Reviews by Category: Fiction

Summary:

A Review of Walter Dean Myers’s Fiction Work: Monster

Steve Harmon’s potential involvement of a murder of a shopkeeper drags him into prison and the legal system. By the creative outlet of a theatrical play script, he records his experiences in prison. An internal struggle composed of self-confidence, misery, and hope, he works his way through to reflect on his current and past actions as he tried to become liberated from prison.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of boys getting stranded on an island after a plane crash. Without any adults around, they think they have a lot of freedom and start building their own society. They face many hardships and learn that there is a lot of evil in humans.

Title, Author, Genre: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fiction

The Great Believers transcends generations to communicate the heartbreaking reality of the AIDS pandemic as well as the difficult intricacies of human relationships. Yale works for a university’s gallery, trying to persuade his friend Fiona’s great aunt to donate her art collection, while in his personal life he deals with the rapid spread of disease and death amongst his friends, including Fiona’s brother Nico.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros follows a girl named Esperanza who moved to Chicago when she was 12. The story is about how she faces challenges but still grows from them. It is a coming of age story and is very inspiring and poetic. The novel was replete with so many events that take place in a person’s life.

When 16 teenage ish boys are stuck on the island, they are forced to

survive on their own. But the thing is some of them want to create an army

while the others just want to survive. This book is about the journey from

being stuck on an island to maybe leaving the island.

Title: Lord of the Flies

Author: William Golding

Genre: Allegorical Fiction

Everything, Everything is such an amazing book. There’s an amazing plot

twist at the end, which really adds to the whole story. There are moments

where you hold your breath, mentally yelling at the character through the

pages of the book. I love how the book is written, how there’s never a dull

moment in the story, how you never know what could happen next. It’s

just an amazingly written book.

Every Last Word is so touching. It really dives into mental health, and how

even when someone looks completely fine, they might actually be dealing

with something underneath that. Every Last Word shows how OCD can

affect a person’s life, in many ways.