Critical Essays Examples

Published in 1991, ‘The Giver’ is a novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a relatively distant community, and told through the eyes of a 12-year-old boy; Jonas. To Jonas his community seems to be a utopia, complete and flawless, but, in truth, it...

Frequent moving can affect children negatively because each additional move is associated with small declines in social skills as well as emotional and behavioral problems. Although the effects are small, these deficits can expand. In the short story, The House on Mango Street by Sandra...

The story of Jane Eyre is famously regarded as a work of feminism and a highly renowned piece of social commentary surrounding the treatment of the Victorian woman within a greatly patriarchal society. The lead female character of which the novel is obviously named after,...

To answer the question; ‘what does it mean to be human?’, we look to literature. Authors use a range of literary techniques in order to communicate the human experience, offering the reader further insight into what it truly means to be human. George Orwell conveys the...

Sitting on my flax linen grey couch, I opened 1984. The book I am burdened to read. Sigh, “It’s going to be just like all the other dystopian novels I’ve read,” I thought. People joining a pact, living underground, and robots ruling the world. After...

In our society we are being watched by everyone because of the usage of many new and sophisticated rules and laws and “FOR OUR SAFETY” but it is actually not for our safety because they are watching every movement and every word we speak. So...

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Nineteen eighty-four (1984 ) is a Dystopia story – what could be regarded as the worst possible life,a political satire novel written by George Orwell. The story is...

The title, A Good Man is hard to Find, is symbolic in the sense that it represents recurring themes throughout the narrative. Additionally, the author employs the comprehensive use of reprehensible characters to demonstrate the inherent nature of the notions and belief surrounding the Christian...

I’d like to present my summary and character analysis of the short story by Flannery O’Connor. The story under consideration is entitled “A good man is hard to find,” it was published in 1953. To start with, I want to say some words about the...

The experiences and interactions one has with the surrounding world often shape his or her internal moral values. These values are manipulated in a way to reflect what one sees as the truth. The issue here is that sometimes they are altered in a negative...