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In his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huck), Mark Twain satirizes falsehood, and dishonesty through Huck’s vernacular voice in order to show the ignorance of the shameful southern culture where the values consist of greed and manipulation. Although Twain criticizes this seemingly mendacious behavior of lying, he argues that there are circumstances in which deception is acceptable. He adopts a typical southerner mentality through Huck’s genuine voice for the purpose of expressing to…

Part One- Plot The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is about a struggling african american family in the 1950’s that just recieved a check for $10,000 and are trying to bring their life together. Before the play, Lena’s husband, who is the father of Walter and Beneatha Younger, passed away. His death was the inciting event because the insurance company will send a check to help their family. When the play starts, Walter's wife, Ruth, is cooking in the kitchen while their son,…

Hart Crane was born July 21, 1899 in Garrettsville, Ohio was a poetic genius who was driven, and hampered, by his self-destructive personality. His alcoholism, sexual excesses and volatile behavior gave him the illusion of personal stability and lead to his greatest poems, but also brought his tragic doom. Cranes poems, though not always autobiographical, can be understood by looking at the occurrences in his turbulent life. Crane acted as his own worst enemy. The feeling, mood, style and form…

Joseph Cambell’s hero's journey, was based on his idea of a monomyth. Which sparked the idea of a young boy starting a journey at a very young age, by the well known Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card was inspired by this in order to create the award winning novel, Ender’s Game. This novel is about a boy named Ender and how he began his hero’s journey at the age of six to later on in his training to be tricked into doing something so immense, which he did not anticipate would have happened so…

Edgar Allan Poe’s Death Edgar Allan Poe, born in January 19, 1809 was a famous editor and, a literary critic known for his famous and meticulous horror poems like The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death which were written in the early 1800s. Poe lived a heartbreak and trauma filled life, for instance, most of his female loved ones died from tuberculosis, this in itself could have drastically affected the way he wrote his poems. Poe’s dark and mysterious poems played an ironic part in the way…

Often, short stories are deliberate in choices about how the plot is conveyed to the reader. In some chances, this is done through the perspective and point of view. In Meagan Ciesla’s Darlin Sue, she uses first person narration to tell the story of a woman and her failing relationships with her neighbor and her husband. The use of the this limited perspective leaves a lot of important connecting ideas in the dark to the reader. So this short story utilizes a first person point of view that is…

Actual Analysis: The novel “Slade House” tells the tale of a strange house and the disappearances that seem to revolve around the house. The readers are able to join the journey with the characters as they learn what it really means to be human. As a result, the main theme of the book is, arguably, the fact that our grief and vulnerability is what makes us human. The theme is influenced by the characters, setting, and the overall plot. The most notable influencer of the theme is the Grayer twins…

“Prey”, William Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily”, and Horacio Quiroga’s “The Feather Pillow” all have the universal moral that the violence, sometimes emotional more than physical, can only be procured from any feeling of entrapment. Violence in the short story “Prey” prevails throughout the entire story. It is seen that the monster that posses the young protagonist has more of a symbolic relationship with her rather than a demonic presence accumulating innocence. The repeated phrase “He who…

Research Statement: I am studying William Faulkner's use of stream of consciousness in the short story "A Rose for Emily," because I want learn how to create interesting fictional round characters in stories. Beck, Warren. "William Faulkner's Style," in American Prefaces. Spring 1941, pp 199. Web. Beck mentions that the special styles that William Faulkner used in His writing is he beautifully expressed the words in the story which made them more interesting and exciting. He said that the aim…

In Passing, Nella Larsen uses the third person limited point of view to further illustrate the different fears of the characters, highlighting fears of discovery, violence against race, possible infidelity, and the fear of commitment. Although we as the audience are only privy to Irene’s thoughts and feelings, we can infer from the comments and gestures of other characters how their own fears pervade their lives. However, as the story is through Irene’s point of view, Irene’s thoughts and…