Books Essays

To Kill a Mockingbird is a heroic tale filled with demonstrations of leadership and courage by several characters throughout the story, yet there are characters within the novel who display the exact opposite . To Kill a Mockingbird shows courage and the lack of it in many forms. Courage is …

Ms. Ria Singh English B To Kill a Mockingbird. Discuss the theme of appearance vs reality in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the theme of appearance vs reality is a very prevalent one. In the novel, there are two types of …

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird… Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird. Many of …

The character of Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” firmly believes that human life is determined by circumstance and therefore follows a necessary and irreversible pattern. He is depicted as being in a perpetual search of cause, reason, and explanation for the misfortunes that befall him and the glories that …

The earth is viewed as a liquid planet as 70% of it is covered by water. The oceans are critical to States’ interests and human prosperity, being a highway for commerce, a shared resource and a vector for threats to security. The oceans are the highway for 90% of the …

The reality of the world is always changing. Taking different perspectives, living through experiences and imagination all take a toll in how the world is visualized. In the novel The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill studies the ways that reality can be shifted through the persona of Aminata Diallo with …

Sallinger’s novel portrays a troubled teen in New York, is thoughts , and adventures . Over the course of the book, Holden’s unhealty mindset is displayed by his few interactions with various people and his sometimes questionnable actions His mental states evolves a lot and eventually, by the end of …

In Things Fall Apart, a novel written by Chinua Achebe,  the character of  Okonkwo is a valuable warrior of the Umuofia clan, a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of an association of nine villages in Africa. Okonkwo is troubled by the wrongdoings of his father, Unoka, due to him …

In Rebecca Skloot’s (2011) book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta has been dehumanized on many levels. She was not treated right when she went to Johns Hopkins for her sickness. At that time, the Johns Hopkins Hospital was one of only a few hospitals to treat poor people …

Is the story of the lottery a true to life story or its just a fiction that imagined by its author to say a lesson life? Is preserving a culture is a must even if it’s a violent? What is the real meaning of the story of the lottery? There …