Books Essays

Camilla Townsend is one of the most creative writers and interpreters that have played a major role in narrating the historical accounts in an effective manner. A similar creative and well-written piece of work is Malintzin’s Choices: an Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico that has been written ingeniously …

Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse Five” presents a story of the firebombing of Dresden during World War II. The author opens the book with an autobiographical first chapter explaining the process of writing his anti-war novel. He explains that he himself was a prisoner in Germany and witnessed the bombing of …

Caregivers play an imperative role in the wellbeing of ill and elderly. Although a significant majority of society looks down upon the care-giving profession upon, they are the most pivotal segment of health care sector. In easiest terms, one can define caregiving as looking after the needs of the sick …

             Joan Didion’s essay, “On Keeping a Notebook” concretely shows the importance of everyday objects and persons we encounter in our daily lives. To a certain extent, beneath all the stresses of being a working person and encountering different kinds of people, there are certain little, sometimes even grand things …

Abstract             This essay is written in the form of a dream sequence involving actions and interactions that reveal more than three traits of the characters Nick and Gatsby from F.Scott Fitzgerald’s book “The Great Gatsby”, (1926). It explains the dream and how it reveals the central character, who is …

Invisibility and Blindness             Ralph Ellison’s The Invisible Man is beaming with references to race, especially the racial indifference experienced by blacks in a society dominated by whites. The motif of “blindness” or “invisibility” is sketched almost throughout the novel which essentially revolves around the character of the narrator or …

            Leil Lowndes was able to produce a magnificent book that can counter shyness and workout confidence among people. The book Goodbye to Shy: 85 Shybusters That Work helps readers in facing everyday lives with full confidence and brighter perspectives. It determines the source of …

Compare and Contrast The central conflict of both stories Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish” is the generation gap as both protagonists belong to the older generation and look at the things from a different perspective as compared with the younger generations. Both protagonists are similar as …

Within the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the narrator addresses the audience and develops the dynamics of Hester Prynne’s character by illustrating her as a stereotypical maternal figure towards the people of Boston. Seven years after the protagonist’s initial ignominy at the scaffold, the society’s perspective of Hester …

When I read George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, “1984,” I realized it was intended by its author to act as an entertaining suspense-narrative and also as a warning to future generations. The story probes deep ideas related to the influence of tyranny in human society. The motivation for Orwell’s writing of …