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James Baldwin was brought into the world August 2,1924 in Harlem, New York. While at the age 14 Baldwin turned into a minister. In the wake of graduating secondary school in 1942, he needed to put his gets ready for school on hold to help bolster his family, which included seven more youthful youngsters. He…

“The Hunger Games,” Suzanne Collin’s highly praised dystopian novel for young adults, depicts the oppressive rule of Panem. Each year, this regime forces twenty-four children to participate in a deadly televised combat. The narrative revolves around Katniss Everdeen, the main character who struggles with survival amidst the hardships of being a tribute in the games….

The adolescent years can be the best and worse times of somebody’s life. It’s a time when young boys and girls are discovering who they are and where they fit within society. Some want to fit in with the rest of the crowd, but others want to stand out from their peers. However, it’s during…

Hamlet a story of a young man who while off at school comes back and is in a world of uncertainty. Hamlet is set in motion by the three stages of the monomyth: the departure, the initiation, and the return. The departure or call of adventure, in Hamlet starts when his father comes to him…

The immediacy and horror of the plight of subaltern women is present in the works of Mahasweta Devi, and particularly in her play Bayen. Devi’s dramatic writing largely deals with subaltern characters, and her plays have been performed in rural and tribal areas. Devi’s grassroots political theatre is one of the first performance-based movements within…

Acquiring Basic Rights for women has been a nonyielding fight since the beginning of time, and it was through such strife that the movement known as feminism was born. Feminism can be defined in the dictionary as “ Advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes”, this type of advocacy…

“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.” (Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 1960). This quote emphasizes the importance of cultural diversity within a society. Every country has its unique cultural identity that governs the behavior, thoughts, and expressions of its people. These cultural differences between countries…

“Giving up smoking is the simplest thing in existence. I know because I have done it on numerous occasions,” Mark Twain famously stated. This quote resonates with David Sedaris as he authorizes an article entitled “Letting Go,” expressing his aversion to cigarettes during his youth and his subsequent addiction to them in later life. Sedaris,…

Hurston’s use of nature (the pear tree, the ocean, the horizon, the hurricane) functions as both as a plot device and a metaphor. The pear tree is used as plot device in the beginning of the novel when Janie admires its complexity and relates it to a marriage. Her young teenager desires are seen as…

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a story about the adventures of Marlow, the story’s protagonist, on the Congo River where he meets Kurtz, an agent that works for the Company, providing them with ivory supplies. Although Marlow and Kurtz are not by any means “best friends” Their relationship is highlighted in the novella. Even…