The New Guy

field every meeting. In addition to Rudy’s constant punishment at his Nazi Youth meetings, he continues to steal apples alongside Liesel and the rest of the gang. Unfortunately, Arthur, their old leader, moves away and they are forced to welcome their new leader, Vicktor Chemmel, who does not appear to enjoy their company very much. Not only does Liesel enjoy stealing food, but she begins to steal books from the mayor’s library as she notices…

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the community Jonas lives in is an imperfect world. It is an illusion of a utopia. A utopia is a place that we can only dream about. While a dystopia is the opposite. Their society lacks the qualities of a utopia, and has flaws, such as, lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control. The community doesn’t know the past, so they lack knowledge. The only person that knows is the Receiver of Memory. In The Giver it says, ”Everyone in the community has one…

The man with the limp beckoned Seth and me over. We gathered in front of the fireplace. “We’re not finding anything. We should call the police—” The man in the printed shirt held up one finger to shush us. “Listen . . .” Everyone froze. “I thought I heard something,” he whispered. “It might have just been the old house creaking. But let’s turn off the lights and see if anything moves.” All the lights went out, leaving us in almost total darkness except for the pale platinum moonlight…

Both Beowulf, translated by Burton Raffel, and Grendel by John Gardner depict similar qualities between the two main characters, but different perspectives offered by each book also differentiate the characters by illustrating unique details described only in one of the books. There are many qualities of both Beowulf and Grendel that are mentioned in both books. For example, Beowulf possesses superhuman strength in both Beowulf and Grendel. This is shown when Beowulf, “__________” (Gardner ##).…

In this novel, Clarisse McClennan played a significant role in the story and had a positive influence on Montag. Although there are many characters that influence Guy Montag, the friendship with Clarisse mcClellan impacts him the most. She causes him to open his eyes to the world and makes him begin to pay more attention to others and their emotions. She helps him realize how wrong his job is as her being the total opposite of society. One of Clarisse’s major roles in the novel is to get Montag…

The role of the Golden One and International 4-8818 in the novella is very strange. The people in this this story live in a weird place and they call it the novella.The way that they live is men don't pay attention to women and vice versa. If I am not mistaken I think that all women work in fields and wear white tunics. There are a lot of things that are very strange in this book instead of breaking the law they call it sins. The novella is not a place that sounds happy nor exciting. Equality…

The gritty story of the troubled narrator, the destructive Tyler Durden, and their Fight Club is a story known for grim and shockingly realistic themes. Fight Club was Palahniuk’s first novel, as well as his magnum opus. Fight Club is Palahniuk’s most known and work, and is generally regarded as his best. Fight Club follows an unnamed narrator, his close friend Tyler Durden, and his girlfriend Marla Singer. The narrator meets Tyler under mysterious circumstances, as the narrator is unable to…

"Robber Barons" were entrepreneurs that employed any means necessary to better themselves and they didn't care who they had to step on to get there, or, were they just innocent business men who were initiative marketing geniuses? The debate on whether these men were greedy, power hungry, monsters or just innocent business men who had a way with advertisements is one extreme to the next, but these are the two points I will be exploring: greedy monsters or initiative , industrial, urban marketers?…

In the book Fahrenheit 451 Montag used to see fire as destruction but now sees it as a loss. When the firefighters got the fire call to go to 11 North Elm Street Montag experience things he has never thought about before, “You can come with me… I want to stay here” (Bradbury 36). Montag tried to convince the woman to leave with him so she would not die in the fire. “She opened the finger of one hand slightly and in the palm of the hand was a single slender object. An ordinary kitchen match”…

Guy Montag is the not so loveable and rather bland protagonist in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. With his lack of character depth, there’s no wonder why so many are against him. However, who is the main villain that Montag battles for the 150 or so pages of the novel? Some would argue that it is Captain Beatty the evil head of the firefighters who plays with Montag’s head and leads him to burn his books. But this would be far too easy to assume. The true antagonist in Fahrenheit 451 is the…