We are all familiar with the typical portrayals of vampires as blood sucking, gorgeous, and seductive thanks to pop culture; especially to Edward Cullen. However, we often forget the real, original dark vampire of the night, our beloved Count Dracula. In the famous pioneering vampire literature gothic, horror novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker, an educated author, […]
To kill a mockingbird is about growing up. The main character is named scout finch. She learns about people and life. The setting takes place between 1933 and 1935 in maycomb, Alabama. Scout’s mother is dead so she lives with her dad and brother. Scout learns from Atticus and from experience. One lesson scout learned […]
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Get startedThe American Dream for Daisy and Myrtle is to be married to a man with deep pockets. Gatsby wants to become rich and use his wealth to bring back Daisy. George Wilson desires to move West with Myrtle. The American Dream in ‘The Great Gatsby’ is wealth and love but portrayed as failure for the […]
In this world, it is typical to have expectations to meet based on gender, race, religion, and many other things. It has become natural to act a certain way or to do certain things based on who you are. In the poem “Barbie Doll” and the short story “Flowers for Algernon,” Margie Piercy and Daniel […]
The story by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This community shows through Jonas’ eyes, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, […]
How would you like to live in a world without pain, without difference, and without freedom? The Book The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society where the memory of the past and pain are taken away. Your life isn’t your own, people make your decisions. Jonas the main character in the book wants […]
The memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wall’s was published in 2005. The Glass Castle is an attention grabbing story of Jeannette Walls childhood. This book is a Teen and an Adult book to read.The book is full of vulgar language, drama, and many horrific tragedies.Through all they’ve been through most of the children came […]
The book start by explaining how boring the Durley’s life was, they were an ordinary family, that enjoyed living in their monotonous boring simple life, but their world was turned around when they wake up in an ordinary day and go out the front door to pick up the newspaper and found a one year […]
Book Summary Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone is a book written by J.K. Rowling about a boy named Harry. When Harry was a baby, his whole family was killed by the evil wizard Voldemort. However, Voldemort was not able to kill Harry. After years of Harry living at the Dursely’s house, a mysterious man […]
‘Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.’. Throughout the years the Harry Potter series has grown quite a bit of popularity through the years. With several movie adaptations of the books and ever growing fanbase Harry Potter has something for everyone. There is something for everyone in these books. From […]
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are far more than our abilities,” says Dumbledore in the Chamber of Secrets (333). This observation holds a significant amount of truth throughout the adventures in the Harry Potter series. J.K. Rowling, the author of the magical world of Hogwarts, uses the fluidity of the […]
From my very subjective point of view, British author, J.K. Rowling is the writer of the century. This author is the former English teacher, who achieved her success due to her “Harry Potter” series. She has won a few awards for her “Harry Potter” creations, among others, Nestle Smarties Book Prize and British Children’s Book […]
Death has many different effects on a person’s life. Some can handle it very well, but most of time, people cannot deal with the grief that comes with the death.For example, some people can accept the death that comes with life and move forward, but on the flip side, some people cannot accept and are […]
In the story “The Cask of Amontillado”, the Poe creates a lot of suspense. This story was in an unnamed Italian city at a carnival when a man takes revenge on his friend who he thinks has done him wrong. He makes the reader think that they are going to get to the wine that […]
A female is not weak nor fragile, she is strong and all she needs is a little bit of love. In the novella The House on Mango Street Cisneros uses the motif trapped. Most of the females in The House On Mango Street feel imprisoned by the ones they love most and restricted from living […]
The Author Sandra Cisneros writes and describes a novel about the life from a perspective teenage Latina, Esperanza Cordero. She tells about this young girls living in a poor Chicano and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Chicago. Growing up in the poor neighborhood on a street called Mango Street. Where you have to have good sense, […]
Esperanza was happy for the house and she thought it was going to be like their dream house. The house would be white with trees around it, a great big yard and grass growing without a fence. When they got to the house it was very different but they were happy anyway. They never had […]
In the story “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” translated by John Gardner, we see the literary element ‘Romance’ used. We see it exercised in a few different ways. Sir Gawain is an example when he stands up to the Green Knight. Due to this act the chivalrous knight deserves the respect of sir arthur […]
Apocalypse now is a film directed by Francis Coppola which is based on the novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. In the novella, the readers follow Marlow’s journey upriver to eventually meet Kurtz, a trader of ivory and the commander of a trading post in Africa. Coppola’s film flows similarly with Willard an Army […]
Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is a novel about a man’s ability to move into madness as it is with its ability to break away from it and succeed over the dark, compelling in the urge that threaten to take over his heart and mind. This struggle with madness is evident in Kurtz. He is […]
In Flannery O’Connor’s story, a family plans a trip but there is a dispute between the adults on a destination. Bailey and his wife decide they will go to Florida. “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing every chance […]
I believe it’s the struggle or balance between good and evil. The grandmother is suppose to represent the peace and and happiness while the Misfit is suppose to represent evil and darkness. The grandma was a nasty and mean old lady who deserved to die. According to the novel,” only death can bring out the […]
Freedom is a natural birthright which permits individuals to act, speak, or think as they please without any restrictions. It is something that can not be taken or given away, touched, seen, nor felt, however, freedom is not absolute. In other words, people are “free” within limits. In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the […]
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood shows us the literal impact of power and the identity of the people of Gilead. As it is shown and represented that commanders have the power and can do whatever they want but the handmaids rank in the lowest position and have no freedom and no right to speak. […]
The Great Gatsby, an American classic and one of Fitzgerald’s most outstanding works, tells a tangled story of love, lies, liquor and wealth in the 1920s. The narrator, Nick Carraway, moves from the west to Long Island, New York; West Egg to be more specific. There he meets the eccentric and exceedingly wealthy Jay Gatsby […]
In the bildungsroman novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the story is founded upon a conversation with the main character Janie, and her friend Pheoby. Janie tells her stories to Pheoby to open an unbiased perspective instead of the unreliable townsfolk. Janie has gone through many events,whether internal or around her, […]
In “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry, dreams are a large part of the theme of the story. Almost every character in the play has one. Dreams are great things, but unfortunately with growth, dreams fade, and everyone has to experience it. First, readers see Walter’s dream wither away. Before readers see it […]
The novel The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was written in 1984. Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican American writer, she was born in 1954 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother. She grew up surrounded by boys. she was the only girl in a family […]
Masque of the Red Death, written by Bethany Griffin, is, as the title suggests, based on the work of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. It follows a girl named Araby Worth, and shows us how life has become in her city during a plague. Society has crumbled, and Prince Prospero is at the […]
Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse-Five Show postmodernism by doing this, particularly planning sporadic structures in which the narratives are told, just as setting a contention of thoughts between the peruser or watcher. The work distinctly questions what the primary hero is confronting, doing, and thinking; this strategy prompts a conceptualization that scopes a long ways past […]
