Essays on Book

“Anna Karenina” is a novel written by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, originally published in 1877. Marriage and family are prevalent themes throughout the novel, “Anna Karenina”. In this novel, Tolstoy emphasizes the effect and the influence marriage has on multiple characters, with the exception of a few. In short, each of the characters are...

In our lives as we grow up we go through situations and we don’t know how to process or understand the feelings we are experiencing. Many times we take drastic measures to get rid of these feelings that make us feel guilty and scared. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a story...

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The title of this book was thought of from a quote from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, where Cassius says ‘The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.’ Cassius is saying that fate is not what dooms us, but...

In Klondike Gold Rush, Jack London realized the powerful nature after his own experience there, that period of time influenced his writing deeply. Jack London was born in San Francisco, California, on 12 January 1876, and died in Glen Ellen, California, on 22 November 1916. He was an explorer, gold prospector, seaman, rancher, darwinian and...

Abstract: This research paper focuses on the psychology of the main characters in the novel “The Fault in Our Stars” by Green. This novel aims on the reality of the life where an ill adult suffers by their physical illness which affects them mentally. The novel runs around the characters Hazel and Augustus who are...

The challenges and hard times we face in life is what shapes us in life and in the book To Kill a Mocking one of the main characters, Scout, comes face to face with the wrongs that occur in the world every day and is forced to grow up a lot faster than most. In...

In the poem “To His Coy Mistress” the tone of the speaker goes through many different transitions throughout the poem. The poem begins at first to be romantic because he speaks of how his love for his mistress could endure time, ‘My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and slower’. So from the first...

DeLillo’s characters cradle religious, psychological, and existential motivations, but their projects of self-realization tend to succumb to the inertness of the material shapes they take and to the claustrophobic paranoia of a closed history of things which connect only to other things. In the words of a character in Underworld, ‘Technology makes reality come true’...

In the story Candide, Voltaire utilizes the encounters of the character Candide and exchange between characters to debate the hypothesis by different rationalists that ‘Everything is for the best right now all potential universes’ (Voltaire). Voltaire accepted that the general public that he lived in had numerous blemishes, defects which are outlined all through the...

The myth of Sisyphus is about a king who confronted the gods and chained Death, so no one could die. After Death was freed and it was time for Sisyphus to die, he escaped from the underworld. When the gods eventually caught him, they sentenced him to an eternal ounishement. Sispyphus had to push a...