Authors often use metaphors and symbols as techniques to make statements about characters. Character often lives parallel lives in novels and short stories and it is with great pleasure that we learn from them. Writers employ several different techniques to engage readers. Two stories that illustr...

Anti-Transcendentalists Transcendentalism is an eighteenth-century literary movement inspired by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. Transcendentalists highlight the positive aspect of nature and believe in the inherent goodness of humankind. However, writers known as the anti- transcendentalists dis...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to from only essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (Thoreau) American Transcendentalism was a literary and philosophical movement that ...