Victory is a 1915 novel by Joseph Conrad telling the story of Axel Heyst, a European businessman who ends up in present-day Indonesia. With Mr. Schomberg, they visit a nearby island where Schomberg attempts to rape Lena, a member of a musical band. Heyst and Lena escape and become lovers and Schomberg, attempting revenge, sends three thugs to the island. In the ensuing fight, they thugs die along with Lena and later Heyst commits suicide.
Friday night lights by H G Bissinger is a story about a strange powerful god a towns unnatural passion s being sacrificed The plot was centered around six boys who were fortuned by the pressure of the game the pressure of team and the pressure of the relatives and towns people Their mission was to win regardless of the sacrifice Football became their god their god and their only reason for living was to win For example one place in the book one of the main player didnt had such a good performan
Liam OFlahertys The Sniper conveys the distressed images of a sniper during the civil war on a dark June night in Dublin Ireland The authors effective use of setting imagery and characterization suggests that war creates chaos and turns brothers into enemies Nothing good comes out of a war and morally nobody wins The main character a sniper lies beneath the support that war not only demoralizes human beings to simple objects but has no boundaries and turns one brother against another OFlaherty
Tomorrow When the War Began reminds the reader that even in times of chaos and trauma the human spirit will always triumph Discuss The novel Tomorrow When the War Began written by John Marsden shows the human spirits ability to triumph reigns true even in the midst of trauma and chaos Values and morals may change but victory will still befall anyone who follows their heart Ellie Lintons character is tested when she comes home to find the family pets dead She must choose between right and wrong
Walter Dean Myers wrote the book Fallen Angels It is about Americas experiences in the Vietnam War as told by the main character in the book Richie Perry Perry goes through a lot of changes and sees some of his good friends die in battle fighting for a cause that no one could agree upon The book has 4 other main characters Lobel Johnson Brunner and Peewee The book starts off talking about the experiences of Perry while he is serving in Vietnam His best friend Peewee becomes instant friends with
Belief illustrates the mental acknowledgement of the truth or confidence in another or yourself Stephen Kings Salems Lot the significance of belief when it comes to resolving issues considerably big and relatively small When Ben Mears moves back to his hometown of Jerusalems Lot to compose his latest novel he meets and falls in love with Susan Norton whose mother cannot stand him or his writing As he begins adjust to his new life he hears news of new people in town and immediately faces his mos
This memoir begins with the violent attack This is what I remember My lips were cut I bit down on them when he grabbed me from behind and covered my mouth He said these words Ill kill you if you scream page 5 lines 1 3 Alice Sebold was only eighteen years old when she was raped on her campus at Syracuse in 1981 She sets up the scene describing the rape and how her rapist robbed her of her virginity Alice describes the rape in great detail beginning with a side story of a girl who was murdered a
White Noise The fear of death is undoubtedly the most feared topic in human existence In White Noise that fear is so strong it becomes the controlling factor in the lives of Jack and Babette Gladney Both of them are in such a constant battle to overcome death and their fear of it they let life slip right by and never get the chance to live that life to its fullest Death and the Gladneys morbid fear and fascination with it are present throughout the entire book going so far as to lead Babette in