Expository writing

ASSIGNMENT 7: ESSAY After analysing the character of Yossarian from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 in comparison to Gilgamesh from The Epic of Gilgamesh, we can conclude by saying that post-modern writers often went back to classical literature for inspiration. This statement can be proven by referring to the similarities and differences between the protagonist as well as the archetypal plots and themes. In literature we find two types of heroes: heroes and antiheroes. The difference between the two…

American Romanticism was a literary movement that started in the 19th century. American Romanticism shares a lot of similar qualities with transcendentalism. Walt Whitman wrote about similar topics as Emily Dickinson, although they lived two very different lives. Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist who lived in New York and did journalism. Emily Dickinson was a romanticist who fell in love with a married man and then continued to spend most of her life in seclusion. Walt Whitman and Emily…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

Friendship is a part of everyday life that everyone tends to experience. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn friendship plays an important role. The Author, Mark Twain, writes about two major friendships. These two friendships are between the protagonist Huck Finn and with either his friend Tom Sawyer or the other protagonist, Jim who is a runaway slave. Tom Sawyer and Huck have been friends ever since their previous adventure in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Although Tom and Huck…

Sylvia Plath would later be recognized as one of the greatest poets and novelists of the post-war era. Plath was raised in an academically focused environment; her father was a biology professor and her mother was a shorthand teacher. Contrary to the writing style of the time, Plath wrote about genuine emotions experienced by women. Additionally, she wrote about personal life events and the people that surrounded her. The poem, Point Shirley, was about a town that bordered hers, and two other…

Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn said “Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation,” what he is essentially saying is literature is not made in a vacuum, and it is directly influenced by the events and circumstances occurring during the time it was written in. It is also influenced by events from the author’s life and the author’s view of the time period. Nella Larsen, an influential…

How are you? Have you had your breakfast today? Okay, before getting started I would like to read an interesting story to you which is a hint on what I am going to talk about. So, here we go, “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” Said Piglet, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?” “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. Why do you think Pooh said that breakfast is the first thing in the mind? I would say that’s because breakfast is the most important meal of the day! As you grew older you…

All appearances of characters in novels have their different roles developed, even if they are minor. Mr. Quiring in the novel, A Complicated Kindness, is no exception to this convention. Although Mr. Quiring rarely appears in the novel, he plays a crucial role in making the readers understand more about the protagonist, Naomi, whom may be thought that she hates Mr. Quiring in the readers’s first reading. The readers may mistake that the protagonist, Naomi, does not like her teacher, Mr.…

Throughout his life, American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson faced frustration, poverty, disappointment, and family tragedy. Being the youngest of three sons, Robinson was free to turn to poetry as a career. He started writing at a very young age, and his passion for poetry landed him a spot in Harvard. Unfortunately, Robinson’s fortunes dwindled when his father died in 1892, and the economic panic of 1893 left his family bankrupt. Due to his family's financial difficulties and mother’s failing…

In a library, there are countless books. All with countless stories. Both good and bad help more and more people become interested in reading and learning about different things. So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins teaches the story of WWII from a side that you rarely hear about. And while So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Mrs. Watkins a good book, it is incredibly detailed in the pain she went through, and shouldn’t be read in any middle or elementary school. So Far From the…