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THE SECRET HISTORY: A novel analysis The secret history is a fictional novel written by an American writer Donna Tartt and was published in year 1992. It was the first novel of Donna Tartt and the story addresses a different perspective of typical college students’ life. Donna Tartt was born in the 23rd of December year 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi. She enrolled in the University of Mississippi in which where her writings has caught the attention of a famous American writer Willie Morris.…

Plot and Conflict Structure In the beginning of the story the author tells about a boy name Keesh who lived in the poor condition together with his mother. Keesh lived at the edge of the polar sea. The father of Keesh had been a brave man. But he had died hunting for food. Keesh was his only son. Keesh lived alone with his mother, Ikeega. One night, the village council met in the big Igloo of Klosh-kwan, the chief. keesh listened, then he waited for silence. He said, "It is true that you give…

Response When we analyze Samuel Beckett’s work, Endgame, we are able to observe different interpretations. At first glance, the viewer might assume that the purpose of the work was to show a typical family scene, represented by elderly parents, their son already advanced in age and his servant dissatisfied with his labor, but always helpful. If it is analyzed in greater depth, we can find other interpretations such as, seeing the work, from a psychoanalytic point of view, consider it as the mind…

Bessie Head’s “A Question of Power”: The Novel of Soul-Journey Abstract: In this paper, I propose to examine the nature of the myths which Bessie Head uses in special and unique way to establish a special signification for her novel, A Question of Power and the relation the myths hold to the universal question of Good and Evil. Bessie Head amalgamates myth and religion. Two aspects of her attitude is highlighted. One is, myths express the evolutionary nature of man’s psyche and the other is,…

CHAPTER 3: CRAFTMANSHIP IN THE WORKS OF RUSKIN BOND Bond is the master storyteller of the present age because he has developed his individual style of narration. His narration is marked with simplicity of tone and depth of meaning. Though, writing for him is a spontaneous overflow of emotions, his stories are carefully crafted. For him writing is a means of conversing with the world. He writes to ease his soul. He also believes that writing is an art, it needs as much devotion and love as an…

Death in Edgar Allan Poe's short stories "Death" is one of the well-known themes of Edgar Allan Poe's art, in which the author captures the physical signs, decomposition, the sensation of feeling buried alive, the reanimation of the death or the mourning. Most of the works of Edgar Allan Poe have a dark atmosphere, full of mystery. These works illustrate the dramatic events, explores the dark side of human relationships and offer visions of the sublime. The works explore the tragedy that brings…

description of the characters, the setting and symbols in the story. The text “Baglady”, written by A. S. Byatt, we are introduced to a fiction short story about a middle aged woman named Daphne and she’s attending a business trip with her husband and the company he is working in, to the Far East. Daphne then experiences some oddly things on a shopping trip. The short story starts in medias res, where we see Lady Scroop talking to the rest of the ladies about the upcoming shopping trip she has…

“When you lose your face [...], it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.” These words of Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, perfectly describe Fugui’s character development throughout both the novel and the film adaptation of Yu Hua’s To Live. To Live follows the sorrowful life of Xu Fugui in a time of great change in Chinese society (the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution). Despite his character development and desire…

The use of light and darkness is present through the entire work of Edgar Allan Poe. Indeed, from the very start of the story, light and darkness are both present in text as an ensemble. The character of William Wilson first speaks about his childhood in a “misty-looking village of England” with “chilliness of its deeply-shadowed avenues” and “dusky atmosphere”. Those elements present a state of in-betweenness with the light and darkness, emplacing on a grey environment balanced on the duality…

Life is never easy, as people do good and terrible things but mostly life is about the challenges of either being known or know what you feel. In the book Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, explores many ideas and many feelings, but one idea spilt into two stays’ throughout. The idea of an internal character or spirit of one versus the characters that worry about external things, like appearance and materialistic objects. The ideal characters that would fit into these acquisitions is Boy…