“In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez
The story “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez follows the story of four sisters, three of whom are killed by the ruling of the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. The story,...
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Speculating upon Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, it can be said that the author here makes stress upon illuminating the story concerning an angel that came from above th...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Warning to the West gives an interesting perspective on socialism and its potential dangers. Solzhenitsyn believed that Soviet Russia and the West had many similar issues, d...
Analysis of “The Achievement of Desire”
In Richard Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire,” a story within a story is told. The story of Rodriguez is told, with emphasis on his childhood and coming of age experiences. Rodriguez refl...
Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis explores the problems and effects of exploitation from several angles. As Stanley Hill (161) suggests in his study of Metamorphosis, it is a story about estrangement and ...
Good Country People By Flannery O’Connor
Question: How did Joy ‘ Hulga’ end up where she did? Hulga Hopewell’s character is unique in “Good Country People”. She is a female intellectual who is a cripple, and has no meaningful relat...
Influence of Literature on WWI
Modernism is a period in literature and art that began in the late 1800s and became increasingly widespread after WWI. According to T.S. Eliot and Modernity, “modernism is a reaction against the mo...
“Interpreter of Maladies” is a brilliant piece of literary art, developed by a person, who belongs to the intersection of two great cultures, the cultures, which, even despite the globalization pr...
Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Moral of “The Rocking Horse Winner”
It is quite possible that the first caveman envied his neighbor who had a bigger cave. For whatever reason, the drive to accumulate material goods—money, houses, cars, and more—seems to be hardwir...
It was in October of 1881 that the Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea was published. It was immediately regarded as the finest piece of work completed by Leskov, particularly for it...