Nonfiction

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science -- and the World by Rachel Swaby is a nonfiction book about women’s acknowledgment in the different fields of science and how these women’s accomplishments have been finessed by men and the media. The women recognized in this book are not as famous and common know like, Marie Curie, but this does not mean their work and accomplishments are less important. It talks about the media coverage of women scientists and their discoveries that changed the world.…

Book Arrangement: Truman Capote did not number chapters in In Cold Blood, electing instead to divide the book into four distinct parts. He arranged the parts in chronological order, starting before the crime and ending with the execution. Each part included chapters separated by an extended space on the page that alternated from focusing on the killers to focusing on either the Clutter family, the detectives, or others present in the account, depending on the part. The book also included an…

The nonfiction book titled The Beauty Myth explores how the image that society has of beauty is used against women. The author, Naomi Wolf graduated from Yale University and completed graduate work at New College, Oxford University, where she was a Rhode Scholar. Along with writing The Beauty Myth, Wolf has also written three other bestselling books titled Promiscuities, Fire with Fire, and Misconceptions. Wolf is not only an author, but a well known feminist leader for women. She cofounded the…

to get the readers to sympathize with them, when the author states sources to show his credibility, and when he explains how past choices or actions affected something going on in the present. “There Are No Children Here” by Alex Kotlowitz is a nonfiction story about two young brothers Lafayette and Pharoah, who grew up in harsh living conditions in the…

has overcome quite a lot; slavery, Civil War, and segregation. Although we like to believe that we live in a post racial society, the fact is that racial inequalities still exist. Tim Wise published a book called White Like Me which draws upon a nonfiction book called Black Like Me by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961 book; in the book, and in the later version which was made into a movie, Griffin, a white man, tells the story of how he darkened his skin with dye, medicine,…

house—one smashed a window; another nicked the washing machine; another bored a hole through the door where Mrs. Young was peeking out.” (Lord 110) Walter Lord’s, Day of Infamy, is an extremely detailed account of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. Lord’s nonfiction novel gives you a front row seat to all of the action by telling the story in a way that will not allow you to put the book down until you’re done. Walter Lord once said, “I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary…

When it comes to creating characters and story, Alexander-Tanner explained that his biggest incentive is real life situations and scenarios. “I like talking to people, a lot. Like getting really connected. Making comics is very solitary work which I don’t like”, Alexander-Tanner states. “I’m not a type of person who wants to just sit in a room and not interact with anyone for hundreds of hours. It just goes against my nature which has been a big struggle in this work. So I really like the parts…

A lot of people, at a young age, are told to embrace their differences. However, not too long ago, Jews were being killed, simply for being Jews and having different religious beliefs. In the novel, The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, the story begins with a girl called Hannah. She does not want to reminisce about the Holocaust and in turn, is sent back into the past and is forced to face the horrors of the mass killing of Jews. The novel, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne, it…

In her book The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert writes that there have been five mass extinctions in the history of planet earth. She asserts that currently the earth is on the precipice of a sixth mass extinction. In contrast with the previous five, according to Kolbert this sixth extinction is almost entirely caused by humans and our exploitation of the earth. In each of the book’s thirteen chapters, Kolbert highlights a particular species that is now extinct and analyzes the causes and…

her literary skills/awards, her commitment to making this world a better place and her bravery to speak out to be heard (Maya Angelou). She was best known for her book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, which made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller of an African-American woman, according to biography.com! She may not have the superhuman abilities, but she had the strength to keep moving forward regardless of her unforgotten past. In like matter, biography.com states that [Maya…