Beyond the Letters

People who are ignorant are the easiest aim when you want to manipulate the others. Like the famous “451 Fahrenheit” by Ray Bradbury suggests, when you are afraid of being deprived of you power – start burning the books. The people who know nothing about anything will gladly believe all your lies. This novel is about reading which helps you to get more mature. About living in the time and place that makes you choose between your consciousness and safety. About children who can be much stronger and true to themselves than adults. About one man that wanted to rule the world and many others who believed his stories. About death that is kind and life that is cruel. About the healing and destructive power of words. The outside Let’s look at the outer form of this novel first. The peculiarities start with the narrator itself, for the story is told from the point of view of… Death. Strangely enough this severe judge, as we are used to think of him, turns out to be not deprived of human f...

When WWI ended people named it the Great War implying that nothing as terrifying would ever happen. Still something even more devastating was to come just in some decades…  “The Women in the Castle” ,. is  about surviving and living on , about the war as seen by those who remained in their homes, still suffered not less than the ones on the front, it’s  feminine and feministic  as it is written by a woman, and about women, and states that fair sex doesn’t mean minor one or even less strong. Although this novel deals with war you will not find a single description of battles in it, but it is unbelievable how much violence can be found outside the battlefield. The book is generally not physical and tends to hint at scenes of violence rather than describe them, but if you are not deprived of imagination you will certainly feel all that is implied.  The emotional value of the narration is immense. The story being told in 3rd person narrative, it still remains...