Essays on Literature Review

Growing up in 1920’s and 30’s Romania, Eugene Ionesco experienced the uprising of the powerful Iron Guard movement before and during World War II. This in turn aided him with creating one of the most well-known pieces in the Theatre of the Absurd as the...

The Monkey’s Paw is a story of suspense. The setting of “The Monkey’s Paw” is at the White family home on a dark, rainy evening. The White family is waiting for an old friend of Mr. Whites who is named Sergeant-Major Morris. Morris arrives after...

Have you ever wanted to do something that is way out of your comfort zone and sounds a little dangerous? The Hobbit is a perfect example of what you are looking for. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, is about a tiny individual named Bilbo Baggins...

Have you ever thought what would be the differences and impacts between the screenplay and the original book? When you want to make a movie from a long novel, maybe you have to make some changes to screen it to the cinema. For example, The...

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main protagonists, the man, and his son are on a perilous journey through a post-apocalyptic Earth....

Cormac McCarthy’s noble literature skills return in the form of his novel The Road, a novel highlighting the relationship between a man and his son in a melancholic post-apocalyptic world. The readers follow the nameless protagonists through their intimidating pilgrimage to the south where the...

A physical journey is an important element in one’s life, especially when it comes to the characters in The Road by Cormac McCarthy. In this novel, a young boy and his father travel through a post-apocalyptic world with minimal resources during which they only had...

The Road is a novel that tells a tale of a father and son on their path to the south after an apocalypse. One of the most important aspects of this story is the presence of many cannibals they meet throughout their trip. The fact...

In the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy depicts the struggle for survival of a father with his son, in the gray and broken world after doom is bestowed upon almost all of the creatures. However, in this post-apocalyptic world, the worst part of the calamity...

Salmon Rushdie’s Booker prize winning novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), is a story of a post-colonial India struggling to reconcile with its fragmented cultural and national identity, a story told allegorically through the life of Saleem Sinai. Rushdie’s unique language and the allegories of Saleem and...