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typewriter. Oscar, alone, dreams of the woman he saw on the bus earlier in the day. Oscar. Alone. In The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz illustrates the way in which one’s society can both burden and create one’s identity. As Oscar meanders through his life without any firm direction, his approach towards girls and his rare parlance determine the life he lives. They are what ostracize him, but are also what make him special. They make him worthwhile in the world he lives in: the…

The relationship shared by Lincoln and Booth in Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks encompasses both negative and positive aspects. Similar positivity is portrayed more dominantly in Jack and Teresa’s loving relationship in “The View from Culion,” a short story in Monstress by Lysley Tenorio, while Tita and Mama Elena’s destructive relationship in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel demonstrates more negative characteristics. Out of the three works, the repulsive way Mama Elena treats…

The Kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Introduction Thinking about babies getting kidnapped while they’re peacefully sleeping in their crib is horrifying. That’s what the Lindbergh family had to go through. Everything the Lindbergh family has done, by their clever, but risky ideas, has had an impact on the world. The kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., possibly done by Bruno Hauptmann, helped establish the Lindbergh Act, the first law to make kidnapping a federal crime. Beginning of…

in a north-easterly direction and converges with the Olifants River in the Drakensberg near Kromellenboog. The Ohrigstad River joins the Blyde River at the Blyderivierspoort Dam in the Blyderivierspoort Nature Reserve after which the Blyde River meanders through the Drakensberg to enter the lowveld where it joins the Olifants River. In the Lowveld, the Olifants River flows eastwards through the Kruger National Perk. It is joined by the Letaba River just east of the Olifants Rest Camp before it…

Presentation The contemplation system taught in this book is an ability went for taking care of the psyche's most essential issue: the anxiety and enduring it brings on itself through its own particular considerations and activities. Despite the fact that the brain needs satisfaction, regardless it figures out how to measure itself down with mental agony. Truth be told, that agony originates from the brain's confused endeavors to discover satisfaction. Reflection reveals the explanations…

“Deep-Holes” is a deeply intellectual short story; on the surface (of the hole), this slice of literature seems to be about a narcissistic father, a mediating mother, and their hipster, poseur-esque son, but is really trying to convey the cavernous symbolism that is represented by the deep-holes. The deep-holes in the story represent something much larger than a pit in a field; id est the complexity of family relationships and bonds, the gaping void of genuine love in the family that Alice Munro…

miniscule, laborious spider. He creeps along the walls, leaving behind trails of pearlescent white and thin and fibrous strings of silk. He moves around with precision and accuracy, slowly weaving an intricate network of spindle fibers. As he slowly meanders around, an alluring, massive, intricate, image begins to come into focus. This masterpiece is the culmination of days of endless effort, the commendable fruit of his labor. The magnificent web the spider has so carefully and diligently…

The ideology of slavery coerces its victims and masters alike to adhere to its theatrical and illusory mindset, as both actors are ingrained with the idea of a dichotomy between the powerful and powerless. Throughout Frederick Douglass’s novella, “The Heroic Slave,” Douglass underlines the heartfelt interaction between the white observer Mr. Listwell and the eloquent slave Madison Washington, altogether providing a call to action on the faults of slavery. Although his novella may seem too…

would tear off corners, smooth the edges, and they would be turned into spaceships, flying across a lush alien world. Sometimes the trail, worn down into the ground over time by paws and hooves, would climb its way up onto the crests of ridges and meander across the moist, mossy fringes of muskegs. The rough, black and gnarled spruce branches that grew there were pirate spacecraft, pursued by the sleek birch branches from beyond the muskeg's soggy borders. As imaginary lasers and rockets…

Back in my days, we were not fortunate enough to... Gotcha! Did you process that to be a dull story our grandparents or parents used to tell us how fortunate we are in comparison to them in their younger days? Perhaps it reminded you the time you related your story to a person of young age? Being the younger generation, most of us probably thought they were uninterested stories since we never experienced the hardship our predecessors endured owing to the fact that we live in a generation where…