Essays on Book Review

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives…

The film adaptation of Dorothy Allison’s book Bastard out of Carolina starts with a narrator who is played by Jena Malone, who is famous for her role as Johanna Mason from The Hunger Games, who tells us of how she was born after Anney who…

The story begins with our protagonist, Arthur Dent, having a normal morning in his house, though it is interrupted by a bulldozer standing outside his house, waiting to demolish it to build a bypass. Promptly, Arthur decides to lie in front of the bulldozer. Ford…

The story ‘Bet’ was written by Chekhov in 1888, six years before his death. Anton Pavlovich already knew that he had only a little time left to live, and his last works had the character of rethinking life, summing it up. ‘Bet’ in its content…

The Beginning, Spread and Divergion of Humans In the first chapter of Guns, Germs, and Steel, The author Jared Diamond talks about the beginnings of the human species. He describes how we broke off from other animals around 7 million years ago. This process happened…

Summary “Diary Of A Wimpy Kid” is written and illustrated by Jeff Kinney. It is about a kid named Greg Heffley who is struggling to fit in in his first year of middle school. At the end of almost every day he would write down…

The Summary of the Story It is no surprise that nature is beyond control, slaughtering hundreds every year; man is also powerless when faced with human nature, which is equally as fatal. Surrounding everyone are these systems that nobody ever reconsiders, an exhausted solution that…

In the novel BONE we are introduced to a Chinese family living San Francisco’s Chinatown where they find themselves grieving from the recent suicide death of the three daughters Ona Leong. The emphasis is on how the family grieves after their loss, their cultural clashes…

The story revolves around a guy named Ray Kroc who is working as a salesman selling milkshake mixer to different food outlets across. He goes across the United States hoping to make a sale but he fails to convince any restaurant manager. Ray despite not…

The Shining In The Shining, by Stephen King, the most obvious and important theme of the story is isolation. This story is based on isolation and how taxing it can be on someone and their mental health. In The Shining, the isolation shapes the mental…

Today I will be talking about the book “My Favorite Chaperone,” by Jean Davies Okimoto. This story talks about how a foreign family migrated to Chicago from Kazakhstan. The parents were unfamiliar with the customs in the US since they have been in Kazakhstan for…

The book “One of us is Lying” opens with the four main characters, Bronwyn, headed to detention alongside Simon, a social outcast of the school who came up with a gossip app that he uses to spread gossip and negative chit chat about the other…

Throughout the book, Lives on the Boundary, we are introduced to multiple different characters. Many of these characters though can be related to one and another as they faced many struggles and hardships while in the education system. Because of this, I feel like Rose…

The theme in this story is freedom and women being trapped in relationships with their significant other. The message for change in the story is that women can break the stereotype and do not have to be forced into a marriage. The message for change…

“The ‘Blue Blood’ Cruise” is one of the essay collections in Roland Barthes’s book called “Mythologies.” The cruise refers to the meeting of “hundred members of European royalty” hosted by the Queen Frederika of Greece (26). In the essay, Barthes’s mentions about the monarchy, the…

Perseus and Medusa In the myth, Perseus and Medusa, Perseus goes on a journey to get Medusa’s head for the king Polydectes. In the end, he saved Andromeda, and Perseus was turned to stone by the head of Medusa, and Perseus was crowned king of…

Wuthering Heights is a story of two characters, Catherine and Heathcliff. It’s a complicated story of love and passion, with moments of revenge and the supernatural. It begins with a man named Lockwood who is in search of renting a home in Thrushcross Grange. He…

Jane Langton wrote a very interesting book. It goes with the other five fantasies of the Halls family, The Time Bike. The name of this book intrigues many people. It is about a kid named Eddy Hall. He gets a bike that he always wanted…

The book Hatchet, is about a typical 13 year old boy, whose parents are divorced. He tries to cope with his parents divorce but it is hard for him. He is not happy about his mother’s new boyfriend either. Brian is very excited to go…

Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus is about a fifteen year old girl named Kambili who is living in a colonial period in Nigeria. The book shows how the characters in this book are marginalized, excluded or silenced depending on their social groups. Kambili, Jaja and their…

The Crucialness of Setting in The Yellow Wallpaper Setting can be more than just the location in which a story takes place; setting can be essential to the plot or theme of a work. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator is temporarily…

Background of the poem Most of Emily’s works revolve around the subject of gender roles experienced by women during the 19th Century. Back then, marriages were made out of convenience and not love. Having been subjugated by their caste system, women were not allowed to…

Edgar Allan Poe is a famous poet who is best known for his darker form of writing. It is amazing how many stories and poems he wrote during his short life. “The most prominent features of Poe’s poetry are a pervasive tone of melancholy, a…

When comparing the book Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy and the movie Amistad, we can experience the advantages and disadvantages of each first hand. Both these mediums have strengths and weaknesses…

The irresistible novel, The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson, was written not only to reveal to the readers the struggles, dark, and good sides of the World’s Columbian Exposition Fair but also to take real people and their stories and show their…

‘William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily,’ is an interesting, chilling story loaded with puzzle, privileged insights, tension, and a closure of truly bite the dust for. This is an account of an old Southern ladies by the name of Emily Grierson. It comprises of an…

Critics have interpreted that ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams and ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald present traditional gender roles through the characters of the texts and the way they behave towards each other. Both texts portray women as being oppressed, having…

In the story ‘ A Rose for Emily’, by William Faulkner the storyteller acquaints the peruser with Emily Grierson, a protected southern lady who, while alive battled gigantically with her mental soundness and the advancing scene around her. Emily’s dad, an exceptionally esteemed man is…

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, is a first-person narrative of a six-year-old boy, Antonio Marez. As he grows up and experiences the hardships of school, sickness, friends, and religion, he is trying to decide who he wants to be when he grows up. His…

Four years prior to the publishing of his most famous book, The Fault in Our Stars, John Green wrote Paper Towns, a story about a senior in high school, Quentin Jacobsen, and the search for his lifelong crush, Margo Roth Spiegelman. Green, an author and…

According to Thomas C. Foster, setting plays a significant role in the structure of a narrative. Its utility is evident through the ways authors use it to lay the foundation that establishes the environment that their characters occupy. In William Faulkner narrative “A Rose for…

Technology in 1984 is mostly used as means of control, with the main character being a victim of government’s oppressive use of technologies. Information is power, and the novel introduces different advancements that serve the sole purpose of distorting and controlling the flow of information…

Blanche is a character that lives a life full of desire, depending on others, and denial. The only way Blanche can survive in this world is by living this way. Her sexual desire makes her feel wanted, desirable, and younger. Blanche needs a man she…

Dictatorship and power have affected people and when people cannot see or understand what’s going on that’s when at its worst. In this book, a group of animals is living with a dictator named Napoleon and really cannot see that. Animal Farm is about a…

In a traditional tragedy it is fate, sin, or a combination of the two that ultimately leads to the tragic events; however, Thomas Hardy and Khaled Hosseini otherwise present that the tragic fate of their female protagonist is a result of social, historical and cultural…

Written in the past centuries, Beowulf, an epic poem, which has a male as the main hero, also gives importance to women. In the poem, several different women such as Wealhtheow, Hygd, and Grendel’s mother are introduced. Each individual woman is portrayed as very strong…

In the mid-1950’s, feminism was more commonly scorned than it became in the beginning of the 21st century. Everyday households were raised to believe the same as their parents who often minimized the female disposition, especially in the mind of a male. Old beliefs were…

Tennessee Williams, a profound playwright, illustrates a powerful theme of fantasy vs reality within, “A Streetcar Named Desire”. This theme tells the stories of certain characters that create imaginative fantasies to escape an arduous past or to shelter a true yet undesirable reality of appearance…

Winston Smith, a member of the outer party, works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth. No place is safe for Winston’s privacy. He is watched in his home, his cubicle, in the cafeteria, in the restrooms, and anywhere you can think of….

‘A Rose for Emily’ was first released in 1930, and is the most widely read short story by William Faulkner.’A Rose for Emily’ discusses many dark themes that characterized the Old South and Southern Gothic fiction. The story explores themes of death and resistance to…

You might be wondering why I’m showing you the word liar. And some of you might now wonder why I said liar when all you’re seeing is a human face. And now that I’ve told you, you can see both. Such is the beauty of…

Appearances can be deceiving with the masks people put up shielding their true nature, cloaking the intentions of the devil behind the mask of an angel. Such is the case with Ian McEwan’s novel, Atonement, a psychological fiction depicting the consequences of not being able…

The Atonement is a famous novel of Ian Russell McEwan. The Atonement has featured itself with the concentration of the realism, modernism and the post-modernism. This novel concerns the creation process itself and focused on the relationship between the reality and fictions, so it is…

The novel Atonement was written by Ian McEwan and is set around the time of World War II. Chapter one begins in the summer of 1935 at the Tallis family’s very English country house. Cecilia Tallis the well-bred female protagonist is back home from Cambridge…

Atonement by Ian McEwan is a literary masterpiece and a highly critically acclaimed novel. Written in 2001, this piece of British metafiction tells a brilliant story of love, war, mistakes, forgiveness, and, of course, atonement. The story opens on Briony Tallis, a 13-year-old growing up…

In the book Atonement by Ian McEwan, the protagonist Briony plays the naive child which eventually leads her to misinterpret an event between her sister, Cecilia Turner, and the son of the Tallis family’s cleaning lady, Robbie Turner. The particular event in which Briony had…

The novel Atonement, written and masterfully crafted by Ian McEwan’s in 2001, is a testament to the concepts of the human condition and the Chinese philosophy, Yin and Yang. The story of Atonement and its characters, portray the fundamental characteristics of the human condition including,…

America is a country that functions most efficiently when its citizens are united. Unity is what brings every nation to acquire a strong community of individuals. Yet, there always seems to be a factor which divides us in the midst of all this peace and…

In William Faulkner’s short story, “Barn Burning,” a possible theme that could be interpreted is how strong loyalty to one’s family can be, no matter the details of the dynamics, but also the moral dilemma of how stressing that loyalty is to uphold. The short…

Something that makes the classic children’s novel A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle, such an interesting story is that it succeeds in straddling the border between science fiction and fantasy. It brings the two genres together by including, for example, both the concept of…

Since the beginning of time, people were born different; everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, but some flaws are seen worse than others; discrimination, therefore, becomes a common occurrence. In the essays, “Stranger in the Village” and “On Being a Cripple”, two types of…