Frank McCourt's biography, Angela's Ashes, is a coming-of-age story.As the story begins readers find a young boy who has street smarts,emotional strength and a desire to learn. These qualities enable him tosurvive and move from a sickly childhood and his impoverished existence torealizing more...

A theoretical reading in which a person applies a single theory can cause the reader to search for too much and transform the reading into a bias interpretation. It is obvious when reading The Jungle a person can easily use Marxist theory to discover the true meanings intended by the author, text a...

My reading habits have changed over the years. As a child I had more time to read than I have been able to as an adult. I had different tastes in books when I was younger as well. Even though my habits and reading preferences have changed over the years, I still enjoy it as much as I did as a youngs...

Review: Meyers, Jeffrey, "The Greek Idea of Disease, Madness, and Art", published in the World and I, January 1999 pp. 318-324. Jeffrey Meyers has authored thirty-nine books including celebrated biographies of twentieth century literary masters Orwell, Hemmingway, and Fitzgerald...

The Monster's Society Frankenstein sets its self apart as being one of the most unique novels in the institute of English literature. Looking deeper into the story, you realize that it is not just a gothic tale about a monster that everyone is familiar with. Mary Shelley presents many ideas about...

The strength of his rational mind is not diminishing the pains of his emotions. On thecontrary, the speaker is losing his sanity as time progresses. In the past, perhaps, thespeaker's rational thought processes allowed him to cope with failed romances. However,in the presence of this love for his d...

PLEASURE IN READINGMan is pleasure loving. He seeks pleasure in everything .There are many means and sources of pleasure .But the pleasure got from reading is the best .Happy is the man who has acquired the habit of reading when I he is young . He has secured a life long source of pleasure ,instr...

Living Doll's by Gaby Wood may not be the most fascinating account ofrobots you have ever read, but it is certainly an original one. Woodcollects the robotics-related true stories and puts them together to showthat man's fascination with artificial intelligence and artificial life isanything but dea...

Frankenstein sets its self apart as being one of the most unique novels in the institute of English literature. Looking deeper into the story, you realize that it is not just a gothic tale about a monster that everyone is familiar with. Mary Shelley presents many ideas about the society of her time,...

"Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane / In some untrodden region of my mind, / Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain / Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind" (Keats 848). This quote, taken from the last stanza of John Keats' "Ode to Psyche," exemplifies the meaning of th...