Kendrick Perkins

knowledge they have gained throughout history. So many people have tried to help make the world a better place by trying to correct or solve social issues. Six poets and authors who have promoted social change are Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Alice Paul. These six talented idealists share similar but have different purposes for writing. In the poem, “I Hear America Singing,” Walt Whitman shares the…

Women in literature are often portrayed in a position that are dominated by men in the nineteen-hundreds era which was considered the norm. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonist is oppressed by the husband and shows the effect of the oppression of women in society usually through her writing. The symbolism used in the short story also resembles the feminist views and the overall theme of feminism. Gilman uses symbolism to show the restrictions put…

"The Masked Truth" is a thrilling and terrifying novel written by author, Kelley Armstrong. The book "The Masked Truth", is about a young girl named Riley, the first POV, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after experiencing a murder that occured to the couple she was babysitting their kid for while hiding under the bed with their daughter. Since then, nightmares and guilt overshadow her former self. In an effort to return to who she was before the tragedy, she agrees to…

Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader uses the literary device of contextual setting to convey the central ideas of the novel. In part one of the novel, the setting is heavily based around Hanna and her life, the two predominantly interact at her house, the building on Bahnhofstrasse, demonstrating Michael’s level of secrecy and emotional distance between himself and Hanna as he does not involved Hanna in his personal life. The setting of the court room, a symbol of right and wrong, conveys the central…

The emergence of male insecurity in both novels derives from the overpowering amount of female control. Harding and Billy Bibbit both portray the effects of an insecure male, caused by the destructiveness of Ratched, in Kesey’s novel. Under the belief that he cannot sexually satisfy his wife, Harding enrolled himself into the institution. Ratched uses his weakness against him through her constant questioning of his marriage which leads Harding to strengthen his belief, since he perceives Ratched…

Psychoanalytic theory suggests that everyone has at least one “core issue” or underlying cause for a continued self destructive behavior. In the short story “Porcelain” by Henrietta Rose-Innes, Marion, the main character, has the Core Issue of an Unstable Sense of Self. Marion watched as a young girl, her mother go mad with her mental illness and eventually, kill herself. Now at an older age, Marion realizes that she is like her mother; she has her illness. This abruptly turned her previous…

“Better off Dead” by Sleeping with Sirens is a song about a girl who feels alone, depressed and wanting to commit suicide. The girl feels that she doesn't belong anywhere and believes that suicide would finally end the voices and her depression. I also believe that the song represents the people of today about how they feel with their depression and suicidal thoughts. For example, the lyrics, “And the demons that she has are all she knows” and “If I was would it finally be enough To shut out all…

The quality of lacking meaning or sincerity is emptiness. It is the state of containing nothing. Ray Bradbury points out emptiness within his three books, The Veldt, Fahrenheit 451, and the Pedestrian. With the advancement of technology such as the creation of the television, technology has taken control towards the people of society that becomes the root of emptiness. Ray Bradbury remarkably depicts the concept of emptiness throughout these three novels revolving around the lives of Guy Montag,…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator tells her story in a series of journal entries which portrays her descent into madness. We as the reader follow her transformation as we are led into the deepest corners of the narrator’s mind and hear her inner most thoughts, yet she remains anonymous as we never even learn her name. Because of this shift in sanity, the narrator’s credibility is constantly in question. Although, the cause of this shift transpires…

In Kate Ellison’s novel,” Notes from Ghost Town”, the main character goes through a period of her life in a state of confusion. Her Mother is in jail for murdering her best friend, she goes temporarily color blind, she then starts to see Stern, and she doesn’t understand why. To begin with, she starts to get confused is in the beginning of the book her and her best friend, Stern, are packing up her car so she can return to art school, the next day they find his body next to the ocean outside of…