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Holiday break is right around the corner! The holidays are one of my favorite times of year: I love spending time with family and friends, catching up on sleep — and reading great books! From futuristic sci-fi reads to culturally significant novels on a range of social issues, there are so many books to be …
“Just go with the flow.” This is the unwritten rule that many believe is the way to get by in today’s society, a place where people are puppets to peer pressure and are afraid to stand out. However, what good is conformity really? How can accepting what other people establish help us to find out …
According to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, redemption is “the human potential to succeed after having failed”. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir watches Hassan, his friend and Hazara servant, get raped; looking out for his own best interest, Amir does not stand up for him, and consequently he is …
In America, being called “thin” is a complement; you don’t ask questions like “was it the black girl or the white girl?”; you say “I’m not sure” instead of “I don’t know”. These are the fine-grained, subtle nuances of American culture that Adichie reveals in her powerful and down-to-earth novel, Americanah. Americanah is a love story, but …
Paul Acampora’s I Kill a Mockingbird must make famous authors everywhere proud; something about its playful, teasing remarks seems like something out of The Fault in Our Stars, the novel pays homage to Harper Lee’s American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the book’s three main characters, Lucy, Elena and Michael, are somewhat of a “Harry-Hermione-Ron” or “Percy-Annabeth-Grover” fixture from …
You cannot touch me, but I am always here; I am indecent and I control your actions. What am I? Your arrogance. In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, a group of conspirators murder Julius Caeser, the potential future king of Rome. They are led by Cassius, whose underlying motives are his envy, thirst for control, and …