Book Review Essay Examples Page 15

‘Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit but taste completely different.’ – Stephen King The Hunger Games is a perfect example of that. Although, there are many similarities since they tell the same story, the differences are astounding to observant people. Many people have their opinions of whether they prefer…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, people suffered discrimination based on their race, age, gender, unknown identity and social class during the 1930s. There are many characters in To Kill a Mockingbird that are victims of stereotyping. First and foremost, the narrator or the nine-year-old main character, Scout Finch, is a victim of being stereotyped because…

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, born and went to school in Edinburgh, Robert suffered from serious swelling and inflammation in his bronchial tubes for much of his life but continued to write and travel. Robert is most known for writing these book child’s Garden of Verses, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr….

It is normal to question the purpose of one’s existence in the world. To prove this, A Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl was translated to many languages. But, to know one’s mission in life is easier said than done. It is a vague topic that a single book can’t answer all the questions…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a woman’s struggle in a society where patriarchal is dominated. Gilman wrote her story in 19th century, where man was superior to woman due to society’s norms encouraged the male to be protector and provider of his family. This man dominant society led woman in 19th…

Introduction “12 Years A Slave” is very well known as Soloman Northup’s autobiography. Solomon was born in Minerva, New York in 1808. Raised as a freeman, Solomon had achieved and education as well as the skills to play the violin. Soloman’s education gave him several job opportunities in New York and also gave him a…

Introduction The purpose of Solomon Northup’s book 12 Years a Slave was to relate an accurate history of slavery as experienced by himself in Central Louisiana. Though the book by no means justified slavery or the toleration of slavery, neither did it strongly advocate for its abolition. It confidently assumed that readers, acquainted with the…

In the Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan presents the idea that sacrifice is the ultimate form of love. She does this through the mother Suyan leaving her daughters on the side of the road with money in hopes they will be found. Also with how Suyan cleans for the piano teacher in order for…

In the novel ​The Things They Carried​, by Tim O’Brien reveals the binaries of human immorality and war itself. Morals can be defined as one’s perception of right and wrong. Therefore, immorals are the opposite, someone who does not follow their rules of good and bad. War is an inhumane and a disturbing thing that…

The Vietnam War was one of the longest and most costly wars fought and over 45,000 people had died. “The Vietnam War lasted from 1954-1975 and it took place in South and North Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos” (Vietnam War). War literature is important to people because it tells them what happened in war if it…