Category: Book Review
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Henry David Thoreau’s Call to Live a Simple Life in Walden
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” This is a quote from Walden, a prose written by the American writer and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau who lived in seclusion on Walden Pond for two years. Thoreau…
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Analysis of John Green’s Book, Paper Towns
Paper Towns Quentin “Q” Jacobsen is a high school senior only weeks away from his graduation. Ever since he as a kid, he has had a massive crush on his beautiful, adventurous next door neighbor Margo Roth Spiegelman. One night, Margo comes to his window, and asks for his help with a few revenge pranks.…
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Where The Wild Things Are’: Analysis of The Ideas of Children and Childhood
Table of contents Introduction Analysis of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Conclusion References: Introduction The ideas and assumptions towards childhood and children’s literature plays a significant part in socialising its readers. ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is a children’s picture book published in 1963 and written and illustrated by American author Maurice Sendak. Despite its…
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Critical Review of No Pity by Joseph P. Shapiro
Table of contents The book’s structure The second and third chapters The following chapters In the last two chapters No Pity, Joseph P. Shapiro examines the history and current state of the disability rights movement in the United States. The book focuses on the struggles and activism of disabled individuals and their advocates, who have…
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A Book of Showings: Analysis
Table of contents Introduction Body Conclusion Introduction A Book of Showings, also known as Showings or Revelations of Divine Love, is a theological work written by Julian of Norwich, an English anchoress believed to have lived from 1342 to around 1416. The text is a significant piece of Christian mysticism and is considered to be…
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The Devil in The White City’: Analysis of Erik Larson’s Use of Rhetorical Devices
Table of contents Pathos in The Devil in the White City Ethos in The Devil in the White City Conclusion References Smoking, gambling, and drugs are among the many examples most people associate with an addiction. The subject of this essay is the novel, The Devil in the White City, where the author, , writes…
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Nature in John Muir’s Stickeen
“Stickeen” by is an adventure essay written in 1909. This subject of this essay is the relationship between a man and a dog he meets on an expedition to Fort Wrangel and their journey through an intense storm on a glacier. “Stickeen” was written simply to be an adventure story. It’s a simple adventure story…
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Limiting Womens Abilities to Household Chores
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique created a social revolution in the 1960s by addressing the role of women in society and its effects on their emotional and mental health. Her words opened the eyes of many American housewives who felt incomplete and lost. Friedan helped these women empathize and associate with what she called “the…
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A Review of The Book ‘Pride and Prejudice’
The book Pride and Prejudice is narrated by a third person, this narrator is an all knowing narrator. This narrator has all access to the emotions and feelings that the characters have. Pride and Prejudice takes place in rural England in the early 19th century. The main conflict in the book is Elizabeth Bennet and…
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Female Stereotypes in Beauty and The Beast and and James Joyce’s Eveline
A deeper look at Joyce’s ‘Eveline’, and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at a feminist angle, shows the many stereotypes of women present like helplessness, in need of saving, male oppression, only caring about looks and female characters that are portrayed in demeaning ways such as being foolish and weak. In Eveline, a prevalent stereotype is…