… his disgust with English oppression, and his frustrations with Ireland’s poor. This, from an Englishman, is very surprising. Although, he too, was not all too fond of the Irish people, he tried to help them. Swift viewed his country as…

… is a brilliant piece of literature. The idea of taking a social matter of his time, that was incredibly absurd, and made it even more absurd and gruesome. I found it easy to figure out his sense of satire in the writing, and personally don’t understand…

… New World Imagine a world where thousands of babies at a time, each looking identical, were manufactured to all be alike. They would be brought up in bottles and until the age of twelve, live together in a “conditioning centre” where they would…

… Nervous Splendor by Fredric Morton A Nervous Splendor is a study of a single year - 1888-1889 - in the fairy tale city of Vienna. During this year Johann Strauss Jr. wrote his Emperor Waltz; Sigmund Freud, having quit his lucrative job as assistant…

… with her brother to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, when her parents were divorced. Growing up, she learned what it was to be a black girl in a world whose boundaries were set by whites: “As a child she always dreamed of waking…

… as the big dreamer of the Younger family. His dream is to become rich and he spins up schemes with this friends, particularly with Willy Harris. When the play opens, he wants to invest his father’s insurance money into a liquor store. He believes…

… in the Sun is a story about a working-class African-American family who all have dreams. They struggle to keep their dream of going from tenants to owners alive. Unfortunately they are in a bad position to accomplish these dreams because society…

… Younger remains a strong woman with fortified views. She looks at people for who they truly are, has intellectual pride for her studies, questions everything including God, and she admirably cuts all her hair off for the sake of being true to her…

… story of a family’s ups and downs unfolds in a small apartment. This book by Lorraine Hansberry illustrates how a family’s dreams can dry up just like a raisin in the sun. The family, the Youngers are a family of five living in a two-bedroom…

… Owens presents a personal story to show a dramatic change in his point of view. His story revolves around a mind-altering experience in which he uses himself as the straw figure, allowing us to effectively see how he came to choose his new view and…