"In the Name of the Father" is a film based on the true story of a group of young people called the "Guilford Four" who were accused and jailed for the bombing of the Guildford Pub. Gerry Conlon, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, starts out as a young, unemployed thief who steals lead from neighborhoo...

Influence of Men on Louisa Gradgrind In Hard Times Charles Dickens portrays Louisa Gradgrind as a realistic character who faces conflict from the start of her life. Louisa encounters three major psychological conflicts the form of three different men: Mr. Gradgrind, Mr. Bounderby, and Tom Gradgri...

A Drowned Man and an Old Angel Although both short stories, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, were written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez there are many other not so obvious similarities and differences between the two tales. Both stories were about men...

Of Mice and Men is a testament to the predatory nature of man. It is this darker side of the human spirit which has exiled man from the Garden of Eden, now manifesting itself as the American dream. John Steinbeck shows a world doomed to isolation and loneliness, where the only alleviation from one...

I recently read the book Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe holds a doctorate in American Studies from Yale University and is the author of many non fiction books such as The Right Stuff, In Our Time, and Clutter and Vine. Bonfire of the Vanities was his first fiction work. Thi...

In the novel Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies, a young man named Dunstable Ramsey is cursed with the burden of guilt for the rest of his life. He feels the guilt of what he has done so keenly because he believed what happened should have been to him. He carries the responsibility for the rest of...