This essay is to deal mainly with the writing techniques of The Old Man and the Sea as well as the character about the main hero, aiming to help the readers get a better understanding of the masterpiece by Hemingway. ... It is will, courage, confidence and endurance that help him to get out of a tight corner. ... To him, a new day is a new start. ... Solitary, he can turn to no one for help. ... He returns home exhausted, bloody, stripped of gear, and even poorer than when he started out. ...

• Word Count: 2478
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Indeed, when I informed people that I was writing a critical essay on Stephen King the most common response was laughter. ... This is what I have decided to investigate in this essay. ... For example, "Needful Things" starts and ends by us, the readers being addressed by an elderly man, "You've been her before. ... While in time this does become a part of the overall plot, there at the very start of the novel it seems to serve two purposes. ... This is evidently not a primary reason, but it helps to maintain the author's pre-eminent sales position. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This essay will be a critical analysis of the three primary facets of structure - character, plot and theme - in reference to the novels Mary Barton and The Woman in White. ... Starting with an analysis of character one must first give it a literary definition. ... Hartright displays this when he helps Anne by not reveling her to the men in the chaise who would restore her to the asylum. ... This essay examined these facets of structure in turn, and related them to the novels of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton. ...

• Word Count: 1673
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will explore and compare both Charles Dickens and Roddy Doyle's way of presenting a child's view of the world in their novels, David Copperfield' and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. ... It helps make the novel more realistic therefore it doesn't seem so far fetched. ... Paddy then starts to become conscious that his friends are around and he is unable to sort his little brother out. ... The novel starts with Paddy talking to his friends as a young boy. He doesn't start the novel with Paddy looking back on his life from the day he was born as Charl...

• Word Count: 2123
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Essay: War's Influence Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarqueare two novels which are both different and alike. ... His gestures that show this are his desperate pleading with everyone that could possibly help him, including the doctor and the chaplain. ... By being confronted daily with death, the war has not hardened Yossarian to fear; instead it has made him much more aware of the value and fragility of life: One of the things (Yossarian) wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting...

• Word Count: 1371
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

For the purposes of this essay I will be exploring the question of whether or not the formalities of literature have to be expunged so that adaptations can translate convincingly to cinema or can we see a much more fruitful relationship between these two texts, and one in which can grant Woolf a degree of prescience with which she is rarely credited. ... The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a M...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Everything is Illuminated," by Jonathan Safran Foer, was published in 2002 and is still on many bestseller lists. Foer was born in Washington D.C. in 1977. Foer's grandfather, Louis Foer, was a holocaust survivor. Foer never thought about having a career in writing, but was inspired to become a wri...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School