1915 in literature

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter is, in effect, just as much as a thematic parable as a novel telling a story. Many themes are entrenched throughout the novel, each surely holding the potential, and significance, to merit discussion. However, the one at focus in this composition is suffering; in particular, it is attempting to answer the question of whether we can say if one single character suffered more than others, and who this individual might be. While the four main characters…

The book I chose to read was Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes. Nikki Grimes is an American author of books written for young adults and children, as well as a journalist and a poet. She earned the honor of the Coretta Scott Notable Award. Nikki was born and raised in New York City. The book Bronx Masquerade is fiction. The setting is at a high school in the Bronx. The students did their everyday activities in their classes until they got to Mr. Ward's. In Mr. Ward's class, they studied the…

Regardless of complexities of plot and setting, the essence of a work can typically be distilled from a key moment in the novel – one that illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole. In Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, the titular character travels throughout his life seeking enlightenment from a multitude of sources. Despite his efforts, Siddhartha struggles to fulfill his lofty goals and winds up constantly changing his life’s trajectory. As the story progresses, Siddhartha finally experiences…

The complicated essence of the concept of discovering means to find a sense of discovery through wonder, need and curiosity in an individual perspective. John Keat’s poem “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer” and Anton Chekhov ‘The Bet’ displays the understanding of discovery through the text and how an individual is viewed by one another. The depth of discovery is to overcome the challenges and understand through the shift of time and seeing the individual changes that influences the readers…

Translating a contemporary love poem by Fawaz Allaboun turned out to be a challenging task. Allaboun is a Saudi poet and a Professor of Classical Arabic. He earned his PhD degree in Arabic language and literature at Al-Imam University. He published a collection of poems in a book called “Allabouniat.” Another collection of poems is forthcoming. The first problem that I encountered was in the different words that express the various degrees and state of romantic love in Arabic and the…

What is human versus idea/phenomenon? There are several types of literary conflicts. A literary conflict is a struggle between two or more forces shown in a story. Some conflicts include more than one concept, trend, or group. Human versus idea/phenomenon includes technology, medicine, and progress. This type of conflict creates a struggle between people and concepts or trends that are shown throughout many stories. In the essay “Money Isn’t Everything,” there is a contrast between merit and…

Throughout the ever changing history of mankind, one thing remained the same: storytelling. From paintings on a wall to stories told in the tavern, people have always enjoyed a good story. One medium of storytelling is from mythology, Tales written by authors who could have experienced the events. However like people there will always be some different interpretations that changes the story completely. An example of this is the tale of the demigod Hercules and his encounter with the dangerous…

There are several types of mystery genres, two specific examples are cozies and detectives. Cozies tend to be stories that have more detail and make readers feel invited, they detectives contain a softer tone. In contrast, detective has a more informative tone. Although these two genres are vastly different, they also contain several similarities. Specifically, “The Blue Geranium”, a cozies story and “A Scandal in Bohemia”, a detective story, have several differences. Most people wouldn't think…

Evaluating the Intertwining of First Native Culture and Indigenous Literature: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse In English literature a formalist movement in the mid 20th century that emphasized the relationship between a text’s idea and its form - known as New Criticism - continues to strongly influence modern academic writing. New Criticism specifies that the object of study ought to be the text itself, not the response or the motivation of its author or readers. Rarely do New Criticism texts…

In Mary Lou Emery’s Modernist Crosscurrents, Emery criticizes the outsider status of Jean Rhys. An outsider as female in a male-dominant literary world, as a West Indian writer, and as a European modernist. In demonstrating the intersecting importance of cultural history and literary history, Emery takes two approaches. In her first approach, she considers the European approach of the “self’ and the “masquerade or character” In her second approach, Emery considers the uncertainty of cultural…