English-language films

Dumas, the theme of guilt is portrayed with figurative language and description. In The Tell Tale Heart, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the idea of the theme if developed with the use of proper mood and tone along with symbolism. Both texts have one thing in common; their…

In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness an important message can be inferred from the narrator: we all need to be on guard against our own id, and against those who have already given into id. Conrad shows this through light and dark images. The novella starts on a boat with a few men on it, huddled around a man named Marlow in a wise-like position, waiting to tell a story to the group. The narrator is one of the men on the boat, who is listening to the story. The narrator realizes that Marlow has…

Arnold Friend is the main character in the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” who shares fairly the same amount of common characteristics as the main character in the story “The Pied Piper of Tucson” known as Smitty. Arnold tries to trick Connie to go for a ride in his car by sweet-talking to her and impressing her by his charm. Once Connie refuses Arnold results to harassing her and threatening her family if she doesn’t go with him. Smitty uses the same tactics when it came to…

sensory details, and figurative language throughout the entire book. For instance, “Each page was filled with rectangular boxes stacked on top of eachother. The boxes were light green football fields with white grid lines, at ten yard intervals” Based on the quoted evidence, paul describes the boxes for Erik’s college qualifications as football fields with white grid lines, and ten yard intervals. This evidence shows the use of sensory details, or figurative language that the author uses to…

Jacques or better known as Sarge is a middle to old aged man taking on one of the main character roles in the novel “Shattered” by Eric Walters. Sarge is a more intimidating and dangerous character. The reasoning behind that is because of his past being a peacekeeper in the Rwandan genocide also because of some actions he will do like fighting or threatening people with his large physical stature. Sarge also does not dress very well because of money issues and possibly because of his feeling of…

Though they lived centuries apart from one another, Christopher McCandless and Henry David Thoreau both uncovered the importance of living simplistically by retreating to the woods. When Thoreau first arrived at the house that he was to be staying at by Walden Pond, the first thing he noted was that the house was quite dilapidated. The walls were stained by the weather and had quite a few holes in them, causing the nights to be cold. The house also had no plastering nor a chimney, and the entire…

Nature of Humanity Lord of The Flies (1954) was written by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding and was first published in 1954.William Golding's novel is about a group of schoolboys and adults that are stranded on an island due to the plane crash during World War II and trying to rescue from the island. Ways of surviving on the island indicate the portrait of human nature and also reflect humanity. William Golding expresses his perspective; fear, loneliness and…

world probably started off as a vision. A very well known visionary once dropped out of college for simply not attending class. Bill Gates could have failed completely, but he set his mind to creating a company where he’d sell computer-programming languages. His simple idea began expanding, and he ended up creating a whole operating system known as Windows. Visionary people are a lot more skeptical. They’re always wondering. Why does that move? How does that stand? Where does that come from? As…

Sure everybody’s scared of haunted houses, but do they know where the original ideas of a haunted house comes from. The House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe, gives such vivid descriptions of a truly scary house, that it has become the basis of all haunted houses. Even though House Taken over isn’t technically a haunted house, there are lots of similarities between the House of Usher and House taken over. The main similarity being that they both take place in big houses that appear empty and…

Introduction: Oh no how has uncle got me into this! In this essay i'm going to be talking about a character from the novel Lost In The Barrens, he goes by the name of Jamie. He was forced to live with his uncle in the Cree camp in Northern Canada as he could not afford to keep him in boarding school in Toronto. Jamie had no survival skills what so ever and had no idea how he was going to survive. He quickly became friends with a boy the same age as him called Awasin. In this essay i’m going to…