President Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States of America, once said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world...
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In the science fiction book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, lives in a community that is excruciatingly controlled. The members of the community could not even make most of their own choices. Almost everyone who lived within the confines of the community never had to experience anything gruesome like pain or hunger, nor did they understand the...
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The upper class is responsible for creating friendships, initiating invitations, and more importantly, being charitable to those in a lesser position. When someone violates these social norms, they are met with indignation as evidence of Mrs. Elton not understanding entirely her social position in society. Mrs. Elton is insufferably conceited about new money and only has money because of her...
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Have you ever wondered why people have a Loss of Individualism within themselves? Life in all three of these stories is government-controlled by how social ratings control the Loss of Individualism. By the society that everyone lives in, a society where lives are forever lived within Government Control since there is a Loss of Individualism. There are lives where everyone...
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The idea of conflict between the state and individuals and the theme of civil disobedience remains prevalent throughout society today. Despite 'Antigone' and 'Fahrenheit 451' being written nearly two thousand years apart, both texts share the same societal issues of conflict between the state and the individual but in different contexts. Both Sophocles and Bradbury are influenced by the political...
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In Sophocles’ Antigone, the two characters of Creon and Antigone represent unreflective and polarising moments of Greek life, highlighting the conflict and divide between male and female, and “polis” and “Oikos”. Throughout the drama, Creon displays a near-existential fear of female transgression. He first introduces the theme of a male-female conflict when he says. Indeed, now I am no man,...
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Antigone as a character within Jean Anouilh’s modern re-creation of Sophocles’s Greek classic, ‘Antigone’, is surrounded by ambiguity. Within Sophocles’s version, Antigone is presented with clear, rational, and understandable motives for defying Creon and the oppressive state in which he struggles to uphold. However, unlike Sophocles, Anouilh teaches us nothing of Antigone’s motivations and instead creates a depiction of an...
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The concept of “a new beginning” is a recurrent theme that prevails in African American literature, predominantly, in the geographical form of The South. Used as a literary terrain, The South is more than a characterization of the savagery that African Americans endured during the period of slavery. It is within this landscape that African Americans advanced society and culture...
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“That was the end of her childhood”: Journey for Love in Their Eyes Were Watching God In the foreword of Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Edwidge Danticat, the author of the short story Krik? Krak!, notes the complex trials that Janie Crawford, the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God, “as she attempts to survive her grandmother’s...
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In the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, we learn that failed relationships are just as important to character development as thriving ones. Zora Neale Hurston unfolds the story of a young black woman struggling with finding herself due to a lifetime of being told that she isn’t good enough. Within every relationship, Janie gains a new piece of herself....
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Pony Boy didn't cut a representative strip with a huge pair of scissors. S. E. Hinton said he didn't get the way into the city toward the finish of the pariah. Ponyboy didn't get Superman's quality, however, he is as yet a grease legend. Ponyboy is willful and doesn't require others or his compassion. Notwithstanding acting naturally persuaded, Ponyboy is...
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Johnny is a dynamic character in the novel The Outsiders due to his afraid beginnings, bold experiences, and finally his loving ending. The first character trait that describes Johnny at the beginning of this novel is afraid. Johnny Cade was last and least. If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is...
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Introduction Lois Lowry’s The Giver presents a thought-provoking narrative that explores themes of memory, emotion, and individuality within a seemingly utopian society. A pivotal yet enigmatic character within this narrative is Rosemary, the Giver's previous trainee. Although she appears only briefly, Rosemary's presence is deeply felt and her influence on the story is profound. Her experience as a Receiver-in-training and...
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My selection for this discussion is The Handmaid’s Tale. This show was recommended as a must-see and I was not disappointed. This series is about a totalitarian society named Gilead. In a world where fertility rates have collapsed as a result of sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution, the totalitarian, theonomic government of Gilead establishes rule in the former United...
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Why was there so much discrimination in the early 1930's? John Steinbeck’s highly renowned “Of Mice and Men” is an outstanding novel that paints a depressingly realistic portrait of America during the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the novel, Steinbeck attacks the many issues that plagued the country during that time. His purpose in writing “Of Mice and Men”...
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Although the Heart of Darkness is encompassed with the essence of femininity, this novel does not do women justice. It is safe to say that Conrad's text can be found sexist for the portrayal of women, as demonstrated throughout, are non-complex characters and they simply exist for the male to gaze upon. From Marlow's perspective especially, women are treated as...
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'But I will bury him; and if I must die, I say that this crime is holy' Once described as a play depicting the complexities of 'state versus personal', Antigone's sheer determination to transgress against the politics of the king, to follow her personal beliefs, presents her as a highly strong-willed protagonist. The idea of a female figure with such...
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Books can help someone escape from reality, learn about the future, and sometimes show how the world could be just as cruel as it is good. For example, Anne Frank’s diary captivated the young writer so much that when she wrote in her diary it was like she was a different person. She went from a happy, loving 13-year-old girl...
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In both towns, Janie speaks as an outsider. The men’s stories feature silent women who are included in the stories as objects for the men to lust after or win, rather than active characters with their own emotions. They only include women in the stories about men. These tales cast women as men’s objects of desire, reduced to their appearance...
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“To be negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time”, is a well-known quote by African-American novelist, playwright, and activist, James Baldwin. James Baldwin was a man whose upbringing, consciousness, and talent in writing put him on the path to becoming one of the best writers of the twentieth...
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In the book The Hate U Give, the writer Angie Thomas places us in the view purpose of Starr, a high school young lady brought up in Garden Heights. Which is a lower-class dark neighborhood where she had to observe the homicide of her closest companion. With this catastrophe the topic of activism is featured, Starr brings the disputable subjects...
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Nonetheless, Keyes stresses another predominant theme: that self-awareness, the ability to acquire knowledge about one’s self, ultimately decides an individual’s identity. As the experiment progresses and Charlie’s academic knowledge, and personal understanding increase, a sense of inner confinement emerges. This interior conflict is apparent when there is a “sharp switch in perception” as the narration alternates between first-person, and third-person...
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The title of the book is, The Alchemist and it is a novel type of book. It is a fiction and it was published in the year 1992. This novel, The Alchemist was written by Paulo Coelho. “Paulo grew up with his family in the town, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His dad is an engineer and wanted Paulo to...
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“He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.”(Kenneth Eade) The novel The Hate U Give represents institutional oppression, injustice, and bias with the shooting of Khaili Harris. While growing up in an unprivileged community; boys fall into gang life to provide for their families....
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“Man is not above nature, but in nature.” The quote stated by Ernst Haeckel describes how people have treated the earth surrounding them. Most do not give it a second thought. That should change. Many things could go into how humans need to see and work alongside nature. Both nature and people interact through daily processes, so people should know...
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If I could choose a memory from my childhood about the power of learning, it would be the memory of my mother, who hates reading online, who bought this book in an e-book form and read it online, in the digital form. I was shocked, and since then I always had in my mind that “The Alchemist” has to be...
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Introduction Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' is a modern classic that has captivated readers with its simple yet profound narrative. At its core, the book is a spiritual journey that emphasizes the importance of following one's dreams and listening to one's heart. For teenagers, who are often at a crossroads in their lives, the lessons imparted by 'The Alchemist' can be...
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Into the Wild is a remarkable story of Christopher McCandless, a young man who after graduating from university went to live in the wilderness. He gave 24,000 of his savings to the charity, Oxfam. He abandoned his car, burned the rest of his money, and hitched a hike to Alaska. A few months later he died of starvation in an...
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a turning multi-measurement story. It is generally a journey trail. Assuming the single instance of a Spanish shepherd kid, it extrapolates and expands upon the mind-boggling endeavors of life, decisions and outcomes, bargaining, change, predetermination, and the makings of an amazing plan of things. This book is about a youngster from Spain named Santiago,...
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Are you following your dreams? Just like you, I even stammered for a moment when I had this question on my mind. Everyone has a dream, but only a few of us are ready to pursue that dream. The rest of us are trapped under the fear of failure. The Alchemist is a Fiction book by Paulo Coehlo. It was...
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