Books Essays

Once there lived a man, whose wife recently passed away due to breast cancer. However, before passing away on the hospital bed, her last breaths were directed to her beautiful teenage daughter, Cindy. She whispered, “Cindy, darling, live your life and be true to yourself, and don’t let anyone hold …

In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 12 is the chapter in which Holmes and Watson discover the murderer responsible for the deaths of each of the Baskervilles. Sir Conan Doyle uses a variety of techniques, carefully manipulating the structure, characters and setting to generate a feeling of suspense for …

In Great Expectations Dickens uses different techniques to deliberately create sympathy for the character Pip in his opening exchanges with Miss Havisham and Estella. This essay will analyse and reflect on the ways in which Charles Dickens does this. The first meeting between Pip and Miss Havisham is arranged by …

“Engleby” is a prose piece of text and follows the life of Mike Engleby, a intellectually precocious but socially ill-adapted student at Cambridge in the 1970s as he frets about the creeping homogeneity of contemporary life. “God I hate the present,” he declares. “It has no depth of field; no …

It is said, “All is fair in love and war.” In the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, Perry is sent to the Vietnam War where he is stationed in the Alpha Company. Here he meets Peewee, Lobel, Monaco, Brunner, Brew, and others. They find that even in war, …

Mark Haddon presents the character of Christopher throughout the book in a number of different ways using different techniques; like through his Asperger’s syndrome, the contrasting themes of lies and truth, Christopher’s family life and his intelligence. The whole book is written is first person – from Christopher’s point of …

The gothic genre is presented in Philip Pullman’s play adaptation of Mary Shelley’s original novel, Frankenstein. The play explores setting, characterization and plot. The setting explores the time, location and events in the play; characterisation allows the readers to understand the characters traits and motivations; the plot reflects the conflict, …

This book was written by Gerry Adams, the President of the Sinn Fein, as a collection of his uncensored views to bringing peace to Northern Ireland. His view is that the six counties in Northern Ireland should be allowed complete self-determination, which in turn would lead to a unified Irish …

To kill a mockingbird brings out many themes and issues during the course of the book. The trial of Tom Robinson helps the readers to understand the prejudice that black people face in Maycomb County. The themes of courage and prejudice reflect the trial of Tom Robinson who was racially …

Fairy tales give us an insight into the values of the society in which they were written. In different appropriations, we are presented with the author’s reaction to the values of their society and/or the values of previous societies. Through the study of these appropriations we observe the relationship between …