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Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

In the Children’s literature of fantasy, the process of self-discovery and the identity formation is the dominant part of the story. In both Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Roald Dahl’s The Witches, the reality is cautiously constructed to help children with their biggest fear of growing up. Transformation can be found in many different forms, Alice and The Boy experienced both biological changes and psychological changes. Their changes and reaction towards the…

Elizabeth Marshall’s text, “Girlhood, Sexual Violence, and Agency in Francesca Lia Block’s ‘Wolf’”, addresses the issues of liability and “victim power” in Francesca Lia Block’s contemporary tale, “Wolf” (Marshall 225). Marshall sets “Wolf” against the older stories of the “Little Red Cap” and “All Fur” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and argues that Block challenges predefined cultural ideas about a girl’s body in relation to rape (Marshall 218). However, Marshall claims that Block inadvertently…

Apart from humans, who are predominantly present in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; animal imagery is brilliantly used by Emily Bronte in this magnum opus with deep symbolic and metaphorical meanings attached to it, and having psychological underpinning. In this study, Psychoanalysis of novel, Wuthering Heights is undertaken, which has further explained Primitivism in Healthcliff’s personality, and the regression of dog into wolf, hence going from partial…

Throughout the short story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell, the author, shows the unity of the wolf-raised girls as they were so close together, until their unity later disintegrated as each character distinguished themselves as separate entities instead of one character. Near the end, these girls reunite towards a new culture: our culture. This all happens throughout the three stages of the assimilation process, in which Karen subtly presents this essential…

The original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” by the Brothers Grimm and “The Girl, The Wolf, The Crone,” by Kellie Wells have many similarities and differences throughout the stories. However, Kellie Wells takes a different approach to the story; she takes the story and uses symbols to let the reader know what she feels about the Catholic religion. The original story is not based on religion. It is simply telling a story about a girl who visits her grandmother, who was eaten by a wolf, but…

“The Tale of Three Brothers” was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. In the story arc, one of the main character, Hermione Granger, narrates the story from her copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These tales were commonly read to children as bedtimes stories because they’re “told to amuse rather than instruct” (Rowling 409). “The Three of Three Brothers” relates how three brothers cheated Death…

The Adventures Of The Organic Animal Club Synopsis: Join Bert Bear, Fred Fox, Olivia Owl and Rebecca Rabbit on their adventures in “The Organic Animal Club”. After a long Winter of poor eating habits and no exercise, Bert Bear is inspired embrace a healthy, organic, green lifestyle with his friends Fred Fox and Olivia Owl and start the club so they can bond and work together to learn more. They have to overcome the obstacle of convincing their friend Rebecca Rabbit to give up processed…

Children are often considered the people who bring out the best parts of human nature. This is partly a result of the care and love children demand, and their simplistic lives. Pearl, in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, does not have a life of simplicity, as she is welcomed into the Puritan world as an “elf-child.” However, she indirectly functions as a spark, igniting better versions of those who surround her. Throughout Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, while Pearl serves as a symbol of forbidden…

you actually listen to her? Young girls don’t really tend to listen to their mothers because when they want to explore the world and see what's out there, but the mothers want them to be safe and do what they need to get done. In “Little Red Riding Hood” by Charles Perrault and “Little Red Cap” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (The Grimm Brothers), they both tell a story about a young girl who is bringing goods to her sick grandmother in the woods. The mother tells Little Red to not stray off the path…