This American Life

Four-time Pulitzer Prize winner and American Poet Robert Frost, is vastly admired for his realistic depictions of natural life and his use of American colloquial speech in his poetry. While most poets tend to disguise themselves in their stories, Frost uses literary elements such as structure, diction and most of all symbolism to portray themes strictly relating to his own personal life. Referred to by many as the greatest poet of the twentieth century, Frost was undoubtedly inspired by the…

The famous American boxer and gold medalist, Muhammad Ali, once said “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”. He is trying to say in a very broad way that, you should be take chances and do what you want to do so you can have what you want in life or reach your goal. Atticus Finch and Boo Radley both were courageous enough to do what they wanted to do, even if they were scared or knew they wouldn't succeed. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee…

the novel “The things I’ve carried”. O 'Brien writes of a young Vietnamese man who’s past, present, and future has been taken by a grenade in My Khe by O’Brien himself in the chapter “The Man I Killed”. The extreme remorse has him so obsessed on the life of his victim that his own existence in the story as character and narrator disappears. O 'Brien was a young solider in the Vietnam War, fighting against the communism. He has wrote the book about his personal involvements as a solider.…

Gatsby felt like he needed to accomplish his dream since he worked so hard. Daisy still loved Tom. As soon as he lost hope for his dream, he was killed. In, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerlad emphasizes how hope is needed to accomplish the American Dream. George Wilson chases his dream through an honest living, maintaining the traditional values.…

Stories that teach the importance of responsible interaction with Nature are seen throughout much of American literature, in particular much of Native American stories, such as "The Trickster Cycle", due to their cultural and practical relevance. The same lessons appear in colonial American literature, but more often as a response to irresponsible practices due to the sudden nature of the arrival of colonists and their swift westward expansion as seen in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers. In…

Scott Fitzgerald portrays the idea of the American dream throughout the character Gatsby and the novel. He uses literary devices such as, the Valley of Ashes and the green light, to point out what the American Dream can represent and what the consequences of it can be. The message seems to be leaning more towards the negative side, in my opinion. Overall the importance of wealth and competition in the novel seems to be of great significance. The American dream is displayed in various ways, it…

MAJOR THEMES IN THE NOVEL The Decline of the American Dream in 1920s Though the novel revolves around the love of Daisy and Gatsby, the main focus of the novel is to bring out the concept how the American dream has got corrupted. It brings out the historical fact how the life of people in America had an unrestrained desire for money and pleasure. It tells how people left the conventional values and followed their own values to become rich. It shows the sudden rise of stock…

that those antics have been dissolved in the common, modern world. That the steps that are taken as a society to prepare the dead and dying are just common courtesy, and to ease the survivors own guilt in the passing of a loved one. In regards to this, the counter argument could be made that even if the societal expectations of the how to prepare a deceased individual has changed, from corpse being…

once knew to be true is no longer the truth. Just a child’s day dream long forgotten. In this essay I will be discussing two different works. The first work will be Dante’s Inferno. Inferno is one of three books in the Divine Comedy trilogy written by Dante Alighieri. Inferno focus’ on Dante's journey through Inferno (a.k.a. Hell). The second work will be American Horror Story: Roanoke. AHS (American Horror Story) is a anthology tv series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. We will…

tragically short life of Chris McCandless, who forsook the privileges of modern life to experience nature. He ventures into the Alaskan wilderness and consequently dies there. Chris was trying to discover the answer to his own soul in nature, but the wilderness is unfortunately cruel and it is not easy to accomplish this monumental task. People often attempt to find themselves in nature, but the wilderness is unforgiving and ferocious. Krakauer develops this theme through the use of real life…