This powerful book by Viktor Frankl, a psychiatrist who survived Nazi concentration camps, shows how people can find hope and purpose even in the worst suffering. Frankl wrote it after World War II to share his real-life experiences and his ideas on why meaning matters in life. The book has two main parts. The first tells his story from the…
Background and Context of 1984 1984 is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell in 1949. A dystopia is a fictional world where everything is controlled, miserable, and oppressive, often showing what could happen if society goes wrong. Orwell wrote this book after World War II, when he saw how governments could use propaganda (spreading ideas to control what people…
Finished reading Thousand splendid suns. The story spans roughly over 3 decades. It’s story of hope, humanity, compassion, empathy and spirit of humans. The 2 main characters are Mariam and Laila. 2 women, generations apart, whose life cross as they become wives of same man under different circumstances but not happily in either case. Yet its a story of how…
