Books Essays and Research Papers Page 25

Michael Crichton, a master of suspense, has created a novel for your imagination. This book involves prehistoric animals and plants from the Jurassic era. Steven Spielberg took on this book, as a movie project to add to his collection of visually mastered Science-Fiction motion pictures. Both the movie and the book have captured the imagination…

When defining the word blindness, it can be interpreted in various ways. Either it can be explained as sightless, or it can be carefully deciphered as having a more complex in-depth analysis. In the novel Blindness, Jose Saramago depicts and demonstrates how in an instant your right to see can be taken in an instant….

The madness of the Salem Witch Trials is explored in great detail. There are many theories as to why the witch trials came about, the most popular of which the girls’ suppressed childhood. However, there were other factors as well, such as Abigail Williams’ affair with John Proctor, the secret grudges that neighbors held against…

Darkness, Be My Friend is the fourth book in John Marsden’s series consisting of Tomorrow, When the War Began, In the Dead of the Night and The Third Day, The Frost, in which seven young people are thrown into the middle of a violent war zone. Ellie, Fi, Kevin, Lee, Homer, Robyn and Corrie set…

Many reviews of the 1915 movie, The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith focus on the obvious racism depicted throughout the film. With his use of blackface on white actors, and his portrayal of African Americans as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, this movie remains controversial due to its reliance…

A previously unknown variety of three-toed lizard begins attacking children in Costa Rica. A sample carcass of the lizard is sent to a lab at Columbia University, where a lab technician, believing it is a dinosaur, calls the renowned paleontologist, Dr. Alan Grant. When Grant receives a fax of the lizard’s skeleton, he is shocked…

Setting: England, Early 1800s B. Point of View: First person C. Jane Eyre, the main character, is sent out of the drawing room by her Aunt, Mrs. Reed (Janes parents had died while she was very young and her Uncle took her in. After he died Mrs. Reed kept Jane although she despised her.). Jane…

In the essay the American Scholar, Emerson portrays the scholar as a person who learns from three main things. These things by which a scholar is educated are by nature, by books (the past) and by action. Emerson uses nature as a comparison to the human mind where he states, “There is never a beginning,…

This book is based on Greek mythology. It is a total fiction but when we read, we couldn’t say like that. The book was carved by the author very carefully. It has all aspects of style like adventure, thrill, magnificence and lots of emotions. This book is the third part of the Percy Jackson series:…

There are times when individuals leave you pondering unsolved questions that you may have had throughout a novel. John Fowles expressed this in the character Frederick Clegg, an anti-hero who is not humane, left no explanation for his behavior. This leads you to come up with your own conclusions. In the book “The Collector” written…