American Literature

Following the recent awareness and activism about the impacts of human on global warming and environment, nature writing has developed an enthusiastic and strong following. In America for example, great regard has been accorded to the tradition of   nature writing work grounded on concepts relating to the natural world. Since nature writing has often been based on facts and scientific research, it has reached a wider audience with a unique and broader perspective. Barry (37) explains that it...

In some plays, playwrights do not just write them for the sake of entertainment, some of them convey a subtle, if not implicit message and this is manifested by the characters.  The settings of the play should help provide the audience clues on the personality of the characters and how the society they live in influences them.  This is consistent to the norms of society and such characters underscore or reflect how society influences them.  In this particular case, this study would...

Feminist ideals seek to set up enhanced and official protection as well as grant rights to ladies besides seeking to liberate women. This concept basically has to do with gender disparities, mainly focusing on advocating for the rights as well as the interests of women. In essence, feminist ideologies emphasize gender equity while quashing the established gender pecking order and terming it as merely a baseless socially-developed concept. Lawrence Jerome and Robert Edwin Lees 1970 The Night Thoreau...

Through his The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn story, author Mark Twain explores the recurrent theme of the conflict between civilizations and nature based on various characters actions. In this case, civilization denotes the prevailing cultural values and customs in the society which Twain describes. On the other hand, nature denotes the innate inclination to search for autonomy or freedom as is evident through a number of the storys characters. To illustrate, Huckleberry Finn shows a constant...

In this paper, you will read about the major literary elements of a story. These would be the characters, which are the main persons described and talked about all through out the story the settings, the place and time where the story is held or presumably held the conflict or the major problem that had given the story a continuous flow and the theme which is the over all atmosphere and impact of the whole story. Three literary masterpieces would be tackled in these paper that would be later compared...

Writers Note The theme of the story is the continuous feeling of marginalization within minority cultures in the case of the unnamed protagonist of the story, he feels marginalization both in his ethnic origins of being a Native American, as well as with his sexual preference. Set at an undisclosed Native American Reservation, this state of living as a minority since birth has led to the characters passive indifference towards many things. However, after a recent falling out with a former relationship,...

The stories, The Leap and Shiloh show women who are trying to play the roles of being a good mother and a loving wife. Bobbie Ann Masons short story Shiloh tells the story of a marriage with serious problems and also portrays a mother who is concern about the welfare of her child.  On the other hand, Louise Erdrichs The Leap shares the story of a struggling mother who wants to save her child and live a happy life.  Indeed, being a mother is complicated. There are so many things that you...

Although literature can be rightly termed as a pure form of expression of ideas and thoughts, but its overall effectiveness, and durability of message it aims to spread, is linked to the fact that how effective it is in molding both individual and collective thought process of its audience. In this regard, the role of literary figures is of paramount significance as they not only present their ideas to society, but they also exhibit to a larger extent, through their writings, the prevailing mood...

Our family serves as the primary people that would provide care, love and give lessons about life. They serve a very important role in any persons life and their presence is essential especially to a childs growth. The novel Housekeeping talks about the experiences of two sisters as they go about life without the parents they knew and without the proper people to take care of them and help them in their development as a person and as a member of a society. Housekeeping is a narration of Ruth,...

To know that  the American history is complete, we  require only to  bear in mind  our grandparents and  comprehend our parents,  and  then know  who were  are as a person. Setting up of history as a tradition cannot be done by one generation because it has to be passed on so that it can become a trend. Discussion The history of the familys progress is clearly discussed in the making of Americans by Gertrude Stein. Family is the basic unit of the society...