Concetta Roderick

The setting in Fences is relevant in more than one way. First, the larger setting of Pittsburgh, PA. This is important from a background or "authorial intent" perspective, as August Wilson was from...

"The Witch of Glentow" is a poem written by James Stoddard Moore (1825–1903). In the final years of his life, he wandered an area of Ireland called Antrim, and he wrote poems about the places he...

President Snow is concerned about uprisings in all the districts outside of the Capitol. He explains to Katniss in a meeting that many people in Panem view her attempt to commit suicide with Peeta...

All of the pilgrims would be participants in the feudal system, as society was feudal at the time, and this system describes a hierarchy of allegiance that spans from the sovereign (King) down to...

"The Most Dangerous Game" is a classic tale of hunter-becomes-the-huntee. Early in the story, Rainsford discusses the ability of animals to feel, at a minimum, fear when being hunted. Rainsford's...

There is a subtle difference between theme and message in a poem; it is the difference between a theme and a theme statement. Theme in a poem can refer to the general ideas/feelings a poem...

The metaphor contained in the lines, "I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart" creates a heavy, unending, and...

The summation of the principle concern of Federalist 10 is best expressed by this quote: Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of...

In The Outsiders, the main protagonists are Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade. These are the characters whose loss of innocence drives the narrative. Ponyboy is feeling alienated and distanced from...

First, let's consider the melancholy aspect of this question. Melancholy on its own means a weighing sadness, desolation, and pensiveness. In the ancient concept of humorism and Hippocrates's...

One key way Bradbury uses sentence structure effectively is in using dialogue to drive much of "The Veldt." Much of the dialogue is tense and urgent. The responses George and Lydia give each other...

The quote you have selected is as follows: "Sit down, Montag. Watch. Delicately, like the petals of a flower. Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly....

The theme of "The Moving Finger" is generally regarded as relating to control. Ralph's first wife controls him so thoroughly that he is compared to the host for a parasite. He loses himself...

The title The Fault in Our Stars is taken from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The nobleman Cassius says, The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings. The...

Artistic (including literary) movements tend to be a response to the times in which they occur. In this case, Romanticism (late eighteenth century to mid-nineteenth century) was a response to the...

Jeffrey paints the "101" on the door as a proclamation that the baseball shed has an address. It is now 101 Band Shell Blvd, home of Grayson and Jeffrey. This moment comes at the end of a memorable...

Rushdie brings a whole onion's worth of layers to examine in this piece; it is rich with context to examine and analyze. There are allusions to economics and pop culture, both of which mimic the...