What Makes Them Essays

What makes these three 'works' essays? To do that, what we must first do is define an essay. An essay is, as the dictionary states, an analytic or interpretive literary composition; a short literary composition dealing with a single subject usually written from the personal point of view of its author. Now that we have the definition of what the dictionary thinks an essay is, I am going to analyze it myself. I write essays, I write long, exhausting, works on pieces of literary merit. An essay begins with an introduction with a thesis that routes where the rest of the work is leading. Last year in AP Lit, I wrote probably 10 deeply analytic essays -- I despised every single one, most likely because my teacher was very specific with her guidelines and left no room for freedom other than writing topic. But anyway, now that the definition of an essay is given to the reader, we can now analyze The Stunt Pilot, Ali in Havana, and Silent Dancing.