… it helps your understanding of the book to identify with the characters (how and why they do the things they do). In these cases it is always easier to compare the characters to something from everyday life. By separating them into categories…

… to my life in certain ways, but it is also very different from my type of life. For example, one of the similarities between this book and my life is that the town has a high school football team, and we also have a high school football team. The thing…

… the theme. In Holden’s view, the adult world represents a phony and cruel world. For Holden, the schools, like Pencey Prep and Elkton represents the phony, cruel world of those adult who run them. For example, the advertisement for Pencey…

… the author Herman Mellville creates numerous biblical allegories with the events and characters that he devises. Billy Budd, a pure and innocent young man, is impressed by the “Bellipotent”. On the ship he is adored by all of his crewmates except the…

… telling the story of a time where books and independent thinking are outlawed. Books and ideas are destroyed, books are incinerated, where as ideas thinking becomes a danger to society and is not tolerated. The Hearth and the Salamander is the…

… hand events of an African American woman from California in the 1970s travel to the antebellum south in the 19th century. This novel then can be called a slave narrative witch is a first hand account of a slaves life. These are done in a first…

… Victor Frankenstein is rescued from the ocean by Captain Robert Walton and his crew. Walton was a lonely man writing to his sister about how lonely he feels out in the ocean and that he would really like to have a friend. Walton becomes deeply…

… on the following books: A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway; For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway; Of Mice and Men, John Steinback. These books are in relation to World War I to World War II.When I finished FTA I was of course stunned by the…

… the past to future generations of listeners. Storytelling plays an important role in Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon, in that the protagonist, Milkman, is told a variety of stories by many of the characters. Each story influences him…

… in a collective society. A collective society is a group on people that consider themselves as one. In a collective society there is no such thing as ‘I’ because there are no individuals there is only the group. Everybody in that society thinks…