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Thomas Gray included in “The Confessions of Nat Turner” a letter addressed to the public in which he reassured the white slave owners that the revolt was “the offspring of gloomy fanaticism” (Greenberg 42). Therefore, the reader can conclude that many passages in the confessions were entirely focused on distorting Nat Turner to fit the description of a religious fanatic rather than to give the true narrative of the slave leader. In “Blake, or, The Huts of America,” Delany challenged Gray’s portrayal of slave revolutions being the delirious byproducts of religious fanaticism by creating Henry Blake, an educated revolutionary leader who mainly used religion as a rallying tool.

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

The best way to get a four spot on the Billboard Hot 100, is by rapping about something everyone will go through, a heartbreak. That is what Kanye West did in “Heartless,” a song about a heartbreak he went through with former fiancee Alexis Phifer. The song debuted as a single but was later put on his 808s & Heartbreaks album. The song explains nearly everything about his relationship. They both made mistakes, but she’d act as if hers were minor. That is why he states, “I’m gonna take of tonight.” He emphasizes the word tonight, to prove he is exhausted and wants to be taken seriously. But he then argues himself by asking why they always end up late night on the phone. Which proves who is the intended audience. Simply, anyone that has gone through something similar, sometimes ends up on the phone with them late night with remorse. West’s tone in is angry in this song. He was tired of his ex-fiancee, who left him at his lowest point. When his mother had passed away just months before he was finished working on this album. Both of the women that he loved the most have left his life, in an instant. Kanye just began working on his music as a way to overlook the trials set ahead of him. He released this song and it was only the second time he used auto tune. Apparently auto tune can get you a 5x platinum record, mind that’s five million sales.

redujice is not something we are born with; it is something that we grow to learn from who and what surrounds us, things that help to form our identity. Prejudice is an integral theme in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, not just in the appalling racism but also through, prejudice against different sexual orientations, gender constructs and feminism. Society had certain constructs that had to be met. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee breaks the bounds to overcome barriers, and challenge social constructs.

In J.D. Salinger’s novel Catcher In The Rye, it starts off with young man named Holden Caulfield at his school football game at Pencey Prep talking about his life. Following that the sudden and unexpected death of his little brother Allie occurs due to cancer. Holden becomes depressed and rebellious. He is aggressive towards anything and anyone who stands in his way and will knock down anything that tries to stop him from doing whatever he wants. Holden shows that the effect of Allie’s passing dawns on him throughout his life and he greatly shows it from time to time. Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden represents the voice of real people by getting expelled, being depressed, and smoking/drinking.

In the Tribes of Palos Verdes and The Catcher In the Rye, both Jim and Holden struggle to find mental stability in their lives. J.D. Salinger expresses one of Holden's weaknesses in the statement,"I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?"(15). When someone has a issue they often can’t say they have that problem and blame another reason for it. For Holden in The Catcher In the Rye, he blames his struggles on the phase he is going through.

Child abductions are an incredibly delicate subject for many families, including the Logan family in Cat Clarke’s eerie novel, The Lost and the Found. This tragic topic is brilliantly brought to the light when Laurel Logan, a nineteen year old girl, returns home after thirteen years of captivity. Astounded by her return, Laurel’s family quickly attempts to make her feel as comfortable and accepted as possible. However, Faith, Laurel’s younger sister, begins to observe inconspicuous faults in Laurel’s story. Despite her hesitance to believe Laurel’s tale, Faith soon learns that she must relinquish her own desires in order to support her family during this arduous time.

Stephen King, author of fiction, provides literary elements in the C.V. portion of On Writing:

As Catcher in the Rye progresses, Holden’s experiences become more meaningful and reflective; as a result, the protagonist accelerates towards his inevitable breakdown, revealing a pain-riddled, lost, thoughtful, oddly hopeful, and utterly real personality in the process. Holden is increasingly disgusted with how normal people approach life, thus making him unsure in how to approach his own life. “People never think anything is anything really. I’m getting goddamn sick of it” (Salinger 190). This prodded question of what is meaningful reverberates throughout the movies, plays, books, stories, and other creative works that span the length of human existence. Nodding at the true root of his obsession with phoniness, Holden often struggles with

TKM Literary Analysis First draft A only father must lawyer a black man against a white man's word and live with the consequences of doing so in a town overrun with racist stereotypes. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch lives in a small town (Maycomb,Alabama) with his two children Jem and Scout who he treats with respect as if they were adults. Certain people believe that by respecting his children in this way he is being insensitive or unloving towards his children. Atticus is not being insensitive or unloving and teaching his kids bad habits, however he just shows his love in his own way.

Holden does not give a definitive reason as to why or what makes a person a phony, as most people he knows or encounters is in one way or another a phony. When talking about Ernie, the piano player, he says that is a phony for acting like he was humble and pretending like he cared about the audience, when really he was a big shot and he knew it. Also, when Holden bumps into his brothers old flame, he calls her a phony for saying how nice it was to see him, because he knew that she didn’t care about him, and only cared about D.B., his older brother. Then when calling up Sally, his old friend, she asks who it was on the phone, when

Stephen King is perhaps the most widely known American writer of his generation, yet his distinctions include publishing as two authors at once: Beginning in 1966, he wrote novels that were published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. When twelve, he began submitting stories for sale. At first ignored and then scorned by mainstream critics, by the late 1980’s his novels were reviewed regularly in The New York Times Book Review, with increasing favor. Beginning in 1987, most of his novels were main selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, which in 1989 created the Stephen King Library, committed to keeping King’s novels “in print in hardcover.” King published more than one hundred short stories (including the collections Night Shift,

Rising to fame comes with its downsides: no privacy, always being in the public eye and opening a new world such as drugs and parties. Throughout Stephen King’s memoir, A Memoir of the Craft, he tells stories that got him into writing and that have inspired some of his most critically acclaimed novels. He goes into detail on how he was able to overcome his drug addiction. If I were able to present a gift to Stephen King it would rehab earlier in his life. This would allow King to focus more on his writing and it would benefit his home life with his wife and kids.

Girl in the Woods, written by Aspen Matis, is an exhilarating tale based on her own experience. In the novel, Matis chose to change her name to Debby Parker. This novel tells a survival story and shows triumph in overcoming emotional havoc. The clarity and honesty portrayed in the novel made it a page turner. Girl in the Woods is a suspense filled novel that tells an incredible story of overcoming devastation. In a desperate attempt to regain trust and stability in the world, Matis makes the bold decision to hike the 2,650 mile long Pacific Crest Trail, starting in Mexico and walking all the way to Canada.

The author from The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger utilizes motifs loneliness and depression to show how Holden a teenager from the book explains the struggles he had during the great depression. J.D. Salinger uses the motifs of loneliness and depression to illustrate the theme that when people feel lonely they try to connect with people to get rid of it.