Most people remember the twenties as a decade of life, new beliefs and fun. Only Yesterday by Fredrick Lewis Allen, is a book documenting life during the 1920’s. The 1920’s was known as the greatest era of Americas time. When the economy was booming, consumerism...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
A Time To Kill was written by John Grisham and published in 1989 by Wynwood Press. A Time To Kill takes place in Clanton, Mississippi during the 1980s. This story is about a black father’s vengeance on two white men who committed a violent rape...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Introduction One crucial component of any literature text is the associated literary devices used by the author. Stylistic devices, also known as figures of speech, refer to the vital tools of writing that are employed in literary works to create lively and interesting texts. They...
The novel by Anthony Doerr named all the Light We Cannot See was published in 2014; this novel has portrayed the time of World War II. The main characters of the novel are Frank Volkheimer, Marie-Laure, Dr Hauptmann, Frederick, Jutta, and Etienne LeBlanc (Doerr &...
To many people, high school is a stressful, difficult, and hardest part of their life as a teen. From staying healthy, passing classes and fitting in. It is a time to get ready for what you will do forward in your life. Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor...
Summary The story is about two young teenagers, Eleanor & Park. They meet each other in the school bus. Park has a seat on which he always sits alone it is in the back of the bus, Eleanor is new at this school when she...
“May your choices represent your hopes, not your fears” (Nelson Mandela). Mandela suggests that each individual’s choices have the potential to reveal his or her hopes or fears, regardless of the situation. Such a notion can be applied to Julie Otsuka, as she narrates a...
The biography, ‘There are no children here’ by Alex Kotlowitz, shows the journey of two young boys and the challenges they face with having to grow up in the inner city of Chicago. The River’s family lives in the inner city of Chicago at the...
Anthony Doerr’s compelling novel All the Light We Cannot See embarks on the different ways of “seeing” and how it takes multiple eyesights to understand the separated interconnectedness individuals share. Using two main plotlines, Doerr acutely unravels the stories of two young adults experiencing life...
‘All the light we cannot see’ written by Anthony Doerr is a novel set during WWII, following the lives of two protagonists. The first being a blind girl, Marie-Laure Leblanc, living inside Nazi-occupied France and the other being an orphaned boy living in Germany, Werner...
Life, a series of transformations, each small change and shift building of one another to create an even bigger impact. Humans face changes every day, whether it’s physically, mentally, or emotionally. In Gabriel Garcia’s Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World”, we are able...
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she...
Introduction “The town was paper, but the memories were not.” What’s a paper town? And what does it have to do with these high school seniors and their adventures? ‘A paper town is a fake town created by map makers created to protect their copyright,’...
“She loved mysteries so much that she became one.” ‘Paper Towns’ is a coming-of age novel composed by John Greene, fundamentally for a stream of young adults, distributed on October 16, 2008, by Dutton books. It falls under the genres of mystery, romance and comedy...
Suspense is a feeling that engulfs people in its sea. It will grasp readers by their throat and leave them desperate. John Green not only leaves the reader in suspense throughout the story but also the characters in the story. The mystery follows Quentin as...
Historical context of the book; Bud not Buddy is based in the great depression age in the 1930’s. Times were difficult in the united states and poverty dominated a large part of the country, citizens used to make long lines to eat daily, lines that...
At the begin of 1960s, there was a spiral decline in the cultural and societal values in America. The story ‘Where are you going, where have you been?’ by Joyce Carol Oates tries to depict the suffering that an adolescent is likely to go through...
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