by Alexis Jennings | Apr 22, 2024 | Literature
‘I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.’ The preceding quote is an excerpt from Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ which is an absurdist fiction...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 22, 2024 | Literature
In this essay, I choose the movie “Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets” as the object, aim to discover its critical and commercial values in the popular culture industry; but more importantly, I will try to analyze key themes and approaches the movie tends to...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 22, 2024 | Literature
Since the beginning of time, females have always been perceived as objects who have only one job: to bear children. Men have oppressed, controlled, abused, and limited women in a countless number of ways because of the belief that women are inferior to them. Today,...
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 22, 2024 | Literature
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) offers a sense of mystery and suspense to the readers as they journey with Christopher throughout his town to find the culprit for the murder incident so that he can write his novel....
by Alexis Jennings | Apr 22, 2024 | Literature
Two of the most powerful bucks that I have ever read were The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Beloved by Toni Morrison. Both books have completely different plots where one book focuses on the trials and tribulations of the main character Celie and the other depicts...