Beatrice and Virgil
Beatrice and Virgil is a novel written by Yann Martel, a Canadian writer who is also the author of Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. The book encloses an allegorical tale regarding the representation of the Holocaust. It is about the story of an author named Henry and his struggles in helping a taxidermist to complete a play about a donkey named Beatrice and a howler monkey named Virgil.
Book Review
The story begins with Henry discussing his new manuscript with his editors, along with a bookseller and a historian. His idea is to sell an ill-conceived flip book that attempts to talk about the Holocaust in a completely original style. However, his idea got rejected as they think that it will be very hard to sell. Henry is devastated, he returns home and suggests his wife, Sarah that they move to a new …show more content…
Especially through mass media such as the internet, social media, and films, can’t deny that they have significant impacts on us; People are exposed to higher extents of aggressive and violence images. Even though most of us in this country do not experience or witness violence in our society, to a certain extent of violence, it seems that we are used to it and it has changes our view such that we have accepted it. For example, video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty are some of the common games that youth and children play nowadays; and such games contain act of violence such as shooting in the head and killing people with various kind of weapons. Film, on the other hand, a film titled Cannibal Holocaust is one of the most controversial movies ever. It received criticism of being too violent; other than graphic violence, it also contains scenes of sexual violence and animal cruelty. Fortunately, the film has been banned in many countries, including Malaysia; otherwise, the impact would be detrimental to the
Beatrice and Virgil is a novel written by Yann Martel, a Canadian writer who is also the author of Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. The book encloses an allegorical tale regarding the representation of the Holocaust. It is about the story of an author named Henry and his struggles in helping a taxidermist to complete a play about a donkey named Beatrice and a howler monkey named Virgil.
Book Review
The story begins with Henry discussing his new manuscript with his editors, along with a bookseller and a historian. His idea is to sell an ill-conceived flip book that attempts to talk about the Holocaust in a completely original style. However, his idea got rejected as they think that it will be very hard to sell. Henry is devastated, he returns home and suggests his wife, Sarah that they move to a new …show more content…
Especially through mass media such as the internet, social media, and films, can’t deny that they have significant impacts on us; People are exposed to higher extents of aggressive and violence images. Even though most of us in this country do not experience or witness violence in our society, to a certain extent of violence, it seems that we are used to it and it has changes our view such that we have accepted it. For example, video games such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty are some of the common games that youth and children play nowadays; and such games contain act of violence such as shooting in the head and killing people with various kind of weapons. Film, on the other hand, a film titled Cannibal Holocaust is one of the most controversial movies ever. It received criticism of being too violent; other than graphic violence, it also contains scenes of sexual violence and animal cruelty. Fortunately, the film has been banned in many countries, including Malaysia; otherwise, the impact would be detrimental to the