Edith Whartons Roman Fever Edith Whartons Roman Fever is the story of two middle aged women reflecting on their friendship The story unfolds on a terrace of a Roman restaurant with a wonderful view of the city Mrs Slade and Mrs Ansley reminisce on their experiences of Rome when they were their daughters ages This story is a very telling story of how people can think they know someone but find out later on that they never really knew them at all Mrs Slade professes herself as a friend to Mrs Ans
The Lord of the Flies Savagery William Goldings novel The Lord of The flies presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island left to try and retain a civilised society In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes At the opening of the novel Ralph and Jack get on extremely well We are informed Jack shared his burden and there was an invisible light of friendship between the two boys Jack changes con
The chrysalids Chapter 8 9 Summary David is frightened He knows what happens to mutants and he is scared because he is a mutant He prays to God to make him normal but his prayers arent answered Petra falls into the river and uses her power to call for help David and Rosalind race to save her They find Petra unconscious but okay My personal thoughts My personal thoughts on this section are that it would suck to be a mutant and if everyone else knew about it then you would be betrayed and not lik
The story is told by the murderer himself the first person narrator speaking on the eve of his execution for the crime of killing his wife He begins his account in the remote past of his own childhood The narrator says that he was an extremely sensitive boy so passive that his schoolmates teased him He explains that as a child he always had a passion for animals Since he had this passion for animals his parents allowed him to have a great variety of pets growing up So early in his marriage he w
The Black Cat From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions I was especially fond of animals and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets With these I spent most of my time and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them This peculiarity of character grew with my growth and in my manhood I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure To those w
In Jose Saramagos Blindness a group of seven strangers cross paths and band together when an epidemic of white blindness strikes the country Through their journey all seven characters change for the better and some like the girl with the dark glasses changed more that the rest With this change each of these peoples limits is tested both physically and emotionally Yet in the end they all come together and are able to survive by dealing with their situation The change in the girl with the dark gl
The Little Prince Published in 1943 The Little Prince is a fantasy about a pilot stranded in the Sahara who meets a small boy from another planet The boy who refers to himself as a prince is on a quest for knowledge The little prince asks questions of the pilot and tells the pilot of life on his own very small planet This story is told in a simple fashion as childrens stories typically are but it is not really a childrens story It is a story of a grown up who has almost forgotten what is import
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
How is Family Relationships Portrayed in Purple Hibiscus According to Websters dictionary A family relationship is relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption The novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the growth process of the main character Kambili Achike as she struggles to make her mouth function within the totalitarian temperament of her father Papa Eugene a wealthy industrialist in Enugu Nigerian home Kambili is involved in a crisis with religious and do