Companion parrot

“’Everything around us is roses…And we’re the shit in between’” (Boo xii). Katherine Boo spent 4 years in Mumbai, India: a city that had some of the wealthiest areas next to the poorest slums. Her book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, focuses on the slum of Annawadi. This is a community of primarily trash-pickers and scavengers, with an extremely small percentage of residents with permanent jobs and a barely livable average income. These people live right under the noses of large and gorgeous…

Daniel Defoe came up with one of the most original and outstanding ideas for a story and decided to write it down. Little did he know that Robinson Crusoe was going to be an inspiration for other writers centuries after his death and even the precursor of a whole new genre – the robinsonade. William Golding created a great novel, full of symbolism and the truth about human nature following the archetype of robinsonade, which shares some similarities to Defoe’s story. A typical robinsonade tells…

Home is different from a house since it has sentimental values attached to them: it represents not only a place of dwelling, but also a community where a family belongs. Due to the trend of linking affection with the family, home is essentially a place that provides one with warmth, comfort, love, sense of acceptance, and stability. But those attitudes toward home are not always found in everyone; one may be innately be adverted from it, like the case of many adventure-takers such as Robinson…