Author Archives: Pulkit kumar

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery makes several comment about the modern society. One of the major theme in this story is tradition and how people just blindly follow them. A major idea that The lottery reveals is that human beings are … Continue reading →

Orwell in his “Politics and the English Language” criticizes contemporary English style for its horrible and inaccurate use of language. He also points out some awful and just terrible writing that went on to be published. Orwell says people use … Continue reading →

The essay Going to See a Man Hanged hangs around a public execution that the writer himself has attended. The first few paragraphs successful provided readers with the setting of the short story. Thackeray starts by introducing us to some characters like X, Mr. … Continue reading →

Before talking about the workshop, let me just say I had a really hard time writing this essay. Coming up with a topic that suffice either of the two options was torturous. But I still somehow finished the essay. So … Continue reading →

First thought upon finishing the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the shocking news that Jim was free this whole time. Miss Watson, the original owner of Jim, had died months back and in her will she freed Jim. … Continue reading →

One of the major theme in Huck Finn is violence and there are numerous act of violence throughout the book. Some of them that stood out to me was Huck’s father abusing and trying to kill huck, Boggs’s murder and … Continue reading →