Lord of the Flies is a fictional novel about a group of boys stranded on a tropical island in the Pacific. The story is set during World War II. The 'fall' in Lord of the Flies can be predicted by analyzing the symbolic meanings in the story. The symbolic meanings of the island help pred...

Robert A. Heinlein's 1955 novelStarship Troopers? and its message could be described as fascist, provocative, irresponsible and unpalatable. Paul Verhoeven's 1997 film Starship Troopers can, however, lay claim to being the ideological polar opposite of the novel. Verhoeven achieves this anti-fascist...

A Separate Peace A Separate Peace is a novel that toys with readers' emotions. It can make sadness appear from nowhere and happiness right after. It is a wonderfully constructed novel that makes readers feel like they have traveled to that time and place with the characters. A major factor of ...

Snow Falling on Cedars is the story of love and innocence in a prejudice society. The author, David Guterson, chose to add a distinct setting and important symbols to show how prejudice ruins lives. The plot is about the relationship of two lovers that could never be, due to the society they lived...

ERNEST HEMINGWAY BIOGRAPHY On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. Hemingway was conceivably the only writer to achieve the combination of international celebrity and literary stature in the twentieth century. Hemingway was brought up in the village ...

John Misto, playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women's story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this thro...

William Golding wrote the novel of 'Lord of the Flies' during and after the Second World War to address the cultural and natural issue of mans inhumanity to man. First published in 1954, 'Lord of the Flies' conveys the image of two nations at war, within the confined and mallea...