Category: Book Report

Analysis of Who Moved My Cheese: Reader’s Essay 1. The central idea of the story; Who Moved My Cheese; tells a parable, which you can directly apply to your own life, in order to stop fearing what lies ahead and instead thrive in an environment of change and uncertainty. Funny, how you sometimes stumble into…

Book Report on Ethan Frome: Analysis of Themes and Characters Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1911 Horror Fiction, Fantasy Characters: Mattie Silver: Protagonist. Mattie is Zeenas cousin who moves in with her and Ethan who she shortly thereafter falls in love with. ‘Zeena’ Frome: Protagonist. Zeena is Ethans wife and they live a struggling and sad…

Analysis of Mohsin Hamid’s Novel ‘Moth Smoke’ through Marxist Criticism Literature from Marxist point of view is a reflection of the human existence in such a society which is divided into different classes on the basis of economic conditions. This paper aims to explore various aspects of exploitation, systems of domination, oppression and socioeconomic conflicts…

Exploring Ron Rush’s Novel ‘Serena’ through Marxist Criticism Generally, in industrial activity, the factors of production are needed in producing goods and services. Eyiyere argues that the factors of production are nature, labor and capital. Labor is an active resource which is one of the factors in the smoothness of a production process. Workers in…

Atwood’s Critical Feminist Look at the Treatment of Women throughout History in ‘The Testaments’ Feminist critics focus on the struggles that women face in society and ways these are questioned in literature. The Beginning Theory by P. Barry, states: To put what I have just sketched in somewhat different terms: this type of feminist criticism…

Critical Essay on Complexities of Motherhood in Lionel Shriver’s ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The World’s Wife’ The theme of motherhood is a key one in both the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and the collection of poems The Worlds Wife by Carol Ann Duffy.…

Influence Motherhood on Personality in Madeline Miller’s Novel Circe: Critical Essay In the book Circe by author Madeline Miller, Circe learns, through her experience of motherhood, the instant love and maternal bond between mother and child, as well as a mothers impulse to sacrifice her own life to protect her offspring. Like many mothers, Circe…

Consciousness of China and the Individuals Destiny in the Story of the Banished Immortal: Critical Essay When I first read the story of the Banished Immortal written by Bai Xianyong, the figure of the protagonist Li Tong, who dressed in red cheongsam dancing in the bar, was ingrained in my mind. She was the queen…

Lionel Shriver’s Challenge to the Traditional Image of Motherhood in His Novel ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’: Critical Essay Many texts often explore androcentrism and are repressive in relation to women, perpetuating ultimately degrading representations of women and assigning cultural constructs of gender roles. As H. Bertens writes in Literary Theory: The Basics, women…

Theme of Motherhood in Buchi Emecheta’s Novel ‘The Joys of Motherhood”: Critical Essay The theme of motherhood is central to the plot of Emecheta’s novel ‘The Joys of Motherhood’. That is because motherhood is regarded highly in Igbo culture. According to the culture, the best thing that a woman does is have children. Thus, motherhood…