Hollis Sanders
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I currently pursue journalistic and fiction writing full time while working as a freelancer and as an educator for a nonprofit organization that works to educate young people and combat the effects of poverty on literacy. In college, I studied writing with strong focuses on literature, criticism, and poetry. I am an amateur poet with work featured in a handful of publications.
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Answered a Question in The Cold War
Anti-communist hysteria and superstition permeated every aspect of American life. Because the war had no large-scale fighting between the two sides, it was easy for Americans to apply their own... -
Answered a Question in The Wall
In "The Wall," we follow the narration of Pablo Ibbieta, a member of the International Brigade assisting the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Pablo spends a harrowing evening with his... -
Answered a Question in My Dungeon Shook
Baldwin writes in this letter to his nephew that the latter may be like his grandfather in that he didn't want anyone to think that he was soft. He tells his nephew that his grandfather is dead and... -
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
This is hands down the most famous of Shakespeare's sonnets. The speaker compares the subject to a summer's day and points out the many trivial imperfections that a summer day might have, while... -
Answered a Question in Hunters in the Snow
The conflict in "Hunters in the Snow" exists between three friends. Frank, Tub, and Kenny are all fundamentally disconnected from each other because all of them are holding back the truth of their... -
Answered a Question in Star Food
In the short story "Star Food," Dade's mother believes that the world's most famous men are men of "vulgar fame." She believes that these men are only famous because they have simple ideas that can... -
Answered a Question in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dadalus, the main character of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as well as a fictional alter-ego of James Joyce himself, defines beauty fully as the comprehensive relationship... -
Answered a Question in Heart of Darkness
The quote itself seems to be paradoxical because it is. Directly after this line, Marlow goes on to observe "We are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there—there... -
Answered a Question in Antigone
Zeus, or the gods in general, is punishing Creon's negligence in regard to proper burial rites. In Antigone, Tiresias is a wise, blind prophet of Apollo. When he visits Creon, he is speaking for... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
As with much of the rest of the novel, Nick is a complete outsider at Gatsby's party. He is not from the same class or even from the same area of the country as the other party goers. Furthermore,... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Timing plays such a huge role in Romeo and Juliet that it no doubt became frustrating at points for the audience to watch. There are so many "perfect timing" moments that lead up to the eventual... -
Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was certainly an ambitious man. He wanted to rule over Rome as a monarch, bringing an end to the republic. While he never explicitly stated this, his arrogance and elevated sense of... -
Answered a Question in Because I could not stop for Death—
Emily Dickinson had a clear fascination with death throughout the body of her work. She tended to write about human mortality with moods that were not at all typical of what one might expect from... -
Answered a Question in History
There are several disadvantages to a dictatorship, and the first is the most glaring. While dictatorship is not as inherently negative as Western society conditions us to believe, it cannot, by its... -
Answered a Question in History
It might earnestly be easier to ask what of our modern society was not influenced by the ancient Greeks. The thriving culture of Greece developed over thousands of years, and many historians... -
Answered a Question in Eveline
Joyce has an incredible talent for taking classic tropes and turning them on their heads, and the story of "Eveline" is no exception. The story begins with the trope of a young woman in distress... -
Answered a Question in War
The mood of this story is one I would describe as ironic and darkly humorous while still retaining a core emotion of tragedy. All the characters have a varying degree of detached misery. As a way... -
Answered a Question in The Raven
The speaker in "The Raven" is found pouring over old volumes as a way to forget, however briefly, the lost love of his life, who he names "Lenore." From this early in the poem, we can already... -
Answered a Question in Antigone
Creon is certainly the tragic figure in Antigone. As such, he is beset by a fatal flaw. In the case of Creon, his fatal flaw is his hubris. When he is visited by Tiresias, he thinks that the... -
Answered a Question in Beowulf
Heorot Hall and Grendel's Lair are so opposite of one another that a contrast between the two would be as obvious as light and dark. In fact, Grendel lives in such a way that he is "harrowed" by... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Oedipus' pride is what keeps him comfortably in denial over the course of the play. When he is in conflict with Tiresias, who knows the truth, his pride allows him to simply believe that the blind... -
Answered a Question in The Cold War
In 1945, the world was unanimously tired of fighting. The general hope by establishing the United Nations was that future generations could be spared the horrors of war. After all, millions of... -
Answered a Question in The Great Gatsby
The Harlem Renaissance most prominently has a role in The Great Gatsby as the primary source of jazz music. Jazz was the latest revolution in music in the twenties, and like most musical... -
Answered a Question in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Upon cursory inspection, Constance Ledbelly is anything but a woman prepared to stand up for herself. She is timid, passive, and hardly seems to be in control of her own destiny. Even Professor... -
Answered a Question in Naguib Mahfouz
In "The Answer is No," an older teacher feels some apprehension at the new headmaster of the school. She experiences a degree of dread at the idea of shaking his hand or looking him in the eyes.... -
Answered a Question in Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
I'm unsure of which work this quote comes from, or if it comes from one at all. It is, however, commonly attributed to Dr. Seuss. The quote seems to mean not that questions are inherently... -
Answered a Question in This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
One of the most readily apparent conflicts in Sherman Alexie's "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" is the internal conflict happening inside Victor. Though Victor has not at all had a... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
If you were to ask the character Holden Caulfield why he was angry with Ackley in that particular moment, he would no doubt make a stab at Ackley's phoniness. However, the rage Holden feels in this... -
Answered a Question in A Modest Proposal
In one of the greatest displays of sustained irony in the history of writing, Swift creates an incredible moment of shock by spending the beginning portion of the essay describing the plight of the... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
The main character of "The Yellow Wallpaper" can easily be called a round, dynamic character. In fact, the entirety of the story revolves around her dynamic change, a miserable slip into madness.... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
Imagery is one of the strongest devices available to a writer. Put simply, imagery allows the writer to string together words in a way that creates mental images, helping the reader visualize a... -
Answered a Question in A Single Shard
The village of Ch'ulp'o is quite different from the city of Puyo, especially from the point of view of the well-meaning but naive Tree-ear. Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o.... -
Answered a Question in Their Eyes Were Watching God
The sitters are quite simply the people of Eatonville sitting on the porch in the evening. Since most of them are laborers during the day, they have essentially been rendered "tongueless, earless,... -
Answered a Question in The Bear
Popova is a widow who, in an attempt to remain faithful to her late husband's memory, has locked herself in her house for seven months and plans to continue to do so indefinitely. Her melancholy is... -
Answered a Question in 1984
The slogans of Big Brother serve to control the masses by encouraging compliance and discouraging individual intellect. "War is peace," for example, might seem like an impossible paradox, but in... -
Answered a Question in Literature
Ethos is a rhetorical device that appeals to the audience by showing credibility. Graff uses ethos here by relating his argument of street-smart intellectualism to his own adolescent experience.... -
Answered a Question in Tangerine
Paul's unfortunate predicament in regard to his ability to play soccer is that he is legally blind. His parents attribute this impairment to an incident in Paul's childhood. Though he does not... -
Answered a Question in Nadine Gordimer
The title of Some Are Born to Sweet Delight is essentially the core of the meaning behind the story itself. This line is taken from William Blake's poem "Auguries of Innocence," where Blake states... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
In one of the more heartbreaking scenes of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery. Hamlet says that while he did love Ophelia once, he does not anymore. As with many parts of... -
Answered a Question in Life of Pi
At the very end of the story, Pi is recovering in a Mexican hospital. He meets two members of the Japanese Ministry of Transport, who have sought him out as part of their investigation into the... -
Answered a Question in Rules of the Road
The main character of Rules of the Road is Jenna Boller, an employee at Gladstone, a shoe store. Jenna is described as the sort of girl that would stand out, but not in a desirable way. Madeline... -
Answered a Question in Lapis Lazuli
I assume that in this question you are referring to the fact that The Epic of Gilgamesh is said to have been recorded on tablets of Lapis Lazuli. If that is the case, the aim of this question is to... -
Answered a Question in A Child Called "It"
After reading A Child Called "It," anyone can see that Pelzer suffered from almost every type of abuse a parent would be capable of inflicting. From the ages of four to twelve, Pelzer's life was... -
Answered a Question in Small Steps
In chapter 1, Theodore "Armpit" Johnson is living in Austin, Texas two years after his release from Camp Green Lake. He means to get his life back on track, which his counselor has warned him may... -
Answered a Question in Literature
In Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape, the plot is not so much a concrete narrative as it is a vague timeline of events that relies heavily on the inference of the reader. Amanda Holzer crafts... -
Answered a Question in Literature
In the world of Kill Shakespeare, a number of characters from Shakespearean works exist together in a single universe. Shakespeare himself exists in the work as the creator and god of this world.... -
Answered a Question in The Water Is Wide
In chapter nine of The Water is Wide, Pat notices that the boys enjoy playing basketball at school each day. To this end, he arranges to take them to a Harlem Globetrotters game when he discovers... -
Answered a Question in Three Lives for Mississippi
Three Lives for Mississippi tells the haunting and brutal story of "Freedom Summer," which took place in 1964. With the civil rights movement finally winning out, sanctuaries for segregation... -
Answered a Question in Bless Me, Ultima
In Rudolfo Anaya's novel Bless Me, Ultima, a work fraught with tremendous emotion and violence, the characters Lupito, Narciso, and Florence meet their respective ends in different ways, yet all...
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