The Pendragon Adventure

In the passage, “The Last children in the Woods,” Richard Louv describes how times have changed since he was an adolescent boy. Louv argues that modern technology has caused the youth population to become disengaged with the world and instead engaged with their screens. Louv employs first person, vivid diction, emotional appeal and anecdote to convince the reader to stop the madness that technology has done to the world and instead look towards nature and a more simplistic life. Louv…

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…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by the American writer Mark Twain. Although it was published in 1885, the novel is set in the southern part of Missouri during the 1840s, back when slavery was legal in the United States. The novel narrates the journey of Huckleberry “Huck”, a 13 year old boy, and Jim, a runaway slave, as they try to get Jim to a free state. The novel is considered a classic for its unique satirical perspective of racism and slavery in the United States. The excerpt…

There are four characters in the story. Each of these characters represents a part of us. :- Hem and Haw – Little people Sniff and Scurry – mice Sniff: Good and always sniffs out changes early before others are aware of it. Scurry: search what is needed and takes actions immediately. Hem: tries to deny and resists change as he fears it will lead to something worse. Haw: Always learns to adapt in time when he sees change can lead to something better. All four characters in the story search for…

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 around.The Hobbit is about a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins, who embarks on an adventure to help the dwarves reclaim what is theirs from the dragon Smaug that he is thrust into unknowingly. The steps of the hero’s journey portrayed by the author…

The laugh out loud comedy that explodes with outrageous wit and slapstick humor from the Coen Brothers. Underneath Professor (Hanks) silver tongued southern gentleman person is a devious criminal who has assembled a motley gang of thieves to commit the heist of the century by tunneling through his church going landlady’s root cellar to casino’s vault of riches. But these cons are far from pros. As their scheme begins blowing up in their faces, their landlady smells a rat. And when she threatens…

Mark Twain was a river boat pilot on the Mississippi River for a while before he wrote books, while Dr. Richard Selzer joined the faculty of Yale as a professor of surgery from 1960 to 1985. These two have been successful with within topics of how they wrote their books, focusing on Two Views of the Mississippi and Sarcophagus, these included: the audiences they were writing to and explanation of their topics, but they also had contrasting factors such as: the atmosphere they created, the…

Huckleberry Finn and Jim are new to the place and they fail to locate the mouth of the Ohio. They continue their voyage but their steamboat crashes down and both are separated unfortunately the next night. Huckleberry Finn is at the home of the kindly Grangerfords, a family of Southern aristocrats locked in a harsh and childish dispute with a neighboring clan, the Shepherdsons. The elopement of a Grangerford daughter with a Shepherdson son results in a gun fight in which a lot of people in the…

of writer. By comparing his two famous works: “The Adventure of Thomas Sawyer” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and especially by comparing their protagonists, we can observe change of the atmosphere…

Introduction: The majority of the population is aware of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” but not many know about its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass (And What Alice Found There)” which was written a short time after the first book. This book was chosen due to the fact that it is particularly unknown to many and it was considered as a good opportunity to introduce something that has been hidden behind many best sellers and other books. Biographical Notes & Background Information…