Teresa Viola

In The Stranger, Albert Camus employs a particular style and techniques in order to intensify the effect of the story on the reader.  The style of narration is detached, unemotional,...

The moral reconciliation of a story is the lesson the character or characters have learned as a result of the events that transpired in the book. In other words, how have the events of the story...

The authors of Freakonomics make some bold claims. For example, they claim the legalization of abortion contributes to a decrease in crime in the United States.  Such challenges and...

In Paper Towns, John Green is arguing that we often misinterpret other people and that identity (particularly in adolescence) is a fluid, ever-changing phenomenon in a person's...

In James's The Turn of the Screw, the governess is trapped on an old estate in which reality feels turned upside down. The writer uses literary devices to makes the reader feel as confused and lost...