Category: Book Review

2 April 95I just finished reading “Creating a New Civilization – The Politics of the Third Wave” by Alvin and Heidi Toffler. I just found it in the bookstore last week and I think it just came out. It has a foreword by Newt Gingrich and he has been waving it in front of the…

Introduction: Anton Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya portrays complicated relationships between several characters with rather distinct personalities. Staged at the nineteenth century, Chekhov’s drama of everyday life stresses conflict amongst his characters through language, set, sound effects, and costumes. Thesis statement: Interestingly, many aspects mentioned above rely on powerful symbolism: it is a key factor that…

Throughout Blood River, the Congo is presented as a place of immense wild natural beauty, but to a point that it is intimidating, and dangerous. Butcher describes it as a place that corrupts men, and a place in which there is always a battle between mankind, and nature. This is evident in one especially potent…

Too often in literature, novels surrounding a specific time period lack the authenticity of mise-en-scene for the reader. However, author John Dos Passos commits to unique and innovative in his novel 1919 (one of the three entries in the U.S.A. Trilogy) to deliver atmosphere, tone, and realism. Dos Passos’ original use of literary devices is…

Supernatural events and portents are a major theme in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette. While Brontë never crosses into a truly magical realm, it is clear that Lucy Snowe believes that certain events pertain to the supernatural world. Forces of nature play a large part in Villette, through weather and other natural elements, such as the stars.…

Superficially, Newfoundland is merely the setting of E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News. More fundamentally, however, Newfoundland is instrumental to the action, characters and ideas of the novel. Newfoundland’s ruggedness generates the unique conditions in which the development of the protagonist, Quoyle, is possible. There, he finds a community in which he completely belongs and,…

Nineteen Minutes is written by , it was a very down to earth type of book and it had a very good story line. The main idea of the book was about how a student named peter would get bullied non stop and picked on for the way he look and the people he hung…

During the long day that occurs throughout Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill, the members of the Tyrone family struggle with happenings of the present because of their incapableness to move forward from occurrences of the past. For example, Mary Tyrone, the wife of James Tyrone, struggles to live in tranquility during the…

Holes is an action-fiction novel by Louis Sachar and has won many awards including the John Newbery Medal. The novel is about Stanley Yelnats; Stanley is a boy who grew up with bad luck due to a curse placed on his great-great-grandfather. Due to his bad luck, he was sent to Camp Green Lake, a…

The 1868 novel Little Women is not only a heartwarming and heartbreaking story set in the midst of the Civil War, but also a series of veiled narratives of the life of the author, Louisa May Alcott. The story coincides with many of the economic and social struggles that Alcott faced throughout her life, and…