To live or to die that is the option, whether it is more noble to suffer. The pain of misfortune or to take action, against your own troubles which may End them. To die and to sleep and nothing more…. Continue Reading →
Act one Scene one summary: Hamlet begins on the outer ramparts of Elsinore Castle. It is dark and late and a guard Francisco is waiting for Bernardo to relieve him from his watch. Francisco is becoming nervous as the night… Continue Reading →
There you stand in the cold silent night. You can see your wooden cabin in the distance; its hard for you to see in the night. Up in the mountains the moon hardly shines, a ghostly layer of clouds make… Continue Reading →
“Wake up!”. I got up with a sudden bang, and awaited another day of “school”. Slowly, I walk into the kitchen and surprised to see dinner made by the latest T700 bot, these days machines took over a majority of… Continue Reading →
The second novel of my reading journal was “A dance with dragons” which is written by George R Martin and is the last book in the series of A song of Ice and Fire. The kingdom is war torn, and… Continue Reading →
My first book for the reading project was “A clockwork orange” by Anthony Burgees. The book revolves around a young teenaged boy Alex, who often commits in really violent crime with his group of friends. The book is set in… Continue Reading →
The poem is by Edward Estling Cummings who was born in 1894 in the US. He had a highly religious upbringing and grew with a middle class family as his father was a professor at Harvard University where Cummings later… Continue Reading →
Poppies is a poem written by Jane Weir. Armistice Sunday is a tradition which marked the end of World War one in 1918. It was set up to remember the thousands of men that died in the fighting, even though… Continue Reading →
A way that Harpee Lee shows life in town like Maycomb is through symbolism. The mockingbird is a recurring motif through out the story, and it represents the destruction of innocence in characters such as Atticus and Tom Robinson. Atticus… Continue Reading →
In “To kill a mockingbird” Jem begins to see how there is segregation in society, as he says “There’s four kinds of folk in this world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there’s the kind like the… Continue Reading →
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