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Arthur Miller, the son of a wealthy father who lost all of his money in the crash of 1929, abandoned his schooling as a young child to support his family through various odd jobs. These jobs provided Miller with insight into the life of an average American, which he later incorporated as a central theme…

Steinbeck ideas were that a writer should be able to show the reality Of life; to show that life is a war for every single person. In every single story mentioned from Steinbeck, he has shown that the real war is internal. Internal of course being inside of us, he showed that fear and any…

From time to time frequent TGR contributor Charles Saunders jumps in his wayback machine and brings back some gems from the heyday of the Howard Boom. One of these gems is his classic article “A Mouthful of Feathers” that appeared in The Chronicler of Cross Plains #1 in 1978. The article compares the similarities and differences…

The Kuykendalls of Ranger took care of a lonely Doc Howard in his declining years, treating him like a member of their family. He repaid them by leaving them the rights to Robert’s writings. On this, the fifty-second anniversary of the passing of Dr. Kuykendall, I thought it would be appropriate to remember all three of…

Discuss the importance of setting in the novel you have studied “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”, by Thomas Hardy, is set in the years of 1880 to 1890, in Wessex, which is in the southwest of England. Settings in the novel, such as Talbothays, Flintcombe-Ash, Sandbourne and Stonehenge are important because they help us to understand…

Arguable one of greatest works by Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, contains 52 sections. It was published in 1855 and later expanded under “Leaves of Grass” poetry collection. The first section of the poem, “I celebrate myself, and sing myself”, consists of 4 stanzas and 13 lines. The major theme in this section is “All…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus as Mary Shelley subtitled it, was first published in 1818. It tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a student in anatomy and physiology. He becomes set on finding the source of life, both for the personal acclaim it will bring him but also, he claims, to better the human race….

“The Custom House” Response In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s introduction to the Scarlet Letter, “The Custom House,” he mentions the corruption of the system of appointment of officers within the custom- house. In the sentence, “Uncle Cam’s gold-meaning no disrespect to the worthy old gentleman-has, in this respect, a quality of enchantment like that of the Devil’s…

In William Shakespeare ’ s Twelfth Night we encounter several interesting characters. The character I found to be most interesting and most different from the others was Malvolio. Malvolio is the retainer of Olivia. Although he belongs to the servant category, he believes strongly that he is better than the persons that he serves. Malvolio…

Anton Chekhov and Joyce Oates both approached this short narrative from the third-person storyteller. The chief difference is how Chekhov entertained the male position of love while Oates indulged in the weakening facet of the feminine side. Chekhov used a limited omniscient storyteller who merely knows Gurov’s inner ideas and feelings. He reveals the point…