The Assault is a postwar novel that tells the story of Anton Steenwijk, a young Dutch boy whose life is changed forever when a Nazi collaborator is found dead outside his family's house. Although World War II is almost over, the Nazis still visit terrible retribution upon the innocent Steenwijks, and Anton spends the rest of his life trying to forget what happened. This novel deals with complex themes of guilt, postwar ambiguity, and the idea that sometimes no one is at fault.
The Assault by Harry Mulisch is an episodic style novel about a Family living in Haarlem Holland during the second World War the whole familys life s changed by six shots that suddenly rang out these shots are heard because Fake Ploeg the Chief Inspector of Police being killed the dead body is then put in front of the Steenwijks house as Peter realises that his family may be accused of killing Fake Ploeg he runs out to move the body this is when the Germans catch him and even the author says th
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
Title of the book is Go Ask Alice Author of the book is anonymous but this is Alices diary The genre of the book is Non fiction the book was publicated August 1972 In the beginning of the story the author makes the setting very nice polite and comforting feeling As soon as she moves away a dark cloud goes over the scene during the bad time she runs away to San Francisco with Chris and tries to live on her She ends up moving back and start living with her grandparents which she loves dearly She
In Khaled Hosseinis book The Kite Runner Hosseini describes the relationship between Amir a young upper class Pashtun boy from a wealthy family and Hassan a young Hazara boy who lives in his home as Amirs servant The two boys are close friends and later turn out to be brothers The author has written about the close friendship that the two boys had and highlighted many of the social and historical issues that the boys had confronted such as the discrimination and persecution of Hazara people by
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
Brownies is a story by ZZ Packer a young African American writer and it was published in 1999 This story takes place at Camp Crescendo a summer camp for fourth graders near the suburbs of Atlanta Georgia Laurel the narrator gives a glimpse into the day to day world of the black girls parents in suburban Atlanta In addition to the theme of racial prejudice Brownies makes another serious point It shows the power of group thinking and the pressure to go along with the actions of the group to which
V for Vendetta Dystopian futures in society often spring from conflict in society This often results in a vision of an authoritarian or totalitarian government and the resulting conflict that the two forms of government cause The graphic novel V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore is no exception This novel was also adapted into a movie In the process of adaptation the directors of the film version attempted to maintain the overall characters and anarchist themes of the graphic novel however the
Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin Ireland to two accomplished parents his mother being a respected poet and translator and his father a knighted surgeon Wilde won prizes in classics throughout his youth and received prestigious scholarships to Trinity and then Magdalen College Oxford where he won further prizes for his poetry While at Oxford he came under the influence of aestheticians Walter Pater and John Ruskin and joined them in becoming a key figure in the founding of the Aesthetic Mo
In Amy Tans story Two Kinds is a battle between two generations one being a Chinese American girl named Jing Mei and her mother a Chinese immigrant pursuing the American dream for her daughter Jing Mei is very much an American conditioned teenager and her mother is very much a Chinese born mother with her beliefs in child rearing extreme and absolute One key thing to remember in the story is Jing Mei is the child in the story while she can rebel she is dependent on her mother She is a restless