Allusion Essays Samples That Help You Write Better, Faster & with Gusto

The essay “Shooting Dad” authored by Sarah Vowell narrates the opposition of Vowell to her father. Vowell attributes the dissonance between herself and her father to her disapproval of guns. However, the witty essay is delivered on public radio. In essence, the purpose of the essay is to demonstrate the inevitable compromise between Vowell and her dad through the radio platform. The purpose of the essay has been achieved through the use of various writing techniques including unusual introduction, provocative title, unusual organization, unusual diction, historical allusion and delayed thesis. This discussion will delineate the extent to which each Continue reading...

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Print.
This is the primary source for the essay – in this Ray Bradbury short story, reading is outlawed, resulting in a dystopian society that censors independent thought and free will. Through close textual analysis and comparison to scholarly literature, the themes of censorship in this book will be explored.
Huntington, John. “Utopian and Anti-Utopian Logic: HG Wells and His Successors.” Science
Fiction Studies 9.2 (July 1982): 122-146.
In this article, Huntington equates Bradbury’s novel with the genius of HG Wells, and talks about the utopian and anti-utopian Continue reading...

Paper 1

Grabs attention? How?
The Dove ads initially draw attention and attract the audience of two female magazines since they feature a seemingly incongruent objects or images. When we see the contrast among the images, we give specific attention to the ads. We initially conceptualize about smoothness versus roughness and this pertains to the product.
Ad A: The inverted image of a red apple depicts the contrast between the surface and shape of the object. Hence, the audience is drawn to the contrast between the two images. The contrast is in the relationship between the two parts of an image Continue reading...

Randle Patrick McMurphy is one of the chief characters in the book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. McMurphy’s role appears to be that of a liberator of sorts. He comes in and brings a breath of fresh air and a new way of doing things. That McMurphy has been cast as an almost Messianic character is no coincidence. This is because the whole book itself is peppered with inferences to the Messianic story of redemption. This paper attempts to draw parallels between some scenes in this story and the Biblical story of Jesus Christ.
The first Continue reading...

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Plato’s “The Myth of the Cave” are very different stories in almost every way. Faulkner wrote about the physical and mental decay of an upper class woman from a bygone generation, and Plato wrote about philosophical knowledge versus worldly needs in the governing of society. The stories were written thousands of years apart and the elements of the stories illustrate the passage of time between them. A comparison of the theme, setting, style of writing, and characters display how different the stories are; however, both stories include descriptive imagery that Continue reading...

Jim Daniels' "5000 Apply for 100 Jobs" is a short poetic romp that not only showcases Daniels' imagination, but it also invites the reader to explore his own imagination along the way.
This feat is accomplished by Daniels' allusions near the beginning of the poem, as well as its anti-climactic ending. Both parts of the poem leave the reader guessing, and more importantly, relying on his imagination to decode the meaning of the implicit imagery used by the poet.
First, Daniels uses his imagination to make a hum-drum event -- waiting in an employment line -- into something quite Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

Chinatowns are their in many countries in the whole world, with the inclusion of United States, France, Australia, India, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, among others. They are often marred with spectacular allusion to the stereotypic Chinese cultures in most cases. Nevertheless, the scope of the display of these definitive Chinese cultural elements in the Chinatowns varies a bit from one country to the other. The essay considers this in comparing the situation between American Chinatowns and the French Chinatowns. It considers the following as points of argument: dress codes in Chinese restaurants; overall conversations and interactions; use of Continue reading...

Economists have a great impact in our lives, this is particularly because their opinions and research findings are of essence in formulating economic policies that relate to employment, tax laws, corporate strategies and international trade agreements. Javed I.Ahmed, is one among many successful economists who have since impacted our society positively and inspired many, his track records attest that he is competent, hardworking and focused. His opinions and research works incorporated in books have been mentioned and alluded by many when dealing with matters economy in a considerable number of times. Being an influential person and a role model Continue reading...

The various letters written to labor newspapers or their editors range from 1905-1913 and were sent to The Voice published out of Winnipeg, the Industrial Workers out of Spokane, Wash., and Solidarity out of New Castle, Penn. This is evident as seen in the excerpts in Abella and Millar's 1978 book The Canadian Worker in the Twentieth Century. Upon reading these letters from 'concerned and disgruntled workers' in the railway construction industry, there are various strengths and weaknesses that are strikingly noticeable from the documents.
The perspective source documents of the Canadian labor historians portray the strength of these Continue reading...