The Best Damn Thing

One example is the Museum of Natural History. The museum represents Holden’s desire to freeze time and keep everything the same. It makes him wish he could live in a simple world where nothing ever changes. He claims that “the best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was” (157) and he gets “very happy when [he thinks] about it” (155). Holden’s biggest fear is change and he misses being a child because those were his happiest times. He is…

killed Duncan, he regrets the entire thing and says how he should have died instead. So, now instead of feeling happy to get one step closer to being king, he is depressed knowing that he killed Duncan. In conclusion, people get unpleasantly affected if they make a poor…

Everyone has things we don’t want to do but have to. Some adults don’t want to wake up early for work. Most students never want to go to school. Animals don’t want to be pinned up. But we all have to. One of these situations are present in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. A few themes are present throughout the novel that lead up to this specific example. Through the comparison of characters George and Lennie, they exhibit the themes of loneliness, violence, and friendship which will lead you…

Novel Prejudice: Why To Kill A Mockingbird Was Banned To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Nelle Harper Lee, was published in 1960 and immediately became successful. However, starting in 1977, the book was challenged and even banned from many school districts due to the themes presented by the novel such as profanity, rape, and most importantly, racism (American Literature Association). Challenges and critiques of the novel were common up until the mid 2000s, but To Kill A Mockingbird was banned…

The teen-aged years act as a boundary to either permit or prevent one from reaching adulthood. While some find the transition to be smooth, others become stuck in their past, remaining tied to their innocent childhood. Holden Caulfield, in J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, is an iconic representation of the American teenager. Holden dwells in the past due to his personal struggles and the difficulty he has understanding controversial life topics such as death and sex. The Catcher in…

Father Thorne, is what? Buying girls like you? Swapping drugs for sex?" Jeffrey couldn't hold back the internal thought that junkie whores weren't exactly an attractive option for any man, if they had a choice, and raised a sceptical brow. Even the best Investigative Journalist in the City was unaware of the 'Safe-House' in Woodrow Street, so secret was it, although her words rang a faint bell in his mind, and he found himself caught between curiosity, disbelief, and…

novel, Fitzgerald suggests through the conflict of the old and new wealth that the old rich have good reputations and the appearance of being civilized and well-manned, but they are careless and inconsiderate. In contrast, the new rich may not have the best manner but they have admirable dreams. Old wealth, who have lots of money and reputation, show themselves subtlety,gentility, and decorum but self-centered,thoughtless and lack in heart people. Fitzgerald indicates the good manner of old rich…

“Feyminism:” A New Standard of Feminism for a Nonstandard World Move over, Madonna: feminism has a new poster girl, and her name is Tina Fey! In a time where feminism has been corrupted by the patriarchy into the work of “feminazis,” Fey’s Bossypants proves that feminism is still a rational struggle for equality. Throughout the text, Fey describes obstacles against femininity in her life; readers learn of her struggles grasping womanhood, the subtle sexism on the Chicago comedy circuit, and the…

They ain't got nothing to look ahead to. With us, it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us. We don't have to sit in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go... Not us...Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." In the book when Lennie says this he is describing…

Looking for Alaska. This book is a 221 page, hardback and paperback, young adult novel. Published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile, this would be the first book he would publish. During the week of July 29, 2012, Looking for Alaska hit New York Times best seller list at number ten. The book takes place in Alabama at Culver Creek Preparatory High School. Narrator, Miles Halter, leaves his what little of a life he has in Florida to attend his junior year at a boarding school to “start seeking a…