John Hope

The horrors of history are passed on from generation to generation in hopes that they will never happen again. Yet, in the 1950s, history repeated itself. During this time, Joseph McCarthy, a United States senator from Wisconsin, began accusing people of being communists, which is similar to the Salem witch trials in the late 1690s when innocent people were accused of witchcraft. Arthur Miller used a real story to show the similarities between Salem witch hunt and McCarthyism. He wrote The…

In the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Kino is a pearl diver who lives with his wife Juana and baby boy, Coyotito. While searching for a pearl to save Coyotito, Kino discovers the pearl of the world. Within hours the whole town of La Paz hears of Kino’s new discovery, everyone wants a piece of the Pearl of the world. The idea of getting a piece of the pearl places a longing desire in the townspeople's hearts, this changes the way kino and his family live day to day and how the whole town…

John Steinbeck’s novella, The Pearl, is filled with literary devices. The main character, Kino, lives in a Mexican coastal town and does not have much money. In the story, Kino finds the Pearl of the World and becomes a rich man. He hopes to marry his wife, Juana, in a church, educate his son, Coyotito, and buy a rifle. Many people make Kino offers for the pearl, but he turns them down thinking his pearl has more worth than what others offer him. Kino’s greed begins to get the best of him. John…

‘The Parting’, Lord Byron’s poem ‘When we two parted’ and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s poem ‘Love’s Last Lesson’ (Furniss & Bath, 1996: 207). The symbolism used in these poems portray the ambiguous representation of love/death elegies, love symbolizing hope and death symbolizing loss. Ambiguity, like its definition, can have different meanings: ‘either that it is obscure in meaning or that it seems to have two or more meanings. […] Ambiguity as a poetic device, then, has nothing to do with…

John Newbery was the first person to write books specifically for children (source 3). When John turned 16 he learned the skills of the printing trade, and all his hard work paid off because he became an English publisher (source 3). John Newbery died in 1737, before his first book was published in 1740 (source). After that the Newbery award was named after him, and it is one of the most prestigious awards (source 2). The Newbery award was made to encourage authors to use their talents and write…

In the novella, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the story describes a story about an Indian family of three, Kino, the father, Juana, the wife, and Coyotito, the baby. The family lives a simple life, but all that changes when Coyotito is poisoned by a scorpion. Kino desperately sets off to find the so called ‘Pearl of the World’ to help Coyotito, since the selfish and greedy doctor rejected helping them. Unexpectedly, Kino does find the ‘Pearl of the World’, but even so, his decisions about the…

a person who is not only mentally disabled and also dependant on others. In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice And Men, a small man named George takes care of a lumbering figure by the name of Lennie. Lennie is a huge person who is great at farm work, and loves touching soft things, which gets him in trouble countless times. Throughout this novel George and Lennie travel around to different farms , raising money in hopes of purchasing their dream home. George keeps Lennie alive by feeding him,…

John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men in 1937. Robert Burns’s poem “To a Mouse,” influenced the title of the book. Of Mice and Men is remembered as one of Steinbeck’s most important and influential novels. It won a Nobel Prize in literature in 1962 but is still one of the most frequently challenged books in U.S. schools due to vulgar language and violet scenes.“Of course Of Mice and Men contains unpleasant attitude; there is brutality, racism, sexism, economic exploitation. But the book does not…

Greed can definitely control a man and any other person. John Steinbeck, the famous American author, wrote the novella The Pearl. The Pearl is a very interesting book that is a man that finds the pearl of the world and hopes it leads him to great fortune. Kino figures out the hard way that he was wrong. Throughout the book Kino changes his important things in life change as he copes with resolving his internal conflicts. In the beginning of the book he values his family and boat. “It was very…

“Of Mice and Men” is a novel written by John Steinbeck around the year 1937. The story is about two friends, Goerge Milton and Lennie Small, that stay together in all situations they face. Both of them have one achievement, to fulfill their dream. Throughtout the story you will see themes such as: friendship, companionship and dream (goals). All the themes are connected in some way, and all of them reflex on George and Lennie. The theme of friendship, is shown since the begging of the story,…