Women Book Reviews Samples For Students

Part 1: subject matter

The subject that will be covered in this paper is love. The poems chosen for this paper are all about love. Everything in these poems by Gary Soto revolves around love whether young love or matured love.The subject matter of the poems is a boy in two of his poems, oranges and that girl, while the subject matter of the other poem, water and light is a man. The difference between the two subjects is that, for the two poems where the subject matter is a boy, the love between the persona and the girl can be considered to be young love. ...

Chinua Achebe’s novel A Man of the People portrays the generation gap between the old guard in the politics of West Africa and the newer generation. The narrator, Odili, stands for the newer generation, and contrasts starkly with Chief Nanga, who had once been Odili’s teacher and represents the older style represented by busy politics. Patron-client relationships and the old school “politics of the belly” are both important motifs in this novel, which focuses on these two men’s quarrels over everything from basic politics to women, building to the story’s end, represented by a military revolt ...

“Macbeth” is one of the greatest literary works of William Shakespeare. This play proves why Shakespeare is still the most influential English author. Shakespeare has tried to portray mordant psychosomatic and political effects when people do not hesitate in taking help of evil for fulfilling their aspiration of power. The play is believed to be written in the beginning of the seventeenth century but it still pleases people who love English literature. This paper intends to discuss the “Macbeth” and presents a succinct analysis of the play along with discussing all other related aspects.

The play takes place ...

We begin by reading a tragic denouement ending of Mark’s story. Jesus is arrested by the authorities and leads to desertion. Jesus second sermon speaks of powers that are toppled by Human. When Mark narrates the moment, disciples were caught off guard. The passion narrative is filled with execution. We cannot understand this message and the hope it bears unless we come to terms with terrible realism. Mark begins the Passion narrative with two stories where Jesus is the King and the other one a Banquet. Each prepares the reader for the tragic turn. The plot is about to take ...

In the English language, ‘being’ entails a sense of identity, while ‘doing’ connotes action. Gender, for years, has been marked as a sensitive issue in society because it taps many sectors. West and Zimmerman (1987) mentioned the difference between sex and gender, sex refers to biological and anatomical features of being male and female while gender is more socio-cultural in nature. Gender roles are a product of various cultural norms in various countries. The classification of members of society into two distinct categories of such as ‘girl’ or ‘boy’ or ‘woman’ or ‘man’ works in a social ...

Discovery of identity is an important factor that controls the characters in various well known tales that have remained in our minds and hearts for centuries. The Grace of Silence and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky revolve around Rachel and Michel's journey while they attempt to ascertain their identities and the crests and troughs that they face during this voyage. This paper will be an attempt to acknowledge the sharp contrast between the characters here which is related to the theme that how does racism, outer reflections and relative connections control the paths that Michele and ...

The Ramayana

The Ramayana is an ancient mythological book written by Narayan R. K. It is a tale that forms an important Hindu Canon and is divided into four parts; the early on life of Rama, his exile, the abduction of Sita, and the defeat of Ravana and Rama’s coronation. It is a story about Rama, an Indian avatar whose wife Sita is abducted by a demon king known as Ravana. The story explores the life in India, human values, and the interaction between humans and the divine world. The Ramayana has become a part of Indian sacred literature that people learn from it ...

Introduction

Youths living in North America and other areas of the world that are considered relatively liberated grow up with considerably more gender equality now more than in the past. This is seen through many aspects in the society like opportunities for education, status of the women in the society and the socialization of gender roles. These youths take up courses in institutions of higher learning that were predominantly thought to be a preserve of the men. This is because the society has evolved to perceive women as an equal gender, and one deservedly worthy of equal opportunities as the male ...

Betty Friedan wrote ‘The Feminine Mystique’ in 1963. This is a non-fiction novel. The book focuses on feminism in the United States of America. Friedan conducted a survey of her former classmates during their 15th anniversary reunion and found that most of them hated their lives as housewives (Agonito, Rosemary 76). This made Friedan conduct interviews with other women who were housewives in the suburban areas, so ran introduction about the spread of unhappiness amongst women in the 1950s and 1960s. Friedan explains that despite living in material comfort, the housewives from America were unhappy. The situation in some states ...

1. Introduction

In her book, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, Arlie Hochschild sheds light on the various strategies used by men and women in two-career marriages to manage the pressure of work and the needs of their family all at the same time. Hochschild, who is a professor at the University of California in Berkeley, documents how household work is divided by husbands and wives who both have full-time careers after they are done with their official jobs. Her book basically revolves around the story of eleven couples out of the fifty she had her research associates ...

This fascinating book, written by Asne Seierstad and first published in English in Great Britain in 2003 by Back Bay Books / Little Brown, is her own story, but is written as though a work of fiction. In the foreword she tells how she met Sultan Khan – the bookseller (not his real name) – while working in Afghanistan as a journalist in 2001. He invited her in to his home so that she could experience Afghan family life firsthand in the recently-liberated capital city. A man who loves books, Sultan took many risks over the years in order to trade ...

During the 1930s, the Great Depression affected many states leading to major changes in most sectors of their economy. One of the countries that became a victim of the Great Depression was Canada. Owing to this, the issue has attracted the attention of many researchers. The aim of this review is to examine the work of one such researcher, Katrina Srigley, in her book, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Women working in a Depression- era City, 1929-1939 (2010). The Great Depression era affected the live patterns of young women in Canada. They experienced a great shift while trying to adapt to the economic changes ...

Starting from 1920 RCA had been an electronic giant produced radios, and later, televisions, located in Philadelphia, a city of Camden. Aiming at profit maximization the company moved the parts of operating process several times inside of the US, and then abroad seeking for cheap workforce.

The major reason for moving a significant part of RCA operations is that the company intended to save labor costs by hiring people in rural areas, poor, young, uneducated, single, female and immigrants. Another fact that gives the evidence of this tendency is that RCA moved its plants several times during seventy years of its ...

First and foremost Stanley Kowalski is a son of a Polish immigrant who lives in Elysian Fields in New Orleans in some room in a shabby settlement of the French. He is married to Stella the sister to Blanche Dubois. And they appear happy from their marriage contentment even though they live in strange and desolate shanty. Just moments after Blanches arrival Stanley comes in with duo friends Mitch who stays with his sick mother and Steve who lives with his partner upstairs. Stanley is less hospitable to Blanches as he expresses descent humor and apparent accommodation that is blended with an ...

Girl by Jamaica Kinkaid

Girl is a short story that provides a mother’s instructions to her daughter. The instructions basically relate to issues such as good manners, household chores, cookery, social conduct, and relationships with men. Although the foregoing instructions seem challenging to the reader, the instructions are ultimately based on the parental efforts that are geared towards providing the girl-child with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop proper habits as they develop.
All through the narrative, the mother accuses her daughter as concentrating on becoming a ‘slut’. Notably, the suspicion of the mother is not based on the behavior of the girl ...

1. What were conditions like for black people in the U.S. in the early 1960’s? From the textbook: What legal and societal mechanisms created and kept black people in these conditions?
Conditions for black people in the United States during the early 1960’s where bleak, they faced social, economic and educational discrimination. These forms of discrimination, created by an informal but controlling white male elite political governing consortium reached back into the anti-bellum tradition. These mechanisms kept black people in these conditions by allowing entrenched areas or the country to remain severely segregated. Even when Brown ...

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

The Story Of An Hour is a short story that narrates the time that pass by between the moment protagonist, Louise Mallard, leans of the news that her husband died and later discovers that indeed her husband is still alive. Once she hears of her husband’s death, Mallard perceives herself as a liberated woman but her perceived joy is short-lived.

Symbolism

The troubled heart
The heart trouble that Mallard suffers from depicts a woman’s perceived physical weaknesses. It further represents Mallard’s hesitancy regarding her troubled marriage and her need for freedom. Mallard’s heart illness is the first thing ...

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Ero-Samurai: An Obsessed Man's Loving Tribute to Japanese Women is written by David Duff. In this book, the author enlightens the reader’s mind by telling the gripping story of love, sexual desire, romantic accounts, sex and Japanese women. In fact, "Ero-Samurai" tries to find the answer to a longstanding question i.e. “what makes Japanese women so attractive and desirable?."
The erotic prose in Duff’s work gives the reader absolute pleasure and makes one admire the colorfulness and expressiveness. It can be said that Japanese women are represented as possessors of genuine magnetism and ...

Based on the nature of countryside people, the story is set to clearly distinguish them from the urban people who are modernized and composed. Connor inputs various characters, Hulga serving as the main character to emphasize on the four sections that the author divides the story into and to show the role of the four central characters. He focuses his main theme on intellectual of country people who end up suffering the same fate no matter the degree of intellect. Basically, the story implies that people are not what they really think they are nor are they what they ...

1. The book “Of the Mice and Men” has a grim lesson on the nature and characteristics of human existence. All the character in the story such as George, Candy, Curley’s wife, Crooks and Lennie admitted to having profound some sense of themes related to human existence (Steinbeck & Sinise, 2011).
Themes that resonate with human rights, social and economic justice, and the strength perspective in the book Of Mice and Men by the author John Steinbeck are discussed fully as bellow.
Theme of powerless is evident in the story. The story suggests that oppression comes from different ...

The Lynsay Sand’s Love is blind is a unique story than other love stories as it shows that love doesn’t happen all the time among the beautiful couples or among the strong and perfect people it can be among two normal and even ugly people can have love emotions. Secondly this world is also full of such examples, where people live happily if they have compatibility rather than only looks make people happy. So is the point of the writer who has very beautifully explained in the form of a story.
Let’s see the summary in which the ...

The play Anna in the tropics is written by Cuban – American writer Nilo Cruz. The action in the play revolves around an ageing cigar factory owned by Santiago a man in his late fifties of Cuban origin. The workers in the factory are majorly relatives of Santiago with Cheche, the supervisor being Santiago’s half brother. The lives of the characters in the play are intertwined with the action in the story Anna Karelina and most characters find their mirror in the story. The plot kicks off with the arrival of a new lector in the factory welcomed by Ofelia, Santiago’ ...

In the play “The Seagull” Chekhov uses the characters to explore the most effective methodologies of creative writing. Using different abilities of characters, Chekhov can bring a natural feeling to the general understanding about writing and art. In this play, the actors are all seeking to establish their name as renowned persons in the world of writing. However, each of them has different approaches as well as differing motivation towards writing. Nina is inspired by the desire to fulfill her own belief that she is a talented writer and actor and thus has an obligation to utilize her potential.
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Islamic community treats women in an inferior way and a bad way. However, Muslims argue that they treat women in the best way possible. According to Fatima Mernissi, the author of Beyond the Veil, both notions and assumption are right up to a certain degree. The book covers religious, as well as political problems, faced by women in the Muslim community. Fatima gives the perspective of an insider and gives actual and theoretical accounts of what the women face in the Islamic community throughout the book.
Sexual inequality is the greatest focus of the author where he looks at the ...

“Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjection of Women in Seventeenth-Century New France” exhaustively exposes how the advent of the Europeans disrupted the feminine roles, responsibilities and way of life in the native America. The author, Karen Anderson, who has served the government and the people of Scotland at different capacities, as the commissioner of Royal Fine arts, chair of Architecture and Design and founding partner of Anderson Bell Christie is the convener of the Saltire Housing Design Award Panel. Her eloquence in communication and professionalism in architecture has enabled her handle several community based projects that specifically involve ...

The Middle East experienced various issues concerning feminism, poverty and colonial rule especially in the period of the European invasion and control. During the colonial invasion, Syria remained under French rule while Egypt fell under British rule. The history of the two colonies experienced different events through both the colonial and the post-colonial periods. Harem Years by Huda Shaarawi and Fragments of Memory by Hanna Mina explore various issues that characterized the Syrians and Egyptians during this period. One of the stories occurs in Egypt while the other occurs in Syria. Harem Years describe the lives of the people ...

Book review

David Copperfield
David Copperfield was born half orphaned - six months after his father's death. In the childhood David was surrounded by love and care of his mother and nurse Peggotty. But his mother married a second time. After the wedding his mother has changed: now she is afraid to caress him and always obeys her husband Mr. Murdstone. When they have settled the sister of Mr. Murdstone, the boy's life becomes completely unbearable. The boy is taught at home, under the angry look of his stepfather and his sister; he grows dull from fear and can not answer ...

Shambleau by C.L. Moore: A Summary
Northwest Smith is a famous and respected guy on a dozen wild planets. He was walking the street of Earth’s latest colony in Mars when he met Shambleau, who was then being chased by a mob of Earthmen, Martians, Venusians, and other nameless denizens of unnamed planets. Despite himself, Smith helped the berry-brown girl wearing a tattered garment in red. After staking his claim on the girl, the chasers backed down and looked at Smith with complete disgust, while some even spat on the ground. With an important business to attend to in Mars, Smith ...

The debut book by Laura Esquivel under the name "Like Water for Chocolate" was published first in 1989 and met an unexpected success among the readers and the critics. The success was so big that in 1992 Alfonso Arau, a talented Mexican director, has shot a movie under the same name based on this book. The movie was also a success and brought much fame to a director and the actors making it one of the most recognized non-American films in Hollywood. Moreover, the book itself and the popularity of it made the world publishers reconsider their cooperation with female writers and started ...

The selected chapters in this book highlight the following subjects; teenage delinquency, crime, positive change and determination. They are themes which are evident in society.
Chapter five outlines how Wes had exhibited violent behavior towards people around him. He was sent to military school by his mother in a bid to shape his behavior. He tried to find a way to escape from the institution but failed. Some time back, Wes had impregnated a girl known as Alicia. He began seeing another girl who came from his locality. One evening a man known as Ray who appeared to be involved with this ...

Women are mostly neglected in the society. The position of women remains unrecognized in most areas of the world. In early days, women were seen as wives whose obligations were to look after kids, cook and do cleaning and laundry The Landscape for a Good Woman tells the story of Carolyn’s childhood and her mother's refusal to mother. This implies how Edna, Carolyn’s mother ran away from the responsibilities of taking care of her two children as she even frankly tells them that were it, not for them; she would be somewhere else.
Carolyn greatly challenges theory ...

“I wasn’t strong like this when I started out: True stories of becoming a nurse”

It is a book which is based on true stories relating the nursing experience of different people. There is a girl who is telling a story about her mother that how she spend her time being as a nurse, the girl told that her mother was an old fashioned nurse she did not have any kind of degree which is required to become a nurse but except from all this her name was written in golden words on ivory vellum. She further added that her mother told her that before the time of neonatal intensive care units, it was the golden period of the ...

Edward Bellamy was an economist who disliked the socio-economic conditions because many laborers got a subsistence pay. Bellamy wrote a book called Looking Backward, which focuses on Julian West who is an upperclassman, lived in Boston. It is important to note that Bellamy lived during the industrial revolution in the US. His book talks of West being induced to sleep because of his chronic Insomnia. The author records accounts of laborers striking because the capitalists and the landlords enjoyed all the profits and interests respectively. Bellamy writes, “The producers of the nineteenth century were not, like ours, working together for the ...

Nancy F. Cott. The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835.

The purpose of the book, The Bonds of Womenhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England 1780 1835, written by Nancy F. Cott was to demonstrate that women from a century ago were breaking out of their traditional sphere of working in the home and shaping new roles for themselves in the community. During the process they also learned how to strengthen “the bonds of womanhood” with other women (Cott, 204). Cott (160) calls this new feeling sisterhood.
New England middle class women were very smart about ...

The culture of Greece has changed quite a bit from early Greece, classical Greece, and late Greece. However, despite these differences some cultural tradition remained. By looking at these different periods one can better understand life during those periods and how they compare and contrast.
Early Greece differs from the other two periods because of its lack of organized government in favor of tyrants. While there was town or city government, outside law was not uncommon. Agriculture, trading, and merchants were of upmost importance.
Classical Greece had much more emphasis on law and government with a near direct democracy. ...

Florence’s Prayer

Part two of Florence’s prayer concentrates on her past and briefly focuses on John’s perspective in the present. Florence attends Gabriel’s church for the first time and still express her dislike for him same way he disliked John. This is because she flashed back her mother’s advice only to bow for Jesus and not any other person hence she would rather go to hell than bow down. She lives in trepidation after receiving messages of her death and prepares her house because her death is imminent.
When the memory of Florence’s past re-surfaces, ...

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This book was written by Procopius, an official raconteur who belonged to the Byzantine Empire. He was a trusted member of the kings. Procopius had written this text in Greek language, but this was later translated into English by G. A. Williamson for the first time. Further, Peter Sarris translated the book for the second time. The English translation of this book was published in the year 2007 y Penguin Classics. This work of Procopius is a lengthy and elongated account of indictments against Justinian and Theodora, Justinian’s wife as well as against another couple Belisarius and Antonina. It is ...

We think of the Renaissance of a time of humanism, creativity and change. Women are depicted more often in the arts of this time, dressed beautifully and looking happy. Unfortunately, this was not the case for women of this era. In spite of radical changes in philosophy and religion, women remained at the bottom of the social latter. In Florence, women had no legal rights and was at the mercy of her family and later her husband. Laws were specifically written to control women, how they dressed, defining what was their personal property and enforced by notaries of the government.
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- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1925 novel is neatly crafted with an exceptional understanding of social stratification. Fitzgerald’s evocative work offers a brilliant glance of the American life in the 1920s. Although a variety of themes, such as greed, justice, power, and betrayal are brought out, social stratification theme is well developed in this novel. Fitzgerald begins the novel by creating distinct groups to differentiate social classes (Yardley par.4). The novel concerns a young millionaire whose life revolves around his desire. Gatsby’s motive was to reunite with his former love, Daisy Buchanan, but his ...

Moira is a close friend of the narrator Offred. They were college friends who shared some good times together but lost touch of each other. When they met at the Center, a place that represents women opression and injustice, Moira became the voice of reason, sense and action, and a strong spirit that will not easily give in. Offred sees Moira as her safety, saying “It makes me feel safer, that Moira is here” (Chapter 13, p. 71). In a place where women are forced to submission, Moira represents the strength that the women in the Center were robbed of, and the female resistance ...

The doctrine of double effect concerns moral conflict, and it is based on a suggestion that every action generates two outcomes usually good and bad (Shafer-Landau, nd.pg 170). However, the question as to whether the actions are ethical or not depends on their results. Therefore, bad actions can still be perceived morally acceptable if their results are good. This doctrine is related utilitarianism, which promote the argument that an action is acceptable if it is of the greater social wellbeing. The doctrine of double effect could be a source of guidance in a case where murder results from self-defense. If a robber is ...

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur is an autobiography of a revolutionary and civil rights activist Assata Olugbala Shakur. It was first published in 1987, and again on the 1st of November 1999. In June of the current year, it was again republished by Zed Books. Assata is now an author and editor who continues to fight against opression, racism, and equal rights for African Americans despite being a political exile residing in Cuba since 1984. She escaped from prison in 1979, and in 1984 fled to Cuba where she was given political asylum. On May 3, 2013, she became the ...

Introduction

Hamza Bogary’s book, ‘The Sheltered Quarter: A Tale of a Boyhood in Mecca’ is a narration about the past life of a character that has irreversibly disappeared. The author describes the life in Mecca prior to the advent of oil. The book is based on Mecca’s observations in Mecca and he uses art to express this part of his knowledge. He has managed to successfully bring out his knowledge into art through humor, empathy and his understanding about human nature. This makes his piece of work not only entertaining but also informative. The narrator, Muhaisin, has to deal with various ...

Book review – Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

Introduction
“Men are from mars, women are from Venus” is a user’s guide for married couples to understand each other better, and transform their differences to complement each other to enjoy their long journey together as man and wife. John Gray, renowned relationship counselor and the author of the book, views men and women as having inherently dissimilar values and views about life. In marriage people often expect the opposite sex to be more like themselves. Each desires the other to want the same thing and feel the same way. For example, the husband takes for granted that ...

The novel Waterlily was written by Ella Cara Deloria in 1940s but the writer insisted that the book must be published after her death. Thus, Waterlily saw the light 1988 when it was first published, eighteen years after the author’s death. The first publication of the book was almost twice shorter than the original novel. This editorial advice given by Ruth Benedict allowed to underline the plot focusing on its most remarkable parts and make the novel more readable. The book concentrates on the life of the Dakota state with exploration of its ethnography and local traditions. The ...

The minds of assassins generally teem with oddities. For example, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was so devoted to his anarchist principles that he refused to talk to anyone whom he perceived to be an authority figure in the aftermath of the assassination. This included his court-appointed attorneys and the judge at his trial, which led to his attorneys attempting to secure a finding of insanity but ended up exasperating the jury, which only required an hour of deliberations to find him guilty of first-degree murder and sentence him to the electric chair. When he finally said ...

The book “Antigone,” written by Sophocles is one of the most famous works on philosophy. The attitudes and actions of several characters in the play showcase gender and tragic morality. In regards to gender, Antigone showcases feminist logic, while Creon favors patriarchal society. While Creon demands the people to follow the laws set by him by ignoring religious and moral beliefs, Antigone believes that God’s laws lay above all other laws. The confrontation between Antigone and Creon gives rise to the conflicts between genders in “Antigone.” Excluding Antigone, Sophocles portrays the other female characters as timid before men. ...

Book Review: Guests of the Sheik

The book entitled Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village, written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, recount the experience the author acquired during a two-year stay in a small village in Iraq. The experience incorporated in the aforementioned book is imperative essentially because offers the reader insights regarding race and ethnicity, kinship and family, and finally religion and morality. This book is accredited subsequent to the fact that the author who had the first-hand experience of events is the one who narrates these events as it unfolds. Apparently, we are predisposed to understanding the way of life in the ...

A number of writers have contributed a lot of contextual studies to the subject or literature of American family life and cold war era. One of the major contributors in this regard who has also been widely acclaimed is Elaine Tyler May. The aim of this paper is to critically assess the book entitled, “Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era” written by Elaine Tyler May. The aspects that would be focused in the paper include the assertions made by the author in order to illustrate the story of American life in the post-war period. The manner in ...

It suits much better in fiction but, it can be a reality too. Cormac McCarthy's child of God establishes a sincere attempt to dictate the story of a taunting character - Lester Ballard. Lester Ballard is a rural man, aged twenty seven, residing in a reckless house in the Tennessee hill country. His past dictates his present life. His mother ran when he was a child and his father hanged himself. The novel begins with Ballard’s residence being auctioned. He protests, aims his rifle at the auctioneer and someone from behind hits him with an axe.
Lester Ballard is ignored by everyone, he ...

BOOK REVIEW: DIVIDED HOUSES BY CATHERINE CLINTON AND NINA SILBER

Summary
Divided Houses focuses on the effects of gender, race and class on the Civil War. During the Civil War, which happened at a time when patriarchy is prevalent throughout the United States (US), women stand as those belonging to a so-called “separate sphere,” yet such only includes white women. Black women, on the other hand, stand as perhaps the most disadvantaged beings during the Civil War, particularly because their subordination lies on the compounding of the doubly negative effects of their gender (female) and race (African-American). In exploring such a dynamic feature of women during the Civil War, Clinton and ...

Book Review: Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom

Place: Berkeley, California
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: February, 2013
Edition: 1
Price: $33.35
ISBN: 978-0-520-95448-9
Introduction
Is it possible for the modern twenty-something woman to have it all; sexual freedom coupled with good relationships and good career? This is the question that author Leslie Ball explores in her book in “Hard to get: Twenty-something women and the paradox of sexual freedom”. In this book, Bell conducts an intimate and powerful examination of the lives of twenty-something women; one of America’s most liberated generation of women. Bell explores the ...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak are two books that have lots in common and some differences. The Book Thief is a story about a young girl called Liesel Meminger, who ends up staying with foster parents because her ailing mother cannot be able to fend for her. It was during the time Hitler was in control, and there was war everywhere, so the setting of the story is during a war time in German. On the other hand, All Quiet on the Western Front is a story about a young man; Paul ...

The novel "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton, is the first book in a series about a female vampire hunter named Anita Blake. Anita is an animator, a term used to refer to someone with the powers of necromancy, or the ability to bring the dead back to life. She raises the dead as a profession and is usually paid by a family who want to gain closure with dead relatives, although Anita is sometimes also hired by the police and government agencies to raise the dead in order to solve crimes or handle sticky legal issues. Through her job as an animator she ...

Nick Carraway, who very much enjoys writing, decides to pursue a more profitable profession and moves to the outskirts of New York to try to realize his American dream. Together with a pile of books on accounting, he is focused on learning the trade and living that dream. His small house is situated right next to the mansion of Mr. Gatsby. With not many friends, Nick visits his cousin, Daisy, who lives in an older neighborhood. She is a beautiful young woman married to Tom. Awkwardly, Nick learns that Tom is not faithful and soon meets his lover on a wild party in ...

Joseph Conrad’s; The Secret Agent:

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Chief Inspector Heat was seen as a kind man, from the Assistant Commissioner’s description. The Chief Inspector was inclined to finding Michaelis as guilty, mainly because he was associated with dangerous men. It is said that some two men were seen last in a railway station and that they came from his village. The Assistant Commissioner, on the other hand, had social ties to Michaelis and therefore, did not want him implicated and later spoke to his superior about wanting to solve the case alone. When the Assistant commissioner and the Chief Inspector go to look ...

Franny is a student aged 20 years of age, she studies at Yale College. The story begins by Franny visiting her boyfriend who studies at Harvard. It was during the annual Yale-Harvard football challenge. Immediately, Franny begins putting down and deconstructing almost everything, Lane mentions. She criticizes everything uttered by her boyfriend; the only positive thing she talks about is discussing the religious book, The Way of the Pilgrimage. The book is about as Russian peasants who learn to pray according Jesus Prayer on the bible. Franny's stand on religious matters brings light to any other Christian, who believes in ...

Zooey and Franny are two intelligent young siblings who come from one of the successful families. In spite the fact that they come from a successful family, there is nothing, which hinders them from developing a bitter, cynical view of the world that intimidates their stability of their minds. Frances is the real name given to Franny and Zachary is the real name given to Zooey. Zooey is 20 years old and his sister Franny is 25 years old, in essence, they are separated by 5 years. They two youngest children of the Glass family, which is a family of seven children ...

Beloved is a historical fiction that tells of the horrific burden of slavery that the characters had to endure. From a kind master, the slaves of Sweet Home plantation were turned over to the management of the cruel and abusive schoolteacher. All hopes of a better life crumbled for the small family of slaves that lived in the plantation and were replaced by various forms of punishment for the slightest oversight. With the different experiences of the characters, the tone of the story changes from character to character and is reflective of the varying often explicit attitude that they felt toward the ...