Books

More than 6 million people died in the Holocaust, so how did people survive with death constantly surrounding, and closing in on them? The book Night, by Elie Wiesel, takes the reader through the stru…

"The Border" is a story about a wealthy, privileged girl of Mexico that is forced to move and adapt to a new American culture in New York City. During her new life, she realizes that even though she w…

Sameness harms the community in many ways, but this is the most deleterious way possible. In the community, the government gives everyone an identicle house, clothing, profit, and more. No one is allo…

Pedro from the story Like Water for Chocolate and Lady Macbeth from the play Macbeth are both important characters in their respective stories. In Like Water for Chocolate, Pedro's strong feelings for…

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park depicts a variety of dinosaurs and their behaviors. While many of these behaviors are plausible given evidence within the fossil record, other behaviors are contrary t…

Imagine having to hide your true sexual identity to avoid being judged. That is exactly what is happening in James Baldwin's novel, Giovanni's Room, where David is struggling to come to terms with his…

The diary of Anne Frank was written by a young teenage girl to show her thoughts and feelings about her everyday life during World War 2. Her words have been read all around the globe, and readers hav…

The culture of the Native people has been taken and changed throughout the decades by white culture and not kindly either, but we never talk about it. The book "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Tim…

One of the things that I believe are most underappreciated in our everyday lives is our intentions. If one has good intentions and strives for positive outcomes, good things will come. If one has bad …

The vision of a blossoming pear tree represents Janie's desires to be a woman, and her desires to have a lover. Janie thinks to herself, "Oh to be a pear tree -- any tree in bloom!" (Pg. 11). This quo…