… England during the middle of the nineteenth century. It was very similar to the setting of The Count of Monte Cristo, except for not taking place in France. Michael Crichton researched the time period very well. He makes the reader feel like they…

… made.He basically grew up in the 60's and 70's.Where the average black male had few choices for a good future.Nathan grew up being a very angry person inside,because of the way blacks were treated by the white man.He started hanging out with friends,and…

… the dictionary, means to undergo or feel pain or great distress. Another way to say it is to sustain injury, disadvantage, or loss. And yet another way to define suffering is to say to endure or be afflicted with something temporary or chronically.…

… on the Western Front depicts World War I, the most devastating war up until its time. The author Erich Maria Remarque gets across a few forceful themes. Perhaps the strongest theme is the transformations that war induces. All Quiet demonstrates…

… so much depth to it. The author addresses important issues of equality/non equality in marriage between husband and wife; the stereotype of women being unable to take care of themselves; the bond that children can achieve in childhood; and the lives…

… the useless attempt humanity makes to find rational order where none exists. Philip H. Rhein “believes that Camus asserts that individual lives and human existence in general have no rational meaning or order.” Though Camus does not openly refer to…

… My House is a chronicle of the everyday life of a protestant minister and his wife in a small town. If the reader delves deeper into the novel you will discover that this novel is actually about the dysfunctional relationship that has developed between…

… very tragic. Both novels had very strong tragic points of sense of life, impulse and tragedy itself. The Great Gatsby, however, was a more tragic story. The novels presented a tragic sense of life throughout the text. Inevitably they…

… Hagar Shipley, a woman near death who regrets the choices of her past. Hagar has many aspirations and ideas about how she wants her life to end up, but her unbending pride does not let that happen. Hagar fails to accomplish her goals. Her failure…

… book which deals with the life and hardships of an African community trying to express their traditions in a modern, colonized world. The protagonist in the novel is a physically strong warrior, Okonkwo, who is a controlling factor in most of…