Book analysis It is the year 2024. American society is at the brink of an environmental and economic apocalypse. A young girl in Robledo, California knows she can no longer accept the dormancy and perpetual degradation of the status quo and must find a way...
A bird resides in a cage. In ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou, the bird is restricted from any sort of freedom, and its feet are tied to constrict movement. However, the caged bird is relentless in its pursuit to sing of freedom. The obvious joy...
Imagine coming back to a town where everyone hates you. In the novel She’s so Dead to Us Ally Ryan moves back to her hometown after her dad lost several individuals money. Ally quickly discovers that her old friends, known as the Cresties, are no...
In the Louvre Museum, a monk of the group Opus Dei named Silas murdered Jacques Sauniere, the museum’s curator. Silas demands to know where the Holy Grail is. After Sauniere told him, Silas shot him through the stomach and left him there to bleed to...
People should find their own cultural identities and feel proud of and empowered by their origin and identity. However, It is important to acknowledge that once people immigrate and immerse in a new culture, it is more challenging for them to have a clear definition...
The book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and adapted film is a story about husband Nick Dunne and his wife Amy. They have been “happily” married for four years until their fifth anniversary when Amy goes missing and is assumed dead days later after she...
In the “Narrative Desire” chapter of his larger work, Reading for Plot, author Peter Brooks discusses the different modes of desire that exist within a reader. He argues that these desires are the forces of momentum brought to a text that in fact structure plot...
Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, is written using very casual language and follows the stream of conciseness narrative of a young boy named Oskar. Oskar’s extreme curiosity and childlike innocence lead him to observe, question, and comment on everything he sees,...
United States Olympic medalist Dara Torres once said, “Setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.” Like Dara, many people believe that while losing hurts, it also does more for people than cause pain and sadness. Losing strengthens one’s sense of resilience, motivates one to...
While sleeping near a sycamore tree in the sacristy of an abandoned church, Santiago, a shepherd boy from Andalusia, has a recurring dream about a child who tells him that he will find a hidden treasure if he travels to the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago then...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2000 novel When We Were Orphans, the first-person narrator, Christopher Banks, having established himself in London as a prominent detective in the Holmesian mold who solves crimes no one else can, sets out in 1937 to recover his own past by solving the...
James Baldwin once wrote; “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ” Parents play a very special role in a child’s life. Good or bad, who the child becomes one day is affected...
With growth from childhood to adolescence, comes a struggle to shift into your own person. Whether that may be evolving into your own version of your self, or an alteration to become someone else’s vision of who you should be. When a young child is...
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...
In the book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the most erratic combinations of topics are discussed. Economics is addressed in the most unconventional way and lead by questions that are not asked of regularly or even at all until now. Levitt...
The book Abraham Lincoln is part of a series called “In Their Own Words.” The biography was written by George Sullivan. The book discusses in detail, the beginning of Abraham Lincoln’s life, including his life growing up, his start in politics, and his life with...
The book Night is a memoir of Elie Wiesel, his family, and other fellow Jewish practicing people’s experiences during the Holocaust. The word Holocaust is used when there is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” – Google...
The themes that revolve around the concept of this book all incorporate factors in which they either help or create a barrier for African American children. The author talks about the components in his childhood, including the job of his mom and grandparents and the...
In Germany, in the 1940s, Bruno’s life was turned upside down when his father got a promotion leading to him and his family having to move away from Berlin. Adding to Bruno’s unhappiness, the new house they moved to is much smaller than their old...
Alchemist is novel on the struggle of a young Andalusian shepherd named, Santiago, written by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian author, in 1987 and published in 1988. The constant theme in The Alchemist is to pursue your dreams by following what your heart desires. This book...
If you look at 1600 to the 1950s and finally at the current times you could see that we have made some drastic changes to law, social behavior, education levels and one major change is in the law and system. The many displays of accusations...
People will always revert to what is most comfortable, reliant on their natural state. In Celeste Ng’s coming of age short story, “Girls, At Play”, the debate of nurture versus nature lies in the struggles between four girls. The theme of “Girls, At Play” is...
From his childhood in Gaza to achievements in the medical field, Izzeldin Abuelaish has a unique life story. Against the odds, which included poverty, refugee camps, isolation and discrimination, he still managed to become the first Palestinian doctor to practice in Israel. Unfortunately, it would...
In The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides has the narrators describe seemingly average daily occurrences as extraordinary, exhibiting the search for something more significant in their uniform, designed-to-be-perfect lives. Through the narrators’ overstatements, it is evident that the boys become increasingly obsessed with the minute details...
Having Italian parents immigrating to Canada, Nino Ricci was born on August 23 1959 & was raised in Leamington, Ontario. Nino Ricci has studied at York University, Concordia University in Montreal and University of Florence which is in Italy. He was also quoted “a past...
The Girl at the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, translated by Dorothy BrittonWritten by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, a well-known Japanese actress and talk show host, Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window was a bestseller when published in Japan in 1981. I knew nothing at all of...
One’s attempt secure the satisfaction of self-fulfillment does not always end up with the result they want, it could also end up with regret. When it comes to making decisions we tend to be in the opinion of what we think in that moment is...
From the time of Ancient Egypt to the present day, millions of slaves have lived and died nameless for history. Their life did not belong to them, their bodies did not belong to them, and even more so they did not own their names, they...
Laurie Halse Anderson, the author of Speak, who use the first person to write this novel on showing readers the real situation and emotion that Melinda face and how she is recovering from the school. Depression, as known as a major depressive disorder which is...
Introduction Conformity, a powerful social force, molds an individual’s actions and beliefs in response to the desire for acceptance or belonging within a group. This phenomenon is vividly depicted in Wes Moore’s narrative, “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” which unfolds the contrasting...