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People develop their own individual beliefs which reflects the different factors that a person grew up knowing and interacting with. As such, belief becomes something that is individual and unique to everyone as each and every person is exposed to different things while growing up. This helps in developing a person’s character. However, when the said beliefs are veering towards prejudism, they create an inequality in the society. This was proven in a study by Brandt, which looked into gender inequality between men and women. According to the study, the idea of having beliefs, especially those which are Continue reading...

Over My Dead Body

The play, Over My Dead Body, by Violet Barungi, is an inspirational play that reveals some of the horrid practices in Uganda where young girls, before they mature, are lured into early marriages to rich men because of their family’s economical status. This gives little hope of being independent and leading a life of their own. Right at the start, and just before she begins the play, Barungi reflects on what made her write such plays. She writes, “Writing is my way of communication, and when I write, I make every effort to present my view of life Continue reading...

Cinderella has been written, and rewritten by a number of artists over the centuries but certain elements of her tale always seem to remain the same, the shoe, the prince, and the happily ever after. However, in Anne Sexton’s poetic retelling of Cinderella’s story, all elements of romance, magic, and fairy-tale promises of a happy ending are removed, leaving only the bare bones of a cynic’s ire in their wake. Ultimately, Sexton relates a version of the tale that emphasizes the original tale’s condemnation for manipulative and vain women, but fails to remove Cinderella from Continue reading...

The play merchant of Venice has been placed in the comedy category, but this classification is problematic. There are certain sceneries in the play that cannot qualify as comedy. The play has certain dark parts make the play appear tragic.
The play by Shakespeare has both a mixture of comedy and tragedy. However, the play is mostly tragedy. The play begins on a sad note. Antonio is in a melancholic mood at the beginning of the play. All his investments are going to be lost at sea. He is sad but claims that he does not know the reason. Continue reading...

Analysis of what love means in Raymond Carver's "What we talk about when we talk about love" and Tillie Olsen’s "I Stand Here Ironing."

Introduction

Raymond Carver’s “What we talk about when we talk about Love" and Tillie Olsen’s "I Stand Here Ironing" are important literary works that share many elements. Both stories have an interest in the topic of love, and the authors approach the subject from different perspectives. In spite of their approaches and the varying characterization, the authors use their stories to show the extent to which interpersonal relations can affect human relations. Based Continue reading...

Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker

Introduction
In Danticat’s ‘The Dew Breaker,’ the bitter history of corruption, violence and vengeance in Haiti stalks almost all of the characters in the novel. The dark history leads to their dreams being infected and their expectations to be circumscribed. Most of the characters are trying without much success to remember their history and to ultimately erase it from their minds. The author chooses her characters, words, and events wisely for a specific function: to show the long-time suffering of the Haitian people under the regime of the Duvaliers who were exceedingly corrupt. The wise choices arouse readers Continue reading...

Chua’s article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” claims that Chinese parents are superior. The angle she used to emphasis the argument of Chinese parents as superior to Western parents is attempted through humor, irony, and in a self-reprimanding manner. She is fairly successful at the attempt in certain ways.

Humor

The use of irony as a method of humor is placed throughout the article, in an attempt to be funny. Western audiences did not seem to understand or appreciate any humor in the article, instead referring to her as a monster (Kate Zernike, 3). This prompted Chua to respond Continue reading...

Arguably, one of the most successful literary sensations in the past decade has been the arrival of Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” series. Quickly gaining notoriety on bestseller lists across the globe, “Twilight,” is popular with audiences young and old. Their primary draw is that of a young, but also aging, vampire named Edward Cullen, a werewolf, Jacob, and young Bella Swan, who falls into a haphazard love triangle with two creatures. While a woman wrote the series, and Swan portrays the novel from a first person perspective as a female protagonist, it betrays the many opportunities a female character Continue reading...

The short story “Every Day Use” by Alice Walker narrates the story of a small broken family whose problems go way far back than we are told. The text is narrated in first person by the mother of this family, we are thoroughly described through the text the way this woman looks and thinks. She is a husky woman, not quite feminine:
I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day [] I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes Continue reading...