766 words | 2 Pages
“As we move through life, the force of fate creates events that we only appreciate when we reflect on our existence.” In the 1988 novel, ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho echoes the sentiment of this statement, through his reformation of characterisation displayed within the fifth...
Antigone
The Alchemist
1744 words | 4 Pages
The greatest and most important adventure in our lives is discovering our true purpose in this world. Whether we are embarking on a new-found love interest or wanting to explore our utmost life’s aspirations, we will always experience obstacles along the way. In Paulo Coelho’s...
Novel
The Alchemist
499 words | 1 Page
Nobody follows their dreams; in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist it is stressed that everyone has a designated personal legend. In the reading it demonstrates “people’s inability to choose their own personal legends” inflicted by the world’s greatest lie, “our lives become controlled by fate”. Coelho’s...
Novel
The Alchemist
1332 words | 3 Pages
Fear is in all human beings that always pulls us back into the darkness. It is also something that will protect us by signaling danger and preparing us to deal with it. But behind that fear is your Personal Legend. A Personal Legend is your...
Novel
The Alchemist
1571 words | 3 Pages
Living in the 21th century, with unprecedented material abundance, we post-modern people, on the one hand, feel lucky to be blessed with the glories of this productive industrial era; on the other hand, however, we are frequently confronted with the problem of relocating ourselves in...
Bartleby The Scrivener
Short Story
2000 words | 4 Pages
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...
Book Review
The Alchemist
752 words | 2 Pages
Written by Herman Melville, Bartleby, The Scrivener, is a short story that tells the tale of a fortunate lawyer on Wall Street who hires a scrivener named Bartleby to serve for his law firm. In the beginning, he is an excellent copyist but as the...
Bartleby The Scrivener
Short Story
1262 words | 3 Pages
In “The Monkey’s Paw,” author William Jacobs delivers a cautionary tale about unexpected consequences and how achieving what we wish for might prove catastrophic in ways we would not expect. This terrifying story follows the White family who receive a talisman, a monkey’s paw that...
Short Story
The Monkey’S Paw
1250 words | 3 Pages
In Richard Louv’s novel, The Last Child in the Woods, Louv argues that our society’s advancement in technology is furthering the separation between today’s generation and nature itself. Louv’s use of indirectly implying his main idea, having a narrative that consists of countless thought provoking...
Novel
The Last Child In The Woods
1582 words | 3 Pages
Ever since the Pearl Harbour Attack on December 7th 1941, the United States opened hostilities with Japan and the relationship between the two nations reached an extremely tense situation. The profound effect of the war was that numerous Japanese started their hardships and sufferings in...
Novel
When The Emperor Was Divine
846 words | 2 Pages
Ancestral trauma can be inherited in Black and communities of color. In Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, Sophie Caco is a Haitian woman who immigrated to the United States to be with her mother (Martine) after living majority of her childhood in Haiti without...
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Novel
3210 words | 7 Pages
In this essay I am going to analyse religion and prejudice in Silas Marner by giving quotations both from the book and articles. Firstly, I will give some information about George Eliot and her point of view on religion. Then, I am going to summarize...
Novel
Silas Marner
1160 words | 3 Pages
Ben Mikaelsen’s heart-warming novel, Touching Spirit Bear, revolves around the story of Cole Matthews and the life-changing experience he undergoes. Cole’s one year banishment to an isolated island completely transforms the temperamental teenager from Minneapolis, who finds satisfaction in beating up others, into a human...
Novel
Touching Spirit Bear
694 words | 2 Pages
Bryant Hill once said, “Suffering is one of life’s greatest teachers,” and he couldn’t have been more correct. Suffering teaches a person how to persevere and be patient in the hardest of times. People also learn to have empathy towards others and to help them....
Fever 1793
Novel
564 words | 1 Page
Since the beginning of mankind, even before civilization, man lived off the land and depended on it for it survival even in the first civilization, nature controlled all aspects of life. Slowly we began to learn how to control nature and use it to our...
Novel
The Last Child In The Woods
2434 words | 5 Pages
“Salvage the Bones” is a woman’s coming of age fiction novel that follows along with a poor African American family living in Bois Sauvage Mississippi in the year of 2005. Facing the tragedy of following twelve days leading upon the arrival of hurricane Katrina. Esch...
Book Review
Novel
Salvage the Bones
877 words | 2 Pages
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julia Otsuka depicts the situation of the Japanese American families at the time of World War II. The story begins after the attack on Pearl Harbour in the spring of 1942 and revolves around the life of a Japanese...
Novel
When The Emperor Was Divine
705 words | 2 Pages
Despite disabilities, everyone is affected by warfare one way or another. Anthony Doerr touches on this topic in his novel, All The Light We Cannot See. It focuses on Marie-Laure Leblanc, a French girl who loses her eyesight at the age of six. After fleeing...
All The Light We Cannot See
Novel
1156 words | 3 Pages
When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka is a novel about the difficult experiences of à Japanese-American family in an internment camp during World War II. The head of the family, the father, is suspected of being a spy by the Federal Bureau of...
Novel
When The Emperor Was Divine
