Book Review Essay Examples

The Catcher In The Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, is a fictional novelthat was first published in 1965. The novel takes place in New York City and inPennsylvania over a duration of four days. This novel tells the story of anemotionally disturbed teenager who has been kicked out of a boarding school. Thestory is told…

The title of this book, Worship is a Verb, might suggest that it is the major premise of the book. Indeed, in the first chapter Webber lays out his contention that worship is a verb – something we are to be doing. He continues to come back to this thought throughout the book. Description of…

It was dawn at Nagrebcan. The all right. blue mist. low over the baccy Fieldss. was raising and thinning minute by minute. A ragged strip of mist. pulled off by the forenoon zephyr. had caught on the hundred umps of bamboo along the Bankss of the watercourse that flowed to one side of the barrio….

AloneBy Lisa GardnerAlone, by Lisa Gardner, is a story about a police sniper, Bobby, who was called to a hostage situation and ends up taking actions he will later regret. What you see at first glance is not always what it really is. Bobby thought he saw one thing happening in the house on that…

Precious or Push by Sapphire writes about a 16 year old obese and illiterate girl who is named Precious Jones who lives in a 1987 Harlem era, which is in Upper Manhattan, New York City as a fictional story. In the beginning of the story, Precious was impregnated with her second child by her biological…

The objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor…

What are the major themes of The Handmaid’s Tale? Choose one character and assess how they contribute to any of these themes. What does this character reveal about Atwood’s attitudes and values? How does the narrative voice of the novel affect the reader’s understanding of this character? I feel that the major themes of The…

Edward Morgan Forster wrote among many other novels, A Passage to India in 1924. The novel happens to be his peak hit in the ladder of success. The novel exposes a dramatic comparison between the colonial political reign using a brief but fictions narration of an English woman named Adela Quested and the Indian man…

Introduction. The book Shake Hands with the Devil” centers on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which shocked the world. The author, Romeo Dallaire, is the former head of the U.N. Peacekeeping Force that was deployed in Rwanda during the chaos. He tells us the story of the great evil where he and his men had to…

Chapter five of ‘Frankenstein’ is crucial to creating a sense of horror in the novel. How does Shelley achieve this? The gothic horror novel published in 1818 called ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ consists of the major themes of life and death, love and sex and also how man challenges god. The alternative name for this novel…