In the novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins there are many characters introduced but one really caught my eye Katniss Everdeen Kat is one extraordinary character She is brave due to the incredible things she does for her and her family Katniss is also very smart and resourceful because of the things she remembers her dad taught her To top her off Katniss is an amazing hunter trained by her father who was killed in a mining explosion Kat is 16 has a sister named Primrose Prim and a mother P
Control Is Power The first duty of government is to protect the powerless against the powerful The Code of Hammurabi This quote tells us that our government should protect the weak instead of shunning them and only caring for the strong In dystopian literature memory and history are often altered or changed completely as a form of control This is true in the books 1984 The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 451 In the dystopian novel 1984 the world has been taken and controlled by three super states t
Lena Grove a pregnant teenager has made her way to Mississippi in search of her babys father She hitches a ride into the small town of Jefferson which is home to a planing mill One of the workers at the mill Joe Christmas is a brooding racially ambiguous man who appeared suddenly at the mill one day in search of a job After gaining employment he was soon joined at the mill by another man named Joe Brown The two formed a partnership making and selling liquor illegally and eventually quit their j
Catching Fire Book Analysis The second page turning chronicle of the Hunger Games Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins embellishes the idea that absolute power and perfection cannot co exist with the modern world for all is vulnerable to corruption Collins defends her belief through her literary works in Catching Fire by emphasizing the cruelty use of President Snows tactic and what it resulted in fighting the controversial subject of the existence of eternal absolute power by form of betrayal with
In the poem through a monologue Ulysses carries out his last journey and reflects back on his eventful life It seem as if Ulysses is trying to justify his actions and explain his passions for travelling and adventure and that being his hungry heart From the first line of the poem it becomes noticeable that Ulysses is bored and unexcited by his current position It little profits that an idle king His statement reveals that personally Ulysses gains no profit from being a king and that he would ra
NORTH AND SOUTH North and South written by Elizabeth Gaskell can be seen as a love story at first sight but when it is deeply examined it is true to say that North and South is one of the successful novels which reflects the social life and cultural norms of Victorian Era This novel enables us to see those times of England to some extent from the eyes of a middle class lady Margaret Hale who experiences of the life standards of both the south and the north of the England The aim of this article
Black Like Me is an astounding autobiographical diary about a white man from the north who temporarily transforms himself into a Negro because he wants to visit the south and experience the difficulties faced by black Americans in the year 1959 At that time there was racial discrimination towards the blacks with segregation in the south and the blacks suffered poverty hunger and hopelessness John Griffin was his name and in this diary he explains his experiences and feelings throughout his enti
There are many ways to identify a seeker There is a hunger in their eyes a look of inquisitiveness and often skepticism They are looking for the answer and that search is rarely interrupted Every experience and every moment is analyzed and scrutinized for its application to their lives In Jack Kerouacs Dharma Bums Viking Press1959 we have a story chock full of seekers From the narrator Ray and his fellow bums to the poets and people he meets along his journeys across the country and back again
Jhumpa Lahiri possesses an aptitude for communicating the failures and achievements of humanity more specifically she writes about the daily omnipresent adversity that exemplifies human life Her characters diverge greatly from similar cultural backgrounds both the guide and the tourists are Bengali however both groups have identical difficulties in their lives loveless marriages Lahiris choice in type of narration her constant reminders of commonality within the human race and her subtle symbol
Analysing Act 2 Scene 1 and Act 4 Scene 3 in The Taming of the Shrew will cover various features of the clever language Shakespeare has used in the play in order for it to appeal to all audiences This will include humour in the form of sexual innuendo slapstick comedy and puns because the play is a comedy I will also point out animal imagery and different 16th century themes Shakespeare has included in the play some of which still exist today i e sexism men versus women power and appearance ver