Susan Glaspell's Trifles is a good play because it unravels the different motives for murder throughout the play. Unlike most murder mysteries, Trifles is a play where the reader knows the murderer early on. Some readers may say that this makes the play bad. However, a murder mystery does n...

Beowulf EssaySeptember 28, 2000The eighth passage in Beowulf is the most suspenseful and exciting in the story. The character of the monster Grendel, and the bravery of the hero, Beowulf, makes it entertaining and full of torture. The huge killer is changed, by facing his first fear, into a scared...

The story "A Sound of Thunder" takes place in 2055 A. D. and then they go back into the past to the Jurassic Period. These people who go are expert hunters and they want to get a "big catch" so they intend on shooting and killing a Tyrannosaurus Rex. One of the hunters named Mr...

War is often perceived as glamorous and an adventure to those we are involved. However, war destroys many people in many ways. After fighting in the trenches of World War I, Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen poured their experiences into works of literature. Even though Remarque and Owen were...

"Lather and Nothing Else" seems to fit Hernando Tellez's story well. It's self-explanatory to the plot of the story and essentially gives away the decision of our disgruntle protagonist. But what if someone looks at the story in a different perspective? Perhaps if the point of view was changed? ...

Aphra Behn, an eighteenth century spy and writer uses many elements of realism in her novel Oroonoko, while also having some implausible events happen as well. The hero, whose name is also the title, is an African prince that is tricked into slavery. Behn realistically crafts her hero by not only g...

"The Last of the Mohicans"It is a summer of 1750 and there is still the French and Indian War. Three surviving members of the Mohicans, Chingachgook and his two sons, Uncus (his blood son) and Hawkeye, his adopted son, continue to live the traditional Mohican Life of hunting and trapping through the...

SuperstitiousR.L. Stine who is one of America's best-selling authors and the devilish creator of the Fear Street and Goosebumps series of horror stories for kids. Stine is who wrote the book I read, but he came back with a book for the older generation. All of Stines ideas in his books are suggested...