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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Justice: Summary and Analysis

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Justice is a piece of literature that highlights how Indigenous people create honest and truthful stories about themselves that include their faults, but on the contrary, colonized stories about them make them seem out of place. In particular, the author shines a light on how stories made about Indigenous…

Interesting Facts about the Planets

Mercury: Venus: Earth: Mars: Jupiter: Saturn: Uranus: Neptune: Bibliography 1815. “10 Interesting Facts About Mars.” Universe Today, 4 Apr. 2016,  www.universetoday.com/14853/interesting-facts-about-planet-mars. Choi, Charles. “Planet Mercury: Facts About the Planet Closest to the Sun.” Space.Com, 14 Oct. 2017,  www.space.com/36-mercury-the-suns-closest-planetary-neighbor.html. Mars.Nasa.Gov. “Mars Facts.” NASA’s Mars Exploration Program,  mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/facts Accessed 13 May 2021. Matt Williams “Ten Interesting Facts…

The Theme of Bildungsroman in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

A bildungsroman is a novel that focuses on a protagonist’s moral, intellectual, and spiritual growth. In contemporary literature, the coming-of-age stories can be equated with the bildungsroman theme as they often deal with the challenging transition to adulthood from childhood. Shelley’s is a nineteenth-century novel that depicts the theme of bildungsroman by tracing the outcome…

The Theme of Bildungsroman in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

 A bildungsroman is a novel that focuses on a protagonist’s moral, intellectual, and spiritual growth. In contemporary literature, the coming-of-age stories can be equated with the bildungsroman theme as they often deal with the challenging transition to adulthood from childhood. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte traces the intellectual, moral, and psychological development of a young woman…

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: Summary and Analysis

Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and influenced Nigeria’s literary renaissance in the 1960s. As the title suggests, Things Fall Apart is about the tragic downfall of a community and culture as an indigenous way of life crumbles from being assailed by foreign forces they do not understand and are unprepared for. The novel’s first…

Cultural Conflict in Chinua Achebe’s Dead Men’s Path

Chinua Achebe’s Dead Men’s Path is a short story published in 1953. Like Achebe’s other novel, Things Fall Apart, Dead Men’s Path confronts the clash between indigenous communities and colonialism. Michael Obi and his wife, Nancy, are enthusiastic about his posting as the new headmaster of Ndume Central School, a local school known for cultural backwardness and lack of progress.…