… Fast, is the story of a gladiator, named Spartacus. Spartacus is a slave who is bought by a lanista, a person who owns, sells, and fights gladiators, whose name is Batiatus. Batiatus trains Spartacus to be a gladiator at a gladitorial school in…

… literature that would strengthen the every day man. Presenting protagonist characters and the events that shape their lives as they are demands a certain amount of excellence in a piece of literature. Two of the most enduring leading men are William…

… Separate Peace “I don’t care what people think, I am still going to wear a pink shirt.” That was what finny thought in the book a Separate Peace. In this paragraph, Finny and Thomas Jefferson will be compared to each other in many different…

… Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Solitary individuals often exploit different views on our world, sometimes accompanied by a ‘disharmonious’ way of living, as we can see in these two books. The concept of a distant view on life, is applied in both…

… an American ambulance driver and a lieutenant ("tenente") in the Italian army, is the narrator and protagonist of the novel. The focus of the novel revolves around his love with Catherine Barkley as well as his steady disillusionment with the war. Henry…

… no matter how obscure from the author's experience it may be, marks of their life can be detected in any of their tales. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's own personal experiences. The main character of the…

… novel about the pains of life including the great sorrow that comes with loosing those you love. Frederic Henry, the protagonist of the story, is an American Lieutenant in the Italian Army during the First World War. This fact is significant in learning…

… as a historical romance. Many people in reading this book could interpret this to be a war novel, when in fact it was one of the great romance novels written in its time. When reading this book you notice how every important event of the war is oversha…

… by Ernest J. Gaines, begins with the child narrator, “Snookum”, who spreads the word that there has been a shooting on a Louisiana plantation. The person killed is a white, Cajun farmer, named Beau Boutan. He has been killed in the yard of an old, black…

… to a sugarcane plantation where he finds one young white woman, about eighteen old black men, and one dead Cajun farmer. The sheriff is sure he knows who killed the cajun although each of the men is toting a shotgun, only one of them could hit a coard…