Biography of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, one of America's most famous poets, was born in Amherst on December 10, 1830, to a very prominent family. Her parents were Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross Dickinson. The family included three children: Austin, Emily, and Lavinia. Emily w...

Night is an excellent book. It is a very vivid and detailed account of the concentration camps during World War II. It is told through the eyes of a young man, Elie Wiesel. This book is extremely thought-provoking. In the book, Elie describes his fear and terror of being brought to a ghetto with hi...

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography gave the readers a small insight of society into the eighteenth century versus how society is viewed today as a whole. Throughout the entire autobiography he chronologically orders events from the time that he was a small boy growing into the age of a man. Thus...

Eudora Welty, in the story of "Why I Live at the P.O.," tells a story of a girl and the troubles she encounters upon her sister's return into her life. The author uses a first-person point of view to evoke a sense of sympathy from the reader. The story is told from the Sister's ...

Thick hands work Under a harvest son Fortune with another callus (222) Above is a simple poetic form called haiku that describes what Harvest Son, a story by David Mas Masumoto, is all about. However, there is much more to be read into the haiku than what a person's first reading of it a...

My Life With The Wave, by Octavio Paz, is a short story which leads us to the changing relationship between a man and a wave. The wave, which symbolizes a woman, is the central focus of the story. The author, Octavio Paz, was a Mexican-born, 1990 Nobel Prize recipient. He started writing at an earl...

In the novel, Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya argues that it is possible to grow up into your own person, full of wisdom which you have gained through experience and truth, and not be dragged down by the social racism into which so many people are drawn. Anaya shows this through his characterization...

Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding is a novel that is identical to a soap opera. This book deals with everything from treachery to lust to deceit. He writes about a man and woman's love for one another and that nothing can stand in their way. Class separates them and they will not let that stop...

"My Oedipus Complex"By Frank O'ConnorThe appreciation of Frank O'Connor 's work is continually undercut by his subjects personal feelings (James Matthews 1983). This is clearly seen in his short story "My Oedipus Complex". Frank O'Connor wrote 150 short stories, novels, plays, poetry, and two auto...

I Make My Own Rules, An Autobiography by L.L. Cool J.I Make My Own Rules, was written by L.L. Cool J. He is better known as L.L. However, his birth name is James Todd Smith. L.L. was born on January 14, 1968 at Southside Hospital in Bayshore, New York. Today he is a thirty-year-old successful sing...

\"My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all humankind,\" said Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote this statement in 1967, explaining what he had tried to do throughout his long writing career\" (Berry 5). James M. Langston Hughes overcame numero...

Criticizing (or Praising) the AuthorAn author may never know if their creation will be popular, liked, or just plain forgotten, but they can rely on one simple fact, that no matter what eventually someone is going to read their book and criticize it in one way or another. There are many different w...