… that we should "recover the creature" and learn to "extract the thing from the package." However, we can never exclusively recover the creature from the "symbolic package," for we are in a process of continuous discovery throughout our lives and…

… voices, the former being something of an idealist, and the latter a realist. Adrienne Rich's voice taking idealistic positions on how society, more specifically, women can regain self-control and self-knowledge if they look back, "re-envisioning"…

… Ralph Ellison's essays both refer to their means of resistance to the oppression they experience in their lives. Rich's "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision" describes her experiences as a female writer overwhelmed by the "patriarchy" in the "mascu…

… Hemingway is one of the most famous American writers in this century. He had earned many rewards such as Nobel and Pulitzer Prize for his tremendous contribution in literature. For many years, his novels and stories are so popular. After reading his…

… Gilman Perkins told us a sad story about a woman who was suffered from depression. After being isolated for a few months, she had become a real mental ill person at the end. In the story, through narrator's writing we deeply understand how she felt.…

… reflex aspect of her life Amy Tan has become one of the most successful Asian-American writers of our time. Her first work of fiction "The Joy Luck Club" was published in 1989 and became the longest running best seller on the New York Times hardcover…

… Satire means irony. People use satire to expose folly or vice. Interestingly, in Voltaire's Candide and Swift's Gulliver's Travels, they both use satire to express their profound observations. They have some similarities; such as they both criticize…

… is a thin line that separates sanity, and those who are lacking it but to those few who are insane, do they consider themselves so? In this story, it tells the story of a house keeper and care taker of a elderly man who lacks in the areas of vision…

… key factors in Thornton Wilder's Our Town. There are many things that bind people together. Ties are forms of connections and also bonds. Ties bring people together. Three of the things that bond people together are birth, marriage, and death. To…

… go as far to say that it was one of my all time favorite books. I was moved by a lot of the situations and controversies Conroy brought up in the stories. It was a very real book and you can relate to a lot of what the author is referring to at any…