Category: Book Review

Reflections on the Fact That Behavior Is Often Based on Ignorance, as Exemplified by Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones Prejudicial behavior is often based on ignorance and fear which leads to significant consequences for marginalized individuals. Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a bildungsroman about an adolescent boy, Charlie Bucktin, which illustrates the concept that choices…

The Evolution, Meaning And Features Of Speculative Fiction INTRODUCTION Speculative fiction is defined as a genre which encompasses many subgenres of fiction, where the authors included unrealistic or magical elements in the fictions. Speculative fiction is any fiction in which the laws of that world (explicit or implied) are different than ours (Neugebauer, 2014). Neugebauer…

Review of Cecelia Ahern’s Book Where Rainbows End The book that I have chosen to review is titled Where Rainbows End. This book has been suggested to me by a good friend. The author of this book is a famous Irish writer, Cecelia Ahern. This is the second book of the author, the first one…

Review of ‘Why Liberalism Failed’ by Patrick Deneen Why Liberalism Failed provides insight to the beliefs of author Patrick Deneen. Deneen is a political philosophy and constitutional studies professor at Notre Dame, believing that liberalism has failed by succeeding. He believes the contradicting principles have allowed our citizens to take on individualistic beliefs and therefore…

Review of Octavia E. Butler’s Book Kindred Rufus had done exactly what he said he would do: Gotten possession of the woman without having to bother her husband. Now, somehow, Alice would have to accept not only the loss of her husband, but her own enslavement. Rufus had caused her trouble and now he had…

One Child Book Summary The book I will be reviewing is One Child, written by Torey Hayden, which is based on a heart touching true story. The author, Torey Hayden, really did an excellent job in showing how a teacher must be willing to do more than just be a teacher. The main topic of…

Black Female Body as a Living Historical Record in Octavia Butlers Kindred Octavia Butlers Kindred traces central protagonist, Dana Franklins genealogy by physically returning her to her slave past in antebellum Maryland. By deconstructing the body of the female slave Butler uses Danas body as the site for historical markings, so that she is literally…

Essay on Imaginary Homeland Self-identity is a fascinating term for a human being. The quest for identity is an inevitable process in mans life. Humans though, established his self in economic soundness in the migrant land but, tracing ancestral rootedness and correlating oneself with ancestral inheritances enthralled human beings for their self-identity. An ancestral inheritance…

Life and Death in the Third Reich’: Summary Essay Peter Fritzsches Life and Death in the Third Reich gives personalized accounts of the Nazis different approaches, rationales, and justifications for their actions in their relationship with the German people between 1933 and 1945. Rather than blaming the German citizens for allowing Nazi ideology, he focuses…

Inequality for All: Summary Essay Inequality is Killing the American Dream What kind of dreams has made people dream from four centuries ago till today? What kinds of dreams have been the most craved by people for 400 years? It is the American Dream. The American Dream can be traced back to the discovery of…