Chinese literature

“Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton). One of the most noteworthy novels in literature history is The Outsiders, because it battles with friendship, difference in social class, rebellion, love, family, and many more things we as people can relate to most. This book is often read by teenagers and they connect with it on a high level, after all the author S.E. Hinton was only sixteen when she wrote this book. She was in the midst of…

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou is one of the poems that I will never forget, it is one of my favorite poems. It is a poem that really makes you ask yourself questions. Questions like, why would she write something like this? She mainly wrote it because of her background. From the time her parents divorced till the time she was raped. She felt like she was nothing and useless. A lot of people feel like this sometimes and they could relate to this poem. This poem is strong and…

Plato, The Republic, trans. John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughn, revised by Andrea Tschemplik (Lanham, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005), in Classics of Political and Moral Philosophy, 2nd ed., ed. Steven M. Cahn (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2012): 31-168. According to Shmuel Harlap (1979), there is a rich debate regarding how Thrasymachus should be interpreted among academics, beginning with G. B. Kerferd’s “The Doctrine of Thrasymachus in Plato’s Republic”…

Aphra Behn's novel Oroonoko: A True History (1688) is a work of travel fiction that is split between two narrative voices; beginning with a first person narrative supported by Behn's interesting use of personal voice and progressing to the third person observations of Oroonoko as both a prince and as a slave, Behn creates a realistic and somewhat believable piece of fiction. As a result of this duo narrative, the perspectives of the narrative voices dominate the text, and therefore influence the…

In Catherine Calloway’s article, “How to Tell a True War Story”: Metafiction in The Things They Carried, Calloway highlights the inner workings of both the writing style and alternate persona Tim O’Brien creates within the book. By using fiction and introducing different viewpoints, O’Brien is able to strengthen the truth behind the story. In order to tell his story, O’Brien uses many different types of elements, ranging from unfinished works to altering the stories to fit his narrative. However…

Final American Literature paper The three works that I chose to write about for my final paper for this class are the “Way to Wealth” (1758) by Benjamin Franklin “The Raven” by Edger Allan Poe and “The legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving. The reason that I chose to write about these three pieces is that they really stuck out to me the most in this class. The Way to Wealth stuck out to me one because I had never read it before so it was nice to read something new and it also made me…

Idea: Grief is soul destroying Poems: Sylvia Plath's Mirror and W. H Auden's Stop all the Clocks Although the poems 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and 'Stop all the Clocks' by W. H Auden reflect different experiences of grief, they both convey that its repercussions are devastating. Plath's extended metaphor focuses on the pain of aging, whereas Auden's elegy explores the grief of the physical loss of a loved one. The idea of overwhelming grief is evident in the beginning stanza of Stop all the…

Archetypes are universal patterns in all literatures regardless of culture and historical period. This pattern can be seen in characters, settings, events, symbols and themes. In poem Who Am I?, the speaker looks for his own identity as he does not see himself the way others recognize him. Although he cannot find answer to the question “Who am I?”(1), he accepts himself as a child of God in the end. There are archetypal themes, symbols, and Frye’s Literary Modes and Archetypes in the poem…

colonization that have shaped the modern landscape both physically and ideologically, any use of academic alternatives by the colonized is consequently erased. Nonetheless, Indigenous scholars have been reasserting their intellectual autonomy through literature; Thomas King’s The Truth About Stories is an act of literary decolonization that acts to shed light on Indigenous methodologies, the importance of valuing subjectivity within storytelling, and elements of history that may have been…

The art of copying, transforming, and combining elements of literature, otherwise known as remixing, is one of the most commonly used strategies for creating stories. It has been meticulously developed and improved upon throughout time and has since lead to a great number of popular movies, books, and songs. This technique dates back to some of the first poems and epics ever created. Even before writing was invented, there were traces of remixing through oral tradition. Stories would be passed…