Category: Book Review

Critical Reaction Essay: The Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from antiquated Mesopotamia about a king who is two thirds god and one third man. The king does not fulfill his leadership expectations as he is selfish and often angry with the gods. Gilgamesh goes off on a quest to…

Characters in The Epic of Gilgamesh In, the poem The Epic of Gilgamesh the main character and hero of the story is Gilgamesh. In the beginning, Gilgamesh is not the fair and just king as the gods expected of him. Gilgamesh thought that because he was mostly god he could anything he wanted with no…

Tragedy and the Common Man Summary Every human story could become a tragic story if that story is told as a tragedy. According to Aristotle the protagonist of a tragedy has a flaw in character, a downfall of their own doing followed by a harsh realization of the tragic error before dying and this evokes…

Hunger Games Movie Versus Book It is commonly seen when a book is turned into a movie, to have significant changes and alterations. Some add up to the overall thrill movie-makers want to create for their audience, some fail to depict the writers thoughts when writing the book. The novel Hunger Games is among those…

Epic of Gilgamesh Review Why do you think they always say never give up on something you want to be in life? Life is all about how you make it, you will have to fight many battles just to be where you want. Some might be easy, and some might be hard. Reading many epics…

Similarities and Differences between ‘The Call of The Wild’ Book and Film Very long ago the Yukon Territory many people used to live there in the age of the 1800s. Long ago there wasn’t a mailbox so those people would rely on the mailman with sled dogs. The book and the movie  The Call…

Rhetorical Question: Exposure and The Charge of the Light Brigade Both The Charge of the Light Brigade and Exposure deal with the topic of war in vastly contrasting approaches. The Charge of the Light Brigade details the account of the six-hundred and seventy cavalrymen and officers that were given an ambiguous order to attack Russian…

The Selfish Gene’ by Richard Dawkins: Book Review Written in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene discusses key concerns related to evolutionary processes. Initially, Dawkins, introduces the reader to the most prevalent theories at the time, notably the group centered theory of evolution proposed by various academics. The book proposes the alternative theory of…

The Outsiders’: Book Review The Outsiders is a book by S. E. Hinton which was made published on April 24, 1967, and the setting in the book is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This book is about a 14-year-old boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his two brothers, Soda and Darry. They are orphans who are struggling at…

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead: Book Review Margaret Mead, one of the leaders of the Culture and Personality school of Thought was a leading lady anthropologist of Columbia University. She was a student of both Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. Configurationalism, the identification of salient cultural characteristics, representing the patterns of culture,…