Category: Critical Reflection

The Things They Carried’ Setting Analysis Essay What is more immoral than war? (Sade). The Vietnam War was a bloody and gruesome war that affected many people in the United States and Vietnam. The war lasted 21 years, from 1954 to 1975. The war started as fear grew that communism would spread from Vietnam to…

Essay on Figurative Language in ‘Life of Pi’ Andy Lees Life of Pi, is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and animated magic realism. Inspired by Yann Martels 2001 novel, it is a visual masterpiece that encapsulates the human ability to overcome hardship through faith and resilience. Audiences feel like active participants in the plot through…

Essay on Butterfly Effect in Short Story Rarely does an adventure revolve around the treasure hunt ahead alone or a romance relies merely on how attractive the sweethearts are. Rather any successful story instinctively acts around a latent fabric serving as a purpose that truly defines that storys essence beyond its surface. The theme is…

Essay on Perseverance in Face of Hardship Tragedy. A three-syllable word that brings nothing but great suffering, distress, and always the unfortunate unhappy ending. The novel and film, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, shows a journey powered by a father and a son’s love through a post-apocalyptic disaster. A world once full of color is…

Essay on ‘Catch the Moon’ Short Story Through the archetypes in the short story Catch the Moon, Judith Ortiz Cofer teaches the reader that love heals all. One archetype in Catch the Moon is The Crossroads, which is a place or time of decision where a real realization is made and change or penance results.…

Maus’ Response Essay The graphic novel Maus was written by Art Spiegelman. The novel consists of two novels inside, the first novel My Father Bleeds History, was written in 1986, and the second, And Here My Troubles Began in 1992. The two novels were first combined and published as one novel in 1996. The inspiration…

Advice to Youth by Mark Twain: Reflective Essay Advice to Youth (1882) by Mark Twain is a satirical essay. It was written several centuries ago, but it still offers a powerful message. It is hilarious, caustic, and all-around good advice. He was asked to write it for America’s youth. Twain tends to take advantage of…

The Road Not Taken’ Theme Essay Being considered one of the most recognizable poets within American poetry Robert Frost offers the rhetorical question in his work The Road Not Taken (Poets.org). If I were asked about what the poem is about, I would reply in several words it is about life, choice, and regret. Robert…

Essay on Lenore in ‘The Raven’ Even though it was written 174 years ago, The Raven remains one of the greatest and most iconic works in the history of literature. This poem has impacted many pieces of work such as stories and movies from Poes time to the present. From the beginning of the narrative,…

Essay on ‘The Kite Runner’ Analysis Outline of the Story Kite Runner(2003) by Khaled Hosseini often reads like a fable, a parable of love, friendship, and above all redemption. Though it would be naive to limit the novel and its themes to just these three facets, Kite Runner is a lot more. The history of…