Though the novel is fictional, its exploration of the idea of human evil is at least partly based on Golding's experience with the real-life violence and brutality of World War II. ... In portraying the various ways in which the boys on the island adapt to their new surroundings and react to their new freedom, Golding explores the broad spectrum of ways in which humans respond to stress, change, and tension. ... Some believed that the novel explores fundamental religious issues, such as original sin and the nature of good and evil. Others approached Lord of the Flies through the theorie...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School

"The sympathy or magnetism among human beings is more subtle and universal than we think; it exists, indeed, among different classes of organized life, and vibrates from one to another. ... He offers Hepzibah smiles and promises of riches until she refuses, at which time his true nature emerges. ...

• Word Count: 2711
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistib...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

I think that people are generally created innately good and then go create their own nature. ... God created this human being for good not bad, that what were here to help them find out. ... For example the money is not that great to begin with, I think you should look at every client as a human being that needs help, not a like a dollar bill, actually care and listen. ...

• Word Count: 3025
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

About the Author Quijano de Manila is the pen name of Nick Joaquin. He started writing before the war and his first story, "Three Generations," has been hailed as a masterpiece. He has been recipient of almost all the prestigious awards in literature and the arts, including the National Artist Award for Literature in 1976. He was also conferred, among other recognitions, the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature in 1961, the Journalist of the Year Award in the early 1960s, the Book of the Year Award in 1979 for his Almanac for Manileños, the national Book award for s...

• Word Count: 5098
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School