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Maibime was so popular once published in Japan was because of its uniqueness. A story about a Japanese man traveled abroad to Germany to achieve better education and got a German woman pregnant during his study was quite unusual during the beginning period of modernization and westernization of Japan in the 1890s. The plot was based on the author, Mori Ogai’s personal experience, yet not exactly the same. What made me wonder through the reading was whether Ogai purely wanted to tell the Japanese

The book is mainly about a boy whose named haven't been revealed in the book. His parents died when he was 7 years old in a car incident. When his parents died he was of course devastated but luckily he had quite a good bond with his grandmother, also called “grandmamma”. They were both in Norway at the time when his parents died so they decided to stay there for the best although they did not stay there for a long time as the easter break came to an end. The entire story is focused on the boy and

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Márquez delivers a tale of love set in Colombia in a time amidst disease and civil war. The symptoms of lovesickness are described as the same as cholera, and the conflict of the war mirrors the quarrels of love. The conflicted love tale begins with Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza experiencing young love. The two exchanged letters, filled with passion by Florentino, yet their relationship was forbidden. Yet when Dr. Juvenal Urbino was determined to marry

The Godfather opens in 1945 as the Don Vito oversees the wedding of his only daughter Connie. His beloved son Michael returns from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he went after returning from World War II. He deeply disappointed his father by joining the Marines and not being part of the family business. During the wedding, the Don is sitting in his dark corner room receiving the people who ask him favours. As a self-respecting Sicilian man, Vito

Grease is the story about a girl named Sandy Olsson who falls in love with a local boy names Danny Zuko who is part of the T-Birds greaser gang. Sandy and Danny try to date at the Frosty Palace but it’s interrupted by the T-Birds and Pink Ladies. Kenickie (Danny’s best friend) set up a race between the T-Birds and The Scorpions. Leo is the leader of the Scorpions, he races Danny and Danny wins the race giving him the name of the Scorpions and T-Birds cars as well as keeping the loser’s car. In the

How Religion Saved Louie Zamperini Indubitably, Louie Zamperini faced an extraordinary and life saving change in his lifetime. Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand tells Louie's story and how religion saved his life. The story takes place primarily during the mid-20th century, where the United States fully engaged in war against the Axis Powers. Louie's childhood took place in Torrance, California. It was evident through his actions that Louie was a innate trouble maker, constantly getting into fights

Maus is a tale about a young man who is in search for answers about his own life and his father’s life. Vladek Spiegelman is a survivor of the holocaust who reconnects with his son Art Spiegelman by telling him stories of his past. Art creates a well-written comic tale about the Holocaust and the relationship he has with his father. This survivor’s tale takes you back to the Second World War to tell us a story of a Jew who hardly survived life. The story opens with Art visiting his father to get

Calvin is a normal teenage boy. That is,until he wakes up in hospital to have a doctor tell him that he has schizophrenia, a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior, and failure/inability to understand what is real and what is not, (differentiate reality and fantasy). He is soon introduced to his very own mind mystery, a tiger, named Hobbes. Calvin begins to think that his life is based on the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. He compares his life to that of the

In contemporary society, tyrannicide is an issue that brings up many questions in regards to political philosophy in terms of what Cicero wrote about in On Duties. Cicero suggested that tyrants meet death at one point or another by the hand of a killer. However, what may be seen as contradictory to what Cicero taught in terms of justice and morality by killing a tyrant is not morally wrong. A common occurring theme within On Duties is that Cicero tries to explain what the duties of people are as

Book Review: Iracema Iracema, the folk tale on the birth of Ceara, a state in Northeast Brazil, is one of the most beautiful and important titles for the Brazilian literature. Written by José de Alencar in the nineteenth century, the novel narrates the encounter of between indigenous Iracema, who symbolizes the nature, and Martim, a Portuguese man, whose name means “warrior son”, who symbolizes the civilization. The “Honey lips virgin”, as Iracema is referred to in the book, fell in love with the