Set during the 17th century in England and the American Colonies, Moll Flanders is the story of the eponymous heroine whose life makes her a prostitute, confidence trickster, and convict over the course of nearly seven decades. Moll's life takes her through nearly the full gamut of English society, from the gutter to the comforts of wealth, and is a prototypical roguish narrative made unusual by its early authorship and by its female protagonist.
Robinson Crusoe is the story of the titular castaway. Shipwrecked after a disastrous voyage, the Englishman survives on the bare edge of death on a deserted island. While there, he confronts a mutinous crew, cannibals, wild animals, and other dangers. The story is told through letters, speeches, and other literary devices that would become popular fixtures of realistic fiction. It is one of the earliest examples of a shipwrecked narrative.
Everything Is Illuminated is a novel about a young Jew name Jonathan Safran Foer, who travels to the Ukraine to find a woman named Augustine who saved his family from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Jonathan meets a man named Alex, who becomes a translator and helps him. The book traces their journey to Trachimbrod, the shtetl his family came from, and incorporates magical narratives into the story of the village.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer about a boy whose father died in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. After finding in a vase belonging to his father a key with the name "Black" written on it, nine-year-old Oskar goes on a quest to find the key's owner, meeting people in New York City with the last name of "Black." In the end, Oskar returns to the key to someone unrelated to his father. The novel deals with themes of trauma, loss and redemption.
A Journal of the Plague Year is the fictionalized story of a nameless Londoner surviving the Great Plague in 1665. It is inspired by the journals of author Daniel Defoe's uncle, who himself kept meticulous records of the plague and its impact on one of the world's greatest centers of commerce and culture. The novel is a roughly linear account of the plague's progress through London and, to a lesser extent, its impact on the rest of the British Isles.
In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Oskar is a precocious intelligent and eccentric boy who goes on an adventure in the boroughs of New York City One day Oskar comes across a key that is left behind by his father It is tucked away in an envelope labeled Black Though hardly a smoking gun of any sort Oskar finds in this discovery just the sort of diversion he needs to sustain him in his time of loss to fill the void left by the loss of his father I decided I would meet every person i
The graphic gory vile and intense movie called 300 is about two opposing armies constantly battling each other On one side is the sinister Persian army with thousands of soldiers ready to clobber any foe On the other side are the audience heroes the Spartans The Persians led by Xerxes wish to conquer all of Greece However the city of Sparta is in their path and the soldiers of Sparta are known for their extraordinary performance on the battlefield With the Persians wanting to conquer and destro
Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience is the act of knowingly breaking a law that an individual feels is morally unjust We all have a moral compass and a perception of what is right from wrong Many individuals see injustices in our democratic system yet few actually make a stand for what they believe is right The United States was founded under an idea that All men are created equal However that motto was not entirely true When we look back in time and examine our past one can see a plethora of
How we think of the wilderness is greatly varied Often distorted and Confused by Television and modern media The story wilderness by Roger Zelazny And Gerald Hausmsn describes two different stories of two mountain men between 1808 and 1823 The first is John Colter a trapper who was chased one hundred Fifty miles by Indian warriors in what is known called yellow stone national park The other man was Hugh Glass who was attacked by a bear and crawled one Hundred miles to saftey from the grand vall