Mystery Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Horror through Imagination: How do Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Shirley Jackson create suspense in their stories “Harvey’s Dream,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Lottery”

Introduction

Suspense is a literary style that is adopted by most authors to invoke the creative minds of the audience. Therefore, the authors intentionally fail to draw a conclusion to an event in a story, but instead live it upon the audience to think. On the other hand, mystery is an occurrence that is beyond human understanding, and in most cases it is associated with murder. This essay is anchored on these ...

Book Review – “Monster of Florence: A True Story”

Book Review – “Monster of Florence: A True Story”

Introduction

Review of the book, "The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi published in its first edition 2008 shows the publisher as New York: Grand Central Publishing. The author presents the story over 36 chapters divided in two parts – the first about the background of the decades- long mystery and the second focusing on the current investigation. This review includes comments about the author, a summary, and discussion about the material presented.
According to MacLeod-Johnson (2013) the author of “Monster of Florence: A True Story” Douglas ...

Coordinated management of meaning (CCM) in social sciences provides an understanding of how individuals coordinate, create and manage meanings in the communication process. In general terms, it refers to how people come with rules that are used to create and interpret meanings in the communication field. These rules and policies are enmeshed in people’s conversation where meaning is coordinated on a constant basis. In the contemporary world, people constantly communicate with others, and they normally design meaning of the messages which they used in their conversations. The meanings of the messages are based on the conversational experience of ...

The setting of the novel is in a small law office on the Wall Street. The focus of the narrative is more on the personality of one employee, Bartleby. The author tells the story through a narrator. The authors use of a narrator in the novel ensures that the reader gets as close as possible to Bartleby. This approach enables the reader to perceive everything through the senses of main character’s employer thereby identifying with the feelings of the narrator. This approach evokes the emotions of the reader in a way that the reader feels duty-bound to try to solve the mystery ...

Shakespeare called death “the undiscovered country.” Although death remains the biggest mystery of life, perhaps a bigger mystery is suggested in the very last paragraph of Truman Capote’s 1966 masterpiece, In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. The biggest mystery is that life continues to go as usual even though such a terrible event happened – the brutal and senseless murder of a mother, father, son and daughter in the Kansas heartland that made headlines in 1959.
The final paragraph begins with the word “And”. As most high school English teachers drill into their students, one ...

Presentation and Analysis of two literary works – Reflections on the way both literary works ‘The Road not Taken’ and ‘A Worn Path’ representing different writing kinds, a poem and a short story respectively, approach the same thematic core, the one of a Journey’s Symbolism – Comparison and contrast of both works in terms of their context, writing style, underlying meaning
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Abstract

This paper will present you with a comparison and contrast of two literary works. Both the literary works which have been chosen, belong to the same theme, the one of a journey’s symbolism. The first work which will ...

The writing in context, Vision, penned by Tiffany Briere, goes on to stir the minds of the avid readers with the sheer quintessence of literary portrayal and affective appeal. This writing is, in fact, an amalgamation of a number of instances in the life of the author who opts to document them in literature. It needs to be noted that the incidents that have been explicated in the course of the narrative of this writing are not placed in a chronological order. Rather, just like the arbitrariness of having visions in the mind, the literary expression too takes the ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the reflections drawn upon the readings of the novel ‘Passion’ written in 1987 by Jeanette Winterson. Jeanette Winterson has been widely acknowledged within the borders of the literary community as one of the writers who succeed in bonding their stories closely to mystery and passion, somewhere between magic and reality. This paper will present you with the main idea of Passion and will prove that people’s lives are conquered by Passion in such a way that Passion can neither be considered exclusively benefactoring nor destructive. It depends on the ...

The story happens in the home of Louise Mallard in the late nineteenth century; however, the author, Chopin, does not state the precise location. The main character is Louise Mallard while minor characters include Brently Mallard (her husband), Josephine (her sister) and Richards (a friend to her husband). The story is entirely about Louise and presents a negative view about marriage since the news of the husband’s death undoubtfully overjoys the woman. The question here is why the woman is all happy over her husband’s death. Most likely her feeling is psychological since she feels she has received freedom ...

Robert Frost depicts the life and landscape of New England in his poetry and uses traditional verse forms and metrics. At the same time, Frost is more than a country poet. He develops universal themes through dark thinking, and psychological portraits. His works are filled with uncertainty and irony. In poems “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” "Acquainted with the Night," “Desert Places,” Frost presents solitary lyrical heroes wandering in natural scenery. Their meeting or observation of the nature, another human being or an object arouses understanding of their link to others or isolation from the world. The poems research ...

Summary of Detective Fictions

The book is one of the earliest murder mysteries, in which the city of Paris is under siege by what the locals consider an organized band of thieves. These thieves rob the public of items such as costly jewelry on the streets. They also rob people in their homes. They render the street victims helpless by a blow to the head while deliberately killing others by thrusting daggers to their hearts. The author uses his story telling skills and ability to maintain the attention of the audience to the end of the book. He uses the cruel fate and terrible ...

Introduction

This could be classified among the most important writings on economics in any given century. The author, Desoto notes in this book that close to over a decade since the fall of Marxism, the capitalist revolution that was expected never occurred. However, despite the existence of capitalism in the developed nations; it has little progress to report in the former communist states and the third world countries. He notes that the problem lies with the improper definition of property rights – the citizens of the underdeveloped nations have property, which they own informally – these people cannot use these properties to gain ...

Section 1: Bibliographic Data - Works Cited

Faulkner, William. A Rose for Emily. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970. Print.Section 2: Summary
In “A Rose for Emily,” lonely spinster Emily Grierson kills her discreet and distant lover Homer Barron, a murder that is revealed only long after the fact to the town in which she lives, shocking its residents. The reasons are never explicitly mentioned in the story, but the isolated environment of the town, the townsfolk's poor and judgmental treatment of Emily, and Homer's own ambivalence toward his relationship with Emily all drive her to kill. The story is told through the collective consciousness of the town, ...