Essays on Plot

The novel I chose to read for my quarter 3 book talk is The Martian by Andy Weir. It is a science fiction based survival story on the planet of Mars. Astronaut Mark Watney is part of NASA’s Ares 3 mission to Mars. The crew...

The book starts off with a man (our narrator of the story) who witnesses an alien invasion from Mars that begins at the small British town of Woking, there a mysterious cylinder crashes into the earth, and the townspeople see that a Martian the size...

“The Confessions of Saint Augustine’ is an autobiography that is divided into 13 books based on his journey into Catholicism. The first nine books are based on his life from birth up until he converted into Catholicism in 368 AD. The last four books are...

In “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak, many characters are put in a variety of predicaments where the character has to make tough moral decisions and make courageous actions. Hans Huberman is the most honorable man in the whole book. He is a silver-eyed painter...

War. It symbolizes the conflict of longing for power through human brutality and violence. In literature, the use of war is to understand the struggle to find peace and harmony through destruction and chaos. In Timothy Findley’s novel, The Wars present war as a theme,...

Man Mission by Eytan Uliel is a very interesting book to read.The author summarises the story as a story of ‘Four men, fifteen years and one epic story’. This is the perfect description of the book. In more detail however, Man Mission is a story...

The coming of age short story, “Araby” chronicles a young boy’s life as he navigates adolescence, and the emotions that come with it. The exposition kicks off with the narrator, an unknown boy, describing the setting. The story takes place in the winter of an...

A wedding is an extraordinary drive to persuade a plot in both writing and life. In “Mario Puzo’s The Godfather”, Michael Corleone’s wedding is a standout amongst the most persuasive scenes of the whole book. This wedding conveys this impact in light of three things....

The “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller tells a sad story of Willy Loman and his family. Throughout the story the family live in denial. The denial of some serious matters erodes the foundation of the family. The family is unable to truly communicate...

This story is based on a young sheepherder named Santiago, who feels very restless having a recurring dream. He has a dream every time he sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows in the ruins of a church. During the dream, a child tells him...