… a political statement about the need to put the well being of society as a whole before the individual needs. He discusses this idea in the book through his three main central characters, Tom, Ma, Casy and through his intercalary chapters. Throughout…

… many books that appears on the list of banned or challenged books submitted to library’s across the nation for the American Library Association’s, National Banned Books Week. The books on this list are deemed as offensive in some way that young adolesce…

… as one of the world's greatest novelists and literary psychologists. His works grapple with deep political, social, and religious issues while delving into the often tortured psychology of characters whose lives are shaped by these issues. Born…

… kind of a long entry, but I have been needing to get all this written down somewhere anyways, so take what you want... To understand the concepts of religion and Christianity proposed by Dostoevsky in C&P, it first helps to know a little about the…

… Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, shows a whole family and their struggles. The grapes of Wrath is modeled after a biblical reference to the Israelites, god¹s chosen people. They also left their land, Egypt, and wandered into the…

… sad-looking man in town, whose name is Ethan Frome. The narrator meets Ethan when the man who drives him to the local train station is unable to take him and another townsman suggests that the narrator ask Ethan to drive. Ethan has been driving the…

… clearly showing the fault lines between groups and individuals. The novel raises the question of whether or not “the oceans of the world” are ultimately separate or together, but stops short of giving a direct answer to this question. Gutterson choses…

… which I strangely enjoyed, developed many thoughts in my mind. One of which was the idea of some kind of beast was inside me, and all humans. In the novel by William Golding, more than one form of this beast came to be, a physical form, an emotional…

… Raisin in the Sun” can be seen as a play about a middle-aged African-American male’s belated rise to manhood. In the beginning of the play, Walter Lee is portrayed as the typical man of the house, however he is far from being a man. Walter still lives…

… was slightly changed when put on motion picture. There are a number of similarities and differences throughout, making the story more interesting or what some may call, “A brutal attempt at shredding a classic.” Nonetheless, they are different…