Newest Literature Essays

Director John Sturges (1910-1992) is today best known for action movies such as The Great Escape (1963) and The Magnificent Seven(1960), but the hallmarks of his style are evident in every one of his films, and particularly evident in Gunfight at...

In several works of children’s literature, the use of language is closely tied with power. Specifically, in Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, and Matilda by Roald Dahl, each of these heroines uses...

“The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies” (Mark Twain).

Christianity has been historically influencing politics around the world, however as Twain addresses, the Bible has...

Science and religion are not often two things that go hand in hand. Conflict may arise when religious beliefs are tested for how scientific or factual they may be, whereas from a religious aspect, the divinity of God is beyond earthly truths. In...

The author, Anne, McCafferey, wrote a draconic fantasy story titled “The Smallest Dragonboy” that took place in the Benden Weyr of the Benden Mountains on an imaginary planet called Pern before the Hatching occurs. In the story, the main...

Sputnik Sweetheart is a novel that allows the reader to contemplate the complex personalities of human, and how they view themselves in reality. It is not only a tool to understand the character’s realities, but the reader may also use the...

In a novel titled Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy could hardly proceed without copious description of the natural and pastoral setting of his work. The simple plot details demand notes on rusticity and Hardy’s Victorian sensibilities...

When Jesus’s disciples asked him about the greatest in Heaven, they were likely expecting him to speak of great religious figures or historical leaders. However, Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children,...

The phrase Manic Pixie Dream Girl (MPDG) denoted by film critic Nathan Rabin in the 21st century refers to female characters with quirky or eccentric personalities, who serve as romantic interests for male protagonists in distress emotionally or...

The Florida Project by director Sean Baker is a film that offers one of those transporting experiences that audiences rarely experience in modern films anymore. This film follows a group of kids and their parents who live in a budget motel outside...

The atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima turned a once prosperous city into a flattened hellscape of flame and rubble. Buildings were leveled, structures were vaporized, and lives were erased in an instant. Those fortunate (or...

One of the biggest themes in My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorryis about the power of writing and storytelling. The metafictional aspect of this novel unfolds as Elsa becomes more self-sufficient and less cynical about the world around...

In My Aztlan: White Place and Unprotected, Gil Cuadros (Latino poet and author who focused his work on queer poetry and short stories) uses the settings of San Bernardino County and West Los Angeles, specifically West Hollywood, to compare the...

In Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, the political and social climate from this time period had a tremendous effect on the Jerome household. Simon ties the Great Depression and the impending war to the conflicts that occur between the...

One of the issues that society has always been focused on is fertility. Nowadays, this topic is multidimensional and covers such problems as overpopulation in some countries (such as India) and rising infertility rates in others, such as in South...

Within post-apocalyptic literature, many writers attempt to break down the boundaries of what hierarchies represent in normal society for example race, gender etc. and change them to fit what seems to be their reality. One such author who applies...

Childhood affects one’s creativity and enables the activity of lively imagination. However, the upbringing plays a central role to the development of those qualities. On the one hand, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa and The Sandman are...

In Ursula K. LeGuin’s novel The Word for World is Forest, the concept of nature is presented in an intriguing and innovative way. The novel considers nature as a commodity, albeit a commodity that has different meanings for each of the people...

Ueda Akinari’s “Bewitched” (1776) explores the differing manifestations of desire in men and women, especially in the context of a society that reinforces strict gender norms. The extent to which a person must control his or her desire is...

During and after the Vietnam War, Hollywood studios produced several films depicting the realities of the war from different angles. The films exhibit variations in their aesthetics and even occasionally some have conflicting ideas about the war...

The toxic and destructive nature of Mustafa Saeed’s relationship with Jean Morris is not fully revealed until the end of the novel. The startling extent of their unnatural and twisted romance steadily raises both tension and thrill for the reader...

Robert Hayden’s Those Winter Sundays centers on the speaker who ponders on his past when he was a child and the relationship with his father. The poem offers an intimate comprehension on how the Sunday mornings are for the speaker as a child. As...

Annoying, hypocritical, obsessive, sanctimonious; these are just some of the many ways to describe Drusilla Clack in The Moonstone. An irritating distant relative of the Verinders with a holier-than-thou attitude, she provides her own narrative...

They were deceived. They were manipulated. They were murdered. They were the women in Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about Sherlock Holmes, the famed private detective of 221B Baker Street. These women constantly fall victim to the “damsel in...