When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the autobiography of Le Ly Hayslip, a Vietnamese woman who came of age during the Vietnam War. Hayslip's journey took her from war-torn Vietnam to America and then back to the land of her birth over a decade after the war's end. She endured unimaginable hardships during her time in the war, serving as a lookout for Vietcong forces and facing harsh reprisals from the South Vietnamese. The book dwells on the horrors of war and the price paid by innocent bystanders.
Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion is a work by the English poet Edmund Spenser, first published in 1595. The Amoretti is a sonnet cycle chronicling Spenser's courtship of his future wife, Elizabeth Boyle. The sonnets, following the Petrarchan structure common at the time, are full of themes of courtly and spiritual love, marriage and each corresponds to a passage from the Bible. The Epithalamion is a celebration of marriage that comes at the end, concluding the courtship.
Dead End in Norvelt is an autobiographical novel by Jack Gantos published in 2011. The novel follows Jack's life one summer while living in his hometown of Norvelt, Pennsylvania. After firing his father's sniper rifle, Jack is grounded, allowed to leave the house only to help Miss Volker write a newspaper column and obituaries. The novel follows the life of the town and a murder mystery that Jack and Volker unravel, promoting values of literacy, community and history.
In the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy there are many different aspects of good and evil some of which could be misunderstood due to ones interpretation between the two because of the pressures of society Specifically asking the questions what distinguishes the two and if human nature plays a role in determining what is the most basic factor good or evil The novel suggests there is not really any good and evil however the manner in which the character adapts to the new world can be viewed in
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie is a creative story of a young boy who encounters a world of literacy while trying to regain his fathers story telling ability In this book there is a constant battle between forms of good and evil this theme changes from good vs evil light vs darkness and voice vs silence throughout this magnificent story The first theme that occurs in this story is the classic good vs evil theme which appears in all great fantasy stories In Haroun and the Sea of
The Good Earth The Good Earth is a book by Pearl S Buck that was published in 1931 The Good Earth is a story that explains about the struggles that a farmer and his family had to live Wang Lung a young farmer Lung is a hard worker man and at the same time ambitious O lan a poor girl that was slave in the old mistress house she was a not the good looking O lan had a square honest face a short broad nose with large black nostrils and her mouth was wide as a gash in her face Her eyes were small an