American political writers

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark”, Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”, and Randall Kenan’s “The Foundations of the Earth” illustrate how arrogance undermines knowledge and individual power and humility enhances those qualities. In each story, characters with parochial worldviews encounter people who challenge them to change. Other perspectives are available if they are able to let go of their superior attitudes. For example, Hawthorne’s protagonist, Aylmer, believes he has the ability and right to

Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton authored novels that take place in America around the beginning of the nineteenth century. In both This Side of Paradise and The House of Mirth, the authors paint the protagonists as imprisoned. This is a criticism of the society that they live in and is represented in the authors’ use of imagery, characterization, and the motif of social standing. Wharton uses a great deal of imagery to reflect Lily Bart as imprisoned, while Fitzgerald uses less imagery

Mallory Russell 06/12/15 Comparison Essay ENG 102 Online “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver versus “A + P” by John Updike In the short stories “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver and “A + P” by John Updike the protagonists experience an epiphany that change their restricted way of thinking. The main character, “Sammy” in John Updike’s, “A + P” is a teenage boy working in the town grocery store. Sammy experiences an epiphany when he decides to quit his job at the grocery store. He quit because he believed

Masculinity and Style in Hemingway and Carver. The following will present the themes of 'masculinity ' in relation to style in Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway. Both are major figures of 20th century US fiction, and both write about characters that struggle with male or masculine identity and social expectations. These struggles often mean that other characters in their stories are the victims. In other words, the problems that the characters experience, are both 'internalized ' but also 'externalized

By reading a classic, the reader will come away with a lesson that they have learned, and they will begin questioning themselves. Authors who write classics have to have unique styles to their writing to connect to the world, so that the reader can understand the message the book is telling them. Three famous authors who write classics, that you may know are O.Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck. O.Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck all write with their own unique styles in their writing that

Masculinity has been a topic popularly explored by various authors for decades. Although the traits that are often paired with masculinity are portrayed as great, they can often be very problematic, as seen through various stories and characters such as “The Snow’s of Kilimanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway, “Separating” by John Updike, and “The Man Who was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright. Strong is often defined as being emotionless and being intelligent is often associated with never being wrong or making

Loss of Self in Hemingway's Soldiers Home, Cather's Paul's Case, and Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener       Hemingway's "Soldiers Home," Cather's "Paul's Case," and Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" all present a loss of self. These stories prove that there is a fine line between finding one's self and losing one's self. I believe this loss can occur at any age or station of life. This idea is seen in each story's main character. Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" depicts a young man in

Multiple students entered the high school classroom minutes after the tardy bell had echoed throughout the school. Those of us who had arrived on time, quietly watched to see how our teacher would react. Mr. Quesenberry rose from his desk and asked, “Is there a reason why I shouldn’t write all of you up for arriving late?” “There was a fight in the hallway, we got caught in the crowd” my friend Bailey replied as she settled into her seat beside me. This statement ignited a fire of questions being

Symbolism was very present in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour.” Chopin was able to symbolize the locked room to Mrs. Mallard’s trapped marriage, and also the open window to the freedom that she had gained after her husband’s death. Chopin was able to help the readers visualize the word “freedom” by comparing it to the window that had been opened before Mrs. Mallard came into the room. The locked room was a comparison to her marriage which helped the readers get a sense of what marriage felt like

“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;/Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;” (1-2) When one reads those lines in Shakespeare’s “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun”, to a normal eye it may seem as if Shakespeare is attacking his mistress with harmful words for no reason in disgust. But in contrast, if one looks closer throughout the poem, one begins to find abnormalities in its text, to some individuals it would simply state it as just gibberish. As it turns out, Shakespeare was