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Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a beautifully written novel about the struggle of slaves in 1850s in America. Stowe wrote the novel after the Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850. It morphed slavery into greater problem by legalizing, and encouraging the capturing and return of the run-away slaves to the plantations…

“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.” (Ernst Becker, Escape from Evil). The two major themes of the East of Eden are, finding your identity and escaping evil, often argued through multiple articles. Evilness is something that some people do not escape, but in this…

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….

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a contemporary novel based in the beautiful country of Afghanistan before and after the rise of the Taliban. The book tells a touching story of two best friends dealing with love and betrayal, friendship and redemption, good and evil, and the gray area in between. It shows Afghanistan’s…

The Outsiders is a very intriguing novel, it is a class conflict between the socs and the greasers and it also has a load of loyalty to each other, and In “The Outsiders”, S. E. Hinton develops the themes of class conflict and loyalty through his use of character, imagery, and narration. Now there are…

Imagine a place where there is no life, a place where people cannot see colors or feel emotional pain. Lois Lowry is a popular children’s book author. She won two Newbery Medal awards for books Number the Stars and The Giver. She is known for the novel, The Giver. She wrote The Giver because her…

Historical Information The Perks of Being a Wallflower was published in 1999, during the time that major pop culture movements were taking place. The story refers to various pop culture references like rock bands and the cult classic, Rocky Horror Picture Show. In the 1970s and again in the 1990s, part of the counterculture movement…

Aldous Huxley prophesized the things that society could become in the future through his novel Brave New World in 1932. When Huxley, wrote Brave New World it was during a time of chaos and scientific advancement. Historical events such as World War I took place, the production of the assembly line was invented for mass…

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by British-Polish novelist Joseph Conrad in 1899. Marlow, the narrator of the novel tells his story to the friends on a boat on the River Thames. Marlow tells a story about his early life as a boat captain. While narrating his story, Marlow can be seen describing the…

During Jane Austen’s career as a writer, Evangelicalism was going through a revival period. The principle of Evangelicalism was simple, to express their faith and to share their gospel actively and publicly. However, what exactly did their faith entail? Evangelicalism is a conservative theological movement, which was devoted to reviving the classical Protestant doctrines. Doctrines…