"The Stranger" is a novel by Albert Camus that explores the life of a detached and indifferent protagonist named Meursault, who becomes embroiled in a murder case and questions society's values and the meaning of life.
Upton Sinclair's socialist beliefs and his desire to expose the exploitation of workers in the meatpacking industry primarily motivated him to write The Jungle.
The introduction of trench warfare and the advancements in defensive weaponry led to a stalemate on the Western Front during World War I, as depicted in "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Emerson's central ideas about solitude and nature reflect transcendentalism through his belief in the inherent goodness of both and their ability to inspire individual self-reliance and spiritual growth.
Fahrenheit 451 ends with the city being destroyed by bombs and the protagonist, Guy Montag, joining a group of wandering intellectuals to rebuild society.
Malcolm X was a prominent civil rights activist who advocated for the rights and freedom of African Americans, often emphasizing self-defense and black nationalism as a means to combat racial inequality and injustice, which was later described in his Autobiography.
In the Bible, Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, received the Ten Commandments from God, and journeyed with the Israelites through the desert towards the Promised Land.
The event described in Chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter that involves the narrator is his discovery of a tattered piece of cloth with a scarlet letter "A" on it in the attic of the Custom House.