.... Kentucky. The racing season with new colts, bloodlines, legendary horse families and trainers all share a common bond of shared love for the thoroughbreds and champions. The narrator, a white boy, is envious of the black cook, Bildad for his closeness to the horses' life. He states that "he is going all season to the races and working in the livery barn in the winter where horses are and where men like to come and talk horses, wish I was a nigger. It's a foolish thing to say, but that's the way I am about being round horses, just crazy, I can't help it". Young people are ambitious, regardless of color and the similarities in taste demonstrates the similarity of persons of all ....

.... personal inspiration that fuels a great work to cause its readers to realize the complexity of the human nature. Robert Frost's "Home Burial" is a masterfully written example of such works, conceived from his and his wife's anguish at the loss of their first-born son as well as from the estrangement between his sister-in-law and her husband due to the death of their child. In Donald J. Greiner's commentary on Frost's works, "The Indespensible Robert Frost," it is revealed that "Mrs. Frost could not ease her grief following Elliot's death, and Frost later reported that she knew then that the world was evil. Amy in "Home Burial" makes the same observation". "Home Burial" ....

.... found the materials for his fiction (Tedlock 3). John Steinbeck's agricultural upbringing in the California area vibrantly shines through in the settings and story lines of the majority of his works. John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. His father's family, originally called Grossteinbeck, had come from Wuppertal, about twenty miles east of the German city of Düsseldorf. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, "nourishing" his impression of the California countryside and its people (Lisca 32). He made occasional exciting trips to San Francisco with his family and more frequent trips to the Monterey p ....

.... It was a time of prosperity. The industrial revolution that started in the previous century made the British Empire a world power. Everyone had a job and the conditions for the workers significantly improved as compared to the past century. Trade unions that never existed before had just begun to form to protect the rights of the working people, and poor children didn't have to work in mines anymore. A bloody and seemingly meaningless war hadn't yet begun to destroy bodies and devastate souls of people. Generally speaking, the times were good, and the future was viewed in an optimistic way. The atmosphere of the book is filled with romance and hope, even though the author ....

.... of human life. Three of the main areas which literature will effect are the religious, social and personal view of the reader. It is often people who have strong and high views in these areas that will have a big say in what is classified as literature. Weevilly Porridge by Eva Johnson looks at the topic of aboriginal treatment by white people in the late 1800's - 1950's. The topic is a pressing issue today in Australian society and poems such as these help everyone understand about the issue of Aboriginal treatment by white people. A good use of the resource of language is essential for a text to be defined as literary. A good use of the resource of language would inc ....

.... see things united and somehow entangled in a seemingly endless and meaningless circular chain of events. Allusions frequently show Siddhartha’s conditions by means of clever imagery suggesting circular motion and an immobile state. Siddhartha is first compared to a potter’s wheel that slowly revolves and comes to a stop. From here, Siddhartha meets the elegant and beautiful, Kamala, gets caught “off track” and entangles himself in a “senseless cycle” of acquiring and squandering wealth. In the final chapters, Siddhartha proves that achieving or over-coming obstacles do lead to better Unity. Prior to making a leap forward in reaching his goal, Siddhartha f ....

.... hollow. When the American dream was pure, motivation and ambition were the driving forces. "He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way...and distinguished nothing except a single green light" (Fitzgerald, 26). This shows how Gatsby was striving for his goal, trying to accomplish it but not finding it to be within realistic reach. This quote relates to Gatsby's daily agenda and how in his earlier days he upholds the pure American Dream: "No wasting time at Shafters, No more smoking or chewing, Read one improving book or magazine per week, Save $3.00 per week, Be better to parents"(Fitzgerald, 181-182). Nick says, "I became aware of the old island here ....

.... to show emphasis. The author uses "Ah, Momma" to show that she feels bad that her mother did not become an artist and lets her mother down easy by telling her mother that she will follow her own dreams and stick with them. Another technique that the author uses is imagery. Imagery is a technique that helps you picture the events that are being described. "Thick long, black hair with a starched, white nurse's cap when she went on duty" makes you picture her leaving and getting ready for work. This shows how the daughter admires the way she looks but still does not want to become her. In an essay by Carol Saline, the relationship between the daughter and mother is acon ....