Books Essays

Human nature of children, adolescents, and teens will at times resurrect the urge to approach a rebellious stance, which include receiving various body piercings, consuming alcohol, and listening to loud music. This stance often challenges the intention of parents, who reared their young with hopes that their offspring would reflect …

Rituals are a set of actions performed for a symbolic value, such as through sacrifices, traditions in communities, or to manipulate religious symbols. Rituals that are performed as traditions can be seen through the short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In this short story Jackson exemplifies the manner in …

How is what happened to George and Lennie in Weed an example of injustice, and how does this foreshadow the end of the novel? Throughout the novel ‘Of Mice and Men, we learn a lot about injustice and racism. ‘Of Mice and Men’ is a novel set on a ranch …

The theme of a story helps give readers a deeper understanding of what the text is all about. Theme gives a moral to the story, or a lesson to be learned. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 the theme was happiness. Throughout the whole story the main character, Montag, is trying …

Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 are two different books with a lot of similarities and although written years ago, can still be applicable to the world today. Several conflicting frames of mind have played defining roles in shaping humanity throughout the twentieth century. Visions of a bright future held by humanity …

We use different materials and services in our daily life. Some of these are available in our immediate surroundings, while other requirements are met by bringing things from other places. Goods and services do not move from supply locales to demand locales on their own. The movement of these goods …

In both Animal Farm and Macbeth, the characters battle with conflicts that have stemmed from their extreme ambition. In Animal Farm, Napoleon desires power, and he goes about changing the rules by which the animals have agreed to live in order to put himself in charge. As the novel progresses, …

In A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, Yiyun Li depicted many different lives of the people in last decade’s China, still under the reign of Communism. With Communism, comes Capitalism, two contradictory political systems, once threatened the world of a nuclear World War. The clash of communism and capitalism was …

The main aim of Marxism is to bring about a classless society, and ‘Animal Farm’ is generally considered to be a Marxist novel, as all its characters share a similar ambition at the beginning. ‘Animal Farm’ represents an example of the oppressed masses rising up to form their own classless …

With the Long Lines, the stressful waiting, and the constant question of asking yourself “why am I here?” on going in your head makes the waiting to vote the most exciting thing ever. But wait aside of that, think for a second. This year there were people going to vote …