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Gandhi once said, “A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.” This quote explains how sacrificing yourself for the good of others and showing kindness towards your enemy is an incredible act…

Imagine reading a prolonged novel about, say, a prince saving a princess; now think about how much more challenging it would be reading an intensely gloomy novel subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany and narrated by Death himself. I understand all too well that some books really aren’t easy to read. When you are challenged…

Words are very powerful and one of the most common ways we communicate with each other. The novel, The Book Thief, tells a story of a young girl named Liesel, and certain challenges she faces in Nazi Germany in 1939 through the eyes of death. In the way the story is written it is clear…

Throughout the years, humans have been known to stand up for what they believe in. As many people know, history tends to repeat itself. In the novel The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak, he uses characters to repetitively show acts of courage in the face of government tyranny. The characters in the book choose…

Do you think suffering is important in a story’suffering is a very important theme in the novel The Book Thief, by Mark Zusak. This novel is about a girl and her close ones who went through a lot of suffering or hardships. Hunger, cold, and abuse – contribute to the suffering. The Jews and German…

For each person, the journey is different, and for some it’s what shapes their personality. A journey for some may be smaller and less interesting than others but in the end it is what tells the story of your life. Such as, the friendships that you make and the different schools that you will attend,…

The Book Thief by Mark Zusak is about a 9-year-old girl who goes after the name Liesel Meminger. At a young age, she is separated from her mother and her brother, while they are travelling Liesel’s brother suddenly dies. She was devastated and having nightmares for several days. Liesel went to a town called Molching…

Adam Gopnik’s Angels and Ages novel searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Coincidently born on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthore our sense of history and our understanding of man’s place in the world.  Gopnik’s novel reveals these two men as the…

To understand the order of the novel, we can go back to Chapter 1, as we can see how the first chapters were presented as Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s memories. The story is developed in chronological order by narrating the rise and fall of each generation of the Buendía family. The novel is structured in non-numerated…

The Scarlet Lette has been captivating readers since it was first published in 1850 by autho Nathaniel Hawthorne. This historical fiction, romance, yet sinful book is abou a woman named Hester Prynne who was sent to Boston by her husband, ha committed adultery while waiting for her husband to arrive to Boston. She give birth…