Novels

"The Other Side of the Sky," by Farah Ahmedi, contains many central ideas, such as survival and helping others. "The Other Side of the Sky," is about Farah and her mother moving away from Afghanistan…

Identity plays an important part in literature because of the complexity and development of characters in a work. In the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles, boys at the school of Devon face multipl…

Emily Bronte's gothic novel Wuthering Heights revolves around the main character and former orphan Heathcliff and his passionate love for his adoptive sister, Catherine Earnshaw. At his new home at Wu…

Trapped. Feeling trapped inside a dark hole, that's just tall enough so there is no way to get out, but only observe what the outside of that dark hole is like. Oskar was often trapped in that hole of…

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all" (Helen Keller). Jon Krakauer conveys this message in the novel, Into the Wild, by encouraging readers to take risks through the tale of Christophe…

One flew over the cuckoo's shows literary merit in different ways in the theme and style Kesey uses. The novel explores the different sides of the spectrum between sanity and insanity and it explains …

In today's world, a majority of history is taught only through second-hand sources. Through stories and movies, through textbooks and founded memories. But whether it sticks to how the events truly pl…

Crow Country written by Australian author Kate Constable is a contemporary novel set back in 1933 rural Victoria. A time slip story with an extraordinary sense of place, explores and identifies signif…

"So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?" -Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train. Between 1854 and 1929, "orp…

The novel The Brother's Karamoozan was written by a well accredited Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky. This novel is considered to be one of the highest praised pieces of literature due to the effec…