Raney Shattuck, M.A.

I’m so excited to get to answer a David Walker question; I studied his Appeal in depth during college, and it’s always good to be able to use information that doesn't often apply to real-world...

One of the biggest considerations for this essay is the extent to which modern children’s fiction addresses topical social justice issues. They often deal with issues that children are likely to...

In the anarchic system of states, in which each state exercises sovereignty (that is, the monopoly on violence and power) within its borders, to be declared an independent state is the ultimate...

Salman Rushdie’s short story “In the South” documents an elderly man called V. Senior on the last day of his best friend V. Junior’s life. In less that 15 pages, Rushdie grapples with the meaning...

At the beginning of Alexander McCall Smith’s short story “No Place to Park,” a literary critic addresses a broad trend in the crime fiction genre. Specifically, he takes issue with the gratuitous...

Walter Lee Younger is the man of the Younger house and the protagonist of A Raisin in the Sun. Most descriptions of him refer to his ambitious ideas and preoccupation with financial independence....

Alexander McCall Smith's “No Place to Park” is a crime story about a crime author writing a crime story. The author in question, George Harris, has decided to write a crime story about traffic...

The dehumanization of young black men in the criminal justice system is a central theme in Walter Dean's Meyer's novel Monster. Steve Harmon, the protagonist of the novel, is put on trial for an...