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This drab thought of this family’s existence, generation after generation comes to an end when the Younger family receives $10,000 in the mail as compensation for a death in the family. Walter, the son of Mama, loses the majority of it and they keep just enough to buy a new house. Having said this, every…

Symbolism in “Cathedral” In Raymond Carver’s short story, “Cathedral,” a man has his eyes opened up to the world through the lad of his Wolfe blind friend, Robert. Carver employs the use of symbolism in the form art representing insight to highlight the narrators blindness to his life. The narrator is not physically blind, but…

I am Ambassador, a car manufactured by Hindustan Motors. I have just been shipped from the factory to the dealer’s showroom where I will be on display until a happy customer comes and buys me. It all started with my company, Hindustan Motors, an Indian automaker despite its British origins. The Ambassador is considered a…

Although the theme is the same, the poems display it in different ways, and express it through different writing styles, language devices and poetic structures. “Look Up” is a spoken-word piece that talks about society’s current obsession with the Internet and social media, and how they prevent people from having “real” interactions with each other….

            Anton Chekhov is recognized as one of the most relevant short story writers in world literature.  This Russian author showcased his immense talent in fiction writing through the use of the literary elements to effectively narrate his stories.  One remarkable example would be “The Lady with the Dog,” where Chekhov carefully distinguished the life…

“A Cup of Tea” by Katherine Mansfield (1888 to 1923-New Zealand) is included in the 1923 collection of her work, The Dove’s Nest and Other Stories edited by Mansfield’s husband, John Middleton Murry. There is a very moving introduction to this collection in which Murry lets us know details about the next ten stories his…

Dylan Thomas is one of the most accomplished modern poets in English literary domain. As an original poet of great power and beauty, he has shown his extra-ordinary creative power in his poems. His images were most carefully ordered in a patterned sequence and his major theme was the unity of all life, the continuing…

On Hemingway’s iceberg theory 52 distinct image with the succinct and direct writing, the feeling and thought of the writer himself are hidden in the image to the largest extent. Thus, the emotion is plentiful, though included but not exposed; the thought is profound, though deeply concealed but not obscure. On account of this, the…

I. Background of the study We owe it to ourselves as Filipinos to revisit the writings of Dr. Rizal and try to gain an understanding of his ideals and hope for the Philippines. Dr. Rizal is a great gift of God to us, if we are to see it in a Christian perspective. But Dr….

The Importance of Being Earnest belongs to a literary genre known as artificial comedy. Unlike traditional comedy, it does not adhere to comical representation of love affairs and follies associated with that. Wilde took the genre of artificial comedy that flourished during the Restoration in England and revived it with a new outlook. This kind…