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Ben-Hur: A Tale ofChristby Lew Wallace (1827- 1905)Type of Work:Historical romantic fictionSettingJudea and Rome; during the time of JesusChristPrincipal CharactersJudah Bur-Hur, a JewBen-Hur’s mother and sisterTirzahMessala, a Roman citizen; Judah’s childhoodfriend, and later hated enemyArrius, a Roman commanderSimonides, an aged Hur servantMallach, Simonides’ servantStory Overveiw(The tale begins with an account of Jesushumble birth, the adoration…

Advancement is non something that comes really rapidly. It is a gradual procedure that takes clip. in the involvement of our state and the Progressive Era. more than a decennary. The presidents of this clip. Roosevelt. Taft. and Wilson. were like chefs developing a formula for the improvement of the United States. Every act that…

An Inspector Calls is a play that centers on morals, political views and highlighting to a 1946 audience how things have changed dramatically since 1912. Priestley uses the play to communicate his socialist views this is done is many ways throughout the play and the main way he does this is though his characters. But before…

The opening scene of Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner plays a significant role in setting the tone for the whole novel by giving the readers a glimpse of the major themes of the novel, which are redemption, sin, guilt, loyalty, betrayal and friendship. The technique of foreshadowing has been effectively used in order to present to…

Today, society has become a boisterous world of communication. From telephone conversations to live Internet chat and e-mail, the world has never before been quite so in touch. In the novel Obasan, by Joy Kogawa, Naomi Nakane does not have technology to communicate. Instead, she faces the dilemma of communicating at all. From her family,…

In Chartism by Thomas Carlyle, the problem is outlined; in William Dodd’s narrative, it is recounted from personal experience. Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South is a fictional account of the very real condition of England. Clearly, questions of social and economic injustice were on the front burner even as the social oppression transpired. Another very…

History constantly witnesses the never-ending struggle between tradition and innovation. As an old adage goes, “the only constant thing in this world is change” and it is indeed true. The society that we have today is a by-product of continuous changes changes that generations before us believed to be for the better. Thus, history serves…

In 2010, the book The Saint and the Sultan took home the award for “Winner of the 2010 Catholic Press Association Book Award for History.” This book was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York journalist Paul Moses. It recollects the time that Saint Francis of Assisi and the Ayyubid Sultan, al-Malik al-Kāmil met during the…

Joseph Conrad, or should I say Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine in 1857. His parents were Polish patriots and died when he was a child. As a result he was raised by his uncle. At the age of seventeen, Conrad left his uncle to begin his maritime career with the…

Kate Chopin, an American author, is known for her feminist theme of writing in her novels and short stories. Chopin wrote her many of her stories around a time when society was very obstructive about the view of women and their place in society, a time when women who did not have their own voices…