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What separates adults from children? Don’t think of the obvious, age or height. Be creative. What do most adults lose the ability to do? We stop imagining and exploring unusual possibilities. All too often adults are tied down by rules; rules of probability, of logic or fact. Remember when you were a kid? Anything was…

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn,” according to Ernest Hemingway. Along with Ernest, many others believe that Huckleberry Finn is a great book, but is the novel subversive? Since this question is frequently asked, people have begun to look deeper into the question to see if this…

In “A White Heron”, by Sarah Jewett, Sylvia’s great love for nature and animals outweighs her and her family’s needs. Sylvia’s great passion for animals and nature leads to her great knowledge of the outdoors. Sylvia’s expertise of birds including the white heron forces her to make a choice between saving the white heron or…

Elisa Allen, Confused? Like many short stories, John Steinbeck’s “The Chrysanthemums” deceives most readers by appearing to be a simple short story. “The Chrysanthemums,” which only occupies about eight pages in textbooks, captures the emotional pain of a woman trying to live in the 1930’s. As critic Stanley Renner wrote, “‘The Chrysanthemums’” shows “a strong…

The book, being a typical Stephen King epic, deals with the proverbial flaw which makes us human in spirit and mind. Needful Things is a peek into the life of an average American village, and the storyline heavily relies on gossips, exaggerations, rumors and lies that spread in pubs and telephone lines in the village….

Both The Kite Runner and Atonement explore redemption in different ways; the aim of this personal investigation is to compare the ways in which Ian McEwan and Khaled Hosseini explore the concept in their novels. Redemption can be defined as ‘the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil’ and usually is…

Cyrano de Bergerac – Book Review Cyrano de Bergerac was written by Edmond Rostand and translated by Brian Hooker. It tells the story of a man named Cyrano with a long nose. Cyrano is in love with a woman named Roxane. However, Roxane loves Christian and asks Cyrano to teach Christian how to write about…

Tell-Tale Heart Tell-Tale Heart TRUE!–nervous very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? Edgar Allen Poe shows us the dark part of human kind. Conflict with in ones self, state of madness, and emotional break down all occur within this short story. The narrator of…

In Dubious Battle Book Review Summary This story opens with the main character named Jim Nolan leaving behind his former life and going to meet Harry Nilson, a leader of the Party. Jim had a father killed in a riot, a mother who died, and a sister that was missing. He wants to join the…

In “The Money” the Dominican writer and winner of many awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur, Junot Diaz, describes and narrates a life event that happened to him when he lived with his family in a fortuneless neighborhood in New Jersey. In the first paragraph Diaz communicates to his readers his family fiscal…