Depiction Book Reviews Samples For Students

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, took on themes of Hollywood and the film industry, pointing out its glitz, glamour and tragedy in equal measure. In the 1930s, the film industry began a transition from the artistic experimentation of its early days to the greater commercialism of Hollywood; Fitzgerald’s novel explores this transition in very intriguing ways. Telling the story of Monroe Stahr, a character loosely based on MGM’s golden boy Irving Thalberg, Fitzgerald paints Hollywood and the film business as an incredibly complex and inscrutable place, with its own politics ...

Introduction: Historically, female Black slaves endured the worse treatment, but have received the least amount of attention than their male counterparts in North American Slavery (Hine, 2007). There are longstanding myths that surround the experiences of female Black slaves, and struggles they face daily trying to survive. Deborah Gray White provides an intimate look into female slavery that until 1985 was long overdue. In her book she stated “Slave women were the only women in America who were sexually exploited with impunity, stripped and whipped with a lash, and worked like oxen” (White, 1999, p. 162). In the nineteenth ...

Mary Barton

Introduction
Mary Barton is the first novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell, an English writer who was known for her works during the mid-19th century. In Mary Barton which was published in 1848, Gaskell described the difficulties faced by the working class during her time, thus the subtitle of the novel, ‘A Tale of Manchester Life’. Moreover, there is also the emphasis on women’s role during the Victorian era, which she cleverly narrated with the use of narratives that described the different female characters in the novel. This novel is a depiction of how Gaskell saw the relationship between ...

Book Review of the True Story of Ah Q

Introduction
The book “The True Story of Ah-q” is a historical fictional literature that was written by the author Lu Xun, who expresses that he never anticipated he would be the person to put in writing the narrative of such an “immortal man.” He expresses his passion for writing the book saying that it had concerned him for a while. Perhaps, he could call it a biography, but the author wondered the kind of biography that was expected of him to write with regards to this story. He was neither Ah-Q nor was he related to him by birth. ...

Fashion has raised a great deal of contention, resistance and criticism over the years. The media provides the society with a display of images that range from the real to the perceived. Large mass marketing clothing companies and influential fashion houses determine the direction of fashion, influence the opinion of the public and put up production and distribution structures worldwide. Fashion continues to exist in the public domain amid feelings of strong links with pride, misuse and craziness. This situation can be conveniently attributed to a myriad of factors ranging from psychological problems to feeling of spite on reality television. However, it can ...

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Tilman Allert the author of “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is a sociology as well as social psychology professor at the UF the (University of Frankfurt). “The Hitler Salute: One the Meaning of a Gesture” is the Tilman’s first book to written in English. In the book, Allert Tilman employs the Nazi transformation, the greeting, one of the ordinary human interactions to reveal how National Socialism initiated submission, as well as conformity of the entire society.

The Hitler salute as made mandatory in the year 1933 and became a daily reflex within few months, quickly the ...

Thomas is married to Vanessa Jebb who comes from a diplomatic family. Jebb’s father was the first acting Secretary General of the United Nations. Thomas Hugh was a professor of History at University of Readings from 1966-1975. In 1979-1991, Thomas High was the Director of the Center for Policy Studies in London. Thomas Hugh was an ally of Margaret Thatcher during Thatcher’s reign. In his argument, Thomas Hugh presents an argument that is usually pro-European and conservative.

In the book Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Thomas traces history from 1440-1870. He begins with the Portuguese ...

"All animals are equal, but some animals

Are more equal than others"
Alexis de Tocqueville has been quoted as saying that the skills used to create marvelous literature do not necessarily produce coherent and well-founded political thought and in most cases one might say that he was right. But that was not the case for English novelist Eric Arthur Blair more commonly known as George Orwell, whose work is characterized by political insight, linguistic clarity and irrefutable literary value, a work that can still inspire almost sixty four years after his death. A keen analyst of his turbulent times, Orwell was, according to Newsweek magazine, the ...

There are many books related to the criminal justice system in the United States whose main focus is to highlight the extraordinary cases. Most of them discuss high-profile crimes and breathtaking and thrilling trials. However, Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court by Amy Bach is an exceptionally different book. Bach is an award-winning reporter cum lawyer who has given a completely original enlightenment concerning the failing justice system in the United States of America.
There is no doubt in the fact that Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court is a ground-breaking piece of work by Bach as it is full ...

Avenue Q is a beautiful depiction of the perception of young age and the reality of the same, when it goes through the practical life. The book is in two Acts and more an autobiography cum biography that fits into the experiences and life of everybody. The character by the name of Princeton is depicted to strive in his practical life after a bachelor and faces the hardships and apprehensions of real life. Money, job and living become his pursuit that left his imaginary supremacy run apart. Avenue Q is more of a satire that address the issues, concerns and apprehensions that ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel depicting the treatment of adulterous Hester Prynne in Puritan-era Boston, after her sin is discovered. This depiction of Puritan America is close to the author's heart; having been born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, Hawthorne was likely fascinated by his region's Puritan past (particularly his ancestor John Hathorne, who was one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692 (Miller 20-21). In investigating the attitudes and anxieties of the people living in colonial New England, Hawthorne explores the xenophobia, religious intolerance, and daily struggles of the people who ...

How does the style of this novel compare to the Great Novels of the 19th century that you have read? Why might a very transparent, "classical" realist style be well-suited to the subject matter here?
It is a great novel which creates the sense of Tolstoy in Anna Karenina as well as Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The realist style is suited to the subject matter as there is a lot of socialist realism in the book and the main character has a lot of traits which are quite similar to the classic Romantic novels. 2. If you know anything about Socialist ...