… man-apes. Moon-Watcher demonstrates the ability to walk upright and to engage in crude planning. His mind is pushed along a bit further by the black monolith. He is the first person to kill another being for food. Dr. Heywood Floyd - A senior governme…

… J.R.R. Tolkein This story takes place in what seems to be modern times. The story starts out in a land called The Shire, but the characters move to different places throughout the whole story. This book made me wish that I lived during…

… , is a perfect example of how the power of accusation can be used for vengeance and hatred. During the mid 1600's, the small town of Salem, in colonial Massachusetts, becomes corrupted by accusations of witchcraft. As the plot begins to unfold,…

… in the one-room apartment where Bigger Thomas lives with his mother, younger brother, and sister in the central black section of Chicago. A foot-long rat has been terrifying the family, and Bigger traps and kills it. When he's done, his mother reminds…

… poor citizens take on a form of a powerful, forceful ocean that unpredictably sweeps through the Bastille. The mobs of people are compared to a sea that is rising when Dickens states “suddenly the sea rose immeasurably wider and higher.” The ‘sea’ comes…

… is set in America in the 1950s. The settings in the novel are often used as backdrops where Sylvia develops her critics. The protagonist Esther Greenwood¡¦s experience in different places serves as critics of the idea that each place represents. The…

… as a time in the not-too-distant future, where England, or what is now known as Airstrip One is in a state of perpetual war. Indeed the whole of Oceania, a super-state comprising all the European nations, North America as well as Australia, is continuall…

… Gertrude Wentworth as an innocent woman who yearns to lash out and be rambunctious. When Gertrude is first introduced, most of the characteristics are physical. Gertrude is about twenty-two in age, bareheaded, tall, pale, thin, and awkward. It is clear…

… “every experience of their life every quality of their mind is written largely in their works.” This is a deliberate extravagance but, in her case, nothing is so true as her fiction to her most cherished experiences. “I wonder, “ she asked herself,…

… Ruth Park is a gripping novel that highlights the distinct differences of values, morals and behaviour in people between two periods of time. Playing Beatie Bow is not only set in 1973, but also 1873, a century earlier. This is possible by the main chara…