Comparing Looking for Alaska and A Separate Piece of Peace
A Separated Peace is set on a Vermont Boarding School in the 1940s. Looking for Alaska is based in a boarding house in Alabama in the early 21st Century. However, …
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows
Comparing Looking for Alaska and A Separate Piece of Peace
A Separated Peace is set on a Vermont Boarding School in the 1940s. Looking for Alaska is based in a boarding house in Alabama in the early 21st Century. However, …
In his 1959 translation, Brian Stone describes Sir Gawain’s Green Knight as “a Romance full of magical and human beauty, dramatic and descriptive incidents, and full philosophic and descriptive beauty”. This medieval poem, full of symbolism and nature imagery, is …
A Thousand Stunning Suns is fiction set during Operation Enduring Freedom from the 1960s until the early 2000s. This novel is about two young women named Mariam & Laila. Both are struggling with a discriminatory culture. Khaled Hosseini based A …
Literature has evolved from the cultures of people. Their hopes and fears, their love and life battles, and their capacity to overcome obstacles have shaped it. It reflects the deepest aspirations and ambitions of a particular group, and their desire …
Prozac Nation tells the story of an intelligent 19-year-old girl’s struggle against depression. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wurtzel, a Harvard University freshman and aspiring writer, has a history of depression episodes. Lizzie’s childhood was marked by abandonment and divorce. She has also …
Miss Bates is a very important character in Jane Austen’s Emma. She may be viewed as a minor one at first, but if we look deeper, it’s clear she’s a key player. As the representative for Highbury’s lower class, Miss …
Alison Bechdel’s realistic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragomic is an honest account of her life. The book is centered around Helen and Bruce’s role in Alison Bechdel’s life. Bechdel bases her story on the sad event of the death …
What if it was possible to die without feeling any pain? What if death was not a concern? Susie, a protagonist in Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones struggled with her unfortunate and unexpected murder. She sought closure and joy. Hamlet …
Mephistopheles’ suggestion that humans can be burdensome in the Prologue for Faust sets the tone for the overall theme of this play. The word burdensome means difficult or taxing to perform, restricting in some way. Mephistopheles worries that intelligence and …
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, a 20th-century novelist, short story writer, and screenplay writer, uses symbolism as a main element. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is full of symbolism. The 20th-century novelist has also written short stories and screenplays.
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