Essays

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch faces a powerful internal conflict as he chooses to defend Tom Robinson. Although he knows the case will bring criticism and even danger to his family, Atticus still accepts it, driven by his strong moral beliefs. His struggle is not just about winning or losing a trial; it is about staying true to the values he teaches his children. This inner battle shapes the way he sees himself and how he hopes to guide Scout and Jem toward understa

In The Maze Runner, James Dashner doesn’t just give us a deadly puzzle for the characters to solve, he builds a symbolic world that...

In Little Women, Louisa May Alcott gives us two very different portraits of what it meant to be a female artist in the 1860s through the...

Prompt: Based on Dickens’s portrayals of the villainous characters in his novel (particularly Madame Defarge), what conclusions might...