The Help
By Kathryn Stockett

This is a story of three different women who pulled through difficulties and overcame their limits in 1960s America, when segregation and racism was severe. Three women, who did not appear at first to have many similarities, joined together and made the world more humane and beautiful, trying to break the wall of discrimination against the race, sex, and class.

The Shallows
By Nicholas Carr

The author of this book describes how humans have been influenced by the tools that they have developed, and how the internet and smart devices will influence global society. He warns that the internet makes us get used to forgetting, but that memory is an essential element for our humanity. It makes us think of how to use smart devices “smartly.”

The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
By Yonas Jonasson

This novel starts with Alan, a 100-year-old Swedish man, escaping from a sanitarium and deciding to enjoy the rest of his life. He unintentionally cuts into the fast-changing modern world and changes its flow. The novel makes readers concentrate on the importance of living history. Underneath the humor, it describes what ideology, relegion, and our lives are.

Kim You-jeong  youjeong719@dongguk.edu

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