Jill Woodson

In Robert Frost's poem "Dust of Snow," he presents nature as a spiritually healing environment filled with animals and other elements of the setting that can provide an immensely positive change in...

The main theme of the story "Assimilation" is that people of different cultures or races often feel a sense of alienation when they decide to live in a white man's world. In addition to this, they...

Millay uses powerful imagery of the processes of the human body to show the weaknesses of love in its inability to heal physical sickness. She provides imagery of broken bones, impure blood,...

In the poem "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666," the author expresses no anger or ill will at God for allowing the home she has lived in for so long to be...

According to The Wanderer, a wise man realizes many things. He realizes that the length of time a man has lived often determines the amount of wisdom he possesses. A wise man knows that experience...

Sue and Johnsy both share a love of art, food, and fashion. The text specifically mentions this when it says that the two "found their tastes in art, chicory salad, and bishop sleeves so congenial"...

The story "Lamb to the Slaughter" is filled with many literary devices. Two of these devices involve the element of irony. One type of irony seen in the story is situational irony, and another type...

Georgiana’s birthmark is explained as being in the center of her left cheek. The birthmark is crimson, which is a strong red color. What is especially notable is the fact that the birthmark is...

Shakespeare provides many messages for the reader in Julius Caesar. Two of the most important messages involve being aware of others and being aware of ourselves. One message is to be wary of those...

The primary poetic device in the poem is imagery, which helps the reader understand the characterization of the farmhand. The author's description of the farmhand's ungentlemanly appearance allows...

While I cannot actually draw a mind map, I can give you a chronology of events that led up to the Trojan War. Much of this chronology is based on Greek myth and the ancient Greek belief that gods...

The cause and effect relationship in lines 7–8 of Sonnet 18 is the effect of the life cycle on a human being. In particular, the speaker is referencing the changes that time brings to a person's...

There are a number of themes for act 4, scene 1. Since the scene mostly revolves around Tybalt's death, Paris's parents' decision to hasten the wedding of Juliet to Paris, and Friar Laurence's plan...

The setting of "And of Clay Are We Created" is a Latin American village that has been devastated by a volcanic eruption. The resulting clay, debris, and water have buried and trapped thousands of...

A patriarchy is a society in which males hold dominance. In the poem "The Bangle Sellers," the poem compares the bangles that are sold to the stages and purposes of a woman's life. The bangles...

The proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" is a metaphor for the struggles that one endures as he or she goes through life. The mountains represent obstacles and moments of adversity that...

A patriarchy is a system in which men are in control, and Angelou's poem "Caged Bird" could be read to mean that women in society are trapped like birds in a cage. This metaphor of the caged bird...

Mead states in this text that there are no inborn attributes of a certain gender, but that the society in which one lives determines the expected behaviors of a female or male. She goes to explain...

Amir is at times both a coward and a hero. In his childhood, Amir seems to show the trait of cowardice. He is unable to confront his father about their distant relationship. Amir never has the...

Rolf Carle is a reporter who is sent on assignment to take pictures and report on the rescue attempts to save thirteen-year-old Azucena, a girl who is entrapped in a mud pit due to a volcanic...

The setting that opens chapter 11 is America in the 1980s. The specific location is the city of Fremont in the state of California. It is a bustling place that is filled with smog, traffic, and the...

While The Kite Runner is a reference to Hassan's ability to run kites, the true focus of the novel is Amir. However, Hassan's presence in the first half of the book dominates Amir's life, and in...

The title "The Story of an Hour" is a statement on how, in a very short amount of time, important physical, emotional, and psychological changes can occur in people's lives that transform their...

Before you start your introduction, you need to define what characteristics you want to talk about in the body of your paper. In other words, think of some qualities that people possess who have...

The story "The Falls" teaches the reader about the dangers of excessive worry, useless meditation, and fruitless daydreaming. All three of these things are passive; in other words, none of these...

These lines from the story can be an example of any number of things in literary analysis. It all depends on what terms or elements of literature you are studying. For example, if you are studying...

In both Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, women sacrifice their time, energy, and pride in order to provide for men who treat them in a subordinate and demeaning...

Two main characters in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein suffer from isolation from society. These two characters are Victor Frankenstein and the creature he creates. The mental instability that...

Reader response criticism is when a reader tries to form his own interpretation of a text by considering its details. In this case, you may want to consider the major metaphors in the poem. The...

Tony's family goes to El Puerto every autumn to visit Tony's mother's father and her many brothers. They also go to help his mother’s family gather the harvest. Afterward, when they return home,...

In chapter one, Dostoevsky uses a third-person omniscient narrator to achieve the dual purposes of helping the reader understand the characterization of Raskolnikov and the setting in which he...

Jocaste, or Jocasta as it is often spelled in different versions of Oedipus Rex, fits the definition of a tragic heroine for many reasons. For one, she is a person of high or noble birth. She is...

Piaget believed that growth and development occur in predictable and universal stages, those that occur regardless of culture or environment. According to Piaget, much of a child's development was...

In this novel, Amir seems to stand out as the tragic protagonist. Tragic protagonists are often good people with flaws that cause pain to both themselves and others. Amir's almost holy dedication...

I cannot directly answer this question for you, as I do not know your own attitude toward life, but I can give you some ideas to ponder. This poem's main theme is making the most out of life. Its...

Chapter nineteen adds to the story's theme of redemption, and the reader sees Amir changing in subtle but significant ways. To begin with, he is learning to be more honest with himself and with...

In this poem, the speaker wishes to go to Innisfree to obtain the peace and solitary pleasures of life. This place is the setting where Yeats spent his childhood years. Now situated in the...

When Nathan and Rukmani find out that their land will be sold to the tannery, they are shocked and dismayed. Without the land, they have nothing. They decide to go to the city and find help and...

There is a terrible drought and Jumper, the family's mule, does not want to eat the dried-up grass. He repeatedly jumps the fence that corrals him, and he eats the corn that has not yet been...

This poem is actually based on historical events, and its subject matter is the charge of British soldiers into enemy territory in southern Crimea during the Crimean War. Literally, the British...

Here are a few analytical points about the story that may help you in writing this assignment. Walter Mitty is a man whose normal everyday life leaves him feeling insecure, powerless, and lacking...

Whitman analyzes the power of the eyes and the other senses and their ability to behold the majesty of the universe—in this case, the mesmerizing and hypnotic rise of the sun. This example goes to...

The most significant theme of the story "Towards Midnight" is mortality and death. The woman in the story has cancer and spends much of the story reflecting on the decline of her body and her...

Achilles comes into the Iliad a glorious and prideful hero, demanding due respect and prizes for the acts of glory and talent he displays on the battlefield at Troy. This can be seen in Book One...

Victor's all-consuming ambition and his corresponding disappointment at his own failure to reach perfection in his creation are the most obvious character traits in this section. For two years,...

When the colonies were first established, they were still considered under King George's rule. Britain still controlled the colonies' trade, and the colonists were still forced to follow many...

Even from Antonio's birth, the struggle is apparent over whose footsteps he will follow. In Tony's dreams, these opposing figures haunt his nature and reflect his inner conflict over who he will...

One of the morals of the story "The Bet" concerns a lesson on human folly and pride. Folly is when someone makes foolish choices. In this story, the characters of the banker and the lawyer are so...

Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House sought very hard to reveal the truths of marriage and gender expectations in the late nineteenth century. During this time period, women were expected to play the...

Amir and Hassan's relationship is similar to Baba and Ali's because first of all, there are obvious class differences and inequalities. Ali has spent his life being a servant of Baba, just as...