To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 although it portrayed certain behaviors of people in the 1930s According to To Kill a Mocking Bird The novel replays three key years in the life of scout finch the young daughter of an Alabama towns principled lawyer Scouts narrative relates how she and her elder brother Jem learn about fighting prejudice and upholding humane dignity through the example of her father 1960 The novel begins with Scout as a grown women and she is reflecting on her childh
Everyday someone somewhere faces some sort of discrimination Maybe its the colour of their skin or because they speak another language or maybe theyre just carrying a few extra pounds Whatever the reason discrimination is hurtful and can create wounds that never heal One of the central themes in Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird is discrimination As the narrator Scout struggles with understanding the intolerance she witnesses the bigotry she endures and her own prejudice against others The even
Who is the woman behind the yellow wallpaper A woman who had depression anxiety and delusions of herself You try staying in a room with completely nothing to do for hours and hours a day at a time Its exactly what the woman behind the yellow wallpaper did Her husband John made her depression worsen As a doctor back in the early 1900s he thought he was curing her the right way John and his sick wife have a childish relationship John is a doctor and tends to laugh at his wife quite often and make
Men in the Vietnam War go through different actions like being ambushed and attacking the enemy which may make them feel different emotionally These men deal with everyday death and other horrific conditions of the war The soldiers in the novel The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien have been put through emotional and physical situations in and out of the battle field To keep themselves from breaking into post traumatic stress or any other kind of emotion the men joke about death instead of lett
A Controlling Change The attempts are brave unimaginable and impractical These are definite ways to describe Petruchios attempts to marry and tame Katherina in William Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew Just the thought of marrying Katherina is considered foolish but Petruchio just wants to marry a woman with a wealthy father His attempts to tame Katherina have nothing to do with making their marriage work He only wants to control her Surprisingly his controlling behavior forces her to transf
The Stone Angel Margaret Laurences novel The Stone Angel is a critically acclaimed novel as well as a major Canadian text It has remained in Canadian English courses in both high schools and universities for many reasons to the delight many English teachers and professors The novel is ripe with beautifully worded and simply sublime metaphors and illusions The novel is excellent for students as it leaves them with little morsels of questions to chew at and pick over The most immediate question t
Scarlet Letter Darkness to Light The Scarlet Letter shows thought out the book many different themes and motifs There are also many symbols The main motif shown was the transition from dark to light The main three symbols I saw that displayed this transition were Hester Prynne her daughter Pearl and the scaffold All three had a transition of being in or being used as something that represents a form of darkness into something being used as a form of light All three have other symbols that are a
Essay 1 Passage The Odyssey This passage relates to The Odyssey very well from the beginning of the book to the very end The passage and the book as well contain information in which the characters bring disaster on themselves and blame it on higher powers or something else such as the gods Two of these examples occur in the passage One example is when Odysseuss mother Anticleia daughter of that great heart Autolycus was speaking to Odysseus at the Kingdom of the Dead She explains that out of h
Something that people just tend to do naturally is find someone to pair off with Its almost as if there is something pulling people together whether it is something the people know about or not Just like in real life books show many instances where people get paired together for some big reason OF Mice and Men The Scarlett Letter and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn all show where people get paired up almost as if there is some greater force driving these characters toward each other Of Mice
The Necklace In the story The Necklace the authors theme seems to be that greed and envy can lead to destruction Another main point in the story is that luxury is not everything That seemed to be the problem for Madame Mathilde because she seemed to want everything and was not satisfied with what she had In this paper I will show how the author demonstrates that dishonesty envy and greed can lead to bigger problems by the use of characters plot symbolism and various devices The Necklace begins