Category: Book Report

The Hunger Games’: Book Report An essential contribution to the Young Adult or ‘YA’ genre is the influential trilogy of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Since the first novel’s release in 2008, all three books have generated successful Hollywood movies, merchandise and a large fanbase. Therefore, in a discussion of YA fiction, the impact…

Book Report on ‘The Outsiders’ The Outsiders is a young adult fiction that plays the role of many adolescent characters and shows what teenagers from a different day an age were like. With the book being published in the year 1967 and the major differences and changes within society itself, young adults are still attracted…

Ender’s Game Book Report In Orson Scott Cards book Enders Game, genocide is addressed. Even though it was written in 1985 the topic of genocide still hold significance to this day. In the United States and Sudan genocide can either be seen currently or in their history. Though the genocide in these countries might look…

Harry Potter Book Reports Inclination to obey changes as soon as Harry receives a letter formally addressed to him. He has finally been singled out as an individual, and he becomes determined to learn the letter’s contents and its sender’s identity even if he disobeys his uncle. This new tendency to defy authority intensifies with…

Main Themes in Octavia Butlers Story Kindred Octavia Butlers Kindred, tells a story of how a woman from the modern era called Dana was taken back in time from her house in California into the antebellum south to protect a man that would become her ancestor. You could say that her survival essentially relied on…

Motif of Power Dynamics in Kindred and The Book of Martha by Octavia Butler The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace, – Mahatma Gandhi. This quote connects to a motif shown in each story, Kindred and The Book of Martha by Octavia Butler. The motif shown…

Relationship between Dana and Rufus in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler, tells the story of Dana, a 26-year-old African American woman from the 1970s, who is constantly called into the 19th century antebellum South by her white ancestor, Rufus Weylin. After learning she must keep Rufus alive to ensure her own…

Interracial Relationship between Dana and Kevin in Octavia Butler’s Kindred In the novel Kindred, Author Octavia Butler travels back to the time where slavery was the big part of American life. Butler sends the modern characters like Dana and Kevin to experience the past. As Dana traveled back and forth several times and every time…

Essay on Hunger Games: Book Report A Rebellion of Hope For my second quarter book report, I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, originally published on September 14, 2008. This book is set in the country Panem, which is District 12, The Capitol, and the arena. The significant history is eloquently stated in the…

Analysis of the Play Coriolanus: Reading Log At Dovecote’s funeral, Coriolanus sings the Panem anthem, ‘Gem of Panem,’ having learned it from his grandmother. During the funeral, the bullet-ridden body of Brandy is paraded by Peacekeepers, along with the other tributes. The mentors and tributes are then taken for a ‘tour’ of the Capitol Arena,…