Suffering allows the auto biographer to hold his audience in relative awe over the central theme of his work, the discovery of an unknown experience, an unknown life. Through the theme of suffering, the true relevance of the autobiography, as a genre of literature, emerges. ... Within the genre of autobiography, suffering provides the strongest medium for the theme of self-discovery. ... However, it is important to understand the motion of the theme of self-discovery for both the author and the audience, before observing it. ... Wordsworth, holding fast to the principle of nature's maj...

• Word Count: 3189
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

"Great Expectations" discusses various themes on crime, law and the criminal justice system. ... Crime and Punishment is an important theme in Great Expectations and Dicken's uses the character of Magwitch to highlight his concerns with the criminal Justice system. ... "I half expected to see him drop down before my face and die of deadly cold." ... It may prevent some persons laying under suspicion a longer me." ... The reader does not see Magwitch again until chapter 39, when it is many years later and Pip is living as a gentleman in London, as a result of funds from a mystery benefacto...

• Word Count: 3591
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Joe's own son, Larry, a military pilot, dies en route to China in a related crash. ... In Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," money and responsibility play a huge role as themes, as does loyalty. ... You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what could I do, let them take forty years, let them take my life away?... Here Keller attempts even to lay blame on his son's shoulders. ... He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other peopl...

• Word Count: 2731
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School