Category: Book Review

With references to wider reading, explore and compare the impact of a totalitarian state in The Handmaids Tale (Margaret Atwood) and Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro). In The Handmaids Tale and Never Let Me Go, both authors explore and compare the impact of the totalitarian states present within the novels. Both Atwood and Ishiguro…

Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell. The novel follows Gothic and Romantic traditions of the time, complete with images of natural grandeur, literal and metaphorical sublimity, and elements of the supernatural. Throughout the novel, Brontë uses descriptions of the dark landscape and stormy weather to reflect the…

Amy and Jon Kuklas book, Thomas Jefferson:Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The book relives the story of Thomas Jeffersons life and what he did to help shape america. It focuses more on his accomplishments, like the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and his term as the president. The book starts from his…

The society in which Jonas lives in is essentially known as a dystopian world that portrays a failed utopian world. His society is a world where everything has gone wrong. Jonas society has attempted utopia  where they try to hide the pain, suffering and violence within these memories that no one other than The…

Frequently referred to as the What if&? genre, speculative fiction is a cover term for a diverse range of literature that diverges from the empirical reality that mimetic fiction implements (Jones, 2016). This genre encompasses science fiction, fantasy, horror, and invites the readers to consider the complex ways their choices contribute to generating the future…

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was my chosen book for this term and it was an exciting yet full of nonsense read. Published in 1979, by renowned author: Douglas Adams. The novel is filled to the top with complete and utter nonsense and would be found funny from all audiences, from children to adults.…

Located in Boston Massachusetts, during the 17th century, the Scarlet Letter begins with a gathering of Puritan colonists around a local prison. The colonists in the story seem to be waiting for some sort of public punishment of a prisoner. The mood expressed during this very first chapter of the Scarlet Letter is filled with…

1. The text I am adapting is a short story called Lamb To The Slaughter by Roald Dahl. In this text, there were a lot of things that interested me. In the story, Roald Dahl uses the themes of death and murder. Patrick Maloney is one of the main characters. He is a detective who…

Wuthering Heights Author Emily Jane Bronte was born in 1818. She was a British novelist and poet. She is famous for her most renowned work Wuthering Heights. She also had a pen name  Ellis Bell . She died in 1848 due to tuberculosis. Wuthering Heights Themes There are many themes of the novel Wuthering…

Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl is a short story about the murder of police detective Patrick Maloney by his wife Mary. Driven to homicide after her husband’s unexpected announcement that he’s leaving her and their unborn child, Mary quickly regains her senses after fatally killing him with the leg of lamb. This short…