The world is full of good versus evil People display dark tendencies for numerous reasons some of which include jealousy greed and a thirst for power As is evident in the book The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini Amir is driven by his jealousy of his best friend Hassan This jealousy leads Amir to continually humiliate betray and hurt Hassan In The Crucible by Arthur Miller Abigail after being rejected by John Proctor feels a need to acquire power Therefore she leads the crusade of accusations of
The Things They Carried a novel written by Tim OBrien raises the question of the extent of truthfulness of stories that are told from experience in which the novel is solely based on the accounts of war veterans and their lives in Vietnam The soldiers fighting in the war describe certain stories that have affected them the most and from that readers can interpret that the armed forces are able to capture the attention of their listeners through providing immense detail of the conditions adding
At midnight through an accumulated snowfall of some two feet a young Ethan Frome walks the quiet streets of Starkfield Near the edge of the village he stops in front of the community church where a dance is being held He makes his way around the churchs perimeter and settles in front of a basement window craning his neck to get a view of the festivities The dance is concluding and the assembled group is preparing to leave But when the young handsome and energetic Denis Eady jumps back onto the
Great Expectations a satirical fictional novel based in Victorian England by Charles Dickens is about a Phillip Pirrip also known as Pip who deeply desires to improve himself socially and morally Great Expectations takes Pip on his heros journey to win his true love and find peace with his conscience Dickens writes Pip as a failed hero experiencing successes and failures Often Pip faces difficult obstacles concerning pure evil Dolge Orlick a man who bitterly resents Pip for being favored is rot
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in an unspecified future time in a hedonistic and rabidly anti intellectual America that has completely abandoned self control and bans the reading of books Anyone caught owning them is at the minimum confined in a mental hospital and has the books confiscated and burned At the maximum the penalty is a sentence to immediate death People are now only entertained by in ear radio and an interactive form of television The protagonist Guy Montag is a fireman certain that h