Abstract  This essay explores the message that the folktale The Wise Old Woman retold by Yoshiko Uchida sends to readers about people who...

Abstract Folklore is a genre of literature that tells fictional stories or myths, often including a heroic main character facing an...

Abstract In considering how power manifests in ancient folktales, let us first consider what we mean by “power.” Power refers to the...

Abstract The novel Brat Farrar , written by Josephine Tey, explores the different themes of human nature, family and belonging, and fate...

The Giver , by Lois Lowry, is a dystopian novel narrating the life of Jonas, a boy almost near adulthood who lives in a fictional world...

Jonas is very apprehensive for the Ceremony of Twelve, and his mom and dad comfort him. They talk about how they already knew what their...

The Giver by Lois Lowry has long been regarded as a staple in classic literature. Set in a dictionary idyllic town where everything is...

The story starts by introducing The Lottery, a special event that takes place each year in a small town, hosted by Mr. Summers. It was a...

The Lottery  by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a small town where everyone shows up every year for the lottery. The whole town,...

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a horror short story that centers around a fictional American town and an annual ritual that the...

Gladiator , a historical writing by Richard Ross Watkins, starts by introducing the First of the Gladiators and its origins in the Roman...

Gladiator is a popular entertainment in the Roman Empire within armed combatant, which is between armed combatant who entertained...

The first gladiators were made in 264 BC, at the funeral of a Roman nobleman called Junius Brutus. They fought because the people thought...

Suspense in novels, short stories, and any kind of literature is something that isn’t quite so uncommon. Authors may use different...

Brat, who has a striking resemblance to men of the Ashby family, has a chance meeting with a connection to the family. He is persuaded to...

Brat Farrar , a novel by Josephine Tey, starts by introducing the Ashby family, a household in England that had an estate in the country...

Of Mice and Men  by John Steinbeck is a novella that follows two migrant workers traveling across California looking for work during the...

Of Mice and Men  is a novella written by John Steinbeck, published in 1937. The story is set under the background of the Great...

Of Mice and Men , by John Steinbeck, narrates the lives of a duo, George Milton and Lennie Small, who seek to find a stable life in...

In John Steinbeck’s novella “ Of Mice and Men ”, two friends, Lennie and George, work on a ranch in Soledad. They initially hope it will...