… in the book, Don’t Scream, by Joan Lowery Nixon, is curiosity. Jess spends much of her time attempting to find out the details of other people’s lives, and it often gets her in trouble. The main characters in the book are Jessica Donnally, Lori…

… struggle for survival of the young boys in The Lord of the Flies ultimately results in innocence transforming into savagery. There is an on going battle between good and evil which has always been the focus of William Golding’s works. “Stung by…

… Twain’s novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we see through the eyes of a brilliant child, the prejudice world he lives in, and the reality that is thrown at him in his journey down the Mississippi River. He learns to see the true society he is a part…

… She sold all of her belongings including her portion of her fathers ranch in Primrose Creek, Nevada. Then she left to go to California. Megan met a guy who said he loved her, but then ended up breaking her heart. So she left California to…

… important part of understanding the story, "A bird in the house". Women made great strides in the twenties, gaining the right to vote, Among other statutory rights. This seemed to be the beginning of the idea that women were indeed afforded the same…

… that as a whole, working today families do not experience as many tragedies as the characters in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle experienced during the beginning of the 20th century. While reading The Jungle I learned that the rights and welfare…

… a very powerful drama which involves man and totalitarian society. It is a story of a lonely rebel whose only valuable is his mind and who later conspires with another in an attempt to separate from their increasingly dominant hate-infested society.…

… rules, savagery and anarchy can come to light." This is one of the many themes expressed in William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, and by far the most important. It is exemplified throughout his novel with Jack and his tribe, Ralph and Piggy, and other…

… fifth book in the series “The Wheel of Time” that I started a while back. It is by Robert Jordan and is fantasy. In this book, Rand al’Thor, now hailed as the Dragon Reborn, decides to attack Illian. Rand does not know that he is being lured into…

… Case,” Paul suffered setbacks and dilemmas because he never knew his mother as she died around the time of his birth. Therefore he is lacking the maternal guidance of emotional stability that every child needs to grow mentally. Paul is withdrawn from…