Lemony Snicket

Markus Zusak has not really written "Harry Potter and the Holocaust." It just feels that way. "The Book Thief" is perched on the cusp between grown-up and young-adult fiction, and it is loaded with librarian appeal. It deplores human misery. It celebrates the power of language. It may encourage adolescents to read. It has an element of the fanciful. And it's a book that bestows a self-congratulatory glow upon anyone willing to grapple with it. "The Book Thief" resembles other, better novels…

Placelessness is a repressed occurrence that co-exists with numerous issues and matters involving social norms, socio-cultural systems, ideologies, and interactions in our modern society. It can be comprehended as either a phenomenon where a place loses its local meaning or identity, or as its literal meaning, the act of lacking a fixed location. Both meanings are evident in “The Quiet Ones”, where Diaz exhibits placelessness as an underlying occurrence behind issues in modern society, observed…

1. For a civilization to conquer another, not only does it require knowledge and strategy, but also the aid of geography. This is a statement that Jared Diamond, an evolutionary biologist and biogeographer, demonstrated through his thirty years of research. His theory explained how human societies differed in regards to advancement and technology as a result of the dissimilarities in their environments. This advancement and technology aided civilizations in conquering others. Such occurred with…

The development and adaptation of characters throughout a story changes who the character is and how he/she acts in the story. As a story progresses so does the characters in the story as they become stronger, smarter, and faster as the story requires them to adapt to the situations they are in leading them to change from begging of the story to the end, same could be said about real life from the beginning to the end you are looking at two different characters. Looking at books and movies we…

Some of the time this trait has been enormously successful in the case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit Trilogy, The Harry Potter series, and many more. However it has proven to be a let down in others such as The Golden Compass, Lemony Snicket, and especially Eragon.…