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Modernist literature is often notable for what it omits; the explanations, interpretations, connections, summaries, and distancing that provide continuity, perspective, and security in earlier literatures. The modernist movement started to come about during a violent time period due to the World War and along with technology advances in society. Alienation is the primary theme in…

William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize speech revealed to all who have witnessed or read it, the many duties of a writer. The most significant point that he made, to me, was that a writer’s duty is to connect. That includes both connecting with their audience, and other writers. Writers have the ability to put something out…

St. Vincent Millay ( 1892-1950 ) was born in Rockland, Maine. Her parents, Cora Lounella, a  nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a school teacher, divorced when she was approximately eight ;  ‘‘ Vincent ‘‘ stayed with her female parent. In 1917 she graduated from Vassar, published Renaissance  and Other Poems ( the rubric piece had…

ical EnvironmentThe Harlem Renaissance emerged during turbulent times for the world, the United States, and black Americans. World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 had left the world in disorder and stimulated anticolonial movements throughout the third world. In America, twenty years of progressive reform ended with the red scare, race riots, and…

The extract in autobiography. One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty focuses on the experience the writer had in traveling to the library. Welty uses many descriptive and metaphorical linguistic communications to convey the strength of the experience in the library and the value of the incident. Welty first utilizes her nonliteral linguistic communication to depict…

  Writers seem to be of a different breed than a lot of people. They have a “reputation of being enormously mentally unstable” (Gilbert 2013) and “manic, alcoholic depressives” (Gilbert 2013). It has been said that anguish and artistry go hand in hand (Gilbert 2013) but is that true? Is a troubled mind full of…

Most people would usually work in a job that pays well while living in a good environment with a healthy family. However, there are some people who tried to work at a job that pays less money to help take care of their family in menial labor jobs. An author that recognizes the problem is…

In 1964, his controversial drama “Blues for Mister Charlie” about the most horrible crimes of the Civil rights movement, ran for 150 performances on Broadway. Baldwin brought to American the discussion about race, especially in his earlier novels and essays an understanding of the turmoil’s psychological nuances and its consequences. His complicated sense of himself…

The movie “Freedom Writers” was about Erin Gruwell, a young teacher who accepted a position teaching freshman and sophomore English at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Mrs. Gruwell dramatically transformed a chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. This class was consisted of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Juvenile Delinquents, gang members, one…

“The Ice Palace,” portrays life in the age of depression, and discusses primary themes of societal prejudice and marriage. It does so in a format bright with imagery. Sunlight, warmth of the south, contrasts with the north’s cold winter, giving the reader a clue as to the name of the novel, the Ice Palace. Sally…