Essays, Research Reports & Book Reports on North American Literature (8,227) essays
North American essays:
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
... in her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God . By presenting Janie's search for identity, from her childbirth with Nanny to the death of Tea Cake, Hurston shows what a free southern black women might have experienced in the early decades of the century. To the racial ties that would affect Janie ...
Unreachable dreams, an important theme in Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"
... their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden ...
"Mother to the tribe" by Marge Piercy
... in Piercy's novel Woman on the Edge of Time. She not only uses a mother as the main character, but creates a whole utopian society based on the mother. Piercy contributes this novel as a political statement to address the hardships and social injustices of the powerless. Woman on the Edge ...
Speaks of Okonkwo of "Things fall apart" by Chinua Achebe, and Charles Foster Kane of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane"
... Charles Foster Kane of Orson Welles Citizen Kane, both have value systems that are incongruous with their cultures. Thus allowing them to be defeated by society. These are two men with a great need for recognition. Their need for something that was extinguished long ago. Okonkwos ...
Lord Of The Flies Essay.
... novel was very symbolic and also very literal at the same time. "The Lord of the Flies" can be interpreted in many different ways all depending on the way you would prefer. This novel " The Lord of the Flies " by William Golding linking the imperfection of society together with the ...
The similarities and differences of the Old Man, the boy, and the Sea (The Old Man and the Sea)
... in the old man and the sea like how the sea can control the old man's boat and actions, but the old man is powerless to do anything to the sea. Anywhere in this book, you can find common and uncommon subjects and ideas between the old man and the boy and the old man and the ...
An analysis of The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.
... d do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.'" (173). He wants to save children from pain and suffering, and from growing up because that correlates with losing innocence in his eyes. While in Phoebe's school, Holden sees profanity on the wall. "That's the ...
Analysis of an essay by George Orwell criticizing the euphemisms used by the U.S. government + other examples of today's euphemisms
... on television." Colin Powell himself was presenting the world a perfect metaphor by covering the human sufferings with the "collateral damage" of our nation. When three nuns a missionary were raped and killed at close range by soldiers in the Salvadoran frontiers, the ...
'Eighteenth century literature is united in its common concern with the meaning of virtue in a changing world.' Statements relevance to Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock' and Richardson's 'Pamela'
... she has obtained the controlling role in the novel, a position not common for a woman and therefore not an expected trait or literal virtue. This suggests that in this text, the meaning of virtue does not rely on ...
"The Scarlet Ibis" by James Hurst
... was red and shriveled like an old man's and everybody thought he was going to die" (416), was Brother's comment after his observation of Doodle. I do not think that Doodle might have been embarrassed by his appearance. When Doodle was born his mom ...