If you want to read a book to make you think, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding is the one to choose. I will summarize the facts of the book for you.The scene is laid on an uninhabited island, at the time of the WWII. The main characters are teen-aged boys, named Simon, Ralph, Piggy and Jack. The plot development is: being evacuated during the war, several groups of schoolboys came to be on an uninhabited island, because their airplane had been shot down. The boys were glad that there were no grown-ups about and they decided to have a nice time. They made up their minds to make a democratic society with all the attributes of it: everyone had a right to speak one’s mind, Ralph as the most honest boy was chosen to be the chief. The boys made shelters for themselves and lit a fire to be rescued. Unfortunately the situation soon changed. The problems appeared when a group of boys called ‘hunters’ (with Jack as a leader) decided to organize a tribe to hunt and have fun in this way. Besides, the boys were afraid of a beast allegedly living on the island. It happened that the boys took delight in killing animals; they also decided to go and hunt the beast. Disapproving of the killing acts Simon made up his mind to find everything about the beast out. Eventually he got to know that it was just a dead parachutist who floated down and hooked on to the top of the island mountain. But Simon never managed to tell the boys the truth, as he was accidentally killed by the tribe. Having decided to speak with Jack and his tribe about what had happened Piggy went to them and got killed as well. The tribe started hunting Ralph. At the moment when the boys set the jungle on fire and were about to catch Ralph, a ship came to the island, sent a boat and rescued the boys.
This is the gist of the story. Read it, you won't regret it!
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The book I admire and would like to summarize is called «The Hunger» by a Nobel Prize winner, Knout Hamsun.
The scene of the story is led in Norway, in the nineteenth century. The main character of the book is a young writer and publicist. The story is about a poor and proud young man, who tries to suffer and to win the recognition.
The young man is smart, well-educated and tragically alone in the city. Being awfully proud he tries to reject any help from the others. His pride and a long period of misfortune, poverty and hunger plunge him into psychosis. Having given up the last hope, suddenly, the man manages to find a job as a ship’s boy and leaves the city. This is the gist of the story.
One of my favorite books is “Three Comrades”, a novel by the German author Erich Maria Remarque. It is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War's French-German front. He shares these experiences with Otto Köster and Gottfried Lenz, his two comrades with whom he runs an auto-repair shop in late 1920s Berlin.
The city is crowded by a growing number of jobless and marked by increasing violence between left and right. The novel starts out in the seedy district of bars where prostitutes mingle with hopeless poor people that the war left behind. While Robert and his friends manage to make a living dealing cars and driving an old taxi, the economic situation in the city is getting harder by the day. These are the times when Robert meets Patrice Hollmann, a mysterious beautiful young woman with an upper middle class background. The life of both changes a lot, he introduces her to his life of bars and races and Robert's attitude to life slowly begins to change as he realizes how much he needs Pat.
The story takes an abrupt turn as it turns out that Pat suffers pulmonary tuberculosis during the summer holiday, which they spend together. She is scheduled to leave for a Swiss mountain sanatorium next winter. It is this temporal limitation of their happiness which makes their remaining time together so precious.
After Pat has left for Switzerland, Lenz, one of the comrades, gets killed by a militant. In addition, Otto and Robert face bankruptcy and have to sell their workshop. A little bit later a telegram arrives informing them of Pat's worsening state of health. The two comrades drive the thousand kilometers to the tuberculosis sanatorium in the Alps to see her.
Robert and Pat, who is at death’s door, spend their remaining weeks together before her inevitable death. The last part of the book shows this beautiful love story, true friends, who always support each other and leaves the main character alone, without love, friendship, work and hope.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.
The scene of the story is led in the USA of the70s. The protagonist of the book is McMurphy, a man with unbridled and lively character. He comes to mental hospital and tries
to persuade all the doctors of his imbecility. Indeed, he wanted to live some period of time at the expence of the state. At last, he managed to implement his idea. But he could not even imagine such a great difference between the normal society and these sick people behind the wall of the hospital! Most of the patients of the mental hospital are as normal as any other man outside. But they were precipitated in this difficult situation because of peoples indifference and haughtiness. Now, they are afraid of their freedom more than they hate the walls of the hospital where they have committed themselves to oblivion.
But with appearence of McMurphy the patients stired up rebellion against the nurse, who liked the idea of the man so much, that she did not let exist a single person.
This is the jist of the story.
The theme of the freedom was the problem of high topicality in the US. The american democracy is conciedered to be the oldest one in the world. But not all the statements of the constitution worked in a proper way. This question is broached by Ken Kesey,
the problem of inhumanity and superciliousness.
The book I would like to sum up is a Polish science fiction novel Solaris written by Stanislaw Lem. The action of this novel takes place in the distant future on board of the scientific research station, that hovers near the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris. Main characters of the story are: a young psychologist Kris Kelvin, the phantom of his wife Harey, who committed suicide several years before, and two residents of the station – Snaut and Sartorius. The key subject of the story is the problem of humanity’s cognition of alien life form.
On arrival at the space station instead of hearty welcome Kris Kelvin discovers that on board reigns desolation and chaos and that one of the members of the crew I dead. His other two colleagues , Snaur and Sortorius, are in a state of depression and on the verge of insanity. Later he understands that this mental disorder is caused by the planet itself. As it turned out, the mysterious ocean is able to retrieve recollections from humans’ memory and to create on their basis different forms and phantoms. Soon the phantom of his dead wife visits him and Kelvin decides to study this phenomenon. This is the gist of the story.
The best book I have ever read is “Spud”, by John van de Ruit.
This is book about fourteen year-old boy John Milton, and his new boarding school in South Africa, where he is given the nickname Spud. This novel is written in diary form, covering the confusion, fun times, girl troubles, and serious pondering of a teen boy. Spud and his insane housemates, with nicknames like Mad Dog, Fatty, Rambo and Grecko are known as the Crazy Eight. Boarding school life revolves around the excitement of nighttime swims, kitchen raids, porn-screenings, cricket games and the typical pastimes of teenage boys. Hilarity and chaos ensues, as can only be expected of boarding school life.
Van de Ruit’s story is not just all fun and games though. The setting is 1990’s South Africa, when Nelson Mandela has just been released from jail and Apartheid is coming to an end. Spud writes of the impact that Madela has on him and on the other boys at school, showing the inspiration that Mandela offers to the black students at school. There is definitely controversy about Mandela’s release, the boys in Durban debate politics in an African Affairs and Spud’s father believes Mandela to be a communist.
Spud’s family is a bit dysfunctional itself. Well, a bit is really an understatement. His parents are illegally selling homemade alcohol from their home. Actually, their maid, named Innocence is doing the selling; his parents are just taking a cut of the profits. His frighteningly batty grandmother, better known as Wombat, manages to ruin more than one family vacation. His mother’s friend, Marge sets Spud up with her daughter, Debbie, and that’s when Spud’s first foray in the world of women begins. He wins the lead in the school production, Oliver, which the school is putting on in conjunction with neighboring girls’ school. With so many girls suddenly thrust into his life, including the psychopathic Christine and the Julia Roberts look like Amanda, Spud begins to learn the true meaning of love and the art of dealing with women. Spud and his best friend Gecko spend a great many hours making pro/con lists to determine the proper course of action with the ladies. This is the gist of the story.
Love inspires, makes us live in the clouds, becomes our guiding light, when it`s dark outdoors…but each person knows what unshared love is. For someone it`s a murky river of cigarettes, spilt rum, old photos, silent mobile phone and clocks ticking away. For me it`s a brilliant minor novel by Aleksandr Kuprin «The Garnet Bracelet», that makes me cry every time when I reread it. So I`d like to sum it up.
The scene of the story is led in the Russian Empire, in the turn of the twentieth century. Main characters of the story are:the princess Vera Nikolaevna, her husband Vasiliy Lvovich, her sister Anna, her brother Nikolay and her secret admirer Jeltkov.
It was September and soon Vera Nikolaevna had her name-day celebration. A lot of her close relations came to observe that occasion and exactly on that day she became a small gold etui with a beautiful garnet bracelet in it. The bracelet came with a small letter , where an unknown admirer confessed that he had been loving the princess for 7 years and besides his love he had nothing what for he could live. “It looks like as if it`s blud” – she said amazed when she saw deep dark-red stones. Vera had nothing else to do but show that objectionable present to her husband. He became furious and decided to find the sender of the bracelet every which way and to give him back his present. And he managed to do it; the secret admirer was a poor pitiful clerk with a silly surname Jeltkov. Vasilij Lvovich warned him against writing her again, because it could compromise her. But the purport of life for Jeltkov was lost.
In a few days Vera Nikolaevna read in the newspaper a small obituary about the suicide of her faithful admirer, later she received his dying letter, where he told her that she had been for him the only joy of the life .He didn’t accuse her of her coldness and indifference, he asked only to play The Piano Sonata D - dur № 2. by Beethoven special for him. She could not help crying.
This is the gist of the story.
I've just reread my summery and I laughed a lot. Of course, he tried not to SUFFER, but SURVIVE! :)))))
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