Whitney Waller

Dan Brown's Angels and Demons takes place seemingly around the same time it was written—in 2000—as references to late-twentieth-century technology and contemporary culture are present throughout...

In the final chapter of Life of Pi, having come to the end of his fantastic, harrowing journey, Pi presents the possibility to the rapt interviewer that his entire story is an allegorical account...

Chief Dan George's "My Heart Soars" and Robert William Service's "The Land that God Forgot" are two poems that draw inspiration from the profound, transcendental experiences an individual may have...

Readers are oriented to the flu-ravaged, post-apocalyptic world of Hole in the Sky through the eyes of the protagonist, Ceej Kane. Ceej is a teenage boy who lives with his uncle, known throughout...

Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth devotes much of its page count to building and buoying his central claim that decolonization is an inherently violent process. The violence that Fanon...

Typically, when drawing parallels between the figure of Jesus Christ and literary characters, the juxtaposed literary subject is not a habitual thief, former prisoner, or wanderer who takes...