Wilkie Collins

In the short story “Initiation” by Sylvia Plath, the protagonist Millicent, a girl at Lansing High School is being tried as a member of an elite sorority. The girls must go through a week of being an older sister’s servant to be then tried on Friday at Rat Court. Only the most popular girls are accepted into the sorority. These popular girls are also the ones who get the most, popular boyfriends. Everything seems like a dream to Millicent except for the fact that her best friend Tracy wasn’t even

In this essay, I will do a critical analysis of the movie “Hunger Games,” the short story “The Story of an Hour,” and Taylor Swift’s music video “Look What You Make Me Do” in terms of the use of symbolism, and the new self. The Hunger Games follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games in place of her younger sister Primrose Everdeen. The games itself is a competition to see who’s the strongest. The story of an Hour is a short story that describes

There are many movies, shows, plays,and books that contain archetypes. It may have been hard to recognize them because you are unaware of what they are. An archetype is a very typical example of a person or thing. Some major archetypes we see in literature are the hero, star-crossed lover, mentor, underdog, the devil, angel, and many more. One version of literature that has many archetypes is the Hunger Games. Archetypes that are exhibited in the Hunger Games is in many of the characters like Katniss

The Outsiders and To Kill a Mockingbird are very similar in many different ways. The greasers in The Outsiders and Scout and Jem were different then the other children and adults in the book. They also share two similar themes: Nothing is as it seems and People are different all around. If you think about it Ponyboy, Cherry, Jem, and Scout are very similar in characteristics too. They all see the same sunset, and you everyone's the same kind of person too, no matter how they are. The Outsiders section

“I'll spread my wings, and I'll learn how to fly, I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.” This quote by Kelly Clarkson describes how she will do whatever she can to reach the impossible, what society says can not be done. The transcendentalist idea of nonconformity is used all throughout America in art, literature, drama, movies, and music. Transcendentalism is absolutely inescapable in the pop culture forms of literature, movies, and music. This idea of transcendentalism was started in 1836

published in 2008. Science fiction is presented in both stories in how the setting takes place in a near future where society as we know it collapsed and it had to be build from the beginning with new sets of rules. In The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins builds her story around a country named Panem which is located in some part of North America. The country was created after a series an uprising lead to millions of deaths and destroyed most of what was known as North America. Because of this, a treaty

The Hunger Games is one of three adventure novels written by Suzanne Collins and it hit the big screen in 2012 when the first movie of the trilogy was released on March 21, 2012. The movie clearly shows that the totalitarian nation of Panem was originally divided into 13 districts but 13th district was destroyed by the Capitol because they believe that the district 13 is being the driving force of the rebellion against their rules. The Capitol of Panem is the only major city mentioned in the trilogy

Have you ever wondered if you are truly evil or truly good;because I know I have. This essay will prove that humans are naturally evil. Humans are evil and this is shown through history and literature. First, humans are evil, this is proven by school shootings, specifically the September 14 Florida shooting. The students that had been affected by the shooting put into action by Nikolas Cruz,19, said that he was an outcast or loner(Calafas 1). One might be wondering why this matters, well this matters

society, a place where our individual selves are transformed into collective selves.” As Pedelty suggests, rituals create a loss of individualism and an increase in conformity. Pedelty’s idea is clearly displayed with the fictional rituals in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” These two stories’ rituals are based on chance and are basically death sentences; in contrast, the rituals are viewed differently and were created for different reasons. The ritual in “The Lottery”

There are many unfair laws around the world that people have to put up with. The famous book, The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne Collins has many different themes to it. One of them is resistance towards the Capitol. The people of Panem suffer from the suppression of the Capitol. The citizens show their resistance through simple actions they do daily, silently, and peaceful statements or acts that provide a clear message. In the Hunger Games many aspects of resistance are being shown against the