Books Essays

The Lord of the Flies if taken at face value can be taken as a short book about the struggle to stay alive on a deserted island and its physical and psychological influences on its residents. However, when the reader looks deeper, they see a story that is an allegory …

Nathaniel Hawthorne lived during an extraordinarily turbulent time in American history. Our young nation was barely into its second generation of independence from England. Emotionally volatile issues revolving around religion, slavery, and liberty abounded. During American’s antebellum period, citizens struggled to define themselves in a rapidly changing world. Questions concerning …

In the essay “The Ignored Lesson of Anne Frank” Bettelheim’s thesis is that because the Franks had decided to go into hiding as a family as opposed to hiding out separately, they were refusing to accept what was going on around them and they contribute to their own deaths by …

This project proposes to develop web application in Nguyen Van Cu Bookstore. With the Internet is becoming the world’s largest communication, it has provided an environment where everyone can be online at any given time. Under this environment, Online Book Selling can be useful to sell books on the Internet. …

The Pearl and Of Mice and Men, both parables by John Steinbeck, are stories with different themes. Yet despite the differences in the dreams and ambitions of Steinbeck’s protagonists, his characters all share the hardship of having the will of society pitted against them. George and Lenny, from Of Mice …

Beowulf is an epic poem featuring a conflict between pagan and Christian beliefs. Within this context there is a continuous theme of good versus evil. Beowulf is a Christian hero who is endowed with superhuman strengths representative of paganism. He battles Grendel and Grendel’s mother, pagan monsters, whose lineage can …

Monstrosity is a key theme raised in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Our responses towards monstrosity include sympathy towards the creature, spite towards the creator, questioning of who actually is the real monster (whether it be the creature, or Frankenstein himself) and the consideration of the Rousseau’s idea of human’s being born …

In the play “Macbeth” and the novel Lord of the Flies, the prospect of power and the corruptive nature that it has on man affects his relationship to power. Power is defined as, “the ability or capacity to exercise control; authority.” This authority ultimately leads to the unveiling of the …

Many people think about a situation so much that almost any solution can seem like the right one. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s overanalyzation of events leads him to rationalize many of his own decisions. He rationalizes why he has not had had sex, why he ordered …

Part 1: Toronto & Pondicherry – Chapters 1-361). Pondicherry was the birth place of Pi the protagonist of the story. It was during Pi’s time in Pondicherry that he has suffered intensely and found comfort in religion and zoology; which proves to be the basis of the stories plot. With …