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In the essay the American Scholar, Emerson portrays the scholar as a person who learns from three main things. These things by which a scholar is educated are by nature, by books (the past) and by action. Emerson uses nature as a comparison to the human mind where he states, “There is never a beginning,…

Harry Potter is an average 11-year-old boy who has lived with the Dursley family ever since his parents died in a car crash. For some reason, the family has always mistreated him. On his 11th birthday, a giant man named Rubeus Hagrid hands him a letter telling him that he has been accepted as a…

In Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello’s pride stops him from finding the truth, eventually leading to his demise. At the beginning, Othello and Desdemona are very much in love. Even though Desdemona’s farther is against their marriage. However, when Othello promotes Cassio instead of Iago to Lieutenant, Iago has his revenge by convincing Othello that Desdemona cheats…

We are introduced to the story being set ‘a few miles south of Soledad’, which straight away fixes a tone of loneliness. Being alone and isolated is a prominent theme in the story. This idea is being foreshadowed before even being introduced to the main characters. In the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’, Steinbeck shows…

During the past few decades, many different authors developed unique writing styles that have changed over the years. Many books from the past are similar to modern day books, but many have changed as well. The novel, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was set in the 1920s when World War One ended…

Hard work never fails OR Share your happiness. It’s about a kid who went many hardships in his life and how he got his own place in this world. PLOT This story also tells about the Dickens life in the character named David Copperfield. In this novel Dickens drew his father’s picture as Mr.Micawber. The…

Chapter 7 was another important chapter in this book, it started off with Gatsby deciding to call off his parties, which he had held primarily to lure Daisy. He has also fired his servants to prevent gossip, and replaced them with connections of Meyer Wolfsheim. On the hottest day of the summer, Nick drives to…

“Then wear the gold hat..bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you”(1). This epitaph by Thomas DInvilliers, found at the beginning of The Great Gatsby, depicts the dream that Jay Gatsby tries to make a reality. While it embodies characteristics of the American Dream of rags to riches,…

And Then There Were None I recently read a mystery book by the name of “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie. I read this book because I have read other books by Agatha Christie that were pretty well written. Ten people are invited to an island, called “Indian Island”,by letters that were signed…

The title of N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” encapsulates the theme of a journey that permeates the story. In the story, a young man journeys to the grave of his grandmother along the same route that her people, the Kiowas, took across America before settling on the southern Plains. The young man’s…