Johnathan Ronald Reuel Tolkien is one of the greatest British writers that the world has seen Better known by his writing name J R R Tolkien he has written many novels in his lifetime One of his most famous series of novels you have probably heard of Lord of the Rings However not many people know that Tolkien set the scene for Lord of the Rings with a novel called The Hobbit or There and Back Again Tolkiens novel The Hobbit was published in 1937 for the first time while he waited some time to w
Alices Adventures in Wonderland As one grows older the loss of childhood innocence becomes inevitable The novel Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a magical tale of a young girls dreamy journey into a land filled with mythical creatures and imagination Alice while sitting on the riverbank with her sister falls asleep and enters the land of Wonderland She has encounters with creatures such as the White Rabbit who she is following the Mad Hatter who she has an interesting tea par
High school junior Hannah Baker is a young teen who has moved to the town of Cresmont looking forward to a brand new high school with high hopes of making new friends Little did she know making friends was harder than it seemed especially when little rumors turned into big rumors Rumors are followed by lies and betrayals that greatly hurt Hannah Eventually she feels there is no solution to solve her ruined reputation and decides to commit suicide She takes a bottle of pills ending her life Howe
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is a story about self discovery and the rite of passage for young Jody Baxter The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings She wrote the novel about what she knew best she lived in north central Florida where the novel is set The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939 The story outlines the life of the Baxter family The story is told over the course of a year in the Baxters life The story is based on young Jody growing
History is made by men with The Right Stuff Abraham Lincoln faced not one man but a nation A nation torn apart set against each other in Civil War Abraham Lincoln displayed the Right Stuff by ending the war freeing slaves and reuniting the nation as one In the 1940s the military begun testing rocket propel jets These new airplanes required certain men with unique aptitudes ones who have the ability to push themselves never quit never accepted the norm and demonstrate the courage to push the env
In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain reveals the permanent ambition of every young boy on the west bank of the Mississippi River That was to be a steamboatman The prestige mysteriousness and pay together make such an aspiration so attractive to a young boys imagination The boys of the village of Hannibal Missouri had many transient ambitions such as becoming a clown for the circus becoming a pirate etc These fascinations faded and what remained was becoming a steamboatman All aspects of the st
Leslie Marmon Silkhos Ceremony and Ernest Hemingways In Our Time give us two male characters struggling to socially reintegrate after a comparable traumatic events Each of these characters had a hand in a World War and is now rediscovering the rules and constraints governing mainstream society These veterans have seen particularly disturbing scenes and are now coming back to a world that they no longer understand In understanding the differences in the methods that these two use to reintegrate
In both The Boarding House and A mother the mothers try to achieve a better life for their daughters In The Boarding House Mrs Mooney succeeds in achieving her goal of marrying Polly to Doran Whereas in A Mother Mrs Kearney destroys her daughters potential career as a pianist in Dublin Control is their only mean for achieving their goals Mrs Mooney watches closely her daughters moves all the time without reacting Polly knew that she was being watched but still her mothers persistent silence cou
Cold Mountain People usually begin a journey to achieve a goal or arrive a destination but more importantly through the journey they can find a self they have never noticed before or create a new self who adapts to the current environment In Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain the Cold Mountain is the destination the Inman wants to arrive at Although not physically starting a journey Ada goes through a mental journey which causes physical and spiritual changes in her Metaphorically she reaches Cold
My opinion of a good text book would be Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Twilight is the first book in the Twilight Saga Twilight is a remarkably sensuous novel Although Twilight seems inspired by other vampire novels such as P C Cast Marked Stephenie Meyer certainly leaves her own imprint on the genre Her vampires are mysterious and alluring with powers that alternately confirm and contradict traditional vampire lore As a matter of fact her entire Twilight saga is well written The sci fi fantasy sp