off a boat and lands on Ship Trap Island he then goes to a house knocks and a Cossack hunter answers the door From this point on Rainsford is not a huntee Richard Connell uses Rainsford and General Zaroff to exhibit a switch in hunte
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a novel involving two extremely different main characters George is a reasonably intelligent hardworking ranchman Lennie on the other hand always manages to find trouble He is equally as hardworking and honest as George but his simple childlike mind always finds him trouble wherever he goes However they have one thing that unites the two of them as close as any bond can This is that they both share the same dream of owning their own ranch and after many hard
In William Goldings Lord of the Flies the boys who are stranded on the island come in contact with many unique elements that symbolize ideas or concepts Through the use of symbols such as the beast the pigs head and even Piggys specs Golding demonstrates that humans when liberated from societys rules and taboos allow their natural capacity for evil to dominate their existence One of the most important and most obvious symbols in Lord of the Flies is the object that gives the novel its name the
I n the midst of a raging war a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island Two of the boys Ralph and Piggy discover a conch shell on the beach and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys Once assembled the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued They choose Ralph as their leader and Ralph appoints another boy Jack to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group Ralph Ja
The Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Flies is an intricate work that excites and captures the mind By creating an isolated world and throwing people in the situation with every option at their will the author creates an environment that is always changing and taking unexpected twists and turns The freedom of no grownups gives the boys the reign to do as they please and decide matters as they think best By keeping the story changing the author causes the reader to want more of the story and to
I N THE MIDST OF A RAGING WAR a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island Two of the boys Ralph and Piggy discover a conch shell on the beach and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys Once assembled the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued They choose Ralph as their leader and Ralph appoints another boy Jack to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group Ralph Ja
This novel is about a transition from an exciting adventure of some children to what eventually becomes full scale war ending with the naval officer who rescued them Though I still wonder if they were really saved because there was a war that was going on outside of the island The book begins by introducing two of the characters Ralph and Piggy They meet each other in the jungle among the creepers They explore the lagoon together They find a pool of water that has been warmed by the sun They sw