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The Holocaust was and still is a very sore subject. Throughout history, humanity grapples with the concept of the Holocaust and how to describe it in a way everyone of all ages can understand. For de…

The most captivating stories often employ memorable symbols to produce a compelling message. Jael Richardson uses symbolism in her novel Gutter Child to communicate the effects that oppression and sys…

In Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison teaches the reader through vast stories about the amount of invisibility that was placed among black people during the 1930s. Within the capacity of not being seen cre…

Power is represented in many different ways in Animal Farm. There are three main characters that represent leaders and the power they hold. These three characters are Mr.Jones, Napoleon, and Snowball.…

Both Chocolat by Lasse Hallstrom and "By Any Other Name" by Santha Rama Rau show similarities and differences because they show the positive and negative effects of a new influence on an existing soci…

The author of The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses positives and negatives from Gatsby's life to portray to the reader the reality of the American dream. The American dream is not all glory and g…

Literary theory is a style of literature analysis that involves interpreting and critiquing a piece of literature through a certain perspective. It is beneficial because it allows the reader to gain a…

The ending of "The Giver" was mainly left to the interpretation of the reader. Some may say that both Jonas and Gabe had died during the end, meanwhile others say that what Jonas had seen was real, an…

Oftentimes, the screen adaptation of a novel just doesn't live up to the original story. There could be many reasons why a movie differentiates itself from its literary counterpart such as time limit,…

In A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, the main character, Mariam, has many past traumatic experiences that affect her future as she grows older throughout the novel. These experiences both p…