Patrick Bateman

Southern Gothic literature is a writing style unique to American literature in that it uses supernatural, ironic, and unusual events to reveal and examine the values and character of the South. Sothern Gothic authors use certain elements as tools to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the south. An example of this work is A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor. It is a deeply disturbing tale about a family trip to Florida gone wrong. O 'Connor 's work in A Good…

Professor Fredrick Suppe, of Ball State University, gave a forty-five-minute speech on the history of St. Patrick. He gave this informative speech at Bracken Library in room 104. The general purpose of his speech was to inform. We know this because he wanted to inform us on the history of St. Patrick and St. Patrick’s Day. During the speech, he spent the first thirty minutes discussing the life of St. Patrick and his journeys. Some of these include, when he was taken to Ireland at the age of…

“Soldier’s Home” tells the story of Harold Krebs, a Marine who returns home from World War I. While Krebs does not struggle from physical damages, he does suffer mentally. Harold Krebs struggles with post traumatic stress disorder and trying to figure out what he wants in life. The characters and incidents in “A Soldier’s Home” are factual to Ernest Hemingway’s own experiences because like the main character, Harold Krebs, Ernest Hemingway also struggles after returning home from the war. First…

Relationships and experiences shape an individual’s sense of belonging. To what extent is this view represented in your prescribed text and ONE text of your own choosing? Introduction An individual's sense of belonging is fundamentally shaped by two key factors - relationships and experiences. Belonging is an inherent human need in which we strive for acceptance and security through others. A sense of belonging is vital for our survival and existence, as it reinforces our…

Patrick Manson had been born to a family of high class, and his childhood was filled with higher wealth activities such as natural history, fishing, shooting, carpentry, mechanics, and cricket. His mother was a descendant of David Livingstone, a Christian-missionary explorer. His father was the manager of a British Linen Bank. Manson was the second son of seven children, three boys and two girls. At the age of five he was well known for memorizing lengthy Bible verses during the sermon that was…

It is fascinating to watch what happens when people can become convinced they are right, even when they are wrong. The video documentary, Right Between Your Ears, explores how people from different walks of life came to the extraordinary belief that the world would end on a given date, took a public stand for it, and how they coped when nothing happened. Those included were a stock trader with a young family, a philosophy student about to graduate, and a retail manager. This documentary is not…

In Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway describes a couple’s decision on whether or not they should have an abortion. The man wants the abortion while the woman is being pressured and going back and forth on whether or not she wants the abortion. Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism, introduces modernism, and uses the setting as a means to compare the life or death decision and the topic of abortion as a whole. Hemingway starts off by describing the setting. The couple is sitting at the bar…

Earnest Hemingway; the interesting man with many different roles. He was born in 1899 in Illinois and started his career of writing at the young age of seventeen while working at a newspaper office located in Kansas City. Hemingway wrote many different novels, including his most famous works: “The Old Man and the Sea”, “To Have and Have Not”, and “The Sun Also Rises”. Earnest Hemingway was an important part to American Literature because of his unique writing style about very unique ideas. An…

Ernest Hemingway’s writing was often influenced by his own life. During his life Hemingway struggled with his masculinity. In his Nick Adams stories the theme of masculinity is explored. Nick, like Hemingway, struggles with the constant need to be masculine. In these stories, Nick avoids the topics of his future and the war because of his need to be masculine. These topics inspire fear and the feeling of inferiority in Nick and masculinity includes neither fear nor inferiority. This is…

Hills like white elephants is a story of a couple waiting at a train station in Spain. The couple is facing a significant life changing decision; should the women get an abortion or keep the child. As they are communicating the conversation remains very vague and unreassuring. The couple never goes into detail of the abortion. Making the theme of this story: Clear communication is significant to make life decisions without creating doubt. Hemingway expands on this theme by using symbolism, Point…