How we experience love changes as we construct connections and affection throughout time. Love changes as we figure out how to confide in someone, as we realize the need of our desire, we tend to persuade ourselves to achieve such magical feeling. “How do I…
Poetry is a literary work that also acts as an art form. People use poetry to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. There are many branches of poetry and sonnets are one of them. Sonnets are comprised of 14 line poems with 10 syllables in each…
The Great Depression is known as one of the toughest economic periods of the industrialized world that brought severe consequences to a lot of countries in the West. A great example of an interesting description of the change in people’s lives is in the book…
Is it necessary to have rules in order to survive? In the novel, Bud, Not Buddy, author Christopher Paul Curtis explores the life of a young orphan boy named Bud Caldwell and his quest to survive during the great depression. Throughout the story Bud follows…
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” (Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”). Theodor Seuss Geisel, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. After leaving his hometown, the Poetry Foundation states, “Geisel…
What do you think of when you hear the name Dr. Seuss? Nazi Germany, Anti-consumerism and the destruction of the environment? Dr. Seuss, whose birth name was Theodor Geisel, was a famous children’s author whose catalog included The Battle Book and The Lorax. At the…
The novel “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” was published in 2003. It is written by Mitch Albom, who majored in Sociology and earned Master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Mitch Albom became a writer in New York City and works…
Symbolism is used often by authors within their stories, as it assists with providing meaning and emotion to the plot. The Five People You Meet in Heaven is yet another book that finds a way to incorporate symbolism within the text in multiple various forms,…
‘That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.’ (Blueman 48) The Five People You Meet in Heaven’s biggest lesson to me is that…
When young Susie expressed her concern about a little penguin in a snow globe, her father replied, ‘’Don’t worry Susie; he has a nice life. He’s trapped in a perfect world.’’ Alice Sebold’s novel “The Lovely Bones” details the 1973 gruesome rape and murder of…
