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What The Novel, “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is About

Warning! Make sure you’ve read this wonderful novel by Jonathan Safran Foer first. What the book is REALLY about may shock you…

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Biblical References in William Golding’s Lord of The Flies and The Spire

This investigates whether there are biblical parallels in William Golding’s The Spire and The Lord of the flies and if so how they are achieved and what do they add to the book. I have examined the texts in great depth to detect the sometimes incredibly subtle religious connotations and linked them with religious motifs and sometimes even specific characters and stories from the Bible. Once I had detected these biblical parallels I then set about exploring the additional layers they gave to the book. In The Lord of the Flies the religious parallels were used to provide a stark contrast to the developing evil and in The Spire they help to produce a more complex story.

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An Allegory of a Spiritual Journey – Hinds Feet on High Places

A review of Hannah Hurnard’s wonderful allegory about the journey of “Much Afraid” from the Valley of Humiliation to the Kingdom of Love.

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The Definition of a Person

In The Scarlet Letter, first published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne introduces many ideas in a fashion evident of an allegory.

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Teen’s Allegory of the Cave

Life is not a bed of roses as what others describe. Explore it by your own self.

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Animal Farm Book Review

Animal Farm uses allegory to create a political satire that exposes the evils of the Soviet system.

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Dante’s Inferno

Dante’s Depiction of Hell.

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Young Goodman Brown-an Allegory

A brief summary of “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it is representative of an allegory.

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Animal Farm Summary

One of the characters that stood out the most was Napoleon the pig.

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Lord of the Flies

The political allegory in The Lord of the Flies.

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