100 Years of Solitude Theme: History is Repetitive This book begins with an isolated town of Macondo and the Buendias family. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iquaran are cousins that got marry and had the town first born child. Ursula mother warns her many times about incest and it consequences....

In the Book The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder portrays love to be both the cause of misery in life and the cause of meaning in life. The book begins in Peru with the collapse of the bridge of San Luis Rey. The catastrophe results in five people plunging to their deaths. A Francis...

KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS 1 SETTING The Bridge of San Luis Rey is set in and around Lima, the capital of Peru, in the eighteenth century. It was a beautiful city, inspired by the Catholic religion and entertained by the theater. It was also peopled by eccentrics, like the intensely reli...

Unlike The Odyssey or any other epic tales, Their Eyes Were Watching God has a different perspective of what a hero is. In this novel, Hurston writes a story about an African-American woman named Janie Crawford whose quest is to find her identity and desire as a human being to be loved and a...

Discovering Fire "After man has mastered the winds the waves and the tides, some day he will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire" (Teilhard de Jardin...