The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the tale of Hester Prynne, a woman in the 1600s who is accused of cheating on her husband, who has been missing for years. After the birth of her child Pearl, Hester is branded with the Scarlet Letter to remind her and her fellow townspeople of her misdeed. Hester refuses to reveal her lover’s identity, and throughout the novel has to face the shame of committing adultery, a major sin.
The Great Gatsby is a book about life in the 1920s. It explores the life of protagonist Gatsby who is known to be wealthy and mysterious along with protagonist Nick Carraway who seems to idolize Gatsby’s lavish life. The book explores the characteristics of the 1920s and is a classic book for all ages!
Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Considered to be one of his greatest plays, Macbeth is about heroic Scottish warrior Macbeth who starts to get taken over by his ambition when three evil witches tell him that he is destined to become the king of Scotland.
Antony and Cleopatra is a play written by William Shakespeare, and is a continuation of Mark Antony’s story from Julius Caesar, though it isn’t necessary to read the former. However, a theme of continuation from the first play into the second play is that there is no good or bad in the world, or rather, there is no certainly that good will always remain good. This
Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is personally one of my favorite works from him. It’s about Roman general Julius Caesar, a very strong and brilliant, if not arrogant, man who is ultimately assassinated by a couple Romans after they learn that he would become the emperor of Rome. This launches Rome into an all-out Civil War. I love this book because it shows that there is no clear right or wrong in this world. Shakespeare is careful
Atonement written by Ian McEwan is a piece of historical fiction that follows the lives of the Tallis family in the early to mid 20th century. The reader follows the sisters Briony and Cecilia Tallis and the groundskeeper's son Robbie Turner on a hot summer’s day in the family’s household as they prepare for the eldest Tallis son to return from college. Briony is an imaginative and naive 13 year old girl trying to convince her visiting cousins to perform her written play.
Jamie, a twelve-year-old girl, grew up in an Army family and has always felt proud and amazed when talking about the Army. Her brother, TJ, goes to Vietnam and she is really excited on his behalf and she tells him to send letters about all his adventures. However, instead TJ sends her pictures that need to be developed, most of them are of the moon while the others show experiences that are different than what she imagined. When her brother’s letters stop coming, Jamie’s beliefs are questioned.
Tara Sim's Chainbreaker is the second book in her "Timekeeper" series, and continues Danny Hart’s story as a clock mechanic in a world where time is controlled by clock towers. This novel delves deeper into the politics and time universe established in the word originally introduced in Timekeeper.
Timekeeper by Tara Sim is a young adult fiction novel that explores the concept of time and its impact upon the books’ characters. Set in an alternate Victorian London where time is literally controlled by clock towers, the story follows clock mechanic Danny who is struggling to come to terms with his father's death and the repercussions of a clock tower explosion that has thrown London's time out of sync.
I never expected to read Gone With the Wind. It was a classic and extremely long– but that was about all I knew. My grandmother one day recommended that I read it, and so I impulsively decided to. This book is extremely detailed, but not too much so. It treads the line very close, but I feel the detail is what makes the book good.
