Category: Desiree’s Baby

Villains, superheroes, and monsters–all of these are characters with which the reader is familiar. Authors use many techniques to develop the personalities of these characters to the readers. Authors use literary elements such as inner dialogue, appearance, and name meaning to create the characters. In Desirees Baby by Kate Chopin, Chopin uses internal thoughts, the…

Through the role of storytelling, an enduring text invites the audiences to challenge the previously held assumptions and beliefs of ourselves and the world at large whilst igniting new ideas on the true nature of the individual and collective human experiences. Anthony Doerrs 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See reveals the individuals resilience…

Thomas Sowell once stated that Racism is not dead, but on life support- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists. Racism has been one of the most controversial and highly fought over issues in the United State for many, many years. Throughout the…

Interracial marriages (miscegenation) and their progenies have been a cause of dissent for African-Americans in both pre and post-civil war era. Whites considered themselves as superiors, and their treatment towards black was brutal and totally unjust. Even after decades of slavery abolishment Act, blacks were not given the equal rights in the White society. Though…

The term of ‘local colour fiction’ is associated with the writing style of American literature, between the period of the civil war ending, to the end of the nineteenth century. It originated in the southern states and often focused its plots not on single heroes in the novel, but rather using that main narrator to…