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The great philosopher Voltaire wrote a novel like some kind of nonsense story. The novel is named after the protagonist Candide. But at the same time, in French Candide has a meaning of pure and honest. The whole book is quite similar to the title “Candide”, because it has allegorical nature, and the character encounters…

Slaughterhouse-Five takes place in the 1900s before, during, and after World War 2. The book begins with the narrator discussing the fact that he was looking for his old war buddy O’Hare to help him write his anti-war book. When he found O’Hare, he noticed O’Hare’s wife was enraged by his presence, when he found…

Imagine having to leave you home and everything you have ever known in order to escape the mass killing of innocents from a civil war. This was an everyday reality for many refugees including the character Ha. Inside Out and Back Again, written by Thanahha Lai, is about young girl named Ha and her family…

There have been many novels throughout the course of history that have discussed many issues in current society. In A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, the idea of power and war against women has directly affected females in foreign countries like Afghanistan. This idea of power and war has been shown through treatment in…

In Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sixo was never truly enslaved, he disconnected his body from his soul by not turning into an animal, refusing to accept mental dominance and rejecting the constraints of slavery. He demonstrated consistent humanity throughout his captivity in Sweet Home despite the Schoolteacher’s twisted methodology and cruel punishments. When Sethe arrived…

Marie Ostby is an assistant professor of English and Global Islamic studies who specializes in looking at Iranian art forms as a focal point into political inquiries in contemporary world writing. Within the field of Iranian art forms is a landmark autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi called Persepolis. Ostby’s article, “Graphics and Global Dissent”,…

Toby wakes up and is confused. He looks around and notices that he is in a jungle. He doesn’t remember anything, but he still remembers his name. Toby starts to feel hungry so he goes out hunting. He finds a deer but remembers he has no tools to kill it or a fire place to…

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves, at what we did and at what we did not do – Peter McWilliams. In the story the Kite Runner, there’s lots of guilt that gets greatly shown throughout the entire novel. (fix previous sentence) Khalid Hosseni incorporates the use of guilt in many different ways, one of them…

Introduction The Alchemist is an adventure fiction/fantasy fiction book and was written by a man by the name of Paulo Coelho. Coelho was greatly known for this particular book even tho it had a slow start when it hit the market it quickly picked up and was a hit. Paulo was born on August 24,1947…

In Inside Out and Back Again, Ha’s life comes back when she learns the true meaning of how to live a life that is ‘not the same, but not bad at all.’ The question rightly presumes that a part of Ha’s life ended when she left Saigon. The world in Saigon represented so much of…