Khaled Hosseini

The book, ‘Crazy Times with Uncle Ken’ (2011) chronicles the deeds and misdeeds, adventures and misadventures of Uncle Ken, who helped to enliven Ruskin Bond’s boyhood days. Uncle Ken lived under the dominion of several strong-minded-women – his mother, four sisters, and several cousins and nieces. So, he needed an ally, and sometimes he found an ally in Ruskin. His jobs did not last very long, his grandiose schemes were unsuccessful, and he got both Ruskin and himself – into trouble every…

In his short story Blankets, Alex La Guma takes us through the life story of Choker. He makes use of the blankets as a motif and flashbacks to help us understand the past, which intern help us to understand the present. The essay will show how the story of Choker can be seen as tragic, and how the onlookers are antagonistic toward Choker and vice versa. It will also show how the readers can show both sympathy and antipathy toward Choker, and will indicate a reversal of initial assumptions.…

The monomyth, also known as the hero’s journey, has been portrayed throughout a widespread of works of literature both alike and different. However, the techniques of the portrayal of the hero’s journey had always been different throughout works of literature that include this archetype such as A Long Way Gone and The Hobbit. A Long Way Gone is the true story of Ishmael Beah’s traumatizing childhood of being an unwilling boy soldier in Sierra Leone and how he was able to turn his life…

Bungee in Norway Peter was 21 years old and loved bungee jumping and parachute in Norway. But this year he were going to bungee jump in the Sognadal Mountains. He sat on the train on his way from Bergen to Sogndal. He had a little cabin in Sogndal. It was two bedrooms and one kitchen, and if they needed a toilet, they went out. He was with his two friends, Jonas and Frank, both was from Sogndal. When he arrived, Jonas and Frank were waiting in the cabin. It was two days until they were going to…

Silas Marner, a book of betrayal, grief, happiness, and justice. Silas Marner was the protagonist of this book, and he played an important role as the story was developing. Over the course of the story, we see Silas pass through several phases, such as friendship, desolation and becoming a loving father. In this essay I will focus on how Silas Marner lost his humanity, how was he living with his grief, and how he miraculously recovered his humanity. In the beginning of the story, we meet…

John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, is a glimpse of the reality behind Americas historical Great Depression, though it’s intent is much deeper than that. Steinbeck reinforces the idea of family unity and fighting together with the Joads and their journey. The deeper message that Steinbeck wanted to make with the Joad family is unclear and their future beyond the last chapter is also left to the assumption of the reader. However, chapter thirty reveals a great deal of information when looked…

A Passage to India is a novel by the English author Edward Morgan Forster, published in 1924 and took him 12 years to write, so he actually started writing in since 1912. It’s basically set against the British Raj or the British rule in india. This novel is fiction, however it’s based on Forster’s real life experience and incidents he actually witnessed but the rest of the story is definitely made up. Forster used to tutor a young Indian Muslim called Masood in England, they developed a close…

In the fictional novel for young adults, The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan, the main character, Percy Jackson, finds out that the life he has known is all a lie. He learns that he is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea. He also finds out that Zeus, the god of the skies, has accused him of stealing his most precious weapon, a lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Percy goes on an exciting journey to find the true culprit of the crime he has been accused of, and stop a civil war between…

Throughout The Epic of Sundiata, a griot narrates the story of a young man who conquered the kingdom of Mali after learning to walk at age seven and defeating a terrible enemy, Soumaoro. The griot narrator, Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate, claims everything he tells is “pure and free of all untruth” (1) and is a history rather than a story. However, as he writes about magical and extravagant myths, current readers consider this book as a story. Despite being considered a story rather than a history,…

Last but not least, one of the most important shared themes between these two novels is individualism and collectivism. This theme appears vividly in every inch of both novels thus it indicates that although Orwell and Huxley imagined two complete different futures of their current societies, in some cases such as this, they had the same type of advanced point of view. In general, individualism and collectivism are two co-existing different ideologies that oppose one another. Individualism is a…