World Book Club

is the kind of culture that he was raised in. He was born of a time that didn’t tolerate much of outsiders and racism and social darwinism was rampant. The years after European Imperialism made a movement of Eugenics that was addressed in Brave New World . “‘bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development.” (Huxley 6). Wherein the time of WW1 - WW2 there was this idea that people can be made perfect with the right genes. This was the basis for Hitler’s campaigns for…

and spying to show how Nathan and Oleanna (her parents) have made a mistake coming to the Congo without any previous knowledge, and how Americans can be tragically misinformed. Book two, The Revelation, is meant to describe what the members of the Price family learned in the Congo. While Ruth May’s chapters were short in book one, the length of her passages started to increase as her adventure went on and as her growth progressed. Her chapters give insight to the wonderment of a child visiting…

color” (Morrison 170). Milkman also encountered the peacock when Guitar and him attempted to steal the gold. Milkman said, “But the bird had set them up”(Morrison 179). The Peacock is a bird that is beautiful however it can’t fly. Majority of this book discusses the idea of landlocked and flight. The peacock is a beautiful bird, however it won’t help you escape. Morrison presents us the idea of false wealth. Macon Dead and Milkman both had the same desire of money at the early ages of their life…

2nd Essay: Responding to Poetry Poetry mainly describes love, loss, and regret. However, every writer adds his or her own twist. For example, “Last Night” by Sharon Olds and “Cherrylog Road” by James Dickey deals with the same theme but are two different pieces of writing. They explore the theme of forbidden love and use imagery to show the lust between the two characters. In this essay I will compare and contrast the two poems by presenting different examples. Titles can say a lot about a…

who go to a far off land to battle monsters? In movies and novels, heroes are depicted as a perfect hyper masculine male who is considerably perfect in all aspects from the moment of their birth. Going beyond the movie and novel realm, in the modern world most people’s concept of a hero is fairly narrow. Rarely do most people concern themselves to question if the main stream depiction of a hero is too male centric or the fact that the depiction of a hero lacks the representation of women,…

Once he reconnects with these aspects of himself, he leaps in the air because he knows what Shalimar, and even Pilate, knew: “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” Milkman’s development as a character contributes to the conclusion of the book being satisfying for the reader. Milkman goes from being a selfish man who felt entitled to control the people around him. This is what, Circe, the man who gave him a coke and a ride, as well as the people in Shalimar notice. Each time Milkman…

Hope One may notice in history, people who do not survive the worst do not have hope. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel is about a young boy named Eliezer. Eliezer is a jewish and he and his family are sent to a concentration camp during WWII. Eliezer realizes how little humanity the German soldiers (Nazis) have toward the jewish people. He has to learn how to have hope, stick with his father, and keep his faith in order to survive. It takes a great amount of hope for one to survive the most…

In The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, the need to break away from family on behalf of someone’s own well being is a lesson readers have learned from this novel. When the family’s missionary effort to convert Africans to Christianity becomes perilous, the father/husband, nonetheless, continues to follow through with his mission at the hands of his own family’s demise. Later on in the novel, the family goes separate directions after the youngest daughter passed away from a snakebite,…

The physical journey of characters adds substance to the work as a whole. In Song of Solomon, Milkman (Macon) endures a long journey of his own throughout the novel to search for his own identity and learns about his ancestors and past. The author conveys this journey by Macon’s name and last name, breaking away from his father, and flight. The nickname that Macon got stuck with was Milkman. He got this nickname because Macon was breast fed long past infancy and where the name Milkman came from…

When you hear the words Texas Rising, what do you think of? Is it the Alamo, Mexicans, or is it the Texas Revolution? Well if you named one of these, then you are right. In the miniseries of Texas Rising, it is based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and the Texas Rangers. It also tells the story of how the Texas Rangers were created. In episode one, it starts off with an overview of all the people getting killed in the Alamo. During the Alamo, Emily West watches her husband get killed by…