… as misleading a person through lies and falsehoods. Self-serving people often choose to deceive in order to take care of their own needs. This concept or theme is strongly portrayed in Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The story…

… as a macrocosm of the treatment of refugees and their journeys to freedom. At the time of its creation in the early 1980?s, the novel represents the Vietnamese ?boat people? more specifically, but can still stand for what refugees of all times and…

… Of Mice and Men. How does the dream of "a place" figure in the lives of characters in the novel? There are at least four ideas of "place" in Of Mice and Men to be considered. The first idea could be the "place" considered as the setting of…

… Three Daughter of China” “Wild Swans” is a gripping account of the lives of three generations of women in 20th century China. Jung Chung is the author of this book, and the third of these heroic women. Born in China in 1952, she has successfully…

… play, by Arthur Miller, takes place in Salem, Massachusetts, in the year 1692. It illustrates the historic incidents that occurred during the Salem witch trials. During that time and era, these documented events truly are “one of the strangest…

… for poetry. Its house alone affords sufficient opportunities for observation and for voyages through the perceived vistas" (Weisbuch 1). 2. "'Possibility' is a concept: it is the idea of the imagination itself, where what has not occurred in external…

… by William Golding in 1954. The book describes in detail the horrific exploits of a band of young children who make a striking transition from civilized to barbaric. The Lord of the Flies commands a pessimistic outlook that seems to show that man…

… Sadie Burke’s mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two opposite forces. Although only a minor character, Sadie’s personality displays enough depth to contribute the themes in the novel. Caught in between loving and hating Willie, Sadie’s…

… a fiend to be abhorred compared to Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. The terrible account of Victor Frankenstein’s havoc and misfortune he has faced has been the main cause of the creature, which he created. The creatures attitude has caused much distraction…

… Shelley's Frankenstein would assume that in the course of the book the true monster is Dr. Frankenstein himself. But upon analysis of the text it becomes clear that it is in fact the Monster who is the greater of the two evils. Although created by the…