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245 years since the founding of the “great” country of America. 245 years, forty four White male presidents, one Black man. Zero women. 232 years for the “great” country of America to elect someone of color to the highest position … Continue reading →

In the war novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, some soldiers carried machine guns; some soldiers carried the Bible; some soldiers even carried pictures of their girlfriend; but one thing every soldier carried is the shame that was … Continue reading →

Metafiction has been technically defined as “fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work.” To leave it at this simple statement, though, is to cut away the true beauty of the technique. In … Continue reading →

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like… tears in rain. Time … Continue reading →

In his series of graphic novels collectively titled The Sandman, Neil Gaiman writes, “I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.” Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a post-apocalyptic novel, no questions asked. But what … Continue reading →

The average number of copies sold for a novel published by major publishers is around ten thousand in its lifetime. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitgerald sold around twenty five million since its publication in 1925. Of course there … Continue reading →

A quote from German poet Ernst Wiechert states: “Only pious people believe that hell is in a world beyond.” While Stephen Crane’s novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, supports this idea throughout the text, Maggie in particular is an … Continue reading →

Some of the most famous, interesting and intense scenes in novels and movies are the moments of conflict. These scenes are usually the perfect demonstration of power and control. The fights happening both physically and mentally build up extreme amounts … Continue reading →

Hump: to carry a heavy object with great difficulty. “To carry something was to hump it… [to hump] implied burdens far beyond the intransitive” (O’Brien 3). It would be much harder to name the things these soldiers didn’t carry; whether … Continue reading →

Many authors use colors to enhance their novels. They use them to project a character’s personality, a settings description or an event’s impact. This is exactly what Stephen Crane does in abundance in the novel Maggie a Girl of the … Continue reading →