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 Old Man and the Sea
When the old man, Santiago, first encounters the fish, he is weary and cynical, having been unlucky in his fishing for so long that his apprentice's parents have forbidden the latter to sail with... -
Answered a Question in The Lion and the Jewel
The primary conflict in the story exists between Baroka and Lakunle, two men who are competing for the love of Sidi. Both men are deceptive and in many ways not what they seem. Lakunle comes across... -
Answered a Question in Life of Pi
Life of Pi begins with an author's note from Martel that reads "This book was born when I was hungry." Indeed, hunger is a theme that motivates almost every aspect of the plot of the book. Even... -
Answered a Question in The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie is referred to as a "memory play," in which Tom, the speaker of the quote, is both a character and narrator. He is contrasting himself with the role of a magician, whose job it... -
Answered a Question in Black Death
While it seems strange to think about a "bright side" to the Black Death, the epidemic that decimated anywhere from 30 to 50 percent of the entire European population, it could be said that their... -
Answered a Question in The Hobbit
While it can be assumed that several unnamed characters die in the climactic Battle of Five Armies, only two of the primary characters of The Hobbit are deceased by the end of the book. The first... -
Answered a Question in Animal Farm
Allegory and symbolism are utilized heavily throughout the story. In fact, the entire story functions as an allegory to the rise of the Soviet Union. Many of the characters are allusions to real... -
Answered a Question in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," passages such as these serve as figurative language to describe the foggy mind of the dying protagonist. The doctor, for example, is in no way literally... -
Answered a Question in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chief Bromdan "became" deaf and dumb because of the heavy influence of others around him saying that he was. This is to say that the character of Chief suffers from neither impairment physically,... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that has been consistently and earnestly praised for its historical accuracy. Everything that occurs in the story, from the forming of a lynch mob to the outrageous... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
At this point in To Kill a Mockingbird, tensions in the Finch family have reached absolutely critical levels. Atticus has received a bad reputation due to his spirited defense of Tom Robinson, and... -
Answered a Question in Literature
The most primary characteristic of an autobiographical novel is the use of the literary fiction techniques relating to autobiographical fiction, or the combination of the elements of autobiography... -
Answered a Question in A Worn Path
The significance of the physical, titular path that Phoenix Jackson uses to get to town when retrieving medicine for her grandson is that it illustrates the love and commitment that Phoenix has to... -
Answered a Question in Al Gore
The thesis of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is that global warming is a real phenomenon that represents a clear and present threat to the continued existence of human life as we know it, and... -
Answered a Question in To Build a Fire
The protagonist makes a mistake by building a fire under a spruce tree because it is completely covered with snow. The man has already had his hands out of his mittens and his fingers have gone... -
Answered a Question in Holes
Mr. Pendanski's behavior in regard to Zero is completely contrary to his usual demeanor as the camp counselor. While he treats the other boys with at least some compassion and respect, he seems... -
Answered a Question in Song of Solomon
In Song of Solomon, First Corinthians Dead has trouble finding work because she has led a privileged life and has no useful or unique life skills. Her college education in liberal arts fails her... -
Answered a Question in The Columbian Exchange
The biggest negative of the Columbian Exchange, and one so devastating that it threatens to outweigh all of the positives, is the unilateral genocide of the native peoples of the new world. This... -
Answered a Question in The Lion and the Jewel
The primary theme of The Lion and the Jewel is that of tradition vs. modernism. Throughout the play, the two primary characters fight over the affections of Sidi, who is the "jewel" of the play.... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
The lines in this scene do not include any sort of outstanding imagery. Lady Macbeth has two lines in this scene that simply serve to praise and pledge her false allegiance to King Duncan, and it... -
Answered a Question in The Communist Manifesto
The quote essentially means that the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, has sealed its own fate by deliberately controlling all of the means of production and exploiting the labor of the working class,... -
Answered a Question in The Fall of the House of Usher
Roderick Usher from "The Fall of the House of Usher" is very clearly a character that Poe imprinted himself upon, or made into a character double. Roderick is incredibly intelligent and bookish and... -
Answered a Question in The Open Boat
There are several individual conflicts that occur throughout the story. Here are six of the most readily apparent. The story is largely a case of man versus nature, and as such, several conflicts... -
Answered a Question in The War of the Wall
"The War on the Wall" is a story that revolves around the cultural conflict between the North and the South. Tensions begin to rise even when the painter's license plate reveals that she is from... -
Answered a Question in A Streetcar Named Desire
In A Streetcar Named Desire, women are portrayed as victims by simply existing within their time period. The women of the play operate in a world that is not only openly hostile toward their well... -
Answered a Question in The Fall of the House of Usher
As indicated by the title of the story, when the narrator finds him, Rodrick Usher is in a state of decline to say the least. He seems to have developed multiple neuroses and psychological... -
Answered a Question in By the Waters of Babylon
"By the Waters of Babylon" creates suspense by slowly and carefully revealing to the reader that the "primitive" society in which John operates is actually a handful of remaining humans that... -
Answered a Question in Frederick Douglass
Douglass was born on a plantation and, as such, did have some limited contact with his family members, though far less than other former slaves have reported when telling their stories. He has very... -
Answered a Question in The Bear
Chekhov's one act play The Bear is a farce comedy that concerns two principle characters. These characters are the widow Elena Ivanovna Papova and Grigory Smirnov, a landowner who pursues Elena for... -
Answered a Question in Robert Frost
In this poem, the speaker is a tramp who leaves a letter in the letterbox of the farmer whose land he used to sleep the night before. The speaker says that the watchdog barked all night, and that... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
In regard to Roman Catholicism, a mortal sin is one that directly contradicts a soul's connection with the grace of God and therefore severs it, meaning that a soul that has committed a mortal sin... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
When Odysseus and his man arrive in the Cyclopes after escaping from the lotus eaters, they immediately happen upon a cave filled with invaluable food such as goats, milk, and cheese. Odysseus,... -
Answered a Question in Dead Men's Path
The entire conflict of this incredibly short story comes from the clashing viewpoints of Michael Obi and the priest of the village near his school. When Obi constructs his school, it is a source of... -
Answered a Question in The Winter Room
The main conflict is between the protagonist, Eldon, and the changing of life. Over the course of the book he describes the changing of seasons and what they mean to him. For example, people around... -
Answered a Question in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
By the end of the novel, Elphaba is, in many ways, truly wicked. However, we can see clearly that she is a product of her upbringing and environment and was not always the witch that she became.... -
Answered a Question in The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of stories that are all entirely fictional. We can be absolutely certain of this given that most of the stories concern anthropomorphic animals... -
Answered a Question in Animal Farm
After Old Major dies, Snowball and Napoleon both consider it inevitable that they should revolt against Mr. Jones. Once they are able to do this, the rift begins with the implementation of... -
Answered a Question in Dante's Inferno
Dante's Inferno, the first segment of The Divine Comedy, deals largely with sin and its corresponding punishment. Sin is defined in the work as a contradiction of the will of God, and there is a... -
Answered a Question in The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
It is not known whether Pavlo Hummel is deliberately holding on to the grenade and allowing it to explode or not. He is more likely, as he later explains to his projected alter ego Ardell, planning... -
Answered a Question in The Glass Menagerie
Both Troy Maxon from Fences and Tom from The Glass Menagerie are characters that feel burdened by their responsibilities to their families. Perhaps Tom is a bit more justified in his frustration.... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
While it's hard to find precise hints, it can be surmised from certain lines that the entirety of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night takes place over the course of three months. In act 5, scene 1, Antonio... -
Answered a Question in Where the Red Fern Grows
The root of Papa's character is wanting what's best for his family. As a first-generation farmer, he is constantly preoccupied with intensely difficult work that doesn't yield as much money as it... -
Answered a Question in Coraline
In Neil Gaiman's Coroline, the Beldam (or "other mother") lives in a world where everyone's eyes have been replaced with buttons, evidently by her. The exact practical reason as to why she does... -
Answered a Question in Farewell To Manzanar
The effect that the camp has on Jeanne is her loss of profound connection with her family. Jeanne's father was a proud and dignified man who abandoned everything to come to America due to what he... -
Answered a Question in The Yellow Wallpaper
The best way to approach "The Yellow Wallpaper" in terms of Marxist theory is by relating it to socialist feminism. Mostly, the story explores the oppressiveness of class relations felt by women in... -
Answered a Question in Daddy
Death is absolutely a primary theme in Sylvia Plath's "Daddy." Otto Plath, Sylvia Plath's father, died when when she was eight years old (though in the poem she states that "I was ten when they... -
Answered a Question in The Outsiders
Towards the beginning of the story, Ponyboy and Johnny accompany Dally to a double feature the night after Ponyboy is jumped. The three sit behind two soc girls whom Dally attempts to embarrass and... -
Answered a Question in Hoot
Being a newcomer in the town of Coconut Cove, Roy does not have many friends. Upon his first encounter with mullet fingers, he simply refers to him as "the running boy," as he spots him running... -
Answered a Question in Life of Pi
Pi is a character who has an extraordinary desire to learn everything he can. Two of his greatest mentors are both ironically named Satish Kumar. One of them is a Sufi mystic with a deep and... -
Answered a Question in By the Waters of Babylon
When John, son of the priest, is experiencing his revelation while sleeping in the apartment in "the place of the gods," he sees the city as it was when humans inhabited it. He begins to realize...
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