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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…

Goldstone in his article argues several issues of demographic rise and explains the connection between population growth and security concerns (Goldstone, 2002, p. 4). Here I am going to summarize the key points that he argued in his article. Goldstone identifies that though population growth increases environmental degradation like deforestation, water scarcity, land crisis, shortage…

Paul Fisher is the main character in Tangerine, but he doesn’t feel like the main character in his own life. His big brother Erik is the star of the family, and his parents spend most of their time fawning over him, and ignoring Paul. So a lot of this book is about Paul’s search for…

The novel Wuthering Heights has a very complex storyline and the characters involved are also quite intricate. The story takes place in northern England in an isolated, rural area. The main characters involved are residents of two opposing households: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. It is a tale of a powerful love between two people,…

Although most people will find The Yellow Wallpaper as simply an account of a woman that sunk into deep depression, it is possible to extricate dual interpretations from this story. There is one meaning that is describing that the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman can be related to the female in the story; this is achieved…

As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse’s laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster in the book. As the critic Andre…

Hope’s Boy Andrew “Andy” Bridge has dedicated his life to helping children in the foster care system who suffer from maltreatment. As a foster care child himself, Andrew was inspired to give back to the community and advocate for children in foster care. After being emancipated from the foster care system at age 18, Andrew…

Perceptions In An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Story of an Hour, the authors use similar techniques to create different tones, which in turn illicit very distinct reactions from the reader. Both use a third person narrator with a limited omniscient point of view to tell of a brief, yet significant period of…

A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, tells the complex story of a civil case in Woburn, Massachusetts. The events of the Woburn case touch on many problems in the tort law system. The author really brings the reader into the story….you feel that you are there experiencing everything. And my personal favorite aspect is that…

What is your book about? The story, set in New York during the Second World War, is basically about the friendship between two boys. It begins with a baseball game between Reuvens team and Dannys team. During the game, when Reuven is pitcher, Danny, the batter, hits the baseball in the pitchers direction which Reuven…