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Wuthering Heights & Moby Dick Mansfield Park and Things Fall Apart Book Reviews
Overview "Wuthering Heights" is a novel written by Emily Bront. This is his only novel It was first published in 1846 in the guise of "Alice Bell". Although Wuthering Heights is a classic novel in English literature, contemporary reviews are deeply polarized. The novel was criticized for its remarkable description of mental and physical cruelty. Religious hypocrisy, social class, morality, and gender inequality are widely covered in the novel.
By Mehedi Hasan Shawon4 years ago in Education
Violence and Humanity
Characters within Invisible Man by Ellison and Beloved by Toni Morrison, the amount of violence and challenges the characters face force them to reevaluate their humanity in the face of the White majority that constantly dehumanizes and compares the Black characters to animals. They defend their humanity by experiencing the cruelest and most horrifying bits of life offered to them and still coming out and reflecting upon it.
By Miss Ghoul4 years ago in Education
The Pampered Opposite: How to Raise Thoughtful, Generous, and Smart Children When It Comes to Money by Ron Lieber - book review
Because it was June 1, International Children's Day, I'm giving you a summary of Ron Lieber's book "The Pampered Opposite: How to Raise Thoughtful, Generous, and Smart Children When It Comes to Money."
By Sebastian Voice4 years ago in Education
Understanding Infinity
One of the more prominent themes behind Jorge Luis Borges’ anthological series Labyrinths is the idea of infinity. In “The Circular Ruins” infinity is a dreamscape thought into existence by men who dream of other men’s reality, endlessly creating worlds and universes for each other, and idea also discussed in “The Garden of Forking Paths” also shows the existence of infinite number of realities. The short story “The Library of Babel” also flirts with the theme of endless possibilities in an infinite world, as does the protagonist state, but shows that “The Library of Babel” gives the reader an exact record of all things it calls infinite in its hollows, therein indicating a finite integer in the process quantifiable by its inhabitants, indicating in an end to the architectural design of the Library itself, but what does the structure itself look like? Many scholars, architects, artists, and mathematicians of “The Library of Babel” have produced many blueprints of the design of the hexagonal space filling the short tale’s universe but cannot seem to agree on a specific shape to this marvel of architecture. But what if one could infer, from the reading of the story, that the Library may be conceptualized as a tower that spirals upwards and downwards for an exceptionally long time, too long, in fact, for one person to traverse the entirety of the structure? Does such a design hold up with the language Borges uses in his own conceptualizing of the Library, also?
By Omar Al-Mahmeed4 years ago in Education
Safely in Sarpedon
Named for its protagonist, “The Stone Boy” tells the story of nine-year-old Arnold as he learns to survive his community’s judgment of him after he accidently kills his older brother during a pea-picking trip to the fields of his family’s farm. Arnold learns to symbolically turn himself into stone to distance himself from the people in his life, making him inert and emotionless. The title becomes a powerful metaphor for how Arnold reacts to other people’s perceptions of him, making him a stone version of himself—cold and unfeeling, absent of emotion—yet still able to retain his boyhood. Ironically, Gina Berriault revivifies inanimate objects within “The Stone Boy” with human qualities through uses of lyrical simile; which begs the question: how does Gina Berriault’s title “The Stone Boy” draw a connection between human emotion and the personification of inanimate objects with human qualities through her use of simile? Does this connection between Arnold’s symbolic emotional petrification show that he is both living and non-living; able to still act straightforwardly in the face of his brother’s death while still retaining his humanity and boyhood?
By Omar Al-Mahmeed4 years ago in Education
The Ragtime & Gone With The Wind and Cold Mountain Books Review
Book reviews Ragtime is a novel written by El Doctor. It was first published in 1975. This is a historical novel. A work of historical fiction based on the events of 1902 to 1912. The novel revolves around a wealthy family living in New York.
By Mehedi Hasan Shawon4 years ago in Education
