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When you read poems/stories like this you expect to learn something amazing and life changing but with this one I don’t think there’s a huge moral. Just some idiots sailing a boat. It begins with the crew and captain on their boat, they see the bird of luck. They all get super happy and excited,…

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…

The book titled The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, narrates the story of Jonas. He is the main character residing in a world known as The Community where everything remains identical. Nonetheless, Jonas eventually uncovers the existence of another world outside The Community, and he yearns to break free from it. The Giver is both…

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 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 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….

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…

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…

            In William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, many relationships are phony and sabotaged for and by protagonists; as a result these relationships are made comical.  The use of disguise causes deception and misunderstanding which leads to love where it is not meant to be.  Many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of…