Literature

I suggest an article examining how racism has evolved in American Literature and what we can learn from it. My hypothesis is that we cannot understand tolerance until we understand racism and that literature is the way to do that. This would heavily focus on Huck Finn.

This Middle Earth created by him is so well detailed and so well documented that it's obvious it could have very well existed at one time. The ocean region North of Scotland used to be land several thousand years ago during the ice age and it's only reasonable that that's where Middle Earth used to be.

The existence of Middle Earth as well as all traces of it's existence eventually disappeared under the flooding waves. It was totally lost to history until Elrond and the Lady Galadriel, over in the "Undying Lands" used their Elvish power to transmit stories about it into Tolkien's dreams while he slept.

It would be interesting finding archaeological evidence of Middle Earth. The ruins of the ancient city of Minas Tirith must still be laying there at the bottom of the ocean floor.

Which books written in the last 50 years will hold up as classics for generations to come? We have those authors and books that we mark with each decade, so which authors and novel will mark our generation? Stephen King and J. K. Rowling are two that jump to mind.

What are some religious books that would appeal to readers in general? For example, lots of people read stories and proverbs of the Bible, Pilgram's Progress, etc. in school to look at the historical or analytical context. What are religious writings that would appeal to someone not wanting to become part of the faith, but just read for context.

Fairytales are often read in one of two diametrically opposed ways: either as a light and unrealistic story of princesses and "true love," or as disturbing Freudian journeys into the dark recesses of human consciousness and behavior. While both contain aspects of the truth, a more accurate reading reveals and understanding neither so superficial nor so disturbed.

Analyze Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Wickham from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The common connection with these characters is that they both scheme to escape their powerlessness in the British social structure of the time period. Possible that the novel was Jane Austen's own scheming to escape powerlessness and comment on that society?

It has come to my attention that many people overlook the most obvious reading of these novels because of the erotic content of the novels. Christian Grey shows clear signs of repression of his violent childhood memories and displacement of the anger cause by that childhood onto the women he enters into BDSM relationships with.

Analyze the development of a classic fairytale such as "Cinderella" by looking at the changes made from the Perrault and Grimm tales to the Disney adaptations and retellings such as "Ella Enchanted".