Essays about Books Page 24

The Color Purple By Alice Walker, and the movie The Color Purple, directed by Steve Spielberg, are stories about love and the survival between two sisters. The obstacles that the sisters have to face are very life risking Primary Differences: 1. Characters: With regards to the basic turns of the plot, the film is pretty…

Introduction If a man suddenly appears and acclaims to be a king, the public immediately asks for proof. What is his background? Anticipating this important question, Matthew opened his book with a careful account of the birth of Jesus Christ and the events that accompanied it. The Gospel According to Matthew has been called by…

As my classmate, Ethan Salem, said in his historian’s report, the book, “Sula” has a distinct secondary focus to the relationships between parents and their children. In the story “Sula”, we witness a friendship between two friends fade away through the years as they grew. Betrayal serves as the main cause of the halt in…

Reasoning or guessing ahead is a literary device by which an author explains certain plot developments that may come later in the story. [l] It is used to arouse and mentally prepare the reader or listener for how the story will proceed and A hint that is designed to mislead the audience is referred to…

            The movie, The Notebook, is a love story that is un-compared to others.  It tells the story of an older man and his wife who is dying of Alzheimer’s.  The movie is about Noah (the older man) telling Allie (the older woman) a story that is about the two of them as they met,…

The company started in 1976 at the Thirst site and has grown from its roots by a series of well-planned acquisitions and a strategy of continuous improvement in all aspects of its business. ; Strategic Thinking Barry, the three site general managers and two project managers form the strategy team. Barry says, “There is a…

In Ellen Goodman’s “The Company Man” the brief items on the family members and the presidents of the company tell the readers many things about themselves and Phil. This essay shows how a workaholic is too involved with working to be with his family. Phil’s wife, Helen, feels she lost him to his work years…

The book Congo is about a group of people who go to theAfrican Congo to return a gorilla to her homeland and to findtype IIb blue diamonds. On their journey they discover thelost city of Zinj and a new species of killer gorillas, whichthey must overcome to survive. The story takes place inJune of 1979….

Upon examining me closely, she inquired about my age. I was displeased with her attitude and the way she glanced at me, silently conveying “You don’t belong here.” Nonetheless, I have an equal entitlement to be present just as much as she does. In response, I stated, “I am fourteen years old and possess the…

This essay is a follow up to my article, “Theosophy and the Thurian Age: Robert E. Howard and the Works of William Scott-Elliot,” that was published in the November 2011 issue of The Dark Man journal (Shanks). In that article I argued that the principle source for the theosophical elements identified by Rusty Burke and…