Alice Walkers short story Everyday Use is a tightly woven tale that brings together many disparate elements of the story to reinforce the thesis put forward by W E B DuBois that black Americans are trapped in a double consciousness between their African heritage and their American citizenship Walkers story is about the bifurcation between a mother and a daughter between America and Africa and between the two cultures battling for one identity Beyond the obvious identity confusion expressed in t
Character types are the moulds which a great deal of characters in fiction are made from from the mad scientist type featured in countless science fiction and horror novels to the strong silent type present in almost every single action movie ever made They can be traced back to ancient Greek theatre where stock characters would be used in order to quickly provide the audience with personalities and action derived from those personalities which would be immediately familiar and recognizable to
Precis The Poisonwood Bible is a 658 page novel written by American author Barbara Kingsolver in 1999 The novel sets a stage of a missionary father Nathan Price that brings his family to Africa during the 1960s Nathan is on a mission to spread Christianity and convert American customs to everyday African customs Kingsolver shows a parallel in how a family is able to be torn apart by conflict and customs to actual occurrences of this in real life Is the expense of an innocent life worth the beco
Disgrace defined by Webster is to be humiliated by a superior showing or to be a source of shame In J M Coetzees book Disgrace the title is exactly what the book is about a sure disgrace of a professor who has an illicit affair with one of his students which leads to his disgrace where is loses his job and has to leave town to cope with this disgrace The second disgrace is when the main character David Luries daughter Lucy is brutally raped by three men Although two forms of disgrace occur in t
What thoughts come to mind when you think of The Lottery Positive thoughts including money a new home excitement and happiness are all associated with the lottery in most cases However this is not the case in Shirley Jacksons short story The Lottery Here the characters in the story are not gambling for money instead they are gambling for their life A shock that surprises the reader as she unveils this horrifying tradition in the village on this beautiful summer day This gamble for their life is