Essays on Literary Elements

Question. 22. a. A population pyramid is a representation of the population breakdown in terms of age and gender at a particular point in time. Population pyramid represents how many males and females are there in different age groups in the population. The numbers by age and by gender depend on the interactions between migrations, mortality, and fertility. Above all, the pyramid shape and its variations depend on the variations in the fertility. Population pyramids help in understanding several aspects of the population, such as the history of a particular group in the population, and project the future of ...

Flannery O'Connor is a master in the art of the short story. A Good Man is hard to find has become a classic and that controversial end scene which was depressing, cynical and hazing at the same time describes her work, unpredictable (O'Connor, and Frederick 31).

Biographical Information

She was born in the year 1925 on the twenty-fifth of March. She authored thirty two short stories and two novels. Apart from writing stories, she also wrote some commentaries and did some reviews. Thomas Aquinas and William Faulkner are some of the people she credits with inspiring her work. O’Conner used ...

Analysis - "Story of an Hour"

In Kate Chopin's "Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard, a woman "afflicted with a heart trouble" learns over the course of the story that her husband is dead. The story follows the progression of her emotions from shock and horror to a feeling of liberation and freedom, as she feels relief of the burden of being wife. A very controversial story when it was first published, Chopin's tale (like many of her works) deals with the unexpected ability of women to liberate themselves and operate separately from men (Jamil, 2009). This theme of female empowerment in a patriarchal age shines through this short ...