Essays about Books Page 32

It’s basically saying that you’re numb if you think you can get by with reading and that’s not right. A second reason is when Guy Montage says “Monday burn Malay, Wednesday Whitely, Friday Faulkner, burn ‘me to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our slogan”. That saying that the firemen are basically going to burn…

Harry Potter is the most miserable, lonely boy you can imagine. He’s shunned by his relatives, the Dursley’s, that have raised him since he was an infant. He’s forced to live in the cupboard under the stairs, forced to wear his cousin Dudley’s hand-me-down clothes, and forced to go to his neighbour’s house when the…

One common reading of Lord of the Flies is that it focuses on the dislocation of civilisation and the implicit in savageness in each single homo being, ever finally returning back to an evil nature with a focal point on the endurance of the person. Without regulations and norms to steer people, communities will fall…

This week’s readings had the themes of sexuality and racial discrimination. These themes are displayed in “The Story of Sexuality” by Michel Foucault and “Abbreviation in Black” by Roderick Ferguson. Foucault brings up the discussion of sexuality and its contemplation in the west since the seventeenth century. Confessions of sex in the eighteenth century became…

The Lord of the FliesThe adventure novel, The Lord of the Flies, was an epic tale that depictedthe different facets of the human spirit. It was written by William Golding inthe 1950’s and recieved many awards. It was declared the “Outstanding Novel ofthe Year” by E.M. Forrester. The author did in no wat mean for…

After reading chapter 11 of , I was very motivated to begin studying the Bible in different ways than I have before! This chapter highlights different methods of Bible study that can help a Bible student grasp the Scriptures in a well-rounded way. The chapter begins by introducing the idea of creating a “toolbox” as…

An August, 1996, series in the San Jose Mercury News by reporter Gary Webb linked the origins of crack cocaine in California to the contras, a guerrilla force backed by the Reagan administration that attacked Nicaragua’s Sandinista government during the 1980s. Webb’s series, “The Dark Alliance,” has been the subject of intense media debate, and…

Unexpected Company: Outsiders Console Within Themselves The concept of being an outsider suggests that an outsider would be isolated and detached from their surroundings. This idea is contradicted in “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris, “Homeschool Insider: The Fighting Pterodactyls” by Ron Carlson, and “Dumpster Diving” by Lars Eighner, where each protagonist is…

Toni Morrison narrates the main character in her novel by coming to the real source of his post-traumatic stress disorder (Ibarrola). Home is set in the aftermath of the Korean war (Brockes). Toni Morrison writes in the novel Home about a poor man named Frank Money. Frank is introduced as a man from the South…

In Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula, many deaths has occurred which impacted society and their decision to how they want to handle each person’s death. The novel uses the duality of apathetic and sympathetic to compare society’s reaction to the different deaths that took place in the bottom land. Society was more drawn to a specific…