To compare with other famous literatures of English Flowers for Algernon is a quite recently published novel However it can be called as a classic because of its greatness Daniel Keyes the writer of this book perfectly describes the internal changes of Charlie Gordon who is the main character of the novel Charlie was born as with rarely low IQ but his mother does not accept that his son is a boy who needs a special treatment She gave her son many traumas so that it remained in core part of Char
Empire of the Sun Empire of the sun is a rites of passage novel about James Ballards life in Shanghai during the Japanese invasion in the 1940s It describes James life from how he changes from a posh and upper class expatriate to becoming a lonely Shanghai roamer and his time at Lunghua camp at which his views of the four main nations in the book England Japan China and America change completely Ballard presents the English at the beginning of the novel as a superpower posh and rich We know thi
What Makes an Ideal Husband in Oscar Wildes An Ideal Husband There are many women around the world who as little girls grew up dreaming about marrying Prince Charming That tall dark and handsome Prince who would come rescue them from their troubles and ride them away into the sunset where they would live happily ever after I was one of these little girls Now as an adult even though I would still very much like to marry Prince Charming I know that it is highly unlikely Or is it What is it about
A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND There are few superficial similarities between The Misfit and the Grandmother in Flannery OConnors short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find The true similarities between them are really beneath the surface and at once more profound These similarities however are fiercely debated among OConnors critics as most disagree with her that the Misfit is the good man in her parable McDermott J V 2010 It is only by considering that OConnor saw the world through a prism of Christi
The Turn of the Screw was written by Henry James back in 1898 The story focuses on a governess who was sent to a halfway house named Bly to help tutor and look after two kids who were expelled from their schools for being bad Within a few chapters of the story James influences the reader to think the children Miles and Flora are talking to and seeing ghosts that are encouraging the kids to do bad things I have thoroughly read the text and to me that does not seem like the case at all In actuali
A Comment on Rip Van Winkle Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by the American author Washington Irving published in 1819 The story is set in the years immediately before the early to mid 1770s and after the American Revolutionary War the early to mid 1790s Rip Van Winkle a villager of Dutch descent lives in a nice village at the foot of New Yorks Catskill Mountains An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect he is loved by all but his wife One autumn day he escapes his
A Critical Analysis of Hamlet Why is Shakespeare considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of his time Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era and had to write for an Elizabethan audience and theater By todays standards this was no picnic in the park Under those circumstances he wrote some of the greatest works in history These works still popular today prove him to be a consummate dramatist Shakespeare knew how to craft dramatic scenes full of external and internal conflict and emotion
A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER In the beginning Yeats talks about the storm having commenced brewing in the seas Between his newly born daughter and the sea there stand a bare hill and Gregorys woods which might not thwart the storm from reaching the helpless infant The father is naturally worried as he senses the gale striking the tower and the undersides of the bridges To his mind the storm presages the future of her daughter having arrived with a rage mounting from the seeming innocence of the sea
A Sound of Thunder In Ray Bradbury A Sound of Thunder Eckels a nervous hunter on a time safari panics and makes a seemingly minor mistake that results in the unthinkable Bradbury uses foreshadowing imagery and diction to create suspense in his riveting short story Bradbury utilize foreshadowing to create suspense The man behind the desk warns Eckels that they guarantee nothing This shows that Eckels does not have the assurance of safety Later Travis monishes Eckels stating that a stamp of his f
Essay Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost Sometimes a poem can have an immediate hold on us although were not sure why Though it sounds contradictory a powerful vagueness like a heavy mist engulfs us when we read or hear the words This is the feeling I had the first time I read Robert Frosts Acquainted With the Night In fact I was so captured by the poem that I memorized it However I never took the time to formally analyzed it to understand what makes it so powerful So Ive decided to thor