Pulp Fiction

“A Jury of Her Peers”, published in 1927, written Susan Glaspell, is a short story based on the 1900 murder of John Hossack. The short story was originally written as a one-act play in 1916. In 1950, the short story then became an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Years to follow, in 1980 the short story became a short film that was nominated for an Academy Award. Growing up in a town that did not believe in women’s rights to employment and education, Glaspell still…

Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, was one of the first and one of the most well known Gothic novels. This infamous work of literature contains an unforgettable storyline and characters that were derived remarkably drawn from a friendly ghost telling contest. Shelley was accompanying some friends on vacation, when one of them, Lord Byron to be exact, challenged everyone to tell the scariests story. This frivolous challenge helped created one of the many notable classic novels. Mary…

Having Jack as the narrator in the novel Room brings a juvenile point of view to the text that is avant-garde. Meaning that his point of view is innovative. It can be seen as controversial, where he is restricted as an observer, because his mind is not fully developed yet, and he is still learning. One might confuse this as unreliable. But the fact that Jack is an inexperienced individual in his setting, it is the tension in this that makes both him as the narrator and the story more compelling.…

In one of his most famous works ever, Aristotle describes rhetoric as being “concerned with such things as come, more or less, within the general ken of all men and belong to no definite science”. Rhetoric is such an important literary tool for two reasons: all men use it to some extent and it helps readers analyze other pieces of literature and art. This essay will discuss the latter reason. The art of persuasion has been applied to three different works of literature: We Need Gun Control to…

“The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green, does it meet with the traditions of other well-known works of literature? John Green has written several books and is considered to be a #1 bestselling author. He has won awards such as the Printz Medal, and the Edgar Award (Green) but would his recent book hold up under the test of traditions that made books such as “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London a great piece of literature? Historical works of literature written many years ago, these works of…

“The Lottery” Essay Through generations we follow a certain traditions without thought. Where the traditions come from and what they meant originally never come to mind. Those moments we never stop to think about the impact it has. In her short story "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson 's theme of the deadly consequences of refusing to critically examine a long-standing tradition is supported through her use of character, setting, climax, and conflict. “Jackson was born on December 14, 1919 in San…

Existentialism and Invisible Man Ralph Waldo Ellison is an American writer. He was born March 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and died April 16, 1994, New York, New York. He studied music for three years at Tuskegee University and left in 1936 to move to New York. While in New York he befriended Richard Wright and was influenced to start writing. In 1952 Ellison published Invisible Man, which was the only book published during his life time. The idea that Ellison seems to stress in the novel is…

Divergent, along with many other books, has been made into a film. Along with this transition from book to movie, changes were made for theatrical effect and with a time cap. Divergent the book was published April 2011 and the movie was released March 2014. This paper does contain spoilers of the movie and book. Divergent the book is about a dystopian society set in Chicago. They have a government system that separates people through five factions: Dauntless, Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, and…

The short story, “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin focuses on the unnamed narrator, a Algebra teacher in Harlem reuniting with his drug addicted brother, who was recently released from prison and able to come back home to their childhood neighborhood. As they catch up from the year that past, tension between them starts to occur when they both to attempt to deal with anger toward each other. The story puts emphasis on major themes of suffering, racism, a recurrent theme that Baldwin writes about…

Paper Towns is a coming of age novel set in Orlando, Florida. It was written by John Green in 2008 and features high school students as they coming to terms with growing up and learning about the diversity and complexity of humans. By exploring how the characters learn the book connects to its audience and gives them the chance to reflect on their own lives. The novel begins in a subdivision called Jefferson Park. The narrator Quentin “Q” Jacobson and his neighbour Margo Roth Spieglman, both…