… What if you were in a situation where that saying was reversed? Would it change you forever? This is exactly what happened to Alex, the protagonist in the novel The Wild Children by Felicia Holman. This drastically changes Alex’s life and he must…

… just two in the book I Know What You Did Last Summer, the two that stood out the most to me are Helen Rivers and Raymond Bronson. Helen Rivers was beautiful. She was the Golden Girl (or in other words, Weather Girl). Helen had brown hair with honey color…

… was a time of cynicism, loss of values, and was mainly defined by ideological and social battles. World War I was a turning point to society and altered the class structure through ideological reform. After the war, which had been called the war to…

… the occurrence of rape in medieval society, though most specifically in many of Geoffrey Chaucer’s works such as "The Wife of Bath’s Tale," proves to hold very little interest in the minds of both historical inhabitants of the time as with it’s…

… the author took a different view of the relationship between the two sexes than was generally discussed before in novels. The themes, descriptions and words he used were highly controversial at the time it was written, causing its first publications…

… recalls the author’s childhood as a Japanese girl, growing up in Seattle, during World War II. The book takes a look on how the Japanese culture was treated in this time. At a young age Monica realizes she is not like most little girls in America. …

… Noise Throughout the novel White Noise, Don DeLillo uses dark and biting humor and subtle displacement to contrast the harsh reality of his characters lives. The sarcasm exists in the idea that the supermarkets help the characters cope with the…

… novella authored by Adrienne Eisen. The novella is an intimate account of a period of hard times in a young woman’s life. As the main characters’ struggles with life, careers, and relationships are laid out the audience gets a better feel for some…

… London has a strong belief in Darwinism, survival of the fittest, during the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, when he wrote. Throughout his writings, many characters display London’s belief in Darwinism. In the novel, The Call…

… behind the book is Sinclair’s view that the common wage laborers of Chicago and the rest of the world would benefit from a shift from the capitalist society to his ideal system of socialism. Many of the conditions that Jurgis and his family go through…