Category: Critical Reflection

Sonny’s Blues’ Symbolism Essay A recurring theme in with story that is prevalent in not only Sonnys life but Parkers as well is darkness. Darkness within the story is symbolized as a menace. Baldwin focuses on whether a person should be conventional in making decisions for their life, or if they should follow their desires…

Essay on ‘Maze Runner’ Hero’s Journey What if, you woke up in a black, cold metal box? You have no recollection of any memories of anything except your first name. Not your last name, not your friends, not even your family. But thinking that you are there to help solve the problem they haven’t been…

Five Paragraph Essay for ‘Metamorphosis’ ‘I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.’ The preceding quote is an excerpt from Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis’ which is an absurdist fiction novella about Gregor, a salesman, who unexpectedly transforms into an enormous parasite…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime’ Essay on Truth Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) offers a sense of mystery and suspense to the readers as they journey with Christopher throughout his town to find the culprit for the murder incident so that he can write…

Harry Potter Movie Review Essay In this essay, I choose the movie Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets as the object, aim to discover its critical and commercial values in the popular culture industry; but more importantly, I will try to analyze key themes and approaches the movie tends to deliver, as well as discussing…

Essay on ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Protagonist Since the beginning of time, females have always been perceived as objects who have only one job: to bear children. Men have oppressed, controlled, abused, and limited women in a countless number of ways because of the belief that women are inferior to them. Today, women possess many more…

Essay Review on ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ Overview of film Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is about a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and holds exceptional magical powers of his own. He is asked to become a student at Hogwarts…

Essay on Propaganda Devices Propaganda is indifferent to truth and truthfulness, knowledge, and understanding; it is a form of strategic communication that uses any means to accomplish its ends -Walter Cunningham Propaganda is primarily used in today’s newspapers, television, and most common social media. However, propaganda has been used in the past at major historical…

Essay on ‘The Bluest Eye’ After reading the novel, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, I believe that the author’s intended message is to express the effects of imposing whiteness as an ideal beauty standard on black people. At the beginning of the book, Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl has a deep desire to…

Essay on Forrest Gump Summary Intro The themes of racism, gender inequality and social influence is explored in the novel The Help written by Kathryn Stockett and the film Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis. Stockett explores the idea of a social influence on a narrow minded society through the three main protagonists Aibileen, Skeeter,…