Essays on American Literature

Since their inception in the world of American literature, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson have composed several works emanating dark, intriguing, and beautiful images in the minds of those fortunate to have read their work while inspiring the writers of poems and novels in their...

The novel takes place in a dystopian future in the republic of Gilhead, which is a totalitarian and theocratic state that has taken over the United States of America. In this dystopian future, fertility rate has potentially decreased as a consequence of pollution and chemical...

Whitman was a man who experienced his youth the nation and later lived in the city and worked consistently exhibited to creating and composing. Whitman had an occupation as an author and article administrator despite being a support in the Common War. Whitman was an...

C. J. Heigelmann’s debut novel, An Uncommon Folk Rhapsody, immediately immerses readers into a world of struggle and hardship, all borne on the shoulders of two children. Upon the death of his mother, Shu-Shay finds himself aboard a ship heading from China to California. On...

Thinking of the six novels we have read as journeys, some theoretical and others literal, leads me to no easy conclusion as to similar goals or objectives between characters as they are different races and ethnicities. The connection between characters is a desire for their...

There is no question that objects that surround us impact our character and perspective on the world. In Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor focuses on how the characters in a twisted, consumerist society surrounding Hazel Motes affect his mind and his morality as a whole. O’Connor’s...

Aza Holmes is a normal young adult in White River High School, Indianapolis, Indiana, or WRHS. Except the fact that she has a continuous spiral of thoughts going on in her head, including her constantly worrying that she has C. Diff, a fatal bacterial disease....