Hidden roots is about Sonny, an eleven-year-old boy that has a lot of questions for his elders around him, but can never get any answers. He has a father, who appears to be his antagonist, that gets angry in an instant and Sonny can never be sure what might set him off. Sonny loves his Uncle [...]

The main element that the novel (Twisted) focuses on is a protagonist. The protagonist of this novel is perfectly rounded and this can be seen from the very beginning of the novel. The point of view, itself, is of the protagonist-Tyler Miller. However, the whole beauty of this book lies in the metamorphosis that Tyler [...]

At the end of the novel Seikei, Judge Ooka’s adopted son prove that he is capable of being judge’s right hand and solve and manage to catch the chain murderer. Seikei manage to catch the chain murder by tracing murderer’s murdering pattern.  The Judge assigns Seikei in an undercover mission to stay in one of [...]

Set in western New York State during the 1950s, Hidden Roots opens with eleven-year-old Sonny’s reflection that he had always known there was something different about his whole family. His mother’s heartbreaking advice, that he should always be careful, and never let himself be “crept up on,” is as apt an introduction to this short [...]

The genre of The Call of the Wild is adventurous. The novel covers many themes and aspects of life which gives the novel itself a high literary value. The setting of the novel was in the late 1890s, Alaska and the Klondike region of Canada. In the beginning, the novel was set in California. The readers [...]

“The Man in the Brown Suit”  is a good example of a mystery as it is a truly thrilling detective story. This book was like any other mystery book as there were ‘detectives’, the criminals, the suspects, and the people who aren’t sure about. The plot of the story is a more of a typical detective [...]

Comparatively similar to The Rules of Survival, Lucy Grealy’s candid novel Autobiography of a Face incorporates a wide array of literary features to add enrichment to her stunning piece. Two literary features that I would like to highlight in this novel, is the author’s profound usage of dramatic irony and ambiguity.
As a young girl, Lucy Grealy [...]

I had written about this book a while back – oh, how horrible it was – about two days ago. It almost pained me to, but I suppose I probably am the only one. Which makes me think, is it just that I’m just being a really bad critic? Or that my first book was [...]

Flashback: Gene Forrester, the main character, goes back to his old private school. He remembers about his past with shame and pain.
Conflict: Gene thinks that his friend, Phineas, does not want him to be on top of the school. Then, he pushes Phineas off the tree. That makes Phineas brake a leg.
Tone: “I did not [...]

The story continues……
Hale was suspected to be North Dakota because Susan found e-mails from Tankado in his computer. Phil Chartrukian, an NSA system security technician, was determined that there is a virus in TRANSLTR. However, Chartukian is later found murdered in the sub-levels of TRANSLTR, and his corpse caused a short circuit in TRANSLTR leading [...]