by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
In ‘The Black Ball’ by Ralph Ellison, the story’s themes are struggle, equality, hope, and connection, while in ‘Why, You Reckon?’ by Langston Hughes, the author uses two characters at the beginning to show peer pressure, poverty, and racism. In ‘The Black Ball’,...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
Edgar Allan Poe describes the feeling of guilt and fear through symbols in the stories ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Black Cat’. For instance, the eye in each story symbolizes how the narrator views himself. However, the narrators are both seen differently....
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
We all need some kind of authority with us, or our society could be a disaster, as shown in the book ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding. In this novel, a group of boys is stranded on an isolated Island at the time of an imaginary nuclear war with no connection to...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
The influential English author, William Golding, once said: “I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature”. The controversial and rather unsettling theory that humans are inherently evil is portrayed in Golding’s 1954 novel ‘Lord of the...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
In Golding’s ‘Lord of the Flies’, a group of British boys are trapped on a desert island after a plane crash and must fend for themselves. In this story, many aspects of societal problems are explored. Some symbols may be interpreted as civilization versus savagery,...
