Ranar Bitar has published ten poems in a book called A Loaf of Bread. You can read through them in less than an hour, and empathize with emotions so deep; you wonder that they are coming from you. Bitar’s skill is to touch on commonly...
Thomas More advocates religious freedom in Utopia essentially to promote civic peace. More utilised utopian religious freedom as a model for Europe and attests to the 16th century conflictions involving Henry VII and the restricting divorce policy, which manifested to the creation of the Church...
In Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 science fiction, dystopian novel Station Eleven, a majority of the world is deceased due to the Georgia-flu pandemic spread unknowingly by a passenger on a flight from Russia to The United States causing an apocalyptic world. All technology and...
In Demian, Herman Hesse discusses the meaning behind an apparently futile war under the guise of one boy’s search for personal identity. While Hesse spends much of the novel illustrating Emil Sinclair’s search for meaning, the tying in of the Great War at the end...
The seventy-year-old Moll Flanders who narrates her own life story considers herself a reformed criminal. But to what degree should her perceived transgressions cause her to actually be understood as such? After all, Defoe’s novel makes it clear that a number of different factors ultimately...
The Bluest Eye: Tough Love at the Core of Color We as humans strive for many things- comfort, success, money, beauty, but among everything, our core revolves around love. A child is born and is innocent, and as that child grows through their experiences, love...
Kaboom! That was the first sound of war in Holland for the Ten Boom family. At times of war, we think of the people declaring it as the worst people in the entire world, even if there have been more evil things done to other...
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” – Martin Luther King. Hope is portrayed throughout The Chrysalids in many ways and is the source reason for why and how the characters in John Wyndham’s book drove the story towards its happy...
In the gothic romance novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, there are many references to the imagery of both fire and ice in the plot. The images of fire and ice provide positive and negative implications and connotations alternatively. For instance, those implies depends on...
Introduction Pride, an intrinsic facet of human nature, manifests itself in multifarious forms, often leading individuals on a precarious path between self-assurance and downfall. In Sophocles’ timeless tragedy, “Oedipus the King,” the titular character’s fatal flaw lies in his hubris, an excessive pride that blinds...
Women in the field of literature have been looked down on as subordinates and belittled for a very long period of time. Prior to the 19th century, women were placed in the opinion of the cult of domesticity, where women were to stay at home...
As a Nobel Prize winner, William Golding is an outstanding contemporary novelist. His most known novels include Lord of the Flies (1954), Pincher Martin (1956), The Spire (1964) and Darkness Visible (1979). His first novel Lord of the Flies has been an important tool for...
In Richard Connell’s short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” the protagonist Rainsford, a hunter, finds himself stranded on a mysterious island after accidentally falling off the side of his boat. He is welcomed at the door by General Zaroff, a noble Cossack who lives on...
Introduction: Just Mercy: A story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson was completely eye opening. A true reflection on our-selves, I think. How we understand people that are different than us in any way. Background: Just mercy focuses on the injustice and racism against...
“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.” Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my essay ‘Paper Towns’ is a coming-of age novel composed by John Greene, fundamentally...
Imagine being stripped away from home, forced to do something you didn’t want to do, not being able to carve your own path in life. This was the case for Esi and Effia two half-sisters both from Ghana but have never met. One captured into...
Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness tells the story of a Mennonite teen, Nomi Nickels, and her response to the rise of conflict and tragedy in her family. This novel, however, explores not simply the life of a fictional coming-of-age young woman, but also of the...
The “Combray” section of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way is an extended meditation on an idyllic past. The book begins, though, not with recollections of Combray, but with a description of the narrator’s half-asleep state, a state of consciousness where he does not know where, or...
When considering the idea of a divine creator one might consider arguments made by analogy, as William Paley does in his work Natural Theology, as indications of such a creator’s existence. Paley constructs an argument by analogy by relating the universe to an intricate mechanical...
In the memoir, “This Boy’s Life”, Tobias Wolff examines the attitudes and behaviours that all human beings exude in childhood. Indeed, Wolff demonstrates how exorbitant hope has the potential to blind individuals, resulting in an unfulfilled and disappointing life. Contrasting against the stereotypical 1950’s ideals...
The story revolves around Phillippe’s experience of poverty and ethnic segregation in New York City, one of the most expensive cities in the world. Phillippe is a University professor who sets out for the El Barrio neighborhood in East Harlem in order to research and...
Ancient Warfare: A Brief Introduction by Harry Sidebottom examines the ways different societies have chosen to wage wars and challenges some of the commonly accepted opinions regarding different aspects of warfare. The book not only discusses how people chose to fight in wars, but also...
Introduction The novel Indian Horse takes a look back at the character Saul Indian Horse’s life after his last run with alcohol led him to be checked into a rehab facility. Saul’s journey begins with his childhood on the land, then is captured and taken...
Tuesdays With Morrie is a novel written by Mitch Albom, an internationally renowned and best-selling author. Albom is also a journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio/television broadcaster and musician. His books, collectively have sold more than 39 million copies worldwide, published in forty-nine territories and in forty-five...
After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader’s eyes to unseen things in everyday life. The incentives of just any regular person are greatly shown because money or personal gain can take over any man or woman no matter how old. In a few of...
In the following essay I am going to analyze the figurative language used by Mark Twain in his “Two Views of the Mississippi”. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get...
Witnessing history through the lenses of literature can be a daunting one. It is evident that fiction and history share a bipolar relation within writing, and constructing a text which involving both elements is a sensitive issue in the intellectual community today. Journalist & novelist...
Setting One of the settings in the book is in Japan when Woody, Jeanne’s brother, was visiting his aunt. Woody entered a rock garden first. The sand was all white and raked and there was bamboo bordering it. When he got inside, it was mostly...
Adolescence is already or can be a troubling time all by itself. We are going through so many changes physically and in our cognitive development as well. Everything that we are subjected to can shape our development. We are a product of our environments. This...
Introduction Discrimination is a predominant phenomenon that has been experienced in daily life during the normal process of interaction between different people. Discrimination is defined as the process of mistreating people or particular individuals due to some specific features which they possess. Such kind of...
