Summary: It's Bound, In Human Skin

The theme is reflected through the people in the book, and events that take place in the

themes is the dissatisfaction that the characters of the novel have. None of them are happy with

depths, emotions to the characters, plot and theme in the book. The devices are used

Another way to say it is you can't really know someone just by looking at them. Two of the examples of this theme in the book is on pages 136 and 13. On pg. 136 Iggy becomes soft because of what happened to Loretta. He looks like an immense, biker with some anger issues but, when you hurt someone he loves he is a real softie. This proves the theme because just by looking at Iggy, you don’t know the real Iggy. Another example of this theme is on page 13. Max goes over to Kevin to help get his bird machine out of the trees. While he does so, Kevin says, “This is an ornithopter.” (Pg.18) This proves the theme because just by looking at Kevin, you may think he may not be smart or is just weak. If you look at Iggy and Kevin, you would never guess who they actually are. Once you get to know this book, you will know the theme.

Williams demonstrates his cognizance, and skills as a writer, as this book is a well-written piece of literature, touching upon historical

feelings of the story. He uses it especially to express the sadness and depression. For instance, he says, “I had no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip”(pg.58). This brings the feelings of pain and loss of passion. This brings out the tone of the book itself. Another example is when he says, “I was a body. Perhaps even less than that even; a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time”(pg.50). These words bring upon the pity of this inhumanity. The malnourishing of the people that were shown throughout this book. This tone brings sadness to its readers.

significant because it shows that the book is trying to draw a picture in the reader's mind about

The author uses suspense to support the theme. As suspense is worry or thought of foreshadowing. Truman Capote uses the theme on page 60 with, “Nancy’s Teddy bear staring at me. And Nancy.

The author, in this case Leslie Webster, did a very good job of persuading the readers that these subjects were the only things that brought texture to the

     Richard first book was “A Book of Prefaces,” which was written by Mencken. He was surprised on how Mencken fought with words in the book, and he was shocked with his style. When he couldn’t understand some words, he had to use a dictionary to help him out. After he read the book, he felt that he had experienced something new, “I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.” (pg.323) Books had made him view the world differently and they opened his eyes. Every time he read a book, he could not put it down. The mood of it lingered, coloring everything he saw, heard, did. He identified himself with the books he read, and it made him vaguely guilty. “Would I, filled with bookish notions, act in a manner that would make the whites dislike me?” he questioned himself and it made him feel isolated from the world around him. Every time he reads a book, he learns

The book is a symbol of my past and everything I have done or even thought of, that has made me who I am. The book also shows that I have a passion for reading and even one day maybe finish writing a novel.

The theme does not implicit the novel as the title of the novel tells us about how the main character met his doppelganger. There are a few minor themes that can be conclude in this novel such as showing care and concern for one’s spouse, trying looking for the answer and tolerance in a relationship. In my opinion, the novel is worth to read as it bring us to the journey where John Taylors was haunt by his doppelganger and he tries to find the message and sign that the doppelganger has given to him. The novel is something to read because it is so mysterious and suspends. The readers will eagerly want to know the ending after they read the

Stratum Corneum this layer is the outer most layers; it is formed from numerous layers of compressed scale- like, overlapping cells. What makes up the surface of the skin is corneocytes, which are commonly called ‘dead skin cells’. Keratinocytes are found in the epidermis they travel up through the layer where they are formed into corneocytes. The stratum corneum layer protects against lights, chemicals, water loss, heat and bacteria.

The book had affected the narrator to a great extent. At first he did not care for the book, until the stranger selling Bibles said “the number of pages in this book is literally infinite. No page is the first page; no page is the last”. This intrigued the narrator’s mind. After he had bought the book, he began investigating. He noted down things in the book. He began losing sleep from the investigation and when he actually got sleep, his dreams were about the book. As it states in the short story, “At night, during the rare intervals spared me by insomnia, I dreamed of the book”. He had grown an obsession with the book, which altered his lifestyle and forced him to hide the book in the library.

There are three themes that are used throughout the reading which are; love, beauty, and death. The most important theme in this story would be beauty. When the husband gets so attached to his art work he forgets about the beautiful wife he has of his own and only thinks about the beauty of this portrait. Love is also showed in this story but by the wife. The wife is so in love with her husband she is willing to do anything and everything to make her husband happy. Which is not getting in the away of him painting his picture. The last theme would be death even though this is a major theme it comes last. After the husband not realizing the actual beauty and love the