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Chapters three and four in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald are important because they provide detailed insights into the glamorous life of the mysterious Jay Gatsby. In...

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that initially began in Florence, Italy, but later spread throughout Europe. It started around 1350 and ended around 1600. During the Renaissance Era (a word...

The story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell tells the story of Sanger Rainsford, a hunter who finds himself at the home of General Zaroff, a strange man who hunts humans for sport....

Upon a first read, the ending of “The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson can be quite surprising; however, after looking at it through an analytical lens, it becomes clear that Jackson uses foreshadowing...

Ponyboy refers to Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator of the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Because he is the narrator of the novel, all of the events that take place throughout the story are...

Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine, a novel by George Dohrmann, is about the coaches and players of an elite basketball team.  Dohrmann, a...

The purpose of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant is to warn people about the danger of conforming to social norms. This dilemma is presented when the narrator is called to shoot an elephant that...

Ralph and Jack are two main characters in William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Throughout the novel, both Ralph and Jack display various strengths and weaknesses.  Ralph has many...

Background on The Last Lecture:  The Last Lecture, cowritten by Randy Pausch, a computer science professor, and Jeffrey Zaslow, a reporter, is actually based on an...

A simile is a comparison that uses like or as, whereas a metaphor is a comparison that does not use like or as. Furthermore, according to dictionary.com, a metaphor often represents or symbolizes...

Markus Zusak's novel, The Book Thief is a unique book about a young girl, Liesel Meminger, who becomes fascinated with stealing books in Germany during WWII. Narrated by death, The Book...

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that initially began in Florence, Italy, but later spread throughout Europe. It started around 1350 and ended around 1600. During the Renaissance (a word...

When citing sources it is important to cite them in two different ways; an in-text citation within the body of your paper and on the works cited page at the end of your paper. When citing a novel...

Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French philosopher, poet, historian, and playwright. He opposed authority and tradition, specifically the authority and tradition of the French government and the...

The Scientific Revolution spread across Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and was caused by the emergence of new technology as well as the new way of thinking brought on by the...

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins is about a futuristic world where the government shows their power by systematically killing off two people from each district each year. ...