I was amazed by the book Twelve Years A Slave which the author, Solomon Northup depicts the life of an African American from the North, Saratoga Springs in New York is kidnapped in Washington DC and live a suffering and slavery life in Louisiana until...
Ben Tomlin, an average thirteen-year-old boy, isn’t so sure about his father’s newestexperiment. Dr. Tomlin, Ben’s father, a well-known scientist in the field of behavioural science, has abruptly moved his family to a new university in a new city to pursue a new scientific study,...
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a story about a dystopian future with extremely religious beliefs. The story takes place in Waknuk where they believe in the “perfect image”, anything astray from what they believe to be a human is considered a deviation. We see...
Introduction The literary work “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” authored by Harriet Jacobs, holds a paramount position in American literature for its illuminating portrayal of the harrowing experiences endured by enslaved individuals. The narrative provides a poignant account of the sufferings faced...
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath follows a poor family of Oklahoma tenant farmers, the Joads, who migrate to California to pursue a better future. The novel’s protagonist, Tom Joad, is shown to be a man who likes to keep himself anchored to the present....
Poverty is not something a kid can control. You can’t control whether your parents work, or if substance abuse goes on in your family because a kid is just a kid. This is a story based off of two kids, born in Baltimore who grew...
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story published in 1892, about a woman who is unable to deal with her depression. Her husband and doctor take over and decide a treatment based upon male dominance and lock her in a room...
In a society that is racist towards black men, many black men show weakness to white men, who are considered powerful in the 1900’s. The book written by Ernest Gaines, A Lesson before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940’s,...
Child abuse of all types has a big impact on children’s lives and perceptions of what normal should be. In the book “A Child Called It”, Dave Pelzer, a young boy who was abused by his mother who constantly overlooked and abused him on many...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a journalist who looks to wake the consciousness of America to see the horrific flaws we still continue to have. Racism has always been a topic to discuss and especially for the novel “Between The World and Me” was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates is...
Markus Zusak`s historical novel, The Book Thief opens exceptionally, with the narrator, who turns out to be Death. The Book Thief tells a touching story of Liesel Meminger who suffers from the death of her brother and separation from her mother. She experiences great suffering...
One important theme in “The Boy In The Striped Pajamas” is friendship. In the novel, the main character Bruno, meets Shumel when he is exploring along a fence. Even though the fence separates the boys, they start meeting daily and soon become friends. Bruno’s family...
In Martin Scorsese’s 2002 film Gangs of New York, the two main characters—Amsterdam Vallon (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Bill “the Butcher” Cutting (played by Daniel Day-Lewis)—attend a ‘Tom’ show (a stage adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin) in New York City. In this scene, which...
In Song of Rowland, the author tells the story of Charlemagne’s attempted takeover of Saragossa, a land controlled by the Muslim king, Marsilla. The poem covers the feud between Rowland and his stepfather Ganelon, as well as the disastrous consequences that come from that feud,...
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique created a social revolution in the 1960s by addressing the role of women in society and its effects on their emotional and mental health. Her words opened the eyes of many American housewives who felt incomplete and lost. Friedan helped...
Sigmund Freud says that “a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish”. What he means is that every dream represents a wish fulfillment. Dreams represent the imaginary fulfillment of a wish or impulse in early childhood, before such wishes have been repressed. The...
The book I read is called Legend, By Marie Lu. The book is set in a dystopian Los Angeles in a country divided into two warring parts: the Republic and the Colonies. The main characters are Daniel “Day” Altan Wing and June Iparis, two teenagers...
This chapter supports the idea that there are two schools of thought about narrative strategies in animation. First school believes that each animation, no matter how short, must have a story with a sequence of events taking place over a period of time, informed by...
Introduction Madame de Villeneuve’s The Story of The Beauty and The Beast is a fictional story set in France during the eighteenth century, in a town near the countryside. The story is told in third person point of view. Although it is fictional, many things...
A scary story is a type of story that mainly focuses on creating a sensation of fear in the readers. Readers love to read scary stories because it gives them a bit of a thrill, an adrenaline rush from being scared out of their minds,...
In King Lear, William Shakespeare displays two similar characters with many vices. Lear is a foolish, gullible king who has many tragic flaws including moral blindness, vanity and greed. Furthermore, Gloucester is an egocentric man that suffers from moral blindness and is living in his...
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia E. Butler, conveys many similar topics from history, such as slavery, not having equal rights, and decrease of civilization, which is what makes it diffcult to put the book under one genre classification. Regardless, Butler is able to fit...
In Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson describes self-reliance as the perception of one’s interpretation of reality, or truth. “What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think,” Emerson says. He emphasizes on the dignity of the individual and advocates that every...
Divergent is a book that its main topic is the division of people in certain spaces depending on the virtue people had to develop in that space. Not only division it’s like the main topic at all, but there are also a lot of other...
I’ve read quite a few books in my lifetime. There were a few I’ve loved, there were even a few I’ve absolutely hated. I can honestly say I’ve read more books that I hated than I actually write, mostly because reading just isn’t my absolute...
‘Oh, the Place You Will Go’ is a book by Dr. Seuss that talks about a protagonist who has no name and who makes the decision to leave town and exploring the world. This protagonist travels through and discovers various landscapes and places, which represents...
J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy shows the struggles that someone living in Appalachia faces on a daily basis in some way. These struggles could be ones that you personally are facing, or they could be struggles that someone you know or love is facing. Some of...
Both Briony Tallis, of Atonement, and Leo Colston, of The Go-Between, spend significant periods of their adolescence in large country homes, both of which are surrounded by large estates. Hartley and McEwan use the landscapes which are present throughout much of these books to explore...
Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies is a book of philosophical and logical refutations and arguments. It is a direct response to several writings in which the male authors make claims against women’s purity. These books, according to de Pizan, slander...
Millennials are members of a generation that comprises individuals that were born as from 1978 to 2004. The individuals in this demographic group grew up in a world that was networked by the internet. The generation has been getting the highest attention from marketers. Most...