Essays on Entertainment Page 13

The Hunger Games started out as a book published in 2008 by Suzanne Collins; soon after came Catching Fire and Mockingjay. In 2012, it became a four-part film series. The setting to the story is in a future post-apocalyptic time in a country called Panem. The country is divided into 12 districts, 1 being the…

This is a prelude book to Lord of the rings. It starts in a place called Shire, as a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins meats a old friend again, a wizard named Gandalf the grey. The wizard is at the door not alone but with several Dwarfs. Bilbo greeted them all into his dwelling. Gandalf starts…

In the Great Gatsby the setting plays a major part in the story because the create a mood and sort of tell about the characters, the four main settings would be East Egg. West Egg, the Valley of Ashes, and New York City. East Egg is where Daisy and Tom Buchannan live in their large…

Time travel is a plot device almost as old as science fiction itself. It seems that as soon aswe have permission to create whatever technology we want we are using it to explore and change the past and future. From Star Trek’s “The City on the Edge of Forever” to Terminator 2: Judgement Day to…

How often do we go online to check which movies are playing in theaters and find that the options are either excessively violent horror films or ones targeted at very young children? It is during such moments that we often yearn for more movies with stronger moral values. Alternatively, we might attend a theater performance…

            The History. In order to understand the problem we must start from the beginning. Tto understand the fever of anime and its popularity we need to look deep inside on how everything started: the idea, the culture and people who made it happen. The beginning of the 20th century gave birth to motion pictures….

Act 1 Scene 1 introduces the readers to the main characters-Capulet’s wife, the Nurse, and Juliet- and their relationships through the conversation between the three. Juliet, at this early stage in the play, is shown as an immature girl; she is naïve and unknowledgeable in the ways of love and the world. The Nurse refers…

The story of self-discovery is narrated by Nick Caraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nick attends a number of Gatsbys parties along with many other people who thrive off of rumors and gossip. As partygoers, Owl Eyes and Klipspringer represent two extremes of character: Owl Eyes portrays the very fewincluding Nick who…

The 5th Wavechronicles the adventures oftwo teenagers, Cassie and Ben, along with Cassie’s younger brother, Sammy. Cassie is a humorous to many people, yet protective when it comes to caring for Sammy, person, quite similar to Ben and his sister. Sammy is just an innocent five-year old. The point of view is first person, but…

In Homer’s composition, The Odyssey, the roles women play are very significant. The best examples of the true nature of women occur when Odysseus encounters Circe and Calypso. These two characters illustrate the thoughts and feelings of how women how a woman feels and how they think. As the quote states, Circe and Calypso illustrate…