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Feeling and Intellect Since Feeling is First by e.e. cummings and When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman are two poems whose main ideas contrast very much from each other. They both reflect the basic most form of human experiences, that being feeling and intellect since they often come hand in hand. When…

INTRODUCTION A. Sophomore year of high school, I was lifting weights on a Sunday afternoon at a local gym. I was finishing my last set of shoulder press, when I felt a sharp pain in my back. I left the gym that day and felt tired, but thought nothing of it. B. Growing increasingly weak,…

Hosannas may catch a rival kite and carry it, but he must always bring it back to the kite flyer. Despite not having control over the kite, Hosannas is just as excited as Emir is. The blue kite in The Kite Runner is the symbol of Abs’s attention. Kites are the only things that Emir…

A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a multifaceted novel that depicts war in various forms. Gene Forrester, a student at Devon School during World War II, experiences internal conflicts akin to different battles. Gene harbors jealousy towards his friend Finny and suspects that Finny is intentionally hindering his academic performance. Additionally, Gene is burdened…

Are you’re actions based on what you believe or what your see and desire? In the text The Bet by Anton Chekhov and the text The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant both authors deal with the main idea that money and materialistic goods control peoples action in a larger scale than we realize. While both…

Stephen King is a well-known and gifted horror/fiction writer who has published over 11 books in the last two decennaries. His great narratives of horror and phantasy have been enjoyed by childs and grownups get downing from his first best-seller, Carrie. King ’ s humor and manner of authorship has made him one of the…

For love and forgiveness to be the windows through which we look at literature, we must move from a rimary focus on seeing texts as created objects, with their ironies and unreliable narrators, to an old-fashioned emphasis on the stories themselves and on what characters do and say. Stories are driven by conflict”the agon, or…

In John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, various symbols play a prominent role. Arm-less figures, water, and angels are a few of the more well-known symbols, but there are also subtle symbols throughout the novel. One of the most significant subtle symbols is prayer, which is an idea in itself. However, A Prayer for…

The Holocaust was a time in history where hatred and violence was expressed in many different ways. Millions of Jews were murdered, simply for their physical appearances. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, the time period is set during the time of Adolf Hitlers rule. The narrator, Death itself, follows the life of a young…

John Handsaws science fiction novel, ‘The Chrysalis’ is an enjoyable yet perturbing novel. In my opinion the main them o the novel is the dangers of believing political ideas are more important than individuals. It is necessary to discuss aspects of style in order to show how effective it is. The story is about a…