Haleigh Ritchie

In “A Few Kind Words for Superstition,” Robertson Davies suggests people superstition is common, despite a general unwillingness to admit it. Rather than constructing a formal expository or...

In The Utterly Perfect Murder, narrator Doug Spaulding decides to travel across America to murder his childhood friend, Ralph Underhill, who still lives in their hometown thirty-six years after...

Another educator illustrated some of the situational irony at work in “The White Circle,” so I'll offer an example of both verbal and dramatic irony. Verbal irony occurs when a speaker...

There are many ways to identify the tone of a text. A writer often expresses tone through syntax, diction, point of view, and perspective to name a few. I'll focus on how the perspective and point...

Sorry, Wrong Number originally appeared as a radio broadcast starring Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Stevenson. Many versions of this play have been performed, including a 1948 film adaptation. I'll begin...

In “Broken on Purpose; Poetry, Serial Television, and the Season,” Sean O’Sullivan explores the formal relationship between serialized television and poetry. In considering this relationship,...

“Lunchtime Lecture” plays with the relationship between object and subject by contrasting the skeleton of a woman displayed in a museum against the narrator and the poem’s audience. In my reading,...

In “How It Happened,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses the short story fiction form to explore themes of overconfidence, death, and the paranormal. Short stories vary in length, typically ranging...

There are a few interconnected stories happening in “The Stoat” that might influence your analysis. The story takes place near Strandhill, a coastal village in Co. Sligo, Ireland, where a widowed...

The ways in which Kenneth Slessor’s poetry shapes one’s understanding of the human experience is fairly subjective. There’s plenty of potential for your thesis, but there’s so much happening in...