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“Through the Tunnel” In Doris Lessing’s short story, “Through the Tunnel”, the author teaches the reader about setting goals and achieving them. “Through the Tunnel” tells the story of a young English boy named Jerry who’s mother lets him go and allows him to explore the bay. While on the bay, he meets a group of boys who he ends up swimming with. While swimming with the boys, Jerry discovers that the boys are swimming through a tunnel underwater. Eventually, the boys go off somewhere else…

“Attack”, by Siegfried Sassoon, effectively represents a vivid and graphic view of the apathy of war by divulging into the minds of the soldiers, giving a more personal view to his poem. There are many such instances in which Sassoon’s clever diction. Instead of the norm of authors of his time, Sassoon did not emphasize the dramatics of war during the battle; he accentuated the pre-war stage. Firstly, Sassoon divulges into the fears of the soldiers. He does this by construing a grave scene.…

He introduces the poem with the buzz saw rattling, the breeze drawing across, and the sun setting and describing the five mountain ranges one behind another. The tone used here is calm, but it immediately changes when the tragic accident occurs to a depressing and sorrowful tone. The poet uses examples of figurative language like personifying the saw, "the saw leaped ... leaped out at the boy's hand" and onomatopoeia, 'snarled and rattled'. The poems use a range of literary devices to convey…

In “My Year of No Shopping,” American author Ann Patchett (2017) assesses how one can sacrifice his/her desires in order to save money, time, and other valuable moments of life. The author here reveals how one can live without a year of no shopping. In order to support her idea, she describes two friends where one is convincing the other on how she is living without shopping. Inspired by her friend, the author also pledges for a year of no shopping. As time went on, she realizes how well…

the stones, the trees, had created a domain with an unexplained singularity, increased by the waters of the turn which mirrored the landscape and thus amplifying it. What I am trying to underline is that The fall of the house of Usher brings to the reader the same image, but incorporated in another, as a mirror in mirror effect. The domain of the house of Usher is the reality which is mirrored by the tarn. It’s the tarn reflection that spread the uncanny feeling, with a „reduplication” (Poe:…

Julian’s mother paid a large enough amount of money to express buyer’s remorse. Knowing the price and class associated with the hat, the reader can assume the reason Carver’s mother explodes in a fit of rage, is because she feels Julian’s mother sees her as unequal and of lower-class, while the hat proves otherwise. The irony expressed in the story allows the reader to deeper understand the intentions of the characters, and derive a greater understanding of the complex issue in the story, which…

personality towards school, his parents, and colleagues. A diary gives a first-hand experience to the readers of Rizal’s thoughts when faced with dilemma, difficult or happy events. This is true due to the reason that when one writes his or her own diary, he will not write with reservations but instead write what comes to mind and what he may be feeling during that time. Rizal’s diary makes the reader peak through his head and experience what he has what he has experienced through his reactions.…

The Wasteland is an overwhelming complexity, filled with a plethora of literature references. Ignoring the allusions, the piece itself shifts between different speakers and scenes so blatantly makes this especially difficult to digest. In one moment, a woman is reminiscing about riding on a sled when she was young. Then BAM. She’s suddenly staring at a dead sailor that’s decaying at the bottom of the sea. Needless to say, the plot is probably not the main focal point. Nevertheless, there is a…

“The Glass Castle” Essay Sophia Pittman Forgiveness is the main idea of “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. Throughout her novel, Walls proves that even though her childhood was full of neglect, she still loves her parents unconditionally. Unconditional love is another theme that ties in with forgiveness throughout the story. Even though she desperately wants to get away from her parents and leave behind her catastrophic life, Walls still loves and forgives her parents. I can relate to her…

Although many enjoy having status, the relative social, professional, or another standing of someone or something, can status put your life in danger? “Crispin: The Cross of Lead,” is both a young adult fiction and historical fiction novel by Avi. I chose this book since it was a book genre I haven’t read much of. Crispin, also known as “Asta’s son” in his village of Stromford, had just lost his mother and has become a wolf’s head which is a bounty either dead or alive. Along the way, he escapes…