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On page 25, paragraph 2 the text reads, “Desperately he struck out with strong strokes after the receding lights of the yacht, but he stopped before he had swum fifty feet. A certain coolheadedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been in a tight place. There was a chance…

In the 1930s, the American dream was an ideal of which almost every American took into consideration as to how they could live comfortably in America whether they’d come from nothing as an immigrant or were native to the US such as blacks or lower class whites. This dream, however, was practically impossible. The most…

Langston Hughes represented the African American culture in his poems, describing his utmost feelings towards America during the racial segregation era. Hughes’ use of cultural slang was inspired by the places he lived, which revealed the despairing tone the African Americans felt during this time period. As a result, his poems often shared the same…

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author continuing on the English tradition of crime fiction. Poe published his first piece in 1827. This text is very imaginary and it is hard to draw the line between horror and crime fiction. Poe was brought up in an orphanage in which he had an awful time, perhaps…

I want to analyze a work of a writer who is very very famous in England and has many works in his time. The works are very good and become popular because they have moral values . That are embodied in the work. William Shakespeare is a famous English writer who works as a playwright,…

Probably, one of the best masterpieces of Shakespeare was “King Lear” which takes Its title from the protagonist character Lear, the king of Britain, then. Who handled novel themes and motifs related to the human nature, Shakespeare was, in a way, the first to touch of the devastating and ambitious sides of mankind with the…

The short story Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell takes place in British controlled India. Orwell was a police officer for the British, located in Lower Burma, and tensions between the Natives and the British ran high. Without Britain’s involvement in India, Orwell would not have felt the societal pressures to shoot the elephant. The…

A Raisin in the Sun, is all about an African American family, fighting for a better life. The family lives in a low income neighborhood in south side of Chicago in the 1950s where the family face racial barriers and chasing their dreams. Walter Younger is an anti hero, a flawed character who does not…

William Shakespeare is now regarded as one of the most celebrated playwrights in the history of world literature. Even during his lifetime, his dramatic works enjoyed enormous popularity among a great number of people. Nowadays, many of them form an important part of the literature curriculum in schools or colleges. Among his numerous plays, one…

Mathilde Loisel lives in a level with her better half, who fills in as a representative for the Minister of Edification. Their lives are not lavish, but rather they are not impecunious, just basic. Mathilde, be that as it may, yearns to be lavish. She begrudges her companion Jeanne who has a gigantically goliath house…