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The book THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION was written by an American sociologist C. WRIGHT MILLS in the year 1959. Mills was first to coin and use the concept of sociological imagination. Later this became the keystone concept in the branch of sociology. He defines sociological imagination as the “vivid awareness of the relationship between experiences and…

Stevenson’s use of conflict in his book, The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, demonstrates the social issues and difficulties of the middle class in the Victorian era, Industrial Revolution. Stevenson does this by outline the duality, or dual personality shown by one of the main characters of the story, Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll is an…

Can one small difference have a great impact on the way something is perceivedin the way something is told change the whole story? There are many similarities between the John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men, and the movie by Gary Sinise. However, there are also some small but important differences between these two. This…

Set on Midsummer Eve in 1620s New England, “The Maypole of Merry Mount” is an account of the Puritans’ extermination of Merry Mount. In this first person piece, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the line “jollity and gloom were contending for an empire” to show that this is an allegorical piece. The Merry Mounters represent jollity, while…

Throughout the novel, Atwood develops Commander Fred’s character from a seemingly two-dimensional antagonist into a complex character with human motivations and weaknesses, and ultimately represents how even men are deprived and unsatisfied in patriarchies. As a character, the Commander represents the superior male status in the patriarchal Gilead society. As a distinguished official in Gilead,…

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a World War II historical fiction novel set in Germany. Told through the eyes of Death, this novel gives an insight into what life is like for everyday people in Molching, Germany, where Jews and many others are being persecuted under Hitler’s rule. This novel focuses on Liesel…

The Afro-American novelist Toni Morrison’s fifth novel “Beloved” was published in the year 1987. Being a staunch advocate of the rights of Black woman, in “Beloved”, Morrison set out to narrate the saga of the most chaotic occurrence of the American slave-trade which dehumanized Black woman in particular. The first Black woman Nobel laureate, Morrison…

A habit is a regular or repeated practice that is hard to break or lose: “Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do” (Sean Covey). Habits are tied into morals. Morals are principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or impurity…

All livings things have one thing in common, the will to survive. Every living thing wants to survive, and they will all do whatever it takes to survive. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi shows exactly that, the struggle that a teenage boy goes through in order to survive. He abandoned his beliefs and used his…

Author, Truman Capote, in his non-fiction thriller, “In Cold Blood”, recounts the gruesome murder of the Clutter family in, Holcomb Kansas. Clutters purpose is to inform the public of what really happened to the Clutters and their killers. Truman uses pathos, allusion, and a sympathetic tone to describe the dismal story to the reader. Capote…