Book Review Essay Examples and Topics

Imagine living to see your best friend die right in front of your eyes from a huge wave and everyday you thought it was your fault for something you couldn’t control. The seventh man tells the story written by author Haruki Murakuami. The story begins…

Dr. Thomas Fuller once said, “He who plants trees loves others besides himself.” We should all care for the trees. Planting trees shows your community that you care. We can make a big difference if we all help. The Lorax demonstrates more Global and Ethical…

Everyone has been embarrassed at one time or another. Embarrassing situations are painful and sometimes hard to forget. But when it is successfully overcome, the whole experience becomes amusing moments in our lives, making us stronger and bolder. I have gone through a few embarrassing…

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…

Introduction The Diary of a Wimpy Kid written by Jeff Kinney was his first published book. It was first published in 2007 in Amulet Books, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and it became the first New York instant best seller book with more…

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…

America Is the Land of the Brave In Crevecoeur’s book,” Letters from an American Farmer,” it’s evident throughout the excerpts that Crevecoeur has a deep admiration for America. The characteristics that make up an American are courageous, thriving and independent. A few examples that support…

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…

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…

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 Yellow Wallpaper Setting Importance 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 residing in a…

A multi-platformed writer, composing novels, poems, and essays, Sandra Cisneros whips up various pieces of literature in order to place the lives of the working class on a pedestal for all to recognize and understand. On December 20th, 1954, Sandra was born in Chicago, Illinois…

Poetry is like a protest: a constant tempo, rhythmic clapping in beat with the march, loud chanting made louder by echoes. Throughout history, poetry has been used as a powerful tool to raise your voice against social injustices. Adrienne Rich knew this well. Rich, a…

In the beginning of I, Too (1926), the speaker explains that he is of darker skin and is not accepted as an equal due to his race; however, the reader can interpret that his message is to explain that he too is America. The reader…

Man’s Search for Meaning is a book composed by Victor Frankl. He was an Austrian nervous system specialist, analysts and therapists. All the more strikingly, he was a detainee in Nazi death camp. Frankl created a strategy for logotherapy. This strategy turned into a reason…

There is nothing more compelling than the dramatic power that the villain holds over drama. In the stories of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and William Shakespeare’s play “Othello” , rhetoric proves to be…

Man, since his early existence on earth has been craving to achieve more knowledge. His quest for knowledge provokes him to achieve whatever he desires. Knowledge is one of the most powerful factors which assist man to acquire name, fame, success, power and position in…

Bullying is a real problem in society today, in the past, and will continue to be an issue in the future. Bullies are people who are either insecure about themselves, or they enjoy putting people down. Sometimes people bully in groups because it makes them…

One point that was commonly agreed upon during the Harlem Renaissance period is the idea that art is the only way to break down the seemingly unsurmountable barrier between black and white Americans. As some black Americans rose to prominence, however, they found that their…

When initially reading Life in the Iron Mills, you take note of the pain and agony that these inhabitants of the land go through in order to survive. Hugh, our character of analyzation, finds a different way of grieving instead of just drinking himself into…

“Ambition beats genius 99% of the time” ~Jay Leno. That’s why we are here to take a look at two examples of that 1%. Macbeth: the fictional character in the Shakespearian play “Macbeth”, and Pablo Escobar: the most notorious and well-known drug lord of the…

Guilt. You should have saved him… Guilt. You should have helped him… Guilt. You should have…, you should have…, you should have… Guilt is a parasite that overwhelm the person causing to not move on from the past just like the character in “The Seventh…

In ‘Remarks Concerning The Savages of North America,’ Benjamin Franklin defends the Native Americans by arguing that they were not ‘savages,’ as English Americans thought. Rather they were smart people with cultural beliefs that were just as complex and strict as of the colonists, and sometimes even…

Karen Salmansohn once said, “If you don’t pay attention to the signs, you’ll end up in the wrong direction.” Philip K. Dick is using the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep to warn the people about how artificial intelligence will eventually take over the…

Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. was written by Jonathan Swift during the later half his life as his morality was becoming stunningly clear. The poem was first written in 1731, but not published until 1939, by which time most of his famous…

As a kid, we had many books read to us throughout our childhood whether it was at school or home, but only a select handful of those children’s books stuck with us to this day. We can still recall these books today because they stood…

Since the beginning, humanity has been both animated and terrified by the movement of technology. ‘The Pedestrian,’ a short story by Ray Bradbury, happens in 2053 and pursues a man named Mr. Leonard Mead. Mr. Mead is one of a kind among of a city…

Water wells have been found to be a unique part of America’s past. They have been used in the past as a water resource to supply homes with their water. It is at the well where the children in the story “The Man in the…

When I first heard the title of a short story ‘Puppy’? I thought it was about a puppy as a reliable friend. However, some might also define a puppy as a delicious dish. Why does this one word include so many meanings? In the short…

An abandoned well. Children Playing. One man yelling. With children playing by an abandoned well, the story “The Man in the Well” written by Ira Sher, shows how cruel children can be. The kids were having a fun time and discovered a well, then soon…

Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis is a story about two people living in poverty in an industrialized town that makes iron. What I’ll be focusing on is the portrayal of the Factory town. The town itself is not in the best…

The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a unique and interesting novel written by a well-known author Neil Gaiman. This novel tells the story about a middle-aged man experiencing his life with the existence of the newcomer, Ursula Monkton, while he was seven…

Indian drama in English is profoundly concerned about various social, political and cultural ills and maladies of Indian society. It dramatizes the grave problems like gender and caste discrimination, exploitation and violation of basic human rights to lower caste people. Mahesh Dattani in Seven Steps…

Merriam-Webster defines communication as a, “process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior”. However, communication extends far beyond the type of language one speaks. It effectively derives from one’s diction, syntax, and rhetoric. Being one of…

Artificial Intelligence is an advanced area of computer science that encourages the creation of intelligent machines that react and work as humans. The overall goal of artificial intelligence is to recreate technology to allow machines and computers to function and act as humans. Generally artificial…

In today’s society and in history, business owners of all vantage points have been inspired by the successful CEOs in this world and have emulated the strategies they have used. Bill Gates created and ran what is said to be one of the most successful…

In that case, are you one of the 90% who the numbers imply aren’t in a position to recognize with all the “wealthy Dad experience” shared from the publication? As a Poor Dad out of Kiyosaki’s S-quadrant – Self-employed/Small firm team, I wish to employ…

Medieval literature was a period filled with many characteristics and elements such as extended metaphors, romances, and the Church. In the Canterbury Tales, many different genres took place such as romance, beast fable, religion, and poetry. Iambic pentameter is used in the Miller’s Tale as…

Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican American writer, poet, and artist, born on December 20, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois. Her book, Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories, published in 1991, reflects her upbringing of being surrounded by American influences while still being bound to her Mexican…

The Omnivore’s Dilemma is a book written by Michael Pollan and published in the year 2006. What we should eat for dinner is an outright question Michael Pollan is trying to answer in this book. To know the long term effects of modern food preservation…

Sylvia Plath was one of the most exceptionally dynamic poets of the twentieth century, fostering the confessional poetry genre. Known for her brilliantly thought-provoking poems and short stories, ironically, her most famous works were written during the most turbulent times of her life. Death presents…