Perspectives

We recommend you put the short story “To Feed the Night” by Philip Hensher into perspective, as it can provide you with more information regarding the literary period and similar literary works.

Literary period

Written in 1999, the short story “To Feed the Night” belongs to the modernist movement in literature. Although it has a traditional structure, the short story is modernist mainly because of the issues it explores.

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Works with the same theme

The theme of materialism has been explored in the poem “please don’t take my air jordans” by Reg E. Gaines. After you read the poem, we advise you to focus on the way in which young people – particularly those coming from poor or modest environments – are persuaded by peer pressure to commit regretful...

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