Essays on Book

Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ are both texts that present gender in similar ways but with varying effects. This is often through the use of characterisation, for example the contrast between traditional and unconventional gender roles. They also look at the theme of power and how that may lead...

Brilliance, prestige, and excellence. These three words describe education. Education is the omen of the 21st century and is the premise for critical, rational, and logical thinking. Overall, it has eminently played a huge role on the development of the 21st century. Education means a lot in everyone’s life as it eases our learning, knowledge,...

Nicholas Charles Sparks – His Incredible Story Many people around the world enjoy reading romance novels. For Nicholas Sparks, writing them is his passion. Sparks is known around the world for his popular stories about love, small towns in North Carolina, and the likeable characters. He enjoys writing romance novels, but is reluctant to giving...

It might seem like “ Everything is going to be ok” and “Raymond’s are very different kinds of stories. They are both the same kind of story Realistic fiction they are both about kids that do not have many friends and have one thing that they love. Now if you look a little closer, both...

Abstract Johnathan Kozol is one of the most prolific names in American education for almost 50 years. A passionate supporter of public schools, Kozol has spent the majority of his life fighting and advocating for equal educational opportunity so that all American students can be afforded an equitable education. He is a well known writer...

In the novel The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom there are examples of how hate grows and how it can be stopped. Hate is an intense and/or passionate dislike for someone or something; it can grow in size. It cannot grow into more hatred because if you hate something you already dislike it as...

Poetry has been able to withstand the tests of time. You can find examples of poetry throughout history, going back to works like The Odyssey by Homer. Poetry has existed in one form or another as long as language has existed. Recently, you hear that poetry is dying. In reality, poetry is thriving. More people...

In Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel, The Martian Chronicles, isolation is the worst mental state you can be in when you’re the last man on Mars. In the chapter, The Silent Towns, we read about a man named Walter Gripp run happily around his town, Marlin Village. Then one night, he understands how lonely he...

“The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker and “The Test” by Angelica Gibbs are short stories describing the struggles of being segregated because of diversity. In “The Stolen Party” the protagonist, Rosaura, a nine year-old Latina girl, goes to a party thinking she’s a guest but ends up being worked by her mother’s employer, Senora Ines,...

Have you ever wondered, “why do people lie?” Throughout all the stories we read this unit, 3 stories stuck out to me on how they lied and ended up getting caught. A story that portrays my theme statement is Charles. Another story that illustrates my theme statement is The Jacket. The last story that caught...