N. Scott Momaday

John McLemore’s Self-Alienation from his Shit Town and Shit Life The ultimate, yet unspoken goal in life is to be successful. Success comes in many forms, like gaining money, knowledge, and the ability to form friendships and relationships with other people. However, if people cannot obtain success in these different realms, they are often depicted in literature and in reality as being a failure. In Brian Reed’s podcast, “S-Town”, he is lured into Bibb county, Alabama after hearing rumors of…

Despite being written twenty years apart, these two novels have many similarities. Both novels are presented through first person narration and have a reflective story-telling quality to them. Both novels seamlessly shift from past and present throughout the narrative. In both novels, the narrator addresses the reader. One example of this arising in Never Let Me Go is the various times that Kathy says: “I don’t know how it was where you were” (13). In The Handmaid’s Tale, Offred says: “ I am…

because the idea of America’s unique, opportunist culture had been prominent since the country’s founding. However, several creators utilized this idea for central themes in their literary works long before it had a name. One of these people was F. Scott Fitzgerald, who published The Great Gatsby in 1925. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald exposes the irrational and unattainable nature of the now infamous American Dream. One aspect of the American Dream that held true in Fitzgerald’s novel and the…

In the Victorian period men and women’s roles sharpened and became better defined. Gender relationships and stereotypes characterize a society which sees eccessive hypocrisy and social expectations. Oscar Wilde, in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, makes use of a simple and spontaneous writing style, associated with a refined and prone approach in the depiction of reality. In his play, Wilde continuously uses aphorisms and paradoxes to invite the reader to reflect upon the drastic change in…

Black Swan: A Movie Analysis “I felt it. What? Perfect. I was perfect.” The movie starts with a ballerina dancing to a musical piece beautifully, and then enters a hideous black bird, which seems to torture the ballerina. The young and naïve ballerina is our protagonist, Nina Sayers, played by Natalie Portman. The ballet company she works in, opens for a new season. The director announces that the season will open with an ambitious adaption of “Swan Lake” with a new face. Nina dreams that…

contemplates the possibility that through effort and dedication any person, no matter class or rank, can achieve success and wealth. Romantic and optimistic is the idea that the poor can achieve as high or a higher rank then the wealthy. In Winter Dreams, F. Scott FItzgerald plays around with the notion of the American Dream and critiques the American Dream as a form of happiness. Dexter Green, the main character of Winter Dreams, experiences the American Dream, as he achieves…

Being considerate and helpful to others is what makes you have a humanity. “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens is a story about a man named Ebenezer Scrooge who was tremendously greedy and was visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to make him see what his selfishness had caused him.This story has multiples themes, such as social justice, the true meaning of humanity, etc. Greed overtakes the humanity of those who possess it because it pushes away everyone you love and…

Literary critic, Kenneth Eble, analyzed Gatsby’s character himself and states that: “Gatsby, the ‘mythic’ embodiment of the American dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. His insecure grasp of social and human values, his lack of critical intelligence and self-knowledge, his blindness to the pitfalls that surround him in American society, his compulsive optimism, are realized in the text with rare assurance and understanding. And yet the very grounding of these deficiencies is…

Money can buy all privileges you can think of in but love. The mysterious protagonist Jay Gatsby from the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Great Gatsby” is a newly rich entrepreneur whose quest of achieving the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth apparently through illegal money. Gatsby’s grand mansion and extravagant lifestyle are quite bizarre in West Egg because nobody is able to make “new money” so quickly. Tom Buchanan, who is the antagonist of the story comes from a wealthy Chicago…

Title: Hysterical Abdominal Rhopalocera _____________________________________________________________________ 1 Have you ever feel something tingling in your stomach whenever you look at someone you like? It is as if there are butterflies entering your mouth as it stays inside your stomach—it is not alive, but you notice that it is swirling around like a slight hurricane. From the novella Everything, Everything which was written by Nicola Yoon—Hysterical Abdominal Rhopalocera means; “The…