Novels Essays
Farewell to arms
Farewell to arms World War One. The first great tragedy of humanity. That is of course excluding love and life. Combine all three and you find one of the most masterfully written novels about life, love, and war that could only be written by Ernest Hemingway. Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Hemingway started his literary career when he was hired as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. During the war he joined the volunteer American Red Cross as a ambulance...
Farwell To Arms
Farwell To Arms The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. The story starts as Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons. I thought that A Farewell to Arms was a good book because of the symbolism, the exciting plot, and the constant moving of the main character. The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much appar...
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is of the struggles of a firefighter, Guy Montag. This novel takes place during the future in Elm City where all houses are fireproof, people drive jet cars, and firefighters burn books instead of extinguishing them! Montag was pushed by his curiosity to steal some books before the firefighters burn them and store them in his house. One day, Montag met Clarisse McClellan, one of his neighbors. Clarisse was a 17-ye...
Fahrenheit 451a brief overview
Fahrenheit 451a brief overview Fahrenheit 451…The Temperature at Which Books Burn Fahrenheit 451 portrays censorship in the future through the fictional story of one man, Guy Montag, who undergoes an “awakening” by realizing the significance of his actions and the need to express the ideas that were bring oppressed by the future government. Guy Montag is a fireman who appears to be heartily supportive and contributive to the burning of books, which is normal becaus...
Fallen Angles
Fallen Angles Fallen Angels By Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels. It is about America's experiences in the Vietnam War as told by the main character in the book, Richie Perry. Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon. The book has 4 other main characters, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, and Peewee. The book starts off talking about the experiences of Perry while he is s...
Familiar mysteries
Familiar mysteries Book Review "Familiar Mysteries" Familiar Mysteries is a scientific and comprehensive study on mythology, its appearance,and significance in our lives.The author , Shirley Park Lowry , a former professor of English at the Los Angeles Valley College , teaches mythology to nonspecialists and is a respected authority on the subject.The author's purpose in writing this book is to provide the general reader with an interesting , hystorically linked , an...
Fahreheit 451
Fahreheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 is a literary work of art. It is a novel about censorship and one mans fight against it. The story was written in the fifties, but is set in the future. Ray Bradbury’s prediction of what the future will be like is precise in some aspects, but completely outrageous in others. He pictures the future as a somewhat a dictatorship government. The government controlled everything in their lives. People don’t think either. Technology is made it so tha...
Fahrenheit 451 a charred exi
Fahrenheit 451 - a charred exi Fahrenheit 451 – A Charred Existence Imagine living in a world where you are not in control of your own thoughts. Imagine living in a world in which all the great thinkers of the past have been blurred from existence. Imagine living in a world where life no longer involves beauty, but instead a controlled system that the government is capable of manipulating. In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, such a world is brought to the awareness of the reader...
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor By: Anonymous Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World (Analysis of Man and Society) For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this concept in his work, Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic look at a man and his role in society. Br...
Fahrenheit 451 2
Fahrenheit 451 2 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, is of the struggles of a firefighter, Guy Montag. This novel takes place during the future in Elm City where all houses are fireproof, people drive jet cars, and firefighters burn books instead of extinguishing them! Montag was pushed by his curiosity to steal some books before the firefighters burn them and store them in his house. One day, Montag met Clarisse McClellan, one of his neighbors. Clarisse was a 17-...
Fahrenheit 451 utopia thru mat
Fahrenheit 451 utopia thru mat Utopia through Materials? Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed. The materialistic society in Fahrenheit 451 created through Bradbury’s cynic views of society. His views of society are over-exaggerated in contrast with today’s events, especially in the areas of censorship and me...
Evolution of frankenstein
Evolution of frankenstein Frankenstein’s Evolution In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the major character, Victor Frankenstein, evolves synonymously with the character of his monster. The evolution of Victor from a man of good to a man of evil leads to his isolation and eventual destruction. Correspondingly, the monster changes from a harmless being to a vindictive psychopath. What began as an innocent experiment in creation ends in a disaster of total devastation. Fra...
Evolution of heathcliff in wut
Evolution of heathcliff in wut Heathcliff - His Own Worst Enemy Heathcliff, one of the central character of Wuthering Heights, evolves from an empathetic, innocent victim to a self-centered vindictive individual. This transformation is slow and develops in three distinctive parts. First, Heathcliff is sympathetically portrayed as an interloper. Next, he is characterized as an individual who is beginning to lose his innocence because he is coping with situations beyond his control. Fina...
Evolution of they dystopia
Evolution of they dystopia As Aldous Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World, he combined the horrific future blight found in other dystopias with the ever-present flaws of a suppressed feudalistic society. This combination created a revolutionary vision of what an early twentieth century world would evolve into following its present path. Brave New World outlines the mindless suppression of an ignorant society through the mechanical brainwashing of a world overrun by technology. From Huxley'...
Examine the character and the
Examine the character and the The Nurse is Capulets servant, and she is a very good servant as she tries her hardest to please the Capulets and Juliet at the same time. She is also a very important character in the play and in the Capulets lives. Through out the play The Nurse is Juliet’s confidant. The Nurse is a crucial character who strongly influences Juliet’s thoughts and actions. The main reason why the Capulet employed her was to breast feed Juliet. The Nurse was perfect f...
Explication of dulce et decoru
Explication of dulce et decoru Explication of "Dulce et Decorum Est" In Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen explores the harsh conditions and realities of war. The burdens of war and the overwhelming weariness faced by soldiers are described in the first ten lines of the poem. Many soldiers in World War I did not have the proper training and equipment to fight a war. The long marches to battle through bad conditions wore the soldiers down and caused their reaction times to be down. The aut...
Ethan frome and their eyes wer
Ethan frome and their eyes wer In the world today, there are many forms of societal differences that hold people back from their dreams and desires. The two novels, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, both accurately portray those exact societal problems. In society, people are oppressed in many ways, such as blacks not being able to vote back in the 60’s, or women not having as many rights as men. In this essay, I will attempt to c...
Ethan frome comparison of matt
Ethan frome-comparison of matt Ethan Frome Essay Compare and Contrast the characters of Mattie and Zeena In the novel Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, the characters of Mattie Silver and Zeena Frome are dissimilar in many ways. Mattie is a compassionate, lively, outgoing woman who tries hard and has a positive outlook on life. Zeena, on the other hand, is a pessimistic, cold-hearted, and dull woman who is too self-absorbed to have fun in her life. Perhaps the biggest diff...
Everyday use 2
Everyday use 2 Everyday Use Dee stands out from her family in views of their heritage In Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use" she discuss the life of an African American family of a mother and her two daughters. The mother has a tremendous amount of love for both of her daughters, but the two are different individuals in terms of their personality. Maggie, the younger of the two, was much like her mother. Her and the mother both thought of themselves to be shy, not well s...
Everyday use by alice walker
Everyday use by alice walker People identify themselves by their colour, culture, language or religion. The identity goes back to generations and it doesn’t start or change within the individual. It is an evolutionary process where each person brings upon some changes. This is best described in Alice Walker’s short story, “Everyday Use”, where three characters, a mother and two daughters, are portrayed differently, each with its different qualities and philosophies on...
Everyday use
Everyday use Everyday Use "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker is a short story about how people get caught up in the superficial value of material things, and the jealousy this desire causes. In this short story Dee, the eldest daughter, was always ashamed by the way she lived during her childhood years. As she was educated more and more, her feelings of hatred for poverty and ignorance grew intensely. After she finished college her abhorrent feelings grew immensely, and she tried to tak...
Essay on by the pricking of my
Essay on by the pricking of my English Literature Book Review Mystery Book of the Century with 1000 characters “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” by Agatha Christie is a wonderful story with kidnappings, a series of murders, a painting with a story to tell, and two sly detectives. The book is set in 1940-1960 England. The plot winds, twists, and turns throughout the book. Numerous characters, almost too many, are introduced every few pages and there is just too much in...
Essay on eustacia vie return o
Essay on eustacia vie return o There is no doubt that Eustacia Vie is the Heroine of the tragedy "Return of the native". Without the majestic air that Miss Vie adds to the novel we are left with a typical period soap drama. Eustacia vie is on more then one occasion compared to classical characters of Greek mythology, and even in her death the nobility of her figure evokes images of classical sculpture."Pallor did not include all the quality of her complexion, which seemed More the whiteness;...
Essay on lord of the flies
Essay on lord of the flies In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, we find a group of British boys stranded on a tropical island while the rest of the world is at war. Their plane has been shot down and they find themselves without adults to tell them how to act. As they struggle to survive, they encounter conflicts that mirror the decayed society from which they have come. We see Golding's theme come about as we watch the boys begin to lose their innocence and let their natural evil overw...
Essay on the stranger
Essay on the stranger In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, we find a group of British boys stranded on a tropical island while the rest of the world is at war. Their plane has been shot down and they find themselves without adults to tell them how to act. As they struggle to survive, they encounter conflicts that mirror the decayed society from which they have come. We see Golding's theme come about as we watch the boys begin to lose their innocence and let their natural evil overwhelm ...