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The Australian novel, Lightning Mine, covers the development of an iron ore mine on a sacred land guarded by ?Namarrkon? in the Northern Territory. MDG/Global mining was very interested in the area, and sent their chief prospector, Aaron Shoemaker to investigate the land. Whilst Shoemaker is there, he sets off a chain of corporate and governmen...
Joseph Conrad?s Heart of Darkness is the tale of Charlie Marlow, a sailor whose journey is through the African Congo in search of ivory; however, the story is told on a boat at the mouth of the Thames River. The protagonist in Heart of Darkness not only tells the story of his journey through the African Congo, but also personifies the European...
In Shakespeare's King Lear, Edmund, the illegitimate sone of Gloucester, plans to attain a piece of the land by causing ill feelings between Gloucester and his legitimate son, Edgar. In his monologue at the beginning of Act 1, scene ii, Edmund's tone shows by using sarcasm, questioning, and ridiculing the bitterness that he had been denied wha...
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a powerful portrayal of four Chinese women and the lives of their children in America. The book discusses the conflicting cultures between the United States and China, and how men treat women throughout their lives. People living in the United States usually take for granted their roles as a male or female....
The short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, by Raymond Carver, is about two married couples drinking gin and having a talk about the nature of love. The conversation is a little sloppy, and the characters make some comments which could either be meaningless because of excessive alcohol in the bloodstream, or could be the charac...
Book Report Boundaries: When To Say Yes, When To Say No To Take Control Of Your Life Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1992 The authors present the book in three parts: What are Boundaries?, Boundary Conflicts, and Developing Healthy Boundaries. What are Boundaries?...
Back in the 1950's, when insecurity permeated the air, and people were ruled by fear, Arthur Miller wrote a play, which defined the line between insecurity and fear. The Crucible was a remade story of the carnal Salem Witch trials, in which many innocent victims lost their lives. Through this play Miller is trying to convey the message that d...
A Streetcar Named Desire - Com It is the complexity of the main characters and their interactions that make A Streetcar Named Desire such a successful and challenging play. The play A Streetcar Named Desire made playwright Tennessee William's name and has deservedly since had over half a century of success. This remarkable success can be cre...
Beowulf Beowulf is an Epic Poem that was written in the late Tenth-Century, at the kingdom of the West Saxons. Most of the history on the poem Beowulf was brought down in flames. This book consists of 63 pages, and the two main characters are Beowulf, a young man; and Grendal, a furious dragon. In the society in which the poem Beowu...
Crime and punishment--is rasko In Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov concocts a theory: All men are divided into ?ordinary? and ?extraordinary?. The extraordinary man should have the right to eliminate a few people in order to make his idea known to all humanity; however, the ordinary man has no right to transgress the law. Because he believes...
The play begins with a request to Oedipus by the townspeople to rid Thebes of the plague, since he had so heroically solved the riddle of the Sphinx in the past. He sends Creon, his brother-in-law and uncle, to the oracles at Delphi. Creon returns with the cause for the plague; the murderer of the former King Laius was never punished for his cr...
Good country irony-good countr Good Country People? by Flannery O?Connor is an excellent example of irony in literature. From beginning to end it has a steady procession of irony, much of it based on the title of the story: ?Good Country People.? In the beginning of the story we meet Mrs. Freeman, wife of the hired hand. She and her husband h...
Of Mice and Men The novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is about two ranch hands, George and Lennie. George is a small, smart-witted man, while Lennie is a large, mentally- handicapped man. They are trying to raise enough money to buy their own ranch, by working as ranch hands. During the setting of the story, they are at a ranc...
Huck Finn The Hero?s Journey Mrs. Williamson describes a hero?s journey as a cycle where the person is a hero from birth. This holds true for the character of Huck Finn because he fits the description of a hero in the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. There are many different phases, or episodes that embody Huck and Luke?s journey....
