Written a century apart the two books, "Moby Dick", by Herman Melville in 1851, and "The old man and the sea", by Ernest Hemingway in 1952, create worlds that are based on sim...
A Writers Style
The Pulitzer Prize winning writer N. Scott Momaday has become known as a very distinctive writer who depicts the stories of the Native American life in almos...
A dystopian society is one that is woven by imperfections. These flaws throw off the state of equilibrium. To create equality, everyone has to be the same. However, a place wi...
As I Lay Dying is told in individual sections, so that the narration of the story shifts from one character to another. While most sections are narrated by members of the Bund...
by Sarah Mlynowski
Sunny Langstein is the protagonist in the novel "As Seen On TV." Sunny is a very smart and witty 24-year-old who knows the right things t...
‘Buckingham Palace’, District Six, is one of the most essential books ever written in this country, in a sense that it keeps alive the spirit of South Africa’s most noto...
The short store “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about a young Indian woman, Sumita, and her cultural transition to America that is symbolized by her clothes and...
In the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
suffering is an integral part of every character's role. However, the
message that Dostoevsky wants to present wi...
Philip Roth has written many stories throughout his lifetime. "Defender of the Faith" is a short story that was published in his first collection entitled Goodbye, Columbus wh...
Adam Gifford 11-2
Dennis Fillebrown 11-2
Eric Augenbraun 11-1
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to...
Freakonomics is best described by the title of its introductory chapter “The Hidden Side of Everything”. It puts a spin on conventional wisdom by looking at it through...
George Orwell's 1984 has had a profound effect upon the way people thought during the mid 20th century. The book signified Orwell's most complex novel which told the story o...
A few years ago, I picked up a copy of the first installment of the Griffin & Sabine trilogy; a book subtitled “An Extraordinary Correspondence”. I don’t remember exactl...
Who says what - and how and when - may be the most compelling way William Faulkner constructs his characters in Absalom, Absalom! Storytelling is not just an act in which the...
"i" is a book about a serial killer named Keith Jesperson who ends up raping and killing 6 women. When keith was young he was abused terribbly by his father, all keith e...
“In the Belly of the Beast”
Imagine being 37 years old and spending 25 years of your life locked up, behind bars. “In the Belly of the Beast” is a collection of lette...
****this is more of a journal than a book report***
Response Journal #4: Just Listen By Sarah Dessen
From Pages 296 to 371
I thought that this last quarter of the nov...
An Ethical Origin
Writers have always drawn inspiration from real events for their stories. Joyce Carol Oates is now being criticized as unethical for just that. The critic...
In his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys
stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of
mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes...
Alfred North Whitehead once said that "There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil". Tim O'Brien, in...
The 1930's were a difficult time to live in. The stock market crashed and millions were out of work. People were too distressed about their own lives to remember an entire cla...
"Of Mice and Men" was written by John Steinbeck and is a
fictional book. "Of Mice and Men" is a book, set on the Californian
Grain Farms in the 1930's, about two life long...