… be a book or some sheets of paper in which personal feelings, thoughts and actions are daily written down. A diary is something very personal, intimate and secret. People, who write diaries, trust in their diary and tell it their secrets. A diary is…

… Sue Townsend Published: Mandarin Paperbacks, 1983 Setting: from Thursday January 1st to Saturday April 3rd (Two years later) Plot Summary Adrian is an acne plagued thirteen-year-old teenager who reports his thoughts and experiences in…

… a hero or a group of heroes seek to solve a problem. Traditionally the hero was sent by a fisher king to retrieve an object to restore the health of the kingdom. The modernist movement introduced the idea that the hero could fail his quest. This leave…

… I was, not as far as I know,a teenage werewolf, but, even worse, a teenage poet. Images of blood, death and unrequited love - none of which I knew the least thing about - spilled from my fountain pen , starkly Gothic in Stephens best purple ink. I'd…

… Joseph Conrad grew up in the Polish Ukraine, a large, fertile plain between Poland and Russia. It was a divided nation, with four languages, four religions, and a number of different classes. A fraction of the Polish-speaking inhabitants,…

… As I read through the play for the second time, I begin to find small things that I missed the first time. The second reading of this play allows me to really see how the other characters "tip-toe" around Davoren. From what I can see, they…

… of good, physically or morally; whatever is censurable painful, disastrous, or undesirable.' In the novel 'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mistriss Hibbins can also be defined in those terms. She is believed to be evil by many of the charact…

… essay is 'crossing the boundaries is all about freedom.' In this case I definitely agree that this is true as it is portrayed in various short stories in the book "crossing" by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen and Tessa Duder. We also see how freedom plays a main…

… disastrous shot at playwriting, which occupied him for a few years, Henry James finally returned to what he knew best: writing novels. What Maisie Knew (1897) is perhaps the finest of James' middle period books, a relatively simple story about a young…

… in 'The Catcher in the Rye'. Everything that happens is seen through his eyes. He is a sensitive adolescent rebelling against the superficiality and materialism of conventional society. Holden is highly-strung, nervous, and a volatile character, moving…