The historical fiction novel Home, by Toni Morrison follows a veteran named Frank Money who struggles after the Korean war and must help save his sister but also learns about who he really is during t…
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In Chapter VI of George Orwell's infamous political satire, Animal Farm, there are a plethora of themes Orwell expresses through his writing and thus, words. However, by far the most predominant theme…
"In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it" (Viktor E Frankl). Existential Crises are exposed to many protagonists in dif…
Do you know of a book that got 3 awards and is a New York Times bestseller? The answer would be Renee Watson's book called Piecing me together. It's a young adult novel about a black girl who goes to …
"Night", written by Eliezer Wiesel, is the true story of what happened in Auschwitz in the holocaust. The story captures the terror and suffering of the Jewish people. People witnessed countless death…
Elie Wiesel was living in Sighet, Transylvania with his family when Germans came and put him and other Jews in ghettos. After the ghettos, Elie and his family were sent to the concentration camp, Ausc…
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury, and it centers around Guy Montag, a fireman who starts fires instead of putting them out, because books are illegal. The novel portrays Mon…
To quote famous philosopher Phaedrus, "things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has carefully been hidden." It is common human…
In the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy introduces tone and word choice to delve deep into the complex relationship between the daughter and father. The tone of the writing highlights the…
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, outlines the lives of wealthy New Yorkers during the 1920s. Many characters such as Myrtle Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan are associated with whi…
All The Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy, displays the life of a wanna-be cowboy John Grady. All The Pretty Horses is a disheartening novel. Throughout the whole book, John Grady goes through the ups…
The novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelley written in 1818 and Life of Pi by Yann Martel written in 2001 will be discussed in this essay. Frankenstein is a Gothic novel about a scientist who builds a mon…
History has a tendency to repeat itself and shows us time and time again how power can corrupt people to the point where they betray their own morals. In George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm, the pigs a…
Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, highlights the life of Ruth, and how she is constantly trying to find her own identity throughout her time at Halisham and at the cottages. The novel mentions m…
Holden Caufield, a new patient, has been brought into my office. He's about 6 feet 2 inches tall, lanky, and emaciated. He has some gray hairs that make him appear older than he is. I've been tasked w…
In the book, Sun Stand Still by Steven Furtick, we are introduced to the two important and repeatable topics throughout this book of Audacious Faith and what is called our Sun Stand Still prayers. The…
In the novel, "Long Way Down." by Jason Reynolds, many people have different opinions about who was the one that impacted Will's decision the most all the way to the last floor which was the lobby whe…
Liberty 5-3000 is definitely an admirable character, as we know she's also known as "the golden one". She's also known as being fearless and very self centered which is good traits to have. In the sto…
In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, life is portrayed as meaningless with no true order. As humans, we often struggle to find purpose and structure within our lives. Camus wrote the novel in an…
"You must go on an adventure to find where you truly belong" (Fitzmaurice). What is it to belong and what does it take to find it? This is the question David Robertson seeks to answer in The Barren Gr…
As Toni Morrison once said, "Love is never any better than the lover." The author of Sula uses the idea that love is worthless if it is not truly meant by who is giving the love. But love is different…
If a group of boys aged 6 to 12 were stranded on a beautiful island without adult supervision, would they live in harmony or become savages? William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies suggests that mos…
In the book King Leopold's Ghost written by Adam Hochschild, is a story narrating the recapturing effects of European imperialism in the Congo. The author Hochschild's tells the story of King Leopold …
In the book Ella Minnow Pea, the islanders are faced with unfair challenges and treated unequally. This created conflict and tension between everybody living on the island and it got to a point where …
In the beginning of The Alchemist during Melchizedek and Santiagos first meeting Melchizedek says to Santiago 'whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something it's becau…
Heroism may be defined in a variety of ways, as a form of great bravery, of doing the right thing, but ultimately heroism is the ability to fight your internal instincts and be brave despite them. A h…
Coming of age means the attainment of prominence, respectability, or maturity. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain, "Living in Rings" by Anne Atwell- McLeod, and "Practically Triplets" by Halli…
Greetings and good day to the honourable judges and members of the floor. Today, I am going to introduce a book called What Katy Did. What Katy Did is a children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Wools…
The above extract is from the Book the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini who is the author of "a thousand splendid suns". Hosseini himself is an immigrant who immigrated from Afghanistan to America. The …
"When parents neglect their responsibility to correctly discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others''. - Ellen J. barrie. Rufus is a slave owner…
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