First Person

Or, The Love of the Last Tycoon (1941), if preferred. Either way, the book, though otherwise a quality piece of literature given its unfinished state, has issues concerning its strange jumps in narrative perspective. The book has a strange tendency to leap between a third person omniscient narrator and first person narration from Cecilia’s perspective….

“He said, ‘Take a Look. What do you think?’ […] My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything. ‘It’s really something,” I said” (115). Stories captivate the minds of different readers at different points in life. Every author will make their…

My name is Emma Goldman and I am a Jewish, immigrant anarchist. My general fight is to preserve the justice of people working in our labor party and for women to gain the right to birth control and their bodies like the bohemian party. I was born in the Russian Empire in 1869 and attended…

My name is Mister James Jauncey, a proud loyalist and merchant who immigrated from Barbados to New York with my brother, John Jauncey. We became very successful merchants, dealing in dry goods between. The Caribbean and New York; my position of power in the trading industry led me into. The smuggling business during the Seven…

“You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter,” begins the American classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain 1). The light cheerful diction of Huckleberry Finn sparks interest in the young naïve boy. Without his voice, the novel…

Life as it seems, has gone by far too quickly. Whilst my comrades lay dead in the blood-drenched mud with no dying regrets, I lay on this cot shivering under the covers, shielding myself from the relentless cold. Ashamedly, as I settle in warm comfort, my thoughts begin to ponder the worthiness of our cause….

The interview overall was extremely difficult to do because of how long it had to be. Fifteen minutes is a long time, especially when I was barely able to role play for five minutes in class. I got the point of it but I still felt to go from five to fifteen was a big…

Robin Rihanna Fenty is a celebrity who has reached fame through her songs,but as she done anything with her fame? There is an award someone can win that is given by TIME’s MAGAZINE which tells the people how close they are to being a hero, and this award is called the Person of the Year….

Herbert CrolyI was born on January 23, 1869, in New York. Both my mother and my father were journalists. My father’s name is David Croly and my mother’s name is Jane Cunningham. Some of my early on goals included graduating from Harvard University, and becoming a well-known journalist, both of which were later achieved. After…

I wake up and my eyes are flooded with the appearance of nothingness. I give them a few seconds to adjust to the darkness that has overtaken my room. After a few seconds of adjusting I begin to make out the shapes and objects that make up my bedroom. I look over at the clock…