Is The Alchemist Overrated?

Is The Alchemist Overrated? It focuses on the individual and the pursuit of individual dreams as making a positive contribution to the “Soul of the World”. It shows that obstacles to one’s personal legend are merely obstacles – not blockades. It challenges you to think about your own personal legend. It explores the meaning of

Is Night By Elie Wiesel Appropriate For Middle School?

Is Night By Elie Wiesel Appropriate For Middle School? “I’d generally say 13 is the age at which you can start teaching the realities of the Holocaust.” In “Night,” Wiesel describes watching people trampled to death on forced marches, the smell of the smoke from Auschwitz’s crematoriums and the tortured death of family members. What

Is Pale Fire A Good Poem?

Is Pale Fire A Good Poem? Paul Muldoon, another great contemporary poet and The New Yorker’s poetry editor, had more sympathy than Chiasson for claims about the poem’s stand-alone magnificence, and hit upon an apt image for the hermeneutic quandaries it poses: “I do think ‘Pale Fire’ is a quite wonderful poem, though it’s hard