Category: Book Review
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The Themes of Human Weakness and Imperfections in The Masque of The Red Death
All human beings are made up of certain strengths and weaknesses, and in the short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawerence and The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross, each author treats the subject of human weaknesses and flaws as contributing to the downfall of each main character respectively. The act…
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The Painted Door: Analyzing Anna’s Character Guilt in John’s Death
The Painted Door is a short story written by Canadian author Sinclair Ross in 1941. The story is about a lonely farmer’s wife one winter, as her husband goes off for the day to check on his elderly father five miles away in the middle of a blizzard. But what is to blame for the…
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Childhood Memories in The Go-between Book
In the book, “The Go-Between” by L.P. Hartley, Leo Colston looks back on his childhood. The story starts with Leo looking through some of his old belongings, namely, his diary. However, he can barely bring himself to look through that diary because of the memories he has, and the memories he does not want to…
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Horror of Vietnam War in The Lake of The Woods Novel
“Concentrate on other things, try to forget about it” (206), Vietnam Veteran John Wade explains. This simple tactic of forgetting the horrors and trying to push away bad memories has often been employed among veterans from many wars. Accordingly, O’Brien integrates this simple motif of forgetting throughout his novel In The Lake of the Woods,…
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Close Reading and Symbolism Analysis of The Book Maze Runner
The book The Maze Runner by James Dashner is an exquisite book that includes a lot of action along with complex secrets that even I as a reader don’t know myself. My experience of this book is hard to describe, as there were moments where I was thrilled by the action and held by suspense,…
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Analysis of Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld’s Article
In 2013, Steven F. Messner and Richard Rosenfeld published and article titled A Society Organized for Crime in the fifth edition of Crime and the American Dream. Their article examines the develop of the American Dream, and how it has affected society and crime. They look at things such as nature and level of crime…
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The Historical Context and Its Main Features in The Known World
Table of contents Introduction Summary of “The Known World” Analysis of Themes and Characters Writing Style and Narrative Techniques Critical Reflection and Conclusion Introduction Edward P. Jones’s novel, “The Known World,” delves into the intricate history of Manchester County, Virginia, during the Antebellum period. At its core, the narrative centers around Henry Townsend, a black…
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The Protagonist’s Conflict in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
Disgrace is a novel written by John M. Coetzee, a novelist born in South Africa, which greatly influenced both his worldview and his creative activities. The fame brought by that particular literary work, Disgrace, is rather contradictory, though. On the one hand, it is the one which brought Coetzee one more Booker Prize and, on…
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Acceptance of Death in Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing”
Death has been an unfathomable topic in literature as it is one of the greatest riddles in life, yet accepting death is the first step towards realizing our mortality and transience, a fact that would drastically lessen our existential angst. A child’s death, however, is considered to be among the most unfavorable and devastating events…
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Bank’s Orhpanhood in “When We Were Orphans”
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2000 novel When We Were Orphans, the first-person narrator, Christopher Banks, having established himself in London as a prominent detective in the Holmesian mold who solves crimes no one else can, sets out in 1937 to recover his own past by solving the mystery of his parents’ disappearance from the International Settlement in…