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In Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” Celie starts off as a young fourteen year old girl who has gone through and continues to go through abuse and rapes. During this time the lifestyles were very different in comparison to today’s society. Women were mentally and physically abused by men as they held the ‘power’ in…

Albert Camus, a writer as well as a philosopher, shares his existentialist and absurdist philosophy through the portrayal of the protagonist, Meursault in The Stranger. As the title of the novel suggests, Meursault is an emotionally and morally detached ‘stranger’. A stranger to society’s conventional values, love, religion, life, and friendship. Accordingly, Meursault is depicted…

To learn how to navigate life in an oppressive society is an important skill to know because there are many people around the world who live in these societies. One place where we can learn these skills is in novels and movies. The graphic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi focuses on the story of a…

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, racism is “a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Racism has been present in almost every society throughout history. In Author Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston character’s experience and express…

Susan Eloise Hinton is an American writer, born on July 22, 1950, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the age of fifteen, she began writing her first novel, The Outsiders, which was published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was only seventeen. The novel sold more than four million copies in the United States. The success of…

Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street has sold over six million copies, in multiple different languages. The classic coming of age novel has not only impacted women but also the Latino culture. The novel was adored by especially the teachers as well as the public when it first was published. The publication…

In Khaled Hosseini’s book “A Thousand Splendid Suns” we are told the story of two women (Mariam and Laila) who after living their own separate lives in Afghanistan, are joined by fate and end up living in the same house while being married to the same manipulative and abusive man; Rasheed. In A Thousand Splendid…

The objectives of required reading lists are to teach and expose high school students to books that society deems as a must read to all. The books chosen on a high school reading list define literature and convey different themes such as race, love, and equality. A novel should evoke emotional response, challenge the reader’s…

Ambition fuels the lives of many people; however, it doesn’t always lead to success or good outcomes. Novelist Anthony Trollope once stated, “It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of…

“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” a novel written by the Dominican American novelist Junot Díaz emphasis on the traditional toxic masculinity known as the macho culture in Latin America. Through the novel, it becomes evident that the masculinity traits and behaviors inflicted on Oscar Wao are examples of machismo expected from men in…