All four of West's novelsare in some way or another a reaction to the Great Depression. Of these four novels, The Day of the Locust has been the most influential. At the time of its publication, it was not appreciated…

Ever since the 1960s, when the Motion Picture Association of America under director Jack Valentifirst established the system of labeling movies according to age and suitability for specific audiences, filmmakers and critics alike have criticized the rating system as ineffective,…

The Bridges of Madison County, by Robert James Waller, is about two individuals, Francesca Johnson and Robert Kincaid, who are madly in-love but unfortunately could not be together. The main theme of the novel is the value of the people…

This book was a story about a Nigerian family and the tradition of the bride price.Part of the story takes place in Lagos where Aku-nna, the protagonist, grew up. After her father dies she is forced to move to Ibuza…

The dramatic situation of The Most Dangerous Game is not extremely complex, but it is a very good story that has been recreated many times since its publish date.The setting is set mainly on a large island in the Caribbean…

The book I read was The Brethren, by John Grisham.It was a suspense book.Three judges, called The Brethren by their fellow prisoners, lived in a very minimal security prison.They had just begun fine – tuning a mail scam that extorted…

The novel, The Brethren, written by John Grisham takes place primarily in a minimum security federal prison in Florida.The time period is modern day.The prison is called Trumble. It is full of harmless criminals, crooks, lawyers, embezzlers, judges, and drug…

The Mission is an epic that tells a story about a Catholic missionary and a slave trader. In this movie in the mid-eighteenth century, the Jesuit priests in whatis today northeastern Argentinaand Western Paraguay find themselves caught in a not…

The Bounty TrilogyIn 1932, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall became best-selling authors with the publication of Mutiny on the Bounty. This story and its sequels are based upon the true story of mutiny and subsequent happenings on board an…

The preface to this book is very cool. I know that this book is totally fictional, and is in no way real, but the preface makes the book sound like it was written from ancient scrolls and manuscripts that were…