Essays on Book Review

Have you ever thought what would be the differences and impacts between the screenplay and the original book? When you want to make a movie from a long novel, maybe you have to make some changes to screen it to the cinema. For example, The...

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main protagonists, the man, and his son are on a perilous journey through a post-apocalyptic Earth....

Keep on surviving, keep on walking. The Road by Cormac McCarthy told a dark tale about how fragile humanity is under extreme conditions. When I was reading this book, I always have thoughts coming up, if I confront with this situation, will I keep on...

Throughout the novel ‘The Road” by Cormac McCarthy, the man and the boy are faced to deal with the struggle of survival. They live off the remaining resources or items that were trashed after the apocalypse in order to remain alive. The protagonists are repeatedly...

The perception of beauty is subjective; it either blooms from the inside or ages from the outside. In the melancholic novel, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde, it portrays a narcissistic protagonist who is dependent on his physical appearance to deceive those...

In literature, themes are depicted as universal, main ideas or messages that are gathered from the audience’s eyes. In Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, various themes are used to depict the cruelty and unjustness of Hitler, whose government control and moral values pose negative...

The book “Oliver Twist” written by Charles Dickens, published in 1839. Tells the story of an orphan boy called Oliver who passes through unfortunate circumstances during his childhood after being kicked out from a workhouse for asking for more food during supper time, he is...

A Sphinx is known to be secretive and have mystery surrounding it, many questions and wonderings revolve around it such as why and how it came to be. In this story, two old friends reconnect and Lord Murchison explains how he is trying to figure...

Indian Horse was written by Richard Wagamese, an Ojibwe from Minaki from northwestern Ontario. The book is about the story of a young boy named Saul Indian Horse and his journey through his life from childhood to adulthood in northern Ontario while residential schools were...

Minor characters significantly impact and create a positive influence on the protagonist. In the novel Indian Horse, written by the Canadian writer Richard Wagamese, minor characters turn out to be a positive influence on Saul Indian Horse. These characters encourage Saul to endure in different...