Jessica Scott
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Successful novelist with degrees in English and Humanities. If it was written down, I have read it in school or on my own, so I am happy to have finally found a place to share my knowledge!
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Answered a Question in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The narrator of the novel, "Chief" Bromden, describes Nurse Ratched as "the Combine" and as "Big Nurse," like a play on the idea of Big Brother in the book 1984. She is meant to represent... -
Answered a Question in The Diary of a Young Girl
When Anne Frank first begins writing her diary, she is a typical young teenager who wants all of the attention she can get. She has big plans for becoming an actress or a singer or anything that... -
Answered a Question in Flowers for Algernon
In Flowers for Algernon, both Charlie Gordon and Algernon the mouse are subjected to the same tests because they are both a part of the same experiment. First, the doctors do the experiment on... -
Answered a Question in The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of Anne Frank, as the title tells us, is the true-life diary of Anne Frank, who spent years in hiding with her family in an attempt to stay alive and not be taken away by the Nazis. Anne... -
Answered a Question in Song of Myself
This is a bit of an opinion question, but I will give you some ideas to run with. The entire point of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" is to celebrate one's self, and one's individuality. At the... -
Answered a Question in Hillbilly Elegy
If I am understanding you correctly, you are looking for a topic to write a paper about for this memoir. A thesis itself is a theory put forth by the author of a paper that the paper (sometimes... -
Answered a Question in Shoeless Joe
Shoeless Joe was actually the basis for one of the most popular baseball movies of all time: Field of Dreams. The story is about a man who hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in the... -
Answered a Question in Tuck Everlasting
This is one of those questions that everyone has their own opinion on, but I personally think that Jesse's proposition was a fair one. There were elements of self-interest, because he of course... -
Answered a Question in Battle Royal; or, The Invisible Man
The grandfather's last words are known by many literary scholars as "The Grandfather's Riddle." It seems as if there is a hidden meaning within them, something that the narrator needs to learn and... -
Answered a Question in Modernism
Modernism was a period in English literature that lasted from around 1900 to around 1965. It was significant in that it brought big changes to how writers thought and wrote, leading them to focus...