… most powerful being a change in perspective. It can alter images of people, place, and even their path in life. The poems "Crossing the Red Sea", "Migrant Hostel", and "10 Mary Street", by Peter Shrzynecki, show a migrant families change in perspective…

… an era in his literary works. Utilizing his characteristic dry wit and firm grasp of humanity's foibles, Twain masterfully handles the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry Finn explores the major societal issues of the late nineteenth…

… Kingsolver's Animal Dreams, Codi's life is filled with the loss of family members, which includes the death of her mother, baby, and father, but the death of her sister, Hallie, ironically brings Doc Homer and Codi closer than ever. Though this relations…

… village in which the citizens gather for a yearly lottery. On this summer afternoon, the town's citizens gather in the town square to take part in the yearly lottery by drawing slips of paper from the traditional black box that has been a part of the…

… it was jealousy and anger that first lead her to want to kill Estella. Now many years later Molly does not hold the same anger and jealousy that she did before. Molly wanted to kill Estella for the main reason that she was angry at Magwitch, which…

… his novella about the physical and psychological experiences traveling to the heart of the African continent in "Heart of Darkness", he never would have imagined that some eighty years latter, a young Francis Ford Coppola would set the cinematic…

… in 1604 is a master tragedy embodying the traditional qualities of severity, magnitude and emotion as defined by Aristotle. It is in Shakespeare's characterization of central character Othello that Elizabethan context truly begins to infiltrate…

… think of your childhood these are not words that spring to mind. How about deception, conformity and subversion? As malicious as these may sound, the truth is that throughout the world, societies and parents put all of the above into practice in a…

… and timeless theme of the relationship between man and nature. Written during the post World War I era, the novel addresses issues of the struggle for peace, the development of science, and the totalitarian state. Set in the year A.F. 632 (after…

… but is doomed to fail. He is trapped in a situation where he cannot win. He makes some sort of tragic flaw, and this causes his fall from greatness. Even though he is a fallen hero, he still wins a moral victory, and his spirit lives on. In…