Category: Literature

The unknown narrator in ‘A Modest Proposal’ is not Jonathan Swift himself, though he can look like him. Rather, he is prone to exaggeration man, who represents a class of people whom Swift especially neglected. The Proposer looks like well-educated, rich, English  Protestant who does not actually care about the humanity of Ireland’s Catholic poor.…

Charlie is Morrie’s father. This man has a hard destiny. Being younger he was running from the Russian army to America in order not to die. He was there completely alone, without money, food, clothes, and place to live. He was even uneducated that is why he didn’t speak English. Exactly in that time, he…

This hero is the main one in the book. He is a kind boy with tricky character. Also, he has a kind of misunderstanding in his inner world. The thing he needed to understand was to whom he felt loyal: to follow a religion, or follow his gut instincts? To obey his father or the…

William Henry Blore is the following character of the novel, And Then There Were None that should be discussed. Firstly, he was also invited to the Indian Island together with the other nine guests. Mr. Henry Blore is a former policeman who practiced corruption and committed crimes in this way. In accordance with the plot…

In a novel about war, you’d expect to see the evil which takes many forms. An enemy soldier, a betrayer, bomb, even death itself, or a rat inside the group of friends. But you can’t think of the one person, profession, that could take a form of evil – a schoolteacher. And Kantorek is the…

He is Jesus Christ, the second part of the Trinity. The Son of God is very sympathetic and often advocates everyone in front of God. When the war comes, he conquered devils for two times, at first in heaven and at the second time when he sacrifices himself for the survival of all humanity. Before…

Even stranger and more mysterious than a narrator. Partly this is because we get acquainted with this character only from the narrator’s strange and spoiled perspective. He has a lot of money, which are showed by the narrator to police. And the strangest thing is about his blue eye that scares narrator to death. In…

Journalist and co-founder of the Millennium magazine. He has recently been convicted of libeling wealthy financier Hans-Erik Wennerstrom in one of his articles. While waiting for his two-month prison sentence, he takes a job writing a book based on the Vanger family while secretly investigating the murder of Harriet Vanger which happened forty years ago.…

A thoughtful and imaginative son of the Irish Catholics, Stephen develops into a confident and independent young artist rejecting any limits to his artistic freedom. As a child, he quickly understood that the world of adults is just as cruel and unfair place as his boarding school run by the Jesuits. Disappointed in religion and…