Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is one that has entertained and sparked debate for years, both in the literary and psychological sense. It is apparent to readers that the protagonist in the story already has a “condition”, depression, and there are certain influences in her life that...

Harper Lee used literature to examine the society around her. Her famed work, To Kill a Mockingbird, remains one of the most important books ever written for examining the reality of prejudice in the American South. The story is set during the Great Depression Period (1933-350) in a made-up town...

Magical realism is a genre in fictional writing that incorporates the aspects of magic, supernaturalism and fantasies in a mundane setting (Faris). In the story there is the use of surrealism. The woman at the carnival that arrived near Paleyo’s home is claimed to have turned into a spider after...

The plot of the story revolves around the family of Schrader who were living in Manhattan. They were immigrants who came to New York and had invested in dress manufacturing. Many immigrants at that time invested a lot of money in their children’s education and even succeeded in taking their...

The poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop is an example of poetic literature that is intended for raising ecological awareness of the reader. The narrator goes fishing, and the narration dwells on the situation that occurred on a specific day when she caught a big old fish and was reviewing...