Literary Analysis

The story of what Lizzie Borden could have possibly done to her stepmother and father is widely known, every aspect has been sensationalized, and every detail has been scrutinized beyond belief. Creators choose what they want to include, disregard, and draw attention towards to create their own possible outcome. But what Mary E. Wilkins did in her fictional interpretation, “The Long Arm”, was unique because she chose to let the story unfold in a completely different way. The story is set in a small town, like Fall River, where Sarah Fairbanks and her father Martin lived. Martin was murdered after a quarrel about a business deal with Rufus Bennett, but Rufus and his wife left town the morning of the murder. While the police only searched for a few days before they gave up, Sarah took matters into her own hands to prove to everyone that it was not her boyfriend, Henry Ellis, who Martin just happened not to like. A quiet seamstress named Phoebe who lived across the street from Sarah, the victim’s daughter, was the actual assassin. Phoebe’s dynamic with her roommate, Maria, takes on the “double” theme, where there are two characters, who are based off one person or idea, but one obeys the rules and succeeds while the other character rebels and therefore pays the societal consequences, in this case. Phoebe and Maria’s characters portray two versions of Lizzie Borden that were both played up during her trial. Maria embodies the innocent, feminine, and weak version of Lizzie that

In the book, Brave New World, the author, Aldous Huxley, creates and alternated world in the 1930’s to show us how political and society were during that year. There was a lot of cruel, violence, segregations compare to the world in BNW. He also uses many literary devices to tell use what his society looks like during the 1930’s. During this time the WWii was going on and this was a big deal to the world because there was a lot of dramas and other dangerous things going on. Some of those devices are simile, details, metaphor...

When many things break, they often never return back as healthy as it was before. In John Knowles’ A Separate Piece, Gene and Finny are two best friends who go through many hardships together as their years pass at the Devon School. All of the boys in attendance are preparing to be enlisted in the war that is going on outside of school but they each are fighting their own inside themselves. In A Separate Piece, Knowles utilizes the allegory of Finny’s broken leg to represent the difficult times throughout a friendship.

Amy Tan story, “Two Kinds”, uses character development, conflict, flashback, and symbolism to express the love of one’s mother. This story starts off with the mother (Suyuan Woo) and daughter (Jing-Mei) trying to find something that the daughter can get really good at. They find one that there interested in but after a couple of sessions they found out that it wasn’t right for her daughter. So they try to do others things like the piano, but after several sessions with Mr. Chong her mother saw that her daughter wasn’t improving on playing the piano. Her mom kept urging her to practice more and get better but Jing-Mei had just about enough of this and started to rebel against her mom.

In the short story, The Sort of an Hour, written by Kate Chopin, the main character, Louise Mallard, was given some horrible news. She was told that her husband, Brently, was killed in a train accident. At first, she began sobbing and weeping almost hysterically, until she goes up to her room alo8ne. She sat down in a chair by the window. Still sobbing, she looked out the window off into the distance and her heart began to race.

    In the novel The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett, an African American help maid, Aibileen, works for a white family that treats her rudely because of the color of her skin, but a white woman named Skeeter decides to write about Aibileen and the truth behind the treatment towards the help community.  Throughout the book, Stockett establishes a depressing and sorrowful tone by showing the way white people treat African Americans’ during this time period. An example of this shown in the beginning of the story when Aibileen says, “I lost my own boy, Treelore, right before I started waiting on Miss Leefolt” (2).  Stockett utilizes this scene to explain how difficult and brutal Aibileen’s life is from the start, which creates

Do parents always know what is best for their children’s best interest? The tale of Two Kinds by Amy Tan reveals the continuous strife between parent and child about the future. Throughout the story, the narrator receives great doubt from her mother. Her mother believes that Jing-mei, the narrator, is unable to be successful without her guidance. Children should be given more trust to know what is best for them.

The assignment required a selection and review of five different literary sources, designating three as resources for an analytical literary review of the subject matter. The detailed review of the three selected resources is a culmination of our written critic. The first source, “Should College Athletes Be Paid?” by Tiffany Patterson, has no firm stance is taken. The article is laid out in a manner to inform readers without prior knowledge of the subject, information that would assist them towards drawing their own stance on the subject. Patterson does this by providing three pros and three cons on the topic and then allowing the reader to decide. In her article, Patterson (2016) proclaims:

“I could tell she don't understand why a colored woman can't raise no white-skin baby in Mississippi. It be a hard lonely life, not belonging here nor there.” Skeeter is having trouble understanding why Constantine gave her daughter Lulabelle up for adoption. Lulabelle's father was black, but she inherits Constantine's father's light skin. As a result, she just won't fit into the closed-minded Jackson society. The Help shows us the inner workings of a segregated society against the backdrop of the growing US Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Although there is some variety in economic and social class, race is the number one determinant of a person's place in Stockett's Jackson, Mississippi. Race also determines who has access to

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses vivid imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices to show that the government becoming corrupt under all of the facades they put out. He separates the government corruption into two categories; political and social. In Brave New World Huxley brings out the social and political issues he sees in the government by using satire and literary devices in his works. In Brave New World the “people” of the society rely on drugs, sex, and brainwashing to keep peace in the society. In Brave New World drugs are the main way of keeping the society functioning normally and without chaos. Huxley describes the drug’s effects on society and the people as “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant … All the

My freshman year of secondary school resembled the song “Lowrider” by War since every day flew at a smooth pace, and never sped up for me. Not once was there a time where the work stressed me out and took me hours to complete, motivating me to tear the hairs out of my head. As a matter of fact, the Lowrider drove slow enough for me to keep up with it, I understood most of what I was taught, with a bit of bump here and there. There were times where some of my teachers would rush the lesson, but my gratitude goes to my old math teacher(who I do not have any more after the first semester), because of him, I was able to pace myself with the others, as that was how he taught, and truly pushed me beyond my boundaries. When I first started High

We would like to believe that love brings us together, but this is not always the case as Kevin Clark implies in the first two lines of “Parallel Paths” when he states “Today you’re lucky, in love with your wife for the first time in weeks”.

Recent studies conducted by a group of college students from Utrecht University have shown that a majority of parents have a need for children to live vicariously through past failures. Yet, in Two Kinds, author Amy Tan shows how easy it is to get the idea of a controlling parent and one that just wants the best, but has a hard time making emotions clear , confused. More that often the interpretation of a strict parent is different from the way it is viewed, and that the expectations and goals are set to high standards so that children will be willing to strive for the American dream. It is not noticed that each individual has been through the worn path and struggled to hold onto everything valued important.

What is Literature? Literature can be interpreted whichever way you want, it just depends on which way you are truly looking at it. From my experience in school, I learned that literature is basically anything written. Before knowing truly what literature represented, I would only consider well known books such as Catcher in the Rye or 1984 solely as works of literature. As I continued my school, I learned more information about what is literature. Literature does not have to make sense to everyone who reads it, it does not need to be condensed in a way for someone’s liking, as well literature does not need to be explained to be considered authentic. Literature is words put together on paper with endless possibilities as understandings for

Perhaps the most strikingly recognizable Absurd characteristic the audience encounters is Beckett’s distinctively ambiguous setting. The stage, divided into two halves by a tree, changes little from Act I to Act II; there is little difference in the barren setting, other than a few leaves sprouting from the lonely tree. The passage of time is also indeterminate, so instead of a progression of events within an identifiable setting, the entire action takes place during an unspecified time on a desolate country road, reminiscent of a hellish Dantesque landscape. Lois Cuddy contends, “The tree, leafless and otherwise, is only placed in this setting as one of the illusions intended to keep the characters questioning time and life in this ‘indescribable’