The setting for the book "Lord of the flies" is on a tropical island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. The time is not given but since there is a lot of talk about being their plane being shot down and "a bomb", that it was supposed to take place near the end of World War II and t...

In the midst of war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys is shot down, crashing in a thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lose each other. One of the older boys, Ralph, meets Piggy, a chubby, intellectual boy, on the beach. They discover ...

Katherine Frank's novel, "A Voyager Out," tells the life story of Mary Kingsley talks of her childhood, her young adult life, and her traveling life. She wanted to tell the world what this woman explorer did for Africa. Mary Kingsley had a famous family, many of whom were writers. Mary herself wr...

This was my first book group, and I think it was a great experience for me. I enjoyed every minute of this assignment. When Dr. McNeal was giving out numbers for our class to decide what group we were going to be in, I was hoping that I would like my group and I did. I benefited from having a bo...

"The truth about man is not merely that he is, by nature, savage and afraid, but that he refuses deliverance, and murders the messenger of light"(Dick, "Criticism" 197). This view of our nature as human beings is based on the teachings of the Christian doctrine of original sin, ...