Danger Zone DANGER ZONE by, David Klass Setting: Granham High School, Minnesota, L.A., California, and Rome, Italy. The time is in the summer, in the present. Characters: Jimmy Doyle (Snowman), the main character, Coach Griffen, and Coach McNeil, the coaches of the team, Augustus, Shawn, Ray, and Stinger, all members of the team. Point of View: This story is told from the eyes

A Good Man is Hard to Find My Analysis of Grandma In the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, the grandmother, also know as the old lady, has the type of personality I would not like my grandmother to have. The grandmother, who is not named in the story, is very annoying and likes to talk a lot. In the very beginning of the story there is evidence that the grandmother is not ver

Huck Finn And Great Gatsby The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Great Gatsby were set over 75 years apart, the central characters of the story have characteristics in common as well as their obvious differences. Huck Finn is a young adolescent boy, growing up with no one really caring about him in his life. He runs away from home to join a runaway slave on a raft drifting down th

Edgar Allen Poe Poe: The Darkness Edgar Allen Poe is the most well-known author of his time. Edgar Poe’s ancestors were agriculturists and artisans on one side, and actors on the other. Poe was born on Jan. 19, 1809, in Boston ( Encyclopedia Americana Pg. 274). Edgar’s future mother was performing in Virginia, where she was being observed by a young man by the name of David Poe. Soon E

Views On Society Through Novels Views on Society Whether done intentionally or not, many authors’ beliefs and views are portrayed through their own text. Ideas of the author can be found subliminally throughout the compositions they write. Many authors use metaphors such as William Golding in Lord of the Flies, others are more blunt like Albert Camus in The Stranger, while some use t

Waiting For The Rain What is the point of apartheid' Truthfully there is no point at all to apartheid. It is just a set of racially motivated laws that limit the Black South Africans from having equal rights to the White South Africans. Apartheid is ridiculous and extremely wrong. A discussion of apartheid according to the novel Waiting for the Rain will show the reader to understand

Violence And Innocence Joe McGrath Violence and innocence are in almost directly related. One who is not innocent is not necessarily violent, but the inverse is true. Someone who is violent is not an innocent person. Elisha, and other characters in “Dawn,” are a perfect example of how one can lose his or her innocence. In the book, Elisha is shown as a seemingly nice person, but is i

A Natural World vs. A Brave New World  A Natural World vs. A Brave New World Imagine a world where thousands of babies at a time, each looking identical, were manufactured to all be alike. They would be brought up in bottles and until the age of twelve, live together in a “conditioning centre” where they would be taught to share the same views, act in the same way

Walden An Social Conformity The essay Walden, by Henry D. Thoreau demonstrates one mans feelings towards social norms and what is accepted in our society. Walden is about a man, Thoreau, living in the woods for two years and writing about his experiences there and his personal feelings towards, what many believe to be the foundations of our society. Although Thoreau attended the presti

Dante While many people perceive Dante's Inferno to be a religious novel that questions the ideas of heaven and hell, I believe that Dante's novel is a political one. He grew up in Renaissance Florence. At the time, it was a thriving, but not peaceful place. There were conflicts between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor. Both wanted to have the most power, and be supported by the p

Dante Dante's use of allegory in the Inferno greatly varies from Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in purpose, symbolism, characters and mentors, and in attitude toward the world. An analysis of each of these elements in both allegories will provide an interesting comparison. Dante uses allegory to relate the sinner's punishment to his sin, while Plato uses allegory to discuss ignorance and

Visions By Michio Kaku This book review only cover chapter 1-4 Michio Kaku, a scientist examines the future in his book Visions. Kaku proposed scientists are more accurate predictors of the future due to their knowledge of scientific laws. He also states scientists are creators of the technology that will make up the future while others, such as writers and sociologist, are consumers

The Great Gatsby: Evidence Of Insecurity And Ambiguity That Question Nick Carraway’s Heterosexuality The Great Carraway: Evidence of Insecurity and Ambiguity that Question Nick’s Heterosexuality The Great Gatsby is a magnificently written story about the loss of love, the problems of American wealth, and the reality of life. With these themes in mind, it is important to remember that

Dark Life Dark Life “When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly… were waving helplessly before his eyes.” Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor into a monstrous vermin. Kafka expresses the anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism, which fill Gregor’s life, throughout the story, metamorphosis. Franz Kafka uses these feelings

Darkness at Noon Darkness At Noon In the novel, Darkness at Noon, by Koestler, Rubashov learns about himself, and makes an effort to cross the hazy lines between his conscience and his beliefs. Rubashov's realization of the individual aspect of morality is a gradual process, satisfying his internal arguments and questions of guilt. His confession to Gletkin reflects the logic that Rubash

War of the Worlds “No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that sw

A Nervous Splendor Unit 5 Historical Interpretation Question 1 A Nervous Splendor by Fredric Morton A Nervous Splendor is a study of a single year - 1888-1889 - in the fairy tale city of Vienna. During this year Johann Strauss Jr. wrote his Emperor Waltz; Sigmund Freud, having quit his lucrative job as assistant physician to a Nerve Specialist for the Very Rich, used the term "s

Darwinists Women of the early 1900s were focused on pleasure, beauty, and glamour. Many depended on a spouse and characterized social status with money. Women of this time period were especially materialistic; most of the female characters in The Great Gatsby displayed a value for wealth. Daisy’s first priority obviously wasn’t her family. Throughout the entire account, Daisy’s daug

War Is War War is War Although Ernest Hemingway’s “Solider’s Home” (1925), Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorun Est” (1920), Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” (1945), and Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1855) were written approximately one hundred years apart, represent different literary genres, and portray various circumstances, these wr

Cold Mountain Page 1 A Journey Transforms Charles Frazier’s story, Cold Mountain, is based in the Civil War Era. Frazier uses the main characters, Ada and Inman to represent the hardships of the Civil War. Inman and Ada both overcome obstacles such as, a perilous journey, coming of age, and a search for a each other. Inman is a confederate soldier who decided to desert the war fe

Guns Of August The Guns of August BOOK SUMMARY In May of 1910, the funeral of Edward VII of England took place. There were many royals in attendance there, including Kaiser William II of Germany, who disliked his uncle Edward and accused him of the encirclement of Germany. Edwards sociability resulted in reconciliation with France and a new friendship with Germany. Both arose the dis

Hrry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Book review J. K. Rowling “Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is the 5th novel in the series of magnificent novels about young wizard Harry Potter. It is written by world famous writer J. K. Rowling. She is one of the best selling authors in the world; all five novels about Harry Potter are

Town and Country Lovers Social and Racial Boundaries Between “Lovers” The social and racial boundaries in South Africa are clearly portrayed in Nadine Gordimer’s short story “Town and Country Lovers”. There are two characters in the story that come from completely different backgrounds. They become lovers and are found out by the police. Gordimer illustrates the differenced between the

Freedoms Fire Summary This story takes place, when King John is still in rule. And there is war in the country of America. The families of the Havens are peaceful, with Joshua at the war. Sarah is in love with a Loyalist, named Robert. Sarah does not care if the Patriots win this war. The only thing she thinks of is getting married. While some family members of the Havens disagre

Beowulf - Herot The Antagonist Herot the Antagonist Beowulf was said to be written around the 700’s but was created long before that time. Past down from generation to generation by word of mouth until it was composed in Old English by one of the monasteries in northeast England. The poem itself is based in a time well before the sixth century, with most of its material based on early

Hands Hands The theme of Sherwood Anderson’s Hands is a continued pattern of alienation, loneliness, and difficulty of communication. Throughout the story, Wing struggles to be “normal.” He struggles to “keep his hands to himself” as he remembers the saloon keeper shouting. Which makes it difficult for him to communicate with anyone but George Willard; and even with him he still

Vonnegut’s Illustration Of Destructiveness Of War Vonnegut’s Illustration of Destructiveness of War Slaughterhouse-Five was written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in 1953. Whether the book is an antiwar novel or a science fiction novel is ambiguous, but after writing this book, Vonnegut insists that it was a failure. Failure it is not according to many critics. Rather than just writing an ant

David Copperfield David Copperfield The book that I am reading is David Copperfield, who is written by Charles Dickens, and the book has 238 pages. Publishers and Waldman Publishing Corp published it. The setting of David Copperfield was in London during the 1800's. This book is a fiction. The story is told from the first person (David Copperfield). The literary devices used in t

Walk In The Woods A Critical Analysis of a Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson returned to America after 20 years and decided to walk the Appalachian Trail for many reasons one of which was so he could say “Yeah, I’ve shit in the woods.”(Bryson, Pg 4) The Appalachian Trail is more than 2100 miles and it goes through 14 states. It was the first hiking trail in America and is

Wallace Stegner “We simply need th[e] wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope (153).” Wallace Stegner makes this statement at the end of “Coda”, a letter included in his book The Sound of Mountain Water. In this letter Stegner ask