Category: Literature

  • Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

    The Sophie Scholl and the White Rose was a book written by Annete Dumbach and Jud Newborn. It is a well researched and presented book that account for the honor and bravery that was shown by young German students and their philosophy professor. These students were up against Nazism and the Nationalist Socialist movement. This…

  • Mid-Life Crisis in Tolstoy’s My Confession

    Life on its own is a complex notion that includes many stages, aspects, and problems. As a person passes subsequent stages of development, previous issues become less important, leaving room for new matters and concerns. In this regard, a mid-life crisis is a serious occurrence affecting most people who reach this point in life. As…

  • The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited by R. Florida

    Creativity is often related to freedom in every meaning of its word, starting with the space to create, and up to the need for the “room for imagination,” which, basically, every artist needs to come up with an original and exciting idea. Creativity and oppression, on the contrary, are rarely related to each other; indeed,…

  • Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity

    Table of Contents Introduction Book’s features The author’s view on the indigenous women Conclusion References Introduction Mary White Ronaldson’s book A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is a classic example of a captivity narrative that exposes how white people who were captured by Indians during the period known as “King…

  • Trying to Seize the Elusive Power: Ulvi Dogan

    Table of Contents Introduction: A Man to Build a Dream on Ethics and Motivation: What Makes Ulvi Tick His Internal Life: Look into the Eyeball What Surrounds Ulvi: Be Careful What You Choose Reading Between the Lines: The Hidden Implications Conclusion: Intertwined by the Bonds of … Trust Works Cited Introduction: A Man to Build…

  • Three Human Qualities Displayed by Sophocles’ “Oedipus”

    Oedipus is one of the brightest characters in Greek mythology and, without any doubt, in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. The main distinction of Oedipus from other characters of Greek plays is that he is not complex; most of his feelings and qualities lie on the surface and he is not afraid of displaying them. His…

  • Death by Landscape: A Moral and Personal Feelings

    “Death by Landscape” is a story which is centered on a moral understanding of the surrounding world and personal feelings. A person has great connection to the outside world, the nature and other people. Also, it is important to observe how a person views their past in relation to the present because whatever happened before,…

  • Isabel Allende’s Life and Literary Works

    Table of Contents President of Chile Divorce and new life Literary works References Isabel Allende is a famous female contemporary writer of Chilean origin. She was born on August 2, 1942 in Lima and lived there for 4 years with her parents – mother Francisca Llona and father Tomas Allende. Isabel’s father was not only…

  • “Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber” by T. Borowski

    Ladies and gentlemen, to the gas chamber, is a collection of short stories where the author describes his experiences in the concentration camp. It is a reflection of the events that took place during the Second World War. The setting is in Canada and the narrator together with some of his friends, are prisoners that…

  • Description of Johnny Got a Gun

    Table of Contents Description of Storm of Steel Analyzing the books as history (Book review) Comparison of two books References Johnny Got a gun is a captivating anti-war book which is politically motivated and takes the role of educating the society on the adverse effects of war on human beings and the whole society. The…