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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…

Ponyboy Curtis, a fourteen-year-old narrator, and orphan lives with his older brothers Sodapop and Darry, after their parents, passed away in a tragic automobile accident. Since their passing, Sodapop and Ponyboy are allowed to stay under Darry’s guardianship as long as they behave themselves. They are all members of a lower-class group called Greasers, meaning…

The author used different forms of author’s craft to intensify the effectiveness of storytelling within the story. One of the elements the author used was point of view of the character. “Life of Pi” was written in first person from the perspective of the main character, Pi. Having the story told by Pi guides the…

Why is Jonas a Dynamic Character? Jonas is a twelve-year-old boy who has accepted the sameness in his community just like everyone else. When December rolled around Jonas became the receiver of memory. On his first day he received the memories sunshine and sunburn. He described the sunshine as pleasant and the sunburn as pain….

“The Tell -Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, was released in 1843. It is one of the shortest stories Poe wrote and takes a look into dysteria and mental health issues. “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was released in 1899. This story also looks into mental health problems and one a different…

Structure Point of view: first person omniscient Relationship to meaning: Death provides a thought provoking perspective on Liesel’s story and the events that occurred in her life by being able to provide insight that only an outsider looking in could give the reader. Plot Structure Exposition The story starts off by introducing Death as the…

The Seven Deadly Sins of the world are seven sins that can lead to a major change in someone’s mind and life. Greed is one of the seven. In the book, The Pearl, by John Steinbeck, the theme of greed and how money changes people are a recurring element. Even Kino, who was just a…

Kafka’s the Metamorphosis is hitherto considered as a story with many insightful implications: the reflection of a parent-child relationship, the world dominated by money, the change (active or passive), or the loss of people among relatives, colleagues … Readers of the novel often fall into feelings of depression, sadness mixing when the story ends, also…

The movie was set during world war II, the biggest war in history, involving over 30 countries. The war went on for 6 long years, from 1949 to 1945 (“World War II”, 2009). The film is based on a novel by Markus Zusak, who is of German and Austrian descent, so he chose the subject…

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….