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Removing Societies Blindfold: The Giver More than 10 million copies of the 1994 Newberry Medal winning book The Giver have been sold, which raises the question of why it is so popular. I, myself, read the book in middle school English and immediately fell in love with the work. I have always been fascinated by…

Based on what I read, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson tone has a distinct shift from a peaceful, normal, everyday kind of tone to a firmly horrific tone. “The Lottery” has two main characters, a housewife named Tessie Hutchinson, who is the person who wins the lottery at the end, and Mr. Summers, the man…

During the nineteenth century, women were seen as property rather than human beings with rights. Because of this ordeal, women became active feminists and social reformists in order to change their social rank in society, known as the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Among these women was Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who wrote many works pertaining to the…

Sandra Cisneros’ ‘The House on Mango Street’ is begun when a young Latina girl named Esperanza, growing up in the city of Chicago in a small red house on Mango Street. This house is an upgrade from where her and her family used to live but is still to small for the family in a…

Imagine your life controlled by someone you didn’t know, your every move watched and judged as if what you were doing was wrong. In the book “Brave New World” characters are forced to abide be the rules of the government with no control over their own lives. From early on humans are graded from the…

As the cutting crew says in one of their songs, “you just died in my arms tonight” and if society went through so much trouble and had so much pride that a person’s own brother died in your arms as the narrator did, I’d imagine the guilt would never leave one’s conscience. A boy named…

With so much that the world has to offer, it only seems fit that we explore what it has in store for us. In the novel “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, a young man named Chris McCandless was discovered dead in the Alaskan wilderness in the summer of 1992. McCandless always believed that the…

Colours are said to be significant to many individuals as they not only symbolize emotion, but also hold different meanings in various religions and cultures. In literature, an author uses symbols to express conceptual ideas to its readers so that they may have a clearer and more in-depth understanding of what the author is trying…

In the novel, Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad which takes place in the nineteenth hundreds in time of colonialism, in the Congo, Central Africa. Where Conrad introduces us to Marlow. who makes some comments that could be taken for racially prejudiced remarks. By using different terms to describe people of color, we can see…

As many people will have various opinions on Christopher McCandless, that he was either a total fool or an inspiration that should be honored beyond his death. McCandless out on his journey makes some really questionable decisions, even then he is still honored and remembered by many of those who are in his same position…