option is within reach. Making sense of your life is difficult when you are young, as you are still in the process of creating yourself and finding your own meaning of life. These issues are also addressed in Anna Hope’s short story “A Gap of Sky” from 2008. At the start of the story, the 19-year-old main character Ellie has just woken up from sleeping.
Darwinian Determinism, and Nietzsche the theories of race. Of fifty books published during his brief career The Call of the Wild is the most famous and widely read. London’s fiction particularly The Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel, The Sea Wolf, and short stories “Love of Life,” “To Build a Fire,” and “Baard” are considered Classics in American Literature. London was born in January 12 (1876) at San Francisco to Flora Wellman, abandoned by her common-law husband one year. Nine month after the child’s birth
Literature is the mirror of world that has no end, but it is the reflection of human life. Literature is the broadest sense of writing. It is the writing of art form with intellectual value. Literature represents a language of a people, culture and tradition. Literature is more important than a historical or a cultural artifact. Literature introduces people to new worlds of experience. Literature is the term derived from Latin word, “literature/litterautra”, which means ‘writing formed with
The protagonist of the story Miss Mackenzie, an elderly yet not a grumbling spinster, rather a polite and a spirited one is shown to share an intrinsic bond with nature. She lives amidst the serene hills in the Himalayan Mulberry Cottage. A cat shares the snug refuge with her
Now” and Kurtz’s reading of the T. S. Eliot poem “The Hollow Men”. Let me begin this short essay by relating the term “hollow” to Conrad’s whole novel. “Heart of Darkness” is basically a story about men with no humanity (or even specific personalities), who go to Africa and blindly search for ivory all their lives. There is a very obvious and important conflict between modernization and savagery in the story. I strongly believe that Marlow represents the European mindless modernity while Kurtz
It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature, which had been previously harmonized, has changed and became a heartless and cruel one due to technological and industrial developments and changes. Departure of the Sea is a short story in which the relationship between man and nature has manifested itself. The method of analysis followed in this research paper depends largely on the analysis of interactions that take place
Many writers have appeared on the literary scene in the post-slavery era and the end of the American Civil War, where the writer was particularly concerned about the living conditions of the blacks and their suffering. In fact, the problem of blacks did not end completely even after the declaration of Abraham Lincolns declaration of slavery was freed in 1862 and even after the passage of the actual law of 1863 of the Declaration of Liberty. The black faced many problems after this period, including
left again. He written his first novel The Room on the Roof and received the Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. In 1993 he received the Sahitya Academy Award, Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014. He has written over three hundred short stories, essays and novels, including Vagrants in The Valley, The Blue Umbrella, Funny Side Up, A Flight of Pigeons and 30 bookss for
Irengbam Dr Rajneesh Mishra NTCC term paper 24 October 2015 Racial relation To kill a mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee, it was published in 1960. It was an immediate success winning the Pulitzer prize and it is also regarded as a classic in modern American literature. This novel deals with issues of rape and racial inequality but it is also renowned for its good characteristics like warmth and humour. We can see that the characters and plots are loosely based upon the writer’s observation of
Washington Irving (1783 –1859) was born in the year United Stated achieved independence from Britain and he was named after the Father of His Country, George Washington. He is known as the father of American Literature. He “legitimated the writer as writer, someone distinct from other occupations, and he vindicated the artwork as just that, a work of art and not a vehicle for moral or civic instruction” (Gilmore 661-662). He was the American writer who made authorship profitable. "If the American