“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 …
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RECONCILING OUR PAST WITH OUR FUTURE: An Essay on The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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 …
AN EXPOSÉ ON AMERICAN CULTURE: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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 …
QUIRKY SATIRE: I Kill the Mockingbird by Paul Acampora
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 …
TICK-TOCK GOES THE (DOOMSDAY) CLOCK
What clock has hands that move both forward and backward, is controlled by humans, and represents the impending threat of disaster? The Doomsday Clock. The Doomsday Clock symbolizes the intensity of scientific concern regarding the likelihood of humanity’s potential annihilation — the closer the hands are to midnight, the closer Doomsday is to arriving. It was …
SUMMER 2018: WHAT TO READ AND WHEN TO READ IT
Sunglasses? Check. Swimsuit? Check. Books? Summer isn’t just about ice cream and tanlines — it’s a great opportunity to read for pleasure without the stress of grades. From rich novels about love spanning continents to spine-tingling mysteries you’ll devour in one sitting, here are some books you should tune into this summer: #1 book overall, for …