William Henry Jackson

In The Lone Ranger and Tonto and “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” by Sherman Alexie, reservation realism is portrayed through continuous references of Native American conflict. In The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Thomas-Builds-the-Fire was arrested for detaining the reservation postmaster, Eve Ford. Several years later, the case goes to trial and the Bureau of Indian affairs grants Thomas an opportunity to give his testimony. During the trial, Alexie mentions Eve Ford sitting among the…

Gimpel was a fool in a different way Gimpel the Fool is a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is about a bread maker, Gimpel who lives in a small town somewhere in Europe sometime in the early 20. century. Everybody consider Gimpel as a fool and give him seven sobriquet. The people from the town make cruel jokes at Gimpel’s expense. The folk thinks he belives everything they tell him because Gimpel does not say a single word, for example: I do not belive you or You are lying,…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

Comparison Essay on 2 B R 0 2 B and The Lottery By: Aashish Ramanlal Can a perfect society exist? This is the simple question curving the backbone of every dystopian story. 2 B R 0 2 B written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr and The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson are both short dystopian stories that explore different types of worlds and whether or not a utopia can exist. An outstanding theme in 2 B R 0 2 B is whether or not authoritarian government control is a good thing. A quote that portrays…

Authors use mood to make the reader feel a certain way while reading the text. The short stories “Back Roads” by Vinnie Rotondaro is about 2 friends that are traveling from New York City and take the backroads because they are more beautiful. “A Winter's Drive” by ReadWorks is about a man taking a trip across the US Canada border to go to the house he grew up in to get his hockey cards. When the author of a text describes in detail the setting of the text it makes the mood even more superior.…

The Battle of Palo Alto took place on May 8, 1846 and lasted only 3 hours. The battle is marked as the first major engagement between Mexico and America during the Mexican-American war even though the battle took place days before America declared war on Mexico. The battle was short lived, proving the American artillery tactics and armament far superior to that of Mexico. The number of casualties Mexico took during this short battle was more than double that of America. Zachary Taylor, an…

The Lottery: How Tradition Normalizes Radical Behavior Regardless of the Roots In The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, there is a very disturbing and unspeakable act that takes place. Now most people would think that what this town practices is not correct and very immoral. But one must look at the town in one way, that their tradition that they have practiced all of their lives has normalized these unspeakable acts. Tradition has affected the townsfolk to where killing is a normal thing and they…

Shirley Jackson uses “The Lottery” to highlight and showcase.What it looks like when people give up their true identity or morals to fit into their society.In the short story “The Lottery” is story about how a certain village gathers every year on June 27th to sacrifice one of their own people for corn to make as they call it the (Corn God’s) happy. Tessie Hutchinson is the lucky person who gets to exploit the difficulty of the true cost of the lottery that the village old every year.Tessie…

The stories of Native Americans throughout history has not always ended pleasant, but instead having military clashes against the United States such as Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee trying to protect their way of life. During the ninetieth and twentieth century the Ute people of Colorado were forced to leave their homes and move on to reservations ultimately affecting their cultural identity. Some of the issues Ute Indians faced was the lost of language, protecting their traditions and…

same time trying to stay true to their religious, entrepreneurial, and socio-ethical roots acquired in their former lands back in Europe. Through their writings, the soldier, administrator and adventurer John Smith, Poet Anne Bradstreet and Governor William Bradford depict an America whose lands were initially hard to subdue and inhabited by a people wary of the settlers who kept coming in droves by ship. Disease, hunger, and natural calamities wiped out many of the pioneer settlers. Infighting…