In Never Let Me Go a fictional story focusing on three classmates from a unique boarding school author Kazuo Ishiguro deals with questions of loss and mortality that each of must eventually confront As we get older as we lose our friends and family as the environment around us changes and things once familiar to us disappear or become unfamiliar as we cling to our memories of how things used to be how do we come to accept the fact that our lives are finite and attach some meaning to our limited
To Kill a Mockingbird is a story by Harper Lee The Book came out in the 1960s and became an instant best seller and went on to win the Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy award winning film The story happens in a southern town called Maycomb around 1930 The book tells us about the Finch family and everything that they go through We can see a lot of different themes and morale questions in this story Themes e g courage innocence and prejudice are the biggest themes and the
Walking Along the Branches of Life Does Mother Nature truly nurture In Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God Janie is affected by the nature of Mother Nature Janie seeks to harmonize with nature and its realm sparks her ambition to reject the burdens and discrimination placed on her because of her race and gender As a result she gathers strength and develops as a person on her path to true freedom Throughout the novel the theme of nature reflects Janies journey of self discovery thro
Though The Great Gatsby offers a clear image of what life was like in the 1920s it does not offer a definition of love or a contrast between love and romance but what it does suggest is that what people believe to be love is often only a dream The novel is set in a time when many Americans main objective was becoming rich and love was something to possess As a result all of the relationships in the Great Gatsby fail because they are based on materialism and not love Tom sees Myrtle as nothing m
Native Son In Richard Wrights novel Native Son Bigger Thomas the main character in the book ends up killing a white woman named Mary Dalton The events that lead to the murder and also after the murder change Bigger significantly He starts to act and think differently With that through the course of the book there are many scenes and themes that are shown throughout the book which have a lot of significance to them But in my opinion the theme that I believe that is the most significant and that
Impoverished Poverty was a major issue in France in the early nineteenth century as it is today In the book Les Miserables Victor Hugo the author tries to make poverty more apparent to those ignorant to its occurrence Victor states that as long as there is poverty there will be misery He portrays these troubles through three key characters in his book These characters being Fantine Jean Valjean and Cosette Fantine is one of the characters who portrays poverty and its problems Here is a example
Bharati Mukherjees epic tale of life transformations Jasmine follows the story of a young girl searching for herself in strange new lands With a constant change of setting time and culture Jasmine must constantly change herself as well The reader follows Jasmine on her quest through India Florida New York and Iowa As the people around Jasmine change her name the reader sees a shift in her personality The novels opening phrase Lifetimes ago sets in motion the major theme the recreation of ones s
How does Dickens present his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times Charles Dickens presents his attitude to education in the opening chapters of Hard Times in a very clear and deliberate way It is blatantly clear that the imagery and techniques used by Dickens conveys to the audience a very negative image of education Dickens uses techniques such as repetition exaggeration metaphor and agricultural imagery to portray his attitude towards education The main technique that D
HAMLET SOME ASPECTS OF THE PLAY HAMLET as a Revenge Tragedy Elizabethan dramatists did not first invent HAMLET Behind the play versions of the tale are known which go back at least to the thirteenth century but in all versions the theme is the same revenge Elizabethan playgoers had a peculiar delight in this theme and there are many revenge plays Most of them follow a pattern just as in these days the crime and detective thriller runs to type In the thriller there is first the crime The masterm