Category: Literary Criticism

In Elie Wiesels horrifyingly real, raw memoir Night, he develops a very strong central idea surrounding the significance of identity; he makes it very notable that ones identity can be easily influenced and changed subject to your environment and personal hardship. From the beginning to the end of the book, we follow Wiesel along his…

Elies life within the city of Sighet in 1941 was completely different from once the Holocaust had started. though there was a war, Elie Wiesel was unaffected whereby he targeted on following his fathers occupation. Life in 1941 for Wiesel wasn’t as overwhelming for Elie compared to once the holocaust began. I was almost thirteen…

Symbolism, geography, and irony are brought up many times by Coelho throughout the book. In the book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, different types of literary devices are brought up, the book is spoken in 3rd person by a boy named Santiago and his Personal Legend. This story begins when they had the same dream…

In Iran, there are different regulations and laws for women living in the country. Iran has different policies that men and women have to follow. The rules for women can restrict their freedom. In the book Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi shows an upper-middle-class woman growing up in Iran and the different restrictions that even women of…

The Odyssey is a classic ancient Greek poem credited to Homer, following the Greek hero Odysseus and his extensive journey home after the fall of Troy. In his absence, his wife Penelope is sieged by suitors who want her hand in marriage and with it her kingdom (Morford, Lenardon, & Sham, 2019, p. 520). Despite…

Bob begins the novel as the emblem of all things Socthat is, all things rich, smug, entitled, and different from Ponyboy and his friends. The ominous blue Mustang that appears and reappears throughout the novel highlights the economic difference between Bob and Ponyboy; its as if Ponyboy cannot see past the beautiful car to the…

Repetition is needed to remember the men as they were and not the men the war has turned them into. This literary device gives insight and more importance to the physical and mental weight they carried on their shoulders. We learn what kind of men they are. Mitchell Sanders is a man who disguises his…

My book was The Odyssey by Homer. The Odyssey is a widely popular ancient Greek epic poem written nearly 2500 years ago in Europe. It tells of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, on a long journey home after the Trojan War. It tells of his battles with monsters and encounters with gods, his son’s desperate…

Although published in 1967, Outsiders by S.E Hinton an easy-to-read narrative is still relevant to many teenagers today. Darry and Sodapop host a good cop, bad cop bringing up and complimenting one anothers stern affection for Ponyboy. However, Pony also feels Darry is pushing and expects too much of him which is collateral to teenagers…

Confessional poetry was considered bold and daring from the late 1950s to the 1980s as it was a break from the more modernist forms of poetry at this time. Confessional poetry is a form of self-revelation in a lot of cases and is extremely personal. (Beach, 154) Anne Sexton is one of the most known…