The suicide virgins is a very sad, sad story. You can’t help but feel the sympathies for the sisters and their very short and unhappy life. They were beautiful, and young. Their life have not even really started yet. But yet, they decide to leave, forever. There is nothing to say about the story, there [...]

This book “101 Stories of the Great Ballets” is a non-fiction book. It tells you about all the greatest ballets of the world. Every ballet is told separately. But the way it is told is very interesting, not just merely telling about the content of the ballet but also the meaning, the art of the [...]

Round character in a novel is a major character who encounters conflict and is changed by it. In stories of any genre, characters may change dramatically and the characters in Children of the river are not an exception. Soka is the character that has the most outstanding change. She was very strict and stubborn but [...]

Children of the river is a novel written by Linda Crew in a first person point of view. The protagonist is Sundara, who fled Cambodia with her aunt’s family to the United States to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was only thirteen. The novel takes place in the US four years later. The [...]

The Prince and the Pauper is a simple novel that simultaneously deals with several different themes and ideas. Foremost is the basic idea of the exchange of roles and lines between the prince and the pauper and the constant reference to their twin fates. Before they meet each other, both boys have dreams of living [...]

In my opinion, I think that “Bloom ” contains such an intricate relationship in the family as well as the love relationship. Therefore, the books ask the readers has to be highly concentrated on the book and follows the protagonist and flat characters.
In the ” Bloom”, the author use several different types of literary devices [...]

What literary devices, studied in class, are used in this novel and for what purpose?
From all the literary terms that I have learned in class, the prominent term that sticks out in my mind after reading Jack Welch’s “Straight from the Gut” is archetype. As I have written in my first written response of this [...]

Literary Terms used in The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway:
-Setting: Late 1940s in the coastline of Gulf Stream
-Point of view: the story is told in the third-person narrative but usage of monologue of Santiago helps readers have a better understanding about this old but strong fisherman
-Theme: The great determination, honor in fight and [...]

As I read on, Naomi still not recover her memory loss. She has to deal with a lot of things that happening in her life.  The characters in the story is complex and well developed.  Naomi becomes a different person. Readers get to know Naomi as she get to find out about herself. The theme [...]

This non-fiction writing about Adeline Yen Mah continues to give her many horrible experiences about life. Not only has she done no harm to other but also has a horrible childhood; life again treated her unfairly by meeting a guy like Byron. Adeline tried her best to prove to Niang and Baba her capabilites in [...]