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A Compelling View Into The Novel Along Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”
A critical review on the story A long way gone- memoirs of a boy soldier
by Ishmael Beah.
Stephen Crane’s Use of Irony in The Red Badge of Courage
For many writers of literature, it is common for authors to help describe characters or relate certain elements in their stories. One of these effective devices is irony, which Stephen Crane uses effectively in his 1895 novel The Red Badge of Courage. Crane uses this device to portray the main character, Henry Fleming, and to describe the world he encounters in the novel. Additionally, irony is used to help portray Crane’s attitude towards life. Ultimately in Crane’s war novel, irony is used to describe Henry’s journey from a raw recruit to a seasoned soldier (Hafer 1). Stephen Crane uses dramatic, situational, and verbal irony in this novel, from the beginning to the very end of his story.
War Changes Man
A look at the novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” and how war made the characters inhumane and mad.
Analysis of War Poetry
A deeper look into poets who have endured war and their thoughts on the subject matter.
Explanations of Ambiguity
A look at how ambiguity is used purposefully in Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It”, a look into the minds of veterans of American wars.
Intelligence in The Panopticon
An explication of Ciaran Carson’s poem “Intelligence” in relation to Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model. In the poem, “Intelligence” in Belfast Confetti, Ciaran Carson shows how the surveillance methods prescribed by Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model are used by the soldiers in Belfast to control the behavior of citizens as well as shape their perception of reality.
