"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...
This story connects to the issue of Identity because, at the beginning of the story, Junior's problem of hydrocephalus and his angry best friend Rowdy is brought up, which puts awareness on how people’s characteristics since being born can outline their characteristics, inferring that Junior...
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,...
Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President—and Won depicts how a professor of law, Harold Koh, and students from the law clinic at Yale Law School accepted the extraordinary job to free the Haitians being detained on Guantanamo Bay....
Every individual is different from one other and all individuals have distinctive qualities of their own. Everyone is different—we all think, act and function differently based on our personalities and corresponding strengths and weaknesses. We even have different perspectives and approaches towards life. As well...
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...
Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events...
“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...
One may not like the idea of teamwork, in fear of failure, but working with other individuals is the key to being successful. In Dean Praus novel, City of Ember he reveals sometimes teamwork is vital in certain situations in order to achieve one's goal....
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...
“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul”, these words were drafted by the American author Dave Pelzer in his book “A child called it”. As beautiful as these words may be they cannot erase...
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....
Ask any book lover whether they are in love with Jonathan Safran Foer, and they’ll most likely say, yes. Foer has turned into one of the most successful authors of all time. It is not without good reason that Foer has won multiple awards for...
Mattew Sommer’s book Sex, Law and Society in Late Imperial China, one of the innovative book in Law Society and Culture in China series, is a provocative study that concentrates on the changing sexual relation during Qing dynasty (1644–1912) on a civil law perspective. The...
Never Cry Wolf is a book that was published in the early 60s and it is about Farley Mowat’s observation of Arctic wolves in Canada. The book was highly successful and sold about 14 million copies and was translated into 24 different languages. Mowat was...
Confessions of a Shopaholic is 350 page book written by Sophie Kinsella—a British author. She lives in England and was a former financial journalist just like the main character of the book. She is famous of her Confessions series, Remember Me, Twenties Girl and many...
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...
James Baldwin was a unique African-American novelist, playwright and social critic who born in Harlem. In his works, Baldwin explores the prejudices on racial and sexual identities in American society. Usually, he tells the reader about torture, injustice and indignity against black people. Also, themes...
Summary “The Ambitious Guest”, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about a person that was traveling who had stopped for the night at a families house that lived near a mountain. Then him and the family started to have a conversation. Then out of nowhere him 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...
Samyann’s Yesterday is a fiction book on reincarnation spiced with romance. The story is about a young lady, Amanda, who found love gain when she purchased a mysterious clock with captivating angels bells. The Clock and the major characters, Amanda Parker and Mark Callahan became...
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...
John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love explore the theme of obsession, it’s cause and consequences it poses when someone to go to extreme ends to achieve their goal. The characters in both Doubt and Enduring Love want to protect something and prove...
Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988), an American columnist, was the creator of the 1973 smash hit Sybil, the tale of a lady (recognized years after the fact as Shirley Ardell Mason) who had a dissociative character disorder and supposedly had...
As I leaned back in a big chair at my house, and I read a book which my grandmother just gave to me. I knew I would learn a new lesson from the book because learning through experience is an important part of life. Passing...
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,...
“Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type…. ‘How can I compete with that?’ Being a regular black girl wasn’t good enough.” -Kimberly Denise Jones On Beauty by Zadie Smith follows the lives of the Belsey and Kipps...
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,...
African feminism presented through an epistolary novel: an essay on the experience of Ramatoulaye Characterization of Ramatoulaye to comment on the Senegalese society In So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ So Long a Letter, an epistolary novel written by Mariama Bâ, widely explores women’s...
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’s Search for Meaning: summary Man’s Search for Meaning is a memoir by Viktor E. Frankl, a Holocaust survivor who experienced and survived one of the most horrific periods in history. The book is divided into two parts; the first part details his experiences during...
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...
To Hell and Back vs Flags of our Fathers A memoir, To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy and a non-memoir The Flags of Our Fathers by James D. Bradley were fantastic books. The books To Hell and Back and the Flags of our Fathers...
Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House successfully portrays the timeline of architecture that has been recorded throughout history. History by definition is “the study of past events, particularly in human affairs.” Architecture is constantly shaped by history, nearly every structure has some sort of...
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...
I feel honoured to be here today introducing to you the lovely Hannah Kent. You may know Miss Kent from her world-renowned book Burial Rites. Burial Rites has been translated into more than 28 different languages and has won numerous awards over the years. Hannah...
In 2003, aged 17, Kent leapt at the chance to travel to Iceland as part of a Rotary exchange programme when the opportunity arose, interested in the Scandinavian countries having never seen snow as a child (a considerably commonplace experience lacking for many Australians). Though...
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...
A Day In The Woods by Doyle C. Carver, told in the first person, is Bo's story. Oldest to a brood of three young men, Bo makes it his business to contain the apparent mayhem Brody and Brady create wherever they go. He is calm...
"The Trojan War" penned by Barry Strauss, presents a contemporary perspective on the ancient conflict. Amidst fervent scholarly debate about its authenticity, some perceive it as a historical event, while others consider it a product of ancient Greek imagination. Barry delves into his interpretation of...
The film is a story about the wonders of love, courage, and to make anything possible if you follow your heart. This is based on the true story of Benjamin Mee, who decides to move from London to somewhere in lower France to buy a...
The main theme of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is empathy. Empathy, according to Merriam-Webster, “is the action of understanding and vicariously experiencing the thoughts, feelings and experiences of another.” The author develops a special test that is known throughout the book as the...
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,...
If I took a photo of you at this exact instant, what would I be photographing? Am I capturing a glimpse of time? A mirrored image of reality? Or is the hi-definition lens slowly depicting a moment of the past, for at the second I...
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,...
The book entitled The Warriors Ethos by author and United States Marine Corps veteran Stephen Pressfield exemplifies true meaning behind a code that we as Marines and warfighters should strive to not only follow but epitomize. If I were to explain the boo using a...
Whether viewed through superhero lens or the visuals in a novel, comic books have been a staple of American culture since the turn of the remaining century. Used as a source for comic relief or even as a way to further creative growth, their popularity...
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 Dirt, written by Denise Gosliner Orenstein, has a main character named Yonder. Her mother died when she was little and because of this, she can’t speak anymore. At school, she gets bullied but she doesn’t let the bullies get to her. One day...
Experiences in life create new perceptions that alter people’s views on the world around them and how they act in everyday life. In Margaret Laurence’s “The Loons,” the main character shows how her mindset changes as she acquires new insights from her experiences with people...
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman is a book originally published in 1988 under the name The Psychology of Everyday Things. The book itself focuses on design principles within interaction design, and how to best apply them. Ever since the original release, technology...
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...
Famous Japanese writer, Haruki Murakami, once said that “sometimes it’s not the people who change, its the mask that falls off. ” This quote is about lies and the fake image people make in order to hide their true feelings, identity, or problems. This quote...
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 story of The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss gives valuable lesson of racism and anti-Semitism through vivid metaphor. The main theme of this story is that the race and ethnicity should not be a borderline in the society. Empathy is used very suddenly only at...
Elastic Girl by Olivia Rana is a heart-wrenching fictional story centered around circus life in India. It touches on many big themes such as the oppression and objectification of women and girls, poverty, sexual exploitation, and the ways in which families scapegoat one another. The...
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...
During the first two practicum data sets, I have learned quite a bit about my learner regarding his current reading skills. Through two read alouds and planned activities, my learner has taught me countless elements of how young children learn and develop literacy skills. For...
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...
From reading Cocktail Party Economics, there are a lot of concepts which I had found interesting, shocking, and even obvious. The idea in the first few chapters is to just give an introduction about the vocabulary of an economist. This is where I learnt that...
Amy Mason Doan’s The Summer List is an awesome book about two women who become friends during the summer before their first year of high school in 1995. Their names where Laura and Casey, and they became best friends who relied on one another for...
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....
It is 1829 the colonies have won emancipation and are in search of more land to expand (Manifest Destiny). A young native American woman has to choose between a marriage that will strengthen her tribe or tell her father on the plans of her soon...
Introduction A good book may have a potential in influencing how we see the world and for me purposely travel books, like others which offer amazing life-changing benefits. The Traveller: Notes from an Imperfect Journey Around the World by Daniel Baylis: experiencing 12 countries would...
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...
The embodiment of Cooper’s desire to show the ability of an unyielding alliance to form between those so different occurs after the passing of Uncas. Chingachgook and Hawk-eye heavily mourn his passing and remember him over the young warrior’s grave. Hawk-eye embraces Uncas in his...
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