… story" (Porter), The Lottery was written by Shirley Jackson in 1948. In a letter to poet Howard Nemerov, she wrote, "...I have always loved to use fear...I delight in what I fear" (Guran). James Joyce was "born into a well-off Catholic family in…

… poetry and how it reflects her spiritual/philosophical beliefs about life, death and our place in the world. Spiritual is having to do with the soul or spirit, while philosophical is to do with the study of the causes and laws of all things. In Gwen…

… of the ancestral myth, she writes bluntly, 'when you kill the ancestor you kill yourself.' This is certainly true for Macon Dead in Song of Solomon. Macon has rejected his heritage for materialism and as a result remains a most discontented…

… Massachusetts. Her parents were Otto and Aurelia Plath. Plath's father, Otto, immigrated to America from Germany when he was just sixteen years old. He wanted to study ministry at the Northwestern College, which was a small Lutheran school. Accordi…

… and location from which it was derived. Different eras and cultures have produced works that, whether through different writing styles, dialect, or mood, represent the attitudes shared by many of the writer's contemporaries. Thus, we are able to recogn…

… and has spent nearly his entire life in Washington, in the area around Puget Sound. After receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Washington, he taught high school English on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, writing at the…

… Othello Othello, The Moor of Venice, by William Shakespeare, is one of Shakespeare's most well known tragedies. In the play, the many types of jealousy are explored through love hate and deceit. There are three main female characters, in…

… reader as the symbol of civilization and order. As the novel progresses, Ralph manages to adhere to his original connection to civilization. Unlike Ralph, the other boys quickly adapt from their societal values to the island's natural ways of survival…

… Invisible Man, the narrator's hopes and dreams alter every time he becomes a new self. I believe that this book is written entirely on the basis of how he is searching for his own identity and in order to find it; he has to have awareness of himself…

… drive? To cook? To play tennis? Or anything else? The obvious answer is of course, a teacher. An instructor, who can teach you the rules of the game. However, a teacher can only help the student so far and the rest is up to the individual. A student…