Category: Book Review

Markus Zusak`s historical novel, opens exceptionally, with the narrator, who turns out to be Death. The Book Thief tells a touching story of Liesel Meminger who suffers from the death of her brother and separation from her mother. She experiences great suffering in the novel, but finds the time to read, expressing her love for…

Occurring at the same time as the unification of Germany, the unification of Italy in the late 1800s was a complete shock to all other states in the continent of Europe and a total victory for the state of Sardinia and Piedmont, changing the lives of the new foundation of the group known as the…

People work hard and gain positive things all the time. People who don’t work don’t gain positive things. This is what happens in the book The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers. In this story a boy named Greg leaves his house and goes into an abandoned tenement after his dad tells him…

The novels, “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and “Memed, My Hawk” by Yashar Kemal, both involve back stories of power changes, that is changes to the class systems. Yet each novel is told from a different point of view – The Leopard from that of the displaced upper-class aristocracy in southern Italy between…

There is an uncountable amount of references of Latin American culture found within the literature, Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, and No One Writes To the Colonel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The question is; can the reader whose cultural experiences are based in the United States of American relate and make relevant to themselves the…

“Note to Sixth-Grade Self” is a short story where the narrator comes to realize how even though people might be show sympathy towards, one can only rely on themselves for strength and confidence. This is an important concept for the narrator to learn because in the future, she will only continually become disappointed that others…

Key events have the potential to adjust the lives of entire families. The people around tragic events have new understandings and knowledge of the world around them, like the ripple on a pond surface after a stone is thrown they feel in a variety of different ways in impact an event had on the perpetrators…

In a land and a time that has ceased to exist in the minds of most men, there was a kingdom called Eternity (Eternity Plains was named in honor of this mythical land), ruled by King Fisher. The kingdom prospered, and everyone lived contently. Every family had three meals a day, and if a family…

In the story“Johnny Tremain”,by Esther Forbes, the main character, Johnny Tremain, struggles with his arrogance and selfishness prior to the Revolutionary War. Several concepts, like pride, disillusionment, and loss, are introduced by events that the protagonist encounters such as his work as a silversmith,his crippled hand, and the loss of Rab.These concepts are further reinforced…

When The Emperor was Divine by Japanese-American author Julie Otsuka is a fascinating and moving novel. The powerful story of a Japanese-American family during WWII is a reference to thousands of families who suffered internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This book represents thousands of untold stories of suffering, violation and…