"13 Reasons Why", written by Jay Asher, is a young adult novel that delves into the sensitive and complex topic of teenage suicide. The book gained significant attention and sparked discussions about mental health, bullying, and the impact of our actions on others. Through its...
I have in paste month or so read a very interesting and inspiring book called “the absolute true diary of a part-time Indian”. This astonishing book is written by Sherman Alexie, and it’s about an Indian boy, named Arnold Spirit Junior who searches for hope...
With the dawn of technology in society, humans’ unbridled access to these novel, omnipresent tools arouses both hope and fear. In her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Egan explores the complex effects of such technology on human interaction and capabilities. In discussing the...
Everyone has a sense of drive in their life. Whether that is to get up early and run a mile, or to stay late at work that day. However, there will always be weaknesses that you will have to overcome. In the book Gym Candy,...
The Virgin Suicides is an american novel written byˈJeffrey Eugenides and published in 1993. It is the first novel written by Jeffrey Eugenides, it is a tragedy novel. This novel deals with adolesence, love, death. The novel tels the story of the Lisbon sisters, from...
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” This fascinating quote comes from the famous Mark Twain, this quote can be also directly tied to the central argument in The Devil in The White City. The central argument...
Anger is a form of passion, without personal investment there would be no anger towards a topic. It’s convincing, then, to say anger is often followed by change, without meaning and pain there is no repercussion followed through as change. In the preacher and published...
It is known to man that when one knows what when you can find your purpose find a sense of identity to yourself. In “Never Let Me Go” The story focuses on Kathy H., who portrays herself as a guardian, talking about looking after organ...
The book 12 years a Slave is an 1853 memoir written by Solomon Northup. The book is a primary source which means the author lived through it all. Solomon was a free, black man until he was being sold as a slave and wrote this...
In 1741, Jonathan Edwards, a Puritan priest wrote and presented a sermon known as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Aiming to frighten his followers into repenting, threatening them that they would be under serious consequences in the future if they don’t repent....
In Harrison’s Generals Die in Bed, violence plays a major role in demonstrating the reality of bloody battles and life in the trenches. The inclusion of such graphic imagery serves to deglamorize and unromanticise the idea of war. It is through the book’s violence and...
Eco-criticism in The Hungry Tide is analysed from the concept of ‘nature’, interdependencies of life forms, eco-system, ecological niche, myth and the notion of epiphany. The word ‘ecology’ is usually connected with the ‘green movement’. The bio-centric idea of the theory postulates that the non-human...
Being able to see into the lives of other families is fascinating, and seeing the little inside jokes, phrases, and day-to-day things that make them unique is a terrific way to relate to something new. In the case of Matthew Rides into 'Space': A Firsthand...
Bai Xianyong’s Taipei People is one of the most important and classical novels in modern and contemporary China history, which consist of 14 different short stories of different characters. These characters came from different classes and they were with different background and worked in the...
The book My Forbidden Face is a book about the struggle of a young girl around the age of 16 whose real identity is hidden and goes by the name Latifa. The book is an autobiography discussing her life growing up in Afghanistan as the...
In The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, the characters’ pasts show their once youthful, optimistic personalities and how they changed throughout time. The existing friendship between King Leontes and King Polixenes is strong and bonded at the beginning, but is tested by the events that...
In life, nothing will ever stay the same- including yourself. Whether the change is due to uncontrollable circumstances or it is voluntary, it will happen. Esther Forbes’ Johnny Tremain, a historical fiction novel, captures the essence of change in a person. When the book begins,...
The cay was a very interesting and detailed book. This book was short but had the touch of a good writer. It teaches that sometimes God must let bad things happen to us to make us change. God does not enjoy putting us through trials,...
Literature is rich with themes and literary devices that authors use to convey their messages. W.W. Jacobs' short story, "The Monkey's Paw," is a perfect example of how theme and archetypes can be used to create meaning in a story. In this essay, we will...
Man Mission is a work of connecting with individual fiction composed by creator Eytan Uliel, which envelops 'Four men, fifteen years, and one epic adventure'. The story centers on a gathering of youthful companions who guarantee themselves a yearly taste of experience, regardless of where...
The novel Pedro Páramo revolves around different events that occurred in Comala. These events led to the destruction of the entire town. Juan Rulfo’s novel was influenced by Cristero War that affected many religious societies in rural Mexico and Fr. Renteria, a character in his...
Whale Rider is a Maori drama film that was released on 9 September 2002, directed and written by Niki Caro. The movie, adapted from Witi Ihimaera’s 1987 novel, is a co-production between New Zealand and Germany and has become a global success. The film reflects...
While reading Behind the Beautiful Forevers, I found the prologue to a bit confusing. The reader suddenly learns that the presumed main character, Abdul, is going into hiding while his father, Karam is going to offer himself to the police. I suppose the author was...
A man is painting and wanders off to someone's house and the person is a gravestone maker. He had made a gravestone with the narrator's name on it with the death date being that day. The story ends. The purpose of horror and suspense is...
As humans, we are prone to making many mistakes throughout the entirety of our lives, but luckily we have developed the ability to learn from said mistakes. Hole in My Life’s Jack Gantos and Robert Downey Jr. are perfect examples that people make mistakes in...
Literature has an important place within our society, as it is a source of inspiration, entertainment, and knowledge. However, it also can give us a new perspective and teach us lessons that we have not been exposed to before. After reading the book Moon of...
In the book, A Wreath for Emmett Till, Marilyn Nelson exposes readers to a dark history, embedded in poetry. Nelson creates different layers to unravel through literary devices in order to engage readers and make them think. Her sonnets include a lot of allusions so...
The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas by Reginald McKnight introduces a story about an African American boy named Clinton who goes through racial challenges. The story is set in the 1950s, where racism was still prevalent in the United States. Throughout the story,...
In Gary Paulsen's novel, "Hatchet," Brian Robinson is a 13-year-old city boy who lives in Hampton, New York, and is going through a tough time as his parents are getting a divorce. Brian has to ride a plane all by himself from Hampton, New York,...
J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye: Holden’s Self Sabotage Salinger’s novel, Catcher in the Rye’s protagonist Holden Caulfield is struggling with maturing into an adult. Holden’s mental and emotional maturation process began when he was 13 and had to deal with the burden of losing...
The book is divided into fifteen chapters which are divided into four sections. The first section called “Failures of capture scholarship” talks about history, concept, and measure of regulatory capture. It is important to understand theoretically what capture is, how it was created and how...
Compare and contrast:«Arriving early is better than arriving late” that common saying is something we all have heard. Most people are usually nervous for not being on time and sometimes that nervousness can lead to that people around us may feel that we are a...
To Janie’s strange eyes, everything in the Everglades was big and new. Big Lake Okeechobee, big beans, big cane, big weeds, big everything. Weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Ground so...
Exposition: A black man named Jefferson is being convicted of murder during a robbery in Louisiana. Not if but when he is found guilty by the twelve white jurors he will be put to death by electrocution. During Jefferson's trial his attorney made an effort...
"Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain" is an essay written by Jessica Mitford in 1963, originally published in The American Way of Death. The essay exposes the American funeral industry's practices and procedures, including the embalming process and the sale of expensive caskets, and criticizes the industry's...
The memoir "Travis Roy: 11 Seconds" details the life of Travis Roy, a young man who became paralyzed after just 11 seconds of playing Division I ice hockey. Despite the adversity he faces, Roy maintains a positive outlook and a desire to help others. This...
In his book, What is Islam, Shahab Ahmed presents an intrepid notion of Islam that is simple yet blunt and in contrast to many popular, conservative and radical perceptions. Ahmed takes a comprehensive and pluralistic approach to the eras of Islamic history, philosophy, science, theology,...
In chapter one, the book goes over the differences between formal and informal justice. Formal justice is “a process that takes an offender through a series of decision points beginning with arrest and concluding with reentry into society” (Siegel 10). Informal justice however is when...
Perception and knowledge of the world is gained from the beliefs and experiences of individuals. It is through the culmination of these beliefs and experiences that form identity. To discuss this theme I'll provide a summary of Jon by George Saunders and analyse the protagonist,...
Unlike many short narratives, “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury does not center around human interactions or human society. The readers follow the story of a house that is loaded with artificial intelligence that continues its actions even after the demise of its...
Do adults ever wonder what goes on inside of a teenager’s head? Well, in the poem “Misunderstood” by Rachel Liu it talks about what teenagers feel and think about on a daily basis. Teens these days tend to act out to be cool or to...
After the roaring success of Harry Potter, we see plenty of authors claiming to have written the next best fantasy series. The problem with most of them is that they stick to the tried and tested formula of a righteous underdog who rises from the...
I broke my cardinal rule of thou shall not damage a book. My bookshelf sags from the weight of the tomes I own that remain in the same pristine condition they arrived from the bookstore in. Books often were my way to escape my normal...
The world has experienced numerous financial frauds, but the Ponzi scheme executed by Bernard Madoff perhaps remain the biggest scheme the globe has ever seen. Bernard Madoff used the asset management unit of his investment securities firm to dupe hundreds of investors. In 2009, Erin...
Have you ever experienced a random encounter or a sequence of events and wondered if it all happened for a reason – if there might be a lesson in there somewhere? That is the premise of Rob White’s 2013 collection of autobiographical stories. And Then...
A daughter’s father is in prison, to make up for the time he wasn’t with her he wrote letters about life itself and all the morals that comes with living. The father’s only way to keep in contact with his daughter is to write letters...
Fareed Zakaria wrote a book in 2008 called “The Post American World”. His main argument in the first book touched on that due to America spreading its liberal democracy theories around the world, now the other countries around the world are competing with it socially...
Georg Simmel's The Metropolis and Mental Life best fits within the German school of urban studies. The German school, as Sennet explains, began with the work of Max Weber. Weber attempted to deal with cities through a 'scientific' and value-free approach, purporting to address cities...
The novel From a Crooked Rib was written by Nuruddin Farah in 1968 and was published in 1970. From a Crooked Rib explores the sociological study of the subordinate role of Somali women. The central character of the novel is Ebla. The harsh treatment of...
In “A Feeling of Wildness”, David Gessner is trying to persuade his audience that you don’t need to travel to marvelous places such as Mount Everest or the Amazon to experience the feeling of “wildness”. Through the uses of anecdotal stories, vivid imagery and descriptive...
After reading “The Moths” by Helena Maria Viramontes, it left with me with a weird feeling. The symbols, the great details, and the overall feelings the story radiated made me feel some type of way. I am not sure if it was sadness, sympathy, or...
In this 20st century novel it can be inferred that the story is an allegory on the early Soviet Union. The story is taking place in the future and is a dystopia. Totalitarianism and conformity are characteristics of the Soviet Union society of that time....
Movement is a guiding force in history that dictates and governs the present. It is important to study movement to understand how and what happened to humans to get be at this very point in time. When exploring world history one learns about how and...
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