Nadia Hartley

In Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter,” Mary kills her husband using a leg of lamb, then serves it to the police officers that come to investigate the murder. The reader knows that the lamb is the...

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch models displaying honor when confronting obstacles. He models this to his children, as well as the residents of Maycomb, when he defends Tom...

In The Fault in Our Stars, John Green explores the themes of love and death through techniques like metaphors and symbolism. In the text, Hazel and Augustus, the two main characters, frequently...

In “Oklahoma” and “Honeymoon,” the speaker feels an absence of community that stems from her cultural identity. In both poems, the speaker feels isolated and like an "other." In “Oklahoma,” which...

Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is frequently used as a standard example of Romantic and Gothic literature. This is because one of the defining features of Romantic and Gothic...