James Agee

In the story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, the author shows many similarities between the narrator's little brother Doodle and an exotic bird. While reading through the story the young boy is not thought very highly of. No one including, the doctors, ever thought Doodle would live past a couple days. But Doodle did just that, he lived for 6 whole years. His parents even named him William Armstrong, because they thought it would look good on a tombstone. His brother later renamed him Doodle because

What you give is what you get Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist and author of the book Death and Dying, once imagined that, “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” The text’s collection focus on Ray Bradbury’s science fiction, Fahrenheit 451 discusses about the growth and struggles of Guy Montag’s beliefs against his society. Montag is a fireman and his

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein published in 1818, was the crucial influence of the 1994 Frankenstein movie directed by Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth was extremely successful and had a lot of ambition to portray the real horror image Shelley wrote about in her novel. Before the 1994 movie, there were numerous vague interpretations based on the novel. I believe the 1994 film's intent to be the most relative to the novel than any other film produced. The movie did a considerable job following the schematics

Relationships of unconventional and sometimes unexplainable love are the subject of “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. “The Scarlet Ibis” is a story of two young brothers: Doodle, who is disabled but shows complete adoration and devotion for his older sibling, and “Brother,” who is often manipulative. A similar type of dependency also takes place between two men in Of Mice and Men. Lennie, who has a tender heart but relies on his cousin to take care of him is

intellectuality and art with his set of philosophical principals called an aesthetic. Stephen Dedalus, the central character, acts as an alternate reflection of the author in this semi-autobiographical fiction A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Joyce primarily uses the early development of Stephen and the impact it has on his life to demonstrate his themes and ideas. He uses this, especially to demonstrate how Stephen arrives at his principals. Stephen has many interactions with the

Introduction James Joyce (1882 - 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. In his early twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe, living in Trieste, Paris and Zurich. James Joyce is now known as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Even during his time, he was respected as one of the best writers of his generation. Still, his works were so experimental that he was

his need to help himself before others.He taught Doodle how to walk for his own selfish reason that he was “ashamed” of him (Hurst 468). This shows the reader that doing things for your own benefit can have a negative effect on you. Foreshadowing James Hurst foreshadows Doodle’s death in many ways.An example of foreshadowing in the story “The Scarlet Ibis” happens when the narrator says “One day I took him up to the barn loft and showed him his casket, telling him how we all believed he would die”

Gabriel: The hollow man of James Joyce's short story "The Dead" In James Joyce's short story "The Dead," the character of Gabriel begins the story confident of what he knows, and ends the story depressed, realizing he is a hollow shell of a man. The T.S. Eliot poem "The Wasteland" famously portrays a world in which all meaning is lost, and men are hollow and 'stuffed' with nothing of true substance. "What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow/Out of this stony rubbish?" asks Eliot in his

Irish holiday, has become the lasting legacy of Joyce’s most famous novel. On June 16, the day in Leopold Bloom’s life depicted by Ulysses, Dubliners eat the same meals as characters, and visit the places mentioned within the novel, set in Dublin. James Joyce became a prominent modernist through publishing only four major works, showing that those few writings contained a great amount of the best examples of modernist

and literary forebear to William James and the American Pragmatic tradition, James believed Whitman to be a far more problematic thinker than has been acknowledged” (526). Whitman is present in much of James’s writings, and The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) in particular. That Whitman is “embodiment of a particular kind of metaphysical excess, at once unworldly and effeminate” (526). Examining the writings of the leading gay Whitmanites of his era, James traced Whitman’s influence—both