Books Essays

The American Dream has been and will always be pursued by countless individuals in search for happiness. For some, happiness comes from having a loving family, a stable job, and food on the table. For others, it is through becoming increasingly wealthy and having a high social status. F. Scott …

With varying opinions and beliefs, our society needs to have unlimited freedom to speak about any and everything that concerns us in order to continually improve our society. Those free speech variables would be speech that creates a positive, and not negative, scenario in both long-terms and short-terms. Dictionary defines …

The protagonist and story of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula have been widely adapted in films throughout many years. The legendary creature has mesmerized and frighten readers and viewers for nearly a century. Francis Ford Coppola however use the erotic romance of the original novel in order to illustrate a tragic …

The non-fictional book In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, tells the story of a family of four living in Kansas murdered by two men; Perry and Dick. Within the two chapters titled Persons Unknown, Dick and Perry both tell the story from different point of view with Dick first and …

In the Invisible Man, Clifton advertising the Sambo dolls comes as a shock to the readers and the narrator alike. A promising social reformer who wanted to break the racial barrier and to promote equality, he suddenly becomes a street peddler who sells the very items that contradict his beliefs …

The Holocaust is a highly sensitive and severe topic for many people. Millions of people, especially Jews, were killed and many families were torn apart. There are plenty of actual survivors out there. It was a period that is still horribly fresh in their memories, and their stories are passed …

If you were a child and just got stranded on an island, how would you act? In Lord of the Flies, a group of boys got stranded on an island and they try to build a society and struggle to survive. There are many main characters that had a big …

Each of us stood at the crossroads, overcome by doubts and indecisiveness. We were afraid that we would go too far along the wrong path and could not return to the right trail. Robert Frost tries in his own way to interpret irreversible decisions that overturn the established order of …

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, Scarlet Letter, he tells the story of a sinner, Hester Prynne. Hester has committed adultery and now has a child as a result of her sin. Hester has naturally put herself aside from the other puritan members of the community. She has mostly secluded herself from the …

Theme: In this novel, a man narrates his comrade’s astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases that led them to an amazing adventure. Synopsis: The story opens with a mini mystery—Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson speculate …