Essays on Book Review

“The Boss” in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain “The Boss” is chapter eight of Mark Twain's tale "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court". Yankee was referred to by this name in the novel. The work's body attempts to articulate numerous historical quandaries, and this chapter...

In his novel, Why Fairy Tales Stick Jack Zipes claims that fairy tales are memes or units of knowledge that are culturally repeated and that these tales have coevolved with humans' increasing ability to distinguish. He claims that fairy tales are polygenic natural artifacts, which means that they are a set...

Introduction Ignorance is a novel written in 1999 by Milan Kundera in French and released in 2000. However, in 2002, Linda Asher translated the first edition into English, a translation distributed by HarperCollins Publishers in New York around the same time (Kundera and Linda 24). The novel discusses the differences in...

Scott Poole's novel, "Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting" Scott Poole's novel, 'Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting,' depicts Americans' nightmare rather than their fantasy. It is not a children's book and many of the monsters depicted, from colonial...

The World is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake Introduction The book The World is Moving Around Me is based on the account of an eyewitness who uses his memory to write down the events that occurred. It outlines the events that happened during the earthquake and the resulting...

For millennia, nearly all traditions have held that cooking should be confined to women. According to Inness's book "Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food," it is not difficult to note that food, as well as its preparation, is heavily gender-coded to the feminine. In most countries, however, masculinity...

The Novel "Lord of the Flies" The novel "Lord of the Flies" vividly portrays humanity's worst hand, the barbarism that threatens even the most cultured citizens. William Golding gives the reader a straightforward storyline, realistic photographs of girls, a precise history of character behavior, and exotic locations to demonstrate man's brutality....

Brave New World Brave New World is a science fiction novel of Aldous Huxley that was written in 1931. Brave New World is a modernist book that echoes features of a best society. Although, stability and happiness are attained through suppressing emotions, feelings, and freedom of people. Nonetheless, specific traits of...

In 1993 Valerie Polakow wrote Lives on the Verge to deal with the plight of single mothers and their children in the "other" America. The term "other America" is used to indicate that in America there are two classes: the other America and the rest of the world. The "other"...

In his book Into the Woods, Jon Krakauer portrays a man who leaves his family home and heads into the forest. Chris McCandless, the story's lead, prefers solitude after graduating. Clearly, a core premise of this book is that complete self-sufficiency is unlikely in one's life. The assistance and care...

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin is a short story exploring the topics of death, time, liberty and imprisonment, as well as contact. The story reveals how sensitive life is; it is not just death that probably triggers someone else's grief and possible...

The Crucible: A Reflection of Restrictive Society The Crucible is a renowned allegory written by Arthur Miller. It is a book that helps us to understand the restrictive nature of the Salem society. The e book draws a picture of the Puritans who changed house from England to America since the...