Student Essays & Creative Pieces

Once upon a time there was a king and queen in a faraway kingdom. All their people were happy, including the king and queen, and it was a peaceful place.

Fear of missing out makes people dissatisfied with their lives and envious of others.

In the novels The Planet of Exile and The City of Illusions Ursula K. Le Guin uses the character development of the farborns, Jacob, and Falk-Ramarren to convey the message that here is no core self...

…As soon as Bombur had gone, Bilbo put on his ring, fastened his rope, slipped down over the wall, and was gone.

In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, the protagonist Amir finds himself conflicted between earning the lifelong approval of his father or saving his loyal friend.

Atticus Finch from To Kill A Mockingbird once said, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

People fear sharks because they don’t know much about them. People think that sharks are ruthless human killers because the thing that most people know about sharks is that they have big teeth. 

In John Steinbeck’s The Pearl Kino has a conflict with fate when he strives to rise to the status of a colonizer and the conflict is resolved when Kino throws the pearl back into the water, symbolizing that he had given up on his dream.

Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is a controversial book. Many schools and teachers around the country oppose the teaching of Huck Finn. They assert that the book is racist.