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A&P written by John Updike and Goodfellows written by Antonya Nelson are both stories that have lots of similarities and differences in many ways. The characters experiences and the setting were completely different. A&P took place in the mid-1990s in a grocery store north of Boston. Goodfellows takes place in a pizzeria located in Chicago….

The novel The Orphan Master’s son is a riveting text that leaves the reader constantly on the edge of their seat and keeps them engaged throughout the entire storyline. Adam Johnson was able to take the limited information we have about North Korea and form the adventurous, romantic and eye-opening piece of fiction that he’s…

In the foreword of Zora Hurston’s novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Edwidge Danticat, the author of the short story Krik? Krak!, notes the complex trials that Janie Crawford, the protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God, “as she attempts to survive her grandmother’s restricted vision of a black woman’s life and realize her own…

Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was revolutionary at the time that it was written. Hurston not only made the bold choice to write in African American vernacular English, but the main character was also an African American woman who was independent, wealthy, and beautiful. At this time of the Harlem Renaissance, African…

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. So begins Zora Neale Hurston’s brilliant novel about a woman’s search for her authentic self and for real love” (1; ch.1). This quote is a metaphor for the dreams that men have and what they do to pursue them. It is saying that some dreams…

As a reader of Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” you pick up quite easily that she likes to use symbolism to represent facets of her characters’ lives and delve deeper into social issues. Keiko Dilbeck assessed and analyzed the symbols used in the novel to give a richer understanding of what Hurston was trying…

John Steinbeck, in The Grapes of Wrath, and Barbara Ehrenreich, in Nickel and Dimed, both show the hardship of the working poor by depicting their lack of economic mobility. Both stories, although based in different time periods, focus on the lack of housing and liveable wages. This shows how the same problems have remained throughout…

“In 1933, 90 percent of Germans showed unflinching support for Adolf Hitler. That leaves the ten percent who didn’t” (63), and this ten percent includes the Hubermanns because they combat the bigotry against Jews. Therefore, absolving them in any blame for Germany’s actions in the war. In the novel The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak,…

Liesel is a young girl who is the main character of the story “ The Book Thief” The end of the “Book Thief” consisted of the death of her loved ones and its afterlash. As Nazis in Germany became stronger they started to take Jews to concentration camps where they often crossed Himmel street. Here…

Authors use a variety of literary devices to make a book more interesting and keep the reader in suspense. The author of the The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, is fond of the literary device called foreshadowing. He makes the book suspenseful, revealing how characters die early on and telling the reader the outcome to certain…