The narrator is a 32-year-old Perry L. Crandall who lives with his grandparents since he was a baby. With a measured IQ 76, Perry emphatically proclaims that he is slow, not retarded. He tells his life of how others treated him differently and even called him retarded or stupid. Although…
Maya Vidal is a teenager abandoned by her parents and raised by her grandparents in Berkeley, California. She lives with a Canadian astronomer Popo who loves her a lot and a Chilean Nini who likes to participate in protests. Although Popo is not her biological grandfather but he cares for…
Miranda lives with her single mother who has a nice boyfriend, Richard. Miranda has a best friend called Sal who she knew since she was a small child. They walk back home together everyday. They already familiar with the neighbourhood such as crazy guy on the corner that they need…
This is a story about the life of two rural families live in an old haunted house at Cloudstreet. The two families are Pickles and Lamb. Pickles family believes in luck whereas the Lambs family believes in God. The story involves wide variety of characters and the ups and downs…
This book contains of fourteen different stories. Each story contains an eccentric character and most of the stories are very random. Sometimes, I don't really understand what is the main idea that the author wants to tell to the readers. The stories were written in simple English with complicated plots.…
This novel is about a zookeeper's son, Pi Patel or to be exact, Piscine Molitor Patel, who shares a lifeboat with a hyena, a broken leg zebra, a female orang-utan(Orange Juice), and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger(Richard Parker) after the sinking of a cargo ship. The story begins…
What is the meaning of ‘Zahir’? According to the writer Jorge Luis Borges, Zahir origins from the Islamic tradition and it believes that this started around eighteenth century. In Arabic, Zahir means a person or an object that has the power to create a visibility or presence in the person…