Greasy Lake is a story about a rebellious young man, who lives a life he loves. He learns the truth and the results of living the “bad life”. The story ends with him being broken down by his actions.
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Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a classic tale that tells the story of Alice, a young girl who falls into the rabbit-hole. Wonderland is not what it seems. It may look like a children’s book with bright and …
Emily Dickinson has a poem entitled 666, “I Cross Till I Am Weary.” This poem shows the poet’s connection to spirituality as well subtleties in rhyme. It is also important for setting the tone when reading the poem. Dickinson uses …
The Romance of Tristan by Beroul is filled with misinterpretation themes and passiveness: the characters misunderstand each other, and also misinterpret events and signs. The story contains several misinterpretations that reveal the author’s true sympathies. Tristan never feels remorse for …
Comedy can be used to bring people together and make them laugh. Then they twist it and make it funny so people can laugh and have fun. These movies have a hidden message that most people are not aware of. …
Virginia Woolf’s Mr. Dalloway tells a story about the quality, the depth, and the composition of time. Woolf reveals the complexity of the passage of time in her novel Mrs. Dalloway by focusing attention on the struggles of each character …
William Shakespeare wrote a romantic drama called The Fall of Othello. This story is about jealousy, vengeance, greed and reality versus illusion. These themes all contribute to the tragic ending. The play starts off with a dialogue that gives hints …
Coming home can be the most difficult part of war. In “Soldiers Home”, Ernest Hemingway’s short story, and in “Speaking of Courage”, Tim O’Brien’s, the characters Krebs, Berlin, and Berlin’s parents show the struggles of a returning soldier. Both characters …
Marlow’s narrative, in both its content and form, consistently undermines language. Marlow, in describing his trip to the Congo, considers how language is used to create the self. He alternates from rejecting it completely to acknowledging that he relies on …
All governments want immense power. Orwell depicted it in his novel 1984 with the Party. It manipulated the population through fear, constant monitoring, and depriving the public of information. Totalitarian governments destroyed people’s sense of self because they consolidated their …