1 Love, hate, truth, deception, manipulation, self discovery and murder. Janet Fitch covered all of this and more. White Oleander is an epic tale about a young girl, Astrid, who was ripped away from her mother, Ingrid, at a very young age and forced onto the path of self discovery all by her...

The film "The Ring" is about a young girl who is terribly murdered by her unruly mother. The story shows how the young girl gets people to realise how she was killed in a very disturbing way. The main way to show this is to kill them in a similar way, unjustified and terrifying. Also the f...

Ernest Hemingway was a profound American writer who earned a Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. During his life he was one of the most influential writers of twentieth century America. Since his tragic suicide in 1961 his influence on American writing has only become more evident. Some...