Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
One must accept that life is not perfect. Also, there will always be things one regrets. F. Scott Fitzgerald is a modernist writer who tells the story in “Babylon Revisited,” about a man who regrets his past mistakes and struggles to rebuild his life. Charlie …
Harper Lee published “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 1960. The book chronicles the life of Scout Finch who was an innocent American child that was subject to the brutal segregation and horrors of the South. The novel addresses many universal themes and particularly racism, as …
1984 is a dystopian book that uses the horrors from World War II to warn us about our fate. In 1984, George Orwell creates a text that is readable and understood by two readers. He writes it through the eyes and experiences of people in …
Edgar Allen Poe is perhaps America’s most loved Gothic author. Many of his stories are dark and frightening, and provoke fear in the readers. What makes his stories so creepy and uncanny? This question can best be answered by reading Sigmund Frand’s “The Uncanny”, a …
“It’s just some words really, about…a girl, some terms, an accordionist. Some fanatical Germans. One Jewish fistfighter and quite a little thievery. (Zusak 5. There is also Death. The Book Thief (by Markus Zusak) is set during Nazi Germany’s 1900s. Death tells the extraordinary story …
Dracula is a novel set in Transylvania at the end of 19th century. A period of rapid change that witnessed modernization. From rural east Europe to Victorian England to the industrial Revolution. The scientific revolution and its revolutionary theories have been a threat to the …
The Titanic sank in one hundred sixty minutes, ending the lives of one million five hundred passengers. Many thought the Titanic’s sinking was an accident. However, Thomas Hardy, the author of “The Convergence of the Twain,” believes it was fate. The elegy, “The Convergence of …
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (written by Ken Kesey) is set inside a mental facility, where the characters’ psychological illnesses are revealed to the readers. Kesey provides information by depicting the mentally ill Chief Bromden in the role of the protagonist. The novel is …
Stories are more then just words. They give us a glimpse into the past. James Joyce’s “Araby,” a story about the 19th century, transports us back to Dublin. Using the coming-of-age story of an adolescent boy as a guide, the story tells how Dublin looked …
Atticus Finch has a lot to offer his children. He is gentle, and he strives to become the best person he possibly can. Atticus has a strong moral character and is very honorable. This essay will focus on how Atticus finch is all those things. …