Book Summary

In the book “Silence of the Lambs” (Harris, 1988) the whole plot is based around three main characters. Clarice Starling is a precociously self-disciplined FBI trainee who is put into the position of trying to unravel the mind of an evil genius, Hannibal “the cannibal” Lecter, in order to find the answers needed to capture…

Achebe uses positive tone in his description of the African jungle; whereas, Conrad makes use of negative connotations. Their portrayals of the jungle reflect their attitudes toward their subject; Achebe sees it as a hospitable home whereas Conrad sees a tragic trap. Conrad utilizes words with negative connotations, such as Arioted, Amob, Avengeful, and Agloom…

In Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello’s pride stops him from finding the truth, eventually leading to his demise. At the beginning, Othello and Desdemona are very much in love. Even though Desdemona’s farther is against their marriage. However, when Othello promotes Cassio instead of Iago to Lieutenant, Iago has his revenge by convincing Othello that Desdemona cheats…

Flannery O’Connor was a young upcoming author. Unfortunately she passed away due to “…lupus before her fortieth birthday” (“Intro to” 1357). However, with that said she was still able to write two novels and an abundance of short stories. Amongst those was short stories is, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”. While writing this…

Hard work never fails OR Share your happiness. It’s about a kid who went many hardships in his life and how he got his own place in this world. PLOT This story also tells about the Dickens life in the character named David Copperfield. In this novel Dickens drew his father’s picture as Mr.Micawber. The…

How much faith do you have in god? Would you be able to last two hundred and twenty-seven long hard days at sea with a tiger? Throughout the novel “Life of Pi” by Yann Martel we see Pi develop a love for religion -three of them actually and god. As the novel goes on and…

The title of N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” encapsulates the theme of a journey that permeates the story. In the story, a young man journeys to the grave of his grandmother along the same route that her people, the Kiowas, took across America before settling on the southern Plains. The young man’s…

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet discloses his true feelings, in Act 4, scene 4. In this soliloquy, Hamlet illustrates his mental instability by contrasting himself and Fortinbras. He illustrates himself as being a coward who does not has the will to initiate plans to revenge his father’s death. Hamlet finds himself grasping for an answer as…

Great Gatsby Hero Jay The Mysterious Life of Jay Gatsby The story occurs some time during the twenties, in a little rich branch off Long Island, New York in two neighborhoods called East and West Egg. People often travel to and from the city by following an old motor road in a place called the…

Since the Victorian era the subject of sexuality has been carefully confined to the private arena of the home. Sexuality has been restrained to the function of reproduction. Sex has become something that people feel that they need to hide from others. During the past three hundred years sex has become associated with sin and…