Literature Category

The Review of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel written by Mark Twain in 1884. It describes communities leaving along the river Mississippi and different places close to it. While depicting the lives of people in the area, the work addresses diverse issues such as relationships, slavery, lies, death, drunkenness, and violence. They are the problems that […]

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Oscar Wao. Colonialism and Magical Realism

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 fiction novel by Junot Diaz that tells the story of one Oscar De Leon. It describes De Leon’s as a sweet and disastrously overweight person and his life forms the larger part of the story. It is through De Leon’s life that the concept of magical realism unravels.

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Critique “The Death of Horatio Alger”

The article “The Death of Horatio Alger” by Paul Krugman writes about the theory that might explain why rich people become richer while poor people remain poor. That theory has an economic and social background, and the author states that the explanation is simple for that tendency.

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Flags of Our Fathers

The studies of historical events usually focus on the general and large-scale tendencies. If the researchers pay attention to the role of the individuals in the development of history, they are some important figures, like kings, generals or presidents.

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Women in Literature from 1600-1800’s

Strong female characters always attracted attention of writers and inspired creation of numerous masterpieces. Women’s inborn power that was demonstrated by strong, bold, confident character, sexuality, and incredible brilliance fascinated a great number of writers.

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Literary Analysis

In the essay, the author focuses on a brief literary analysis of a selected passage from Ginsberg’s famous poem Howl. The analysis explores the poem’s broad context and centers on the leading themes, symbols, and issues in the passage. The passage is …

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