Category: Literature Review

One reasons bird fly is to migrate. They fly away from their natural habitat to escape the grueling cold only to return months later to where they came from. In Song of Solomon, flight is a central theme, especially for the main character, Milkman. Throughout the story, flight becomes a symbol and we see it…

We accept the love we think we deserve Dear friend, being a wallflower does help gain the trust of other people but, does being a wallflower allow those to participate in life completely? We accept the love we think we deserve but how do we know if we deserve any better. Steven Chbosky explores the…

Within the closing remarks of his outstanding work Mans Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl set the stage for which meaning-orientated therapy (Logotherapy) was to be born. For Frankl, human beings were meaning-seeking creatures; compasses tilted towards meaning; towards carrying out the appropriate activities that could help to contextualise a purposeful future, despite the inherent trials…

Howes describes the self as a construct of the mind, an hypothesis of being, socially formed even as it can be quickly turned against the very social formations that have brought it into birth. By exploring literary narrative thinking, which emphasises the structure of events in terms of a humans feelings and thoughts, a dual…

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair had two compatible goals in mind: to create outrage with practice of selling diseased meat to the public and show a ympathy for laborers who were forced to work in such unsanitary conditions. However, in The Jungle Sinclair places psychologically shallow, unrealistic characters in an extremely detailed, realistic environment. Thus…

In this paper, I will be explaining the main points of the essay called Philosophy and The Meaning of Life by Robert Nozick, where Robert Nozick begins to talk about how we have to understand the unquestioned assumptions and do we really want to know about the meaning of life. In his essay he talks…

Imagine living in a perfect world, where no tragedies exist and everyone gets along. Such as no war, violence, and poverty. Which The Giver community makes sure of. A perfect place with a perfect government who takes care of its people and maintains order. This is a utopian society. In the giver, there are various…

Brought forth for one reason and one reason just, to secure both home and mother, regardless of whether it implies your life is lost all the while. This is a honey bee’s world; serious, organized, and perhaps a bit of discouraging. Honey bees are utilized all through Sue Monk Kidd’s tale ‘The Secret Life of…

It is in our blood as humans to have the need for meaning in our life, but did we ever consider the questions; what is that meaning we constantly search in need, will we ever find it, and how? American philosopher Susan Wolf asks lots of questions but many of them concern what we should…

How would you like living in a world with no color, no music, and no love? Well, thats how Jonass life was like. All of those things are present in the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, 1993, dystopian. Jonass community is idyllic. Everyone is assigned their jobs or assignments. This community has no conflict,…