Title of Book: Catcher in The Rye  Author: J. D. Salinger  # of Pages Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Why This Book has Value: Addresses the struggle of life


       In Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye', a young man in his late teens named Holden Caulfield, tells the story of his Christmas break. It begins with him getting expelled, and tells of his queer adventure's throughout New York while he waits for the right time to go home. Throughout this journey, he has many encounters that have a huge impact on his as a person. With his emotions already stirred a little from his expulsion, these events only worsen the state of his mind, and his melancholy. A bad combination with his sleep deprivation and hunger.


      This makes the book worthy of the readers time, because it helps embody the emotions, and depression a teen can feel, through Holden's struggle home. By showing the gradual decline in Holden's mental state throughout the book, it shows how feeling out of place in society isn't just a modern issue. By having the setting placed in the late 40's, it also helps the reader better understand why Holden is angry about some things because a lot of those things still happen today.

Title of Book: The Notebook Author: Nicholas Sparks # of Pages is 224 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Why This Book has Value: The Notebook is a romance tragedy taken place in the story of a couple who reflect back on their early ages of their lives. It shows how these characters grow and strengthen throughout the relationship and how their love goes through trial and test to join them in time. What makes this book have moral value and gives importance is its theme of love is undying and to no matter the events in your life to follow your heart. It shows this through the relationship in the story and how its taken place in the setting from an older couple remembering their relationship and how they got to became who they are. This story is most important to the audience because of its ability for the reader to be able to relate to the characters and their situation. In modern life there is much pressure to walk a certain road an to do whats in your best interest even if its not the path you feel true to yourself or want to follow. This relates the read to the theme by saying to live life doing what you want and love and to follow your heart to the things it wants. This theme also places importance on how this story unfolds, starting from an early couple conflicted with the interest of others they struggle to be together when others pull them apart, and wonder how the story concludes in the end. Later on it goes to explain the secondary conflict of another relationship and the revelations between each characters relationships. This plot all ties back to an importance in the authors viewpoints and how he portrays these conflicts to be relate-able to real world situations. This book is worth the time to a reader because it gives a compelling and engaging story and it demonstrates the theme of love and following your chosen path. The setting gives great importance to being relate-able to the audience and speaking to the reader. The author does a great way of connecting it to real world situations while still keeping the factional importance of the characters love and relationships. Overall, I would recommend this book and do enjoy reading it.

The Great Gatsby

Title of Book: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald # of Pages 180 Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Why This Book has Value: Creating the past

In the Great Gatsby throughout the novel Jay Gatsby is chasing something on the other side of the lake. Gatsby goes through a journey to get back his love Daisy. Through the help of his new neighbor Nick Carraway. Gatsby and Nick set up Daisy so her they can be together. This creates a mysterious story about the love affair and the past and present. There are major turns in the plot and metaphors. the story goes through the city and east and west egg in New York to show greed and death in a weird but great book.

The Fault In Our Stars why it matters

The Fault in our Stars: John Green: Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Why This Book has Value:How It teaches people about individual effects on our loved ones and how we should live life

The Fault in our stars by John Green centers around two love struck teenagers Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters both who are either currently or have struggled with cancer and both at some point expect to die throughout the book. The book centers around a idea of entropy and the meaning of life, what we should do even tho life really doesn't matter. It gives a very good perspective on the world around us and how we can affect those we are close to, this is emphasized by how in the book Hazel Grace refers to herself as a “side effect” as well as how she doesn't want to “be a grenade” to her loved ones she doesn't want to ruin the lives of those she loves around her and this can potentially give readers a perspective on life and how we affect our loved ones. More often then not many people never realize how much we as individuals affect those we love In both good and bad ways love and experiences are what make life meaningful its important to find them not rush into life but to experience it. This book dosent hold any stops when it comes to being straightforward about life and death people live and people die no one not even cancer patents are “heroes” people just want to live and be able to experience the life that was given to them. I would recommend this book to almost anyone it gives great insight on alot of ideas and brings up a lot of things to talk about

1984 - George Orwell (Chandler Tanner)

Title of Book: 1984
Author: George Orwell
# of Pages: 298
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
Why This Book has Value:







"Who controls the past controls the future: Who controls the present controls the past."

The book 1984 invents a dystopia and world in which George Orwell warns us all to be weary of devices such as political correctness, and to stand guard against attempts to "reinterpret" or otherwise change history. He shows that totalitarianism comes in all shapes and forms, primarily the progressive omission of personal freedom.

In our society, even removing the use of the word "terrorism," or increasing regulation, justified by the "protection of the environment" perpetuates the real-world relevancy of the warnings contained in the book 1984.

George Orwell propels his warning forward with the his brilliant conception of a dystopia far more advanced and powerful than even the USSR or Nazi Germany ever got- where not only are your actions monitored and controlled, but your thoughts too. Throughout the story, you follow an "Outer Party" member by the name of Winston through his internal struggle against the Party. You're enveloped into a world controlled by "Big Brother," and you witness Winston's almost instinctual resistance to the removal of freedom that has been imposed on his society for a very long time. On the contrary, it is Winston's believe that not even an all-powerful government can completely control you, and he exclaimed that “They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.” This leaves us, as the readers, with a goal for Winston. Will he be able to stay human, and become free, despite all odds? Orwell will even define what it means to be human, a definition we all have taken for granted.

Orwell's novel will excite you, fill you with enthusiasm and hope, and crush your dreams and could leave you furious and frustrated. I personally have never read a novel with such emotional value to it. Orwell will most definitely leave you internally chanting "down with Big Brother! Down with Big Brother!"

Orwell, though a genius and complex series of plots, will leave you with a universal understanding of the human need for freedom. Through such a universal idea, you as the reader will effortlessly be able to interpret the warning within his book. This novel is simply a must read for all Americans.