Females rarely received a protagonist role in early Chicano literature and film-making, as writers and filmmakers opted to instead, highlight the male experience throughout the Chicano movement. In many ways, one can argue that it was a somewhat sexist movement, as it was a predominantly...
Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery” presents the reader with a seemingly idyllic town that actually participates in a horrific annual 'lottery' event. The story can be considered as part of the horror genre, as the characters in the story blindly follow a tradition that...
In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” tradition is followed without question, however the people of the town may not fully realize just how sickening their actions truly are. This work of literature demonstrates how society can blindly follow tradition, thus, blaming the innocent, and further causing...
The Outsiders demonstrates the hero's Journey better than Santiagos by showing the following hero’s journey stages: meeting the mentor, a refusal to the call and crossing the threshold. Ponyboy has a better mentor than Santiago because he gives the boys life saving advice. In the...
Young adult literature has enthralled readers since its emergence as a genre in 1967. Through her novel The Outsiders, Hinton discovered and defined YA literature by creating a timeless story that has captured the adolescent world by the honesty and skill she uses to recreate...
To understand what trauma does to a person, you have to know what it is. The human brain and its memory distinguishes us as the most intelligent creatures, but it is the very thing that makes us vulnerable to the effects of trauma. In a...
The Repercussions of Trauma in Beloved In Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, a traumatic past presents itself in the physical form of the character Beloved. She is the manifestation of Sethe’s agonizing history, a painful reminder that Sethe’s past still haunts her. Beloved represents the trauma...
This study looks at Julie Otsuka’s renowned novel, The Buddha in the Attic (2011), in the light of its representation of the mental and psychological colonization of Japanese emigrants in America. It draws upon Homi K. Bhabha’s notions of “unhomeliness”, “ambivalence” and “mimicry”. A close...
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published by Mcclelland and Stewart in 1985. The novel deals with questions, problems and predicaments which have a universal rather than culture-specific validity. The novel examines the cultural construction of female...
Charles Brockden Brown’s Arthur Mervyn embodies the mentality of the newly formed U. S. A. , speaking to how 18th century readers – in fact, citizens, regardless of their literacy – were both repulsed yet fascinated by social concepts that were literally and figuratively revolutionary....
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