The Bowl

     For my blog post, I chose to write about the novel Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan. I had watched the movie version of this story a few years ago, and I thought it would be a good idea to read the book that it is based on. Like other movie recreations, they both match up very well, but I would say the book is better at explaining the backstories of the characters and deepening the plot for the reader. I also read this book a few years after watching the movie, so I didn't remember some of the main points in the story. This genre is normally out of my interests, but the rollercoaster of a plot can hook anyone in.     The book starts off with Rachel and Nick living in NYC as professors. Nick wants to take Rachel to Singapore, where he is from, to meet his family. However, one thing that he "forgot" to mention was that he was born into one of the richest families in the world. To make matters worse, Nick's mother, Eleanor Young, is very particular about who he...

                 Lord of the Flies is a 1954 Nobel-Prize winning novel by William Golding that focuses on a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island with no connection with the outside world in the middle of a war. At the beginning of the book, the boys try to govern themselves. However, as fear takes over the island and the quest for power rises, the boys are divided and the chances of being rescued slim. I will talk about the message of the book, my thoughts on the book, and the symbolic ending. This will not contain spoilers, but if you do want to see the analysis of the ending of Lord of the Flies , then highlight the white text after the bolded sentence. One of the main driving forces of the plot is fear. This unpleasant feeling of uneasiness, panic, agitation, and doubt ultimately leads the group of boys to split into two groups. One centered around civilization and the instinct to act and live peacefully with the goal of b...