There are many ways to identify a seeker There is a hunger in their eyes a look of inquisitiveness and often skepticism They are looking for the answer and that search is rarely interrupted Every experience and every moment is analyzed and scrutinized for its application to their lives In Jack Kerouacs Dharma Bums Viking Press1959 we have a story chock full of seekers From the narrator Ray and his fellow bums to the poets and people he meets along his journeys across the country and back again
Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin Ireland to two accomplished parents his mother being a respected poet and translator and his father a knighted surgeon Wilde won prizes in classics throughout his youth and received prestigious scholarships to Trinity and then Magdalen College Oxford where he won further prizes for his poetry While at Oxford he came under the influence of aestheticians Walter Pater and John Ruskin and joined them in becoming a key figure in the founding of the Aesthetic Mo
Betty Wehner Smiths unique ability to capture the reality of American society in the early nineteen hundreds is seen in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The setting of the novel stems very much from the authors own childhood Society can truly relate to this story as it has a place in every American familys roots The time defying novel evokes sympathy by telling the story of a young impoverished family comparing their rough lives to a relentless tree native to Brooklyn New York Betty Smith was
Throughout Young Goodman Brown the themes of sin and guilt constantly reoccur Hawthorne used events in his life as a base for the stories that he wrote Hawthorne felt that ones guilt does not die with him her but is rather passed down through the generations Hawthornes great great uncle was one of the judges during the Salem witchcraft trials Hawthorne felt a great sense of guilt because of this Hawthorne used a great deal of symbolism to depict what would come to be known as the subconscious H
Virginia Woolfs To The Lighthouse casts an intriguing perception of the roles played out by both male and female counterparts Their relationship is quite polar and the physical separations are merely shadowed by the differing emotional viewpoints of one another Mr Ramsay is the father of a family of eight Hes a selfish and tyrannical person who wants to be known as being someone of significant value Because of this he constantly demands sympathy and support from his family and his wife Mrs Rams
The Umuofia clan was a fairly successful part of the tribes that existed in lower Nigeria They had a working form of government greatly based on their religious beliefs they had a way of life that focused on their gods and worship of them and they had a social life that was greatly based off of their own and somewhat unique religion Many would consider this successful by many standards because the people of the Umuofia tribe was able to carry out their lives happy and content with their customs
Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston there is an African American woman Janie Mae Crawford who goes on a journey to find the woman who is trapped within herself Janie returned to her homeland where she was seen with eyes of treachery because she had abandoned everything she owned for an absurd reason However there was one person her best friend Pheoby who was there to listen and not give in to the rumors being spread about her The novels t
CUSTOMS AND BONDS A piece of writing as in every form of art is a manifestation of its creator Authors include fragments of themselves their history and their experiences for either personal motive or simply to establish a moral connection with the reader In The Custom House Nathaniel Hawthornes introduction to his novel The Scarlet Letter an unnamed narrator establishes a connection with the reader through personal anecdote history and emotion This anonymous customs officer is not Hawthorne hi
The House on Mango Street In The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros talks a lot about the problems that Latino women face in a society that lets men control them A society that is dominated by men and a society that values women for what they look like and not for what is on inside Cisnero also describes how hard it is for Latinos to fit in the American culture especially when there are so many stereotypes against them She also discusses the hardships of language barriers and how those who c
The situation of African American people in the USA has been a disputable issue since the abolition of slavery The treatment of African American people who were excluded from the rights and rules of the mainstream society began the fight for equality within the African American society One of the most remarkable African American authors is Toni Morrison Toni Morrisons novels represent the issues of class distinction among African American people and their individual characters represent differe