Literary Summary Essay

Bones is a captivating novel by Alice Sebold that undoubtedly deserves to be included in the literary canon. • Puts a spin on the classic murder-mystery as it is told from the victim’s perspective, Susie Salmon • Telling the story from her own heaven, we gain a personal insight on the diverse range of flawed characters and how they change because of Susie’s death. • The book also features a variety of literary techniques that help to further enrich the story • These factors combined create a…

A Literary Analysis on “The story of an hour” by Kate Chopin The way Kate Chopin uses irony, emotions and symbols in such an exceeding short story to create such an exciting impressive literary piece from a dull and boring theme is truly amazing. Chopin’s rich, complete and full of meaning “The story of an hour” touches the reader’s feelings and mind by describing the feelings of a married woman and feminine identities in late 19th century, and helps the reader to have a better understanding of…

It is about a beautiful but painful memory of a long-lost love named Annabel Lee (“Annabel Lee Summary”). She was known very long ago when she was younger even as a child the author still fell in love with Annabel (“Annabel Lee Summary”). The poem goes on to say that they were so in love that the angels above were very jealous and angry of their love. This is why the author blames them for killing Annabel Lee and…

This strategy was extremely useful for my response to “Hidden Intellectualism” by Gerald Graff. Reading the article and capturing its main idea helped me respond to Graff’s claims. Like I did in the summary paper, I reviewed the whole piece swiftly, yet carefully, by examining each paragraph to comprehend Graff’s arguments more clearly. Also, searching for interesting quotes allowed me to explain what I agree and disagree with. For example, I agreed with Graff’s claim that schools and colleges…

essential communication tool? If music is really a necessary communication tool and not only an optional entertainment tool, thousands of doors may open before us --doors that lead us to consider the gospel and spiritual songs Negroes as a literary form. A literary form less complex than the spoken language but equally rich. Therefore, your paper, makes me wonder of what would happen if human beings use gospel music, or spiritual songs Negroes to communicate instead of the spoken…

journey to find Death, they come upon an old man who proclaims he knows where death is. Instead of the old man leading the boys to Death he leads them to 8 bushels of gold. Where at the end they kill one another fro all the money. Now, that is a short summary of both The Canterbury Tales and The Pardoner’s Tale. Moving forward to The Tragedy of Macbeth. The main character Macbeth and his friend Banquo run into three witches who can tell the future. The three witches tell Macbeth he will be king…

overall presentation of complex moral dilemmas and consequences” (Doing Literary Criticism, page 86). It is noted that “English poet Percy Shelly praised the way literature cultivates our moral imagination, our ability to make a good faith effort to understand or even inhabit the viewpoint of someone unlike us, to put ourselves into their shoes and see them as they might see themselves” (Doing Literary Criticism, page 86). In summary, when reading “The Cask of Amontillado”, we should not judge…

The Irish author, Clive Staple Lewis, proclaimed that , "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires...and it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become." (Lewis 10 July. 2015) Literature has reached the 20th century, where technology has rapidly accelerated. A common dilemma that is considered is whether or not the study of literature is potent anymore. The two articles, "The Value Of Nature" by…

book that introduces the ideas of the scholar Jean-Francois Lyotard, who was a key player in the development of Post-Modern theory. The book is part of a Routledge’s’ Critical Thinkers series that is designed to introduce readers to key authors in literary studies. This book will be useful for two reasons. Firstly, the book to an extent chronicles Lyotard’s life and his achievements as a scholar and how he has impacted on the study of modernism. Hence this information can be used as background…

One of the 20th century's most influential voices in American and English literature, Ezra Pound was born in the small mining town of Hailey, Idaho, on October 30, 1885. The only child of Homer Loomis Pound, a Federal Land Office official, and his wife, Isabel, Ezra spent the rest of his childhood just outside Philadelphia, where his father had moved the family after accepting a job with the U.S. Mint. His childhood seems to have been a happy one. He eventually attended Cheltenham Military…