The Cay is a novel about Phillip Enright, a boy who is stranded on an island with Timothy after his ship is torpedoed during World War II. Phillip has been blinded from an injury and must rely on Timothy to help him. However, Phillip is is prejudiced against Timothy, who is black. Over the course of the book, they develop a strong friendship, surviving on their small remote island. In the end, Timothy dies in a hurricane, Phillip buries him and is rescued, receiving surgery to repair his eyesight.
Virtual Vandals, subtitled Net Force Explorers, is the story of a group of teens and young adults with incredible technological prowess. Gifted hackers and programmers, the kids find themselves caught up in a web of intrigue well outside their sphere of expertise. They so far outstrip their teachers and parents that they must cope with the sudden challenges and dangers of their discovery entirely on their own, relying on their skills and on each other to succeed.
The Birthmark Relate Nathaniel Hawthornes biography to the allegorical story the birthmark Nathaniel Hathorn was born on July 4 1804 in Salem Massachusetts where his birthplace is now a museum His grandfather John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials Having learned about this Nathaniel Hawthorne added the w to his surname in his early twenties because he was trying to dissociate himself from his ancestor Hawthorne wrote in the comparative obscurity of what he called
Every novel needs an overly eccentric character to add a splash of color and spontaneity to the plot In the case of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is that character But instead of a splash of color Heathcliff adds a shroud of darkness He may be spontaneous and eccentric but unlike the common person his mind is twisted and his actions are evil Throughout the novel he is portrayed as a madman Brought up as an adopted child from the streets Heathcliff always had a strange and unnatural disposition A
One of the best American essays of the century is The Solace of Open Spaces written and told by Gretel Ehrlich Ehrlich wrote this short essay about her time she spent in Wyoming She also tells about some events that has happened while being there The short essay was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1981 and then collected in The Solace of Open Spaces in 1985 Being a short essay the story was written within ten pages Those ten pages are divided into sections for short pauses of Ehrlich
The Notebook was written by Nicholas Sparks in 1994 Based on a true story Its a classic yet brilliant love story of two people Allie and Noah in the 1940s living in Seabrook South Carolina Noah who is unimpressed with striving for success no matter the cost He is a blue collar worker who spends an unexpected inheritance on restoring a beautiful plantation home He is a hard worker in whatever he engages himself but will never be sucked into a job that keeps him away from nature and the beauty of
Afghanistan is a coarse and dishonourable place to reside Khaled Hosseini explains this in his novel The Kite Runner Afghanistans degrading class system is horrific and inhumane This inhumane rigid system allows for ethnic discrimination constant warfare and poverty To begin Afghanistan is divided into two main ethnic classesthe Pushtuns and the Hazaras The Pushtuns believe they are better than the Hazaras due to the fact that they are more financially stable In The Kite Runner Baba a wealthy P
The Dead Father Jerome Klinkowitzs remarkably insightful review of Donald Barthelmes work begins with an anecdote about an evening they spent together in Greenwich Village Barthelmes home for most of his life as a writer and how a perfectly Freudian remark by Barthelmes wife put a stop to the writers boorish mood Why Donald she said your fathers is bigger than yours She was referring to their respective biosin Whos Who in America It is Klinkowitzs well argued contention that Barthelmes mid care
The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien expresses the importance of a story truth as opposed to a happening truth by use of literary elements in his writing The novel is about war and the guilt it leaves on everyone involved in the war The four literary devices he uses to express this are diction imagery juxtaposition and hyperbole All of these elements allow the reader to identify emotion that is expressed in each story as though that were the complete truth OBriens diction is descriptive OBrien
3 Describe interesting characterizations events techniques and ideas If you like a character or an idea explain what you like do the same for characters or ideas you dont like The Great Gatsby written by F Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most famous literary works of all time There are many main ideas and themes around this novel but nothing is well constructed than the implication of the American decay in the society of both people and life The use of imagery in this novel has captured the them