Novel Essays & Research Papers

NOVELS, SOCIETY AND HISTORY S.NO. Name Novel Features Other specifications 1 Samuel Richardson Pamela Epistolary novel-(Written in the form of a series of letters) 2 Henry Fielding Tom Jones (1749) Costly for poor 3 Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers Serialized in a magazine known as “All the Round Year” Serialization allowed readers to relish the suspense. 4 Leo Tolstoy War and peace Russian novelist who wrote extensively on rural life and community. 5 Charles...

Q: The concept of purification is essential in the thematic structure of the two novels. Compare the symbols of the purification in “The Mill on the Floss” and “Jane Eyre” . The mill on the floss and Jane Eyre are novels written in the late nineteenth century. First, "The Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot's. It tells the story of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village. "Jane Eyre" is the second novel. Jane Eyre the title of its title...

A novel is a long prose narrative that describes fictional characters and events in the form of a sequential story, usually. The genre has historical roots in the fields of medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Further definition of the genre is historically difficult. The construction of the narrative, the plot, the relation to reality, the...

The rise of the novel At the end of the 18th century a new literary genre started developing all over Europe: the Novel. It was a revolution whose roots were as old as the other literary genres. In fact, this new way of writing borrowed many narrative forms from other genres, such as diaries, biographies of adventurers, travellers’ tales and so on. But now let’s focus our attention on the main causes of the naissance and of the success of the novel: • The augmentation of learned...

A Bushman Fictions/Novels by A Bushman A.L.O.E. Fictions/Novels by A.L.O.E. Abbott, Belle Kendrick Fictions/Novels by Belle Kendrick Abbott Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell o Little Eve Edgarton o Molly Make-Believe o White Linen Nurse, The Abbott, Jane Fictions/Novels by Jane Abbott Abbott, Lyman Fictions/Novels by Lyman Abbott Adam, G. Mercer Fictions/Novels by G. Mercer Adam Adams, Andy Fictions/Novels by Andy Adams Adams, F. Colburn Fictions/Novels by...

Religion: A Trivial Conundrum Religion in fiction, much like religion in politics, has grown to be considered taboo. Religious characters are often expected to be comedic and used only as experimental or secondary. Their only true attribute is that of piety, playing on old stereotypes to drive the characterization. In a world where being politically correct gets in the way of day-to-day talk, approaching controversial topics in any form of writing can be seen as potentially...

Summary of The Alchemist About Novel:- The Alchemist is a great novel written by “Paulo Coelho”. It was first originally published in Portuguese language in 1988 by Editora Rocco and in English language it is published 1993. Because the author is Brazilian and Portuguese in national language of Brazil that’s why he first originally write that novel in Portuguese language. This novel is “An Allegorical Novel” and it has been translated in at least 72 languages and 140 million copies are sold...

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is unique and different in various ways from other horror novels. The story was written in a romantic tone and is not the modern day gory horror story. Her works can be compared to some of the great novels of H.G. Wells such as The Time Machine and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The most obvious link between the works of Shelley and Wells is that they both have a dominant theme of science fiction. Shelley stresses science fiction through the character of Victor...

What can ‘classic’ books tell us about our history & culture? A classic book is a well-known book that is passed down generations and is usually, a classic will hold a depth that no one can hope to understand. Classic books create a strong statement towards history and culture, that still holds truth even long after. These books transcend the basic notions of a good book. A classic book has characteristics and themes that people enjoy reading even years from its original publishing. Classic...

 GOTHIC NOVEL The word "Gothic" has ben variously defined and interpreteted by various writer. Leslie Fielder says that Gothic shoddy mystery-mongerine, whereas F. Gunworth Fields defines the Gothic tradition, as a literary exploration of avenues to death. The editions of "The Reader's Companion to World Literature" consider the Gothic novel as a novel of horror based on supernatural. Montague summers maintains; Gothic was the essence of romanticism, and romanticism was the literary...

S U M M A R Y INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................. 1- BILDUNGSROMAN NOVELS......................................................................................... 2- TWO BILDUNGSROMAN NOVELS............................................................................. 3.1- Great Expectations........................................................................................................

The Imperfect Heroin in Prose Fiction There is one particular feature that sets the novel apart from any other literary genre. Literature has the ability to transport you into a world that is a product of individual imagination yet the realism expressed in the novel serves as a tool or road that leads to the emerging of conceived images. It is a time travel that has the ability to restore any period of growth in society and humanity in general. Many times we refer to the novel when...

StoryLines America is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and administered by the American Library Association to expand American understanding of human experience and cultural heritage. A Radio/ Library Partnership Exploring Our Regional Literature Additional support from Barnes & Noble The Octopus by Frank Norris StoryLines America Discussion questions In the mystical visions of Vanamee there is the suggestion of eternal reconciliation, a final moral rectitude...

When you read pieces of literature, what do you notice they have in common? You might notice they all have lessons. Authors depict their characters to face conflicts and to cope, for example Eliezer Wiesel from the novel Night and Holden Caulfield from the novel The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the stories the two young men experience the hard parts of life and learn how to face them. To cope with someone or something the two characters faced a transformation that would mark their lives. In...

Monday, December 27, 2010 Reasons for the Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Introduction: The most important gifts of the eighteenth century to English literature are the periodical essay and the novel, neither of which had any classical precedent. Both of them were prose forms and eminently suited to the genius of eighteenth-century English men and women. The periodical essayist and the novelist were both exponents of the same sensibility and culture, and worked on the same...

Origins. A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war. It is sometimes referred to as military fiction. The war novel's main roots lie in the epic poetry of the classical and medieval periods, especially Homer's The Iliad, Virgil's The Aeneid, the Old English saga Beowulf, and different versions of the legends of King...

The word epistolary is derived through Latin from the Greek word ἐπιστολή epistolē, meaning a letter. An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters. The epistolary form can add greater realism to a story, because it mimics the workings of real life The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell (1594–1666) with "Familiar Letters", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women. There are two...

Graphic Novel Subject Guide 1 Graphic Novels Subject Guide Spring 2010 – Nova Scotia Public Libraries The Misunderstood Medium It is important to understand that the terms “comics” and “graphic novels” describe a medium rather than a genre. The difference is that a genre is a type of story, with certain rules that it must follow in order to fit into that genre. “Westerns,” “mysteries,” “romances” are examples of genre. A medium is a form of expression like movies, novels or poetry....

Graphic Novels: Literature without Text? Jan Baetens Literary graphic novels: adaptation, illustration, collaboration, and beyond More and more, the hype surrounding the graphic novel concerns its literary qualities. Many graphic novels appear to have a literary subtext (in the case of adaptations) or present themselves, in a more radical form, as the visual development of a literary text that is completely reproduced within the graphic novel. In the former case, the literary graphic...

The Guardians: Critical Essay The Guardians by Ana Castillo, is a promising and highly recommended novel set in times when people were demonized strictly for being brown. It takes place along the borderlands and in New Mexico where it follows a strong independent woman who is on a desperate path to find her lost brother Rafa who she believes has been captured by the coyotes. The story goes into depth during undocumented times when the border was a fearful place where...

In the novel, Winter of the Ice Wizard by Mary Pope Osborne, the main characters are Jack and Annie.The story takes place in Christmas in Frog Creek Woods. Actually, it is a story about adventure, so the real story takes place in the Land where the northern seal people live. Jack and Annie are siblings. They are teenagers. They have plain faces. They like to go on adventure. They do some adventure job for an enchanter Merlin. In my opinion, they are nice, don’t think they have any problems....

Introduction to teaching graphic novels in the English Foreign Language Classroom There are many methods and strategies in teaching EFL learners. In this case teachers should be able to decide whether a method is appropriate or not, which is not always easy. Teaching graphic novels is a clever strategy to capture the interest of nearly all students in a class. In general this phenomenon is sometimes difficult to achieve due to the fact that there are various learning types and it is not...

ITL –NOVEL SELECTED TYPES Romantic – This form of novel goes beyond ordinary experience and social predicaments into make-believe. Something new is being searched for in an alternative world beyond familiar circumstances so that the novel's purpose is a moral or ideal issue. Nevertheless, the transportation to some idealized world, or going on a somewhat fantastic journey, can lead to disappointment, and its moral outcome. The characters' ideals can be crushed. The fantastical journey can be a...

The Victorian Novel: main characteristics First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people, its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms, the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told, the writer and his readers shared the same opinions, values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class, the...

An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular, the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past, teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College, London in...

ASPECTS OF A NOVEL by Prof. Raj Kumar Verma Professor, Department of English Sri Aurobindo College University of Delhi Today we are here to discuss to know and to analyse how to read a novel. Reading of a novel is an activity which as readers of literature which as readers of story. All of us who have some degree of education are quite familiar with and yet despite that familiarity despite having read quite a few novels for entertainment for knowledge purpose or simply for the sake of...

POSSIBLE ESSAY ANSWERS “I have not known a days peace and contentment in my life.” Discuss this statement in light of the various internal conflicts faced by Makhaya in the novel. Support your ideas with details from the novel. In the novel When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head, we are a spectator to trials and tribulations of Makhaya, the protagonist. While many of these trials are external, they also impact on his state of mind and on his emotional detachment. As an individual,...

THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist, novelist , linguist, literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee, which upholds his belief that, “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices...

1. American Literature - Dialectical Journals What is a Dialectical Journal? A dialectical journal is a record of your dialogue (conversation) with the book you are reading. It is also called a double entry or reader response journal. In this journal, you will write down your thoughts, questions, comments, predictions, and ideas while you read. The process helps you develop critical reading skills and encourage you to expand your reflective writing. Your Assignment -...

1 15 April 2013" Watchmen" " In the novel Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created, Watchmen is based in 1985 with Richard Nixon as president in his fourth term, the Cold War is at its worst point, and the nation’s superheroes comprise of a bunch of unstable, deadbeats, who mostly are without actual superpowers. When the story begins, one of the superheroes, the Comedian, is murdered. What happens after is an extremely dense, beautiful, depressing story that begins as a crime mystery and...

The Joys of Reading A Novel As soon as a novel must be read or becomes part of a literary course, the joy of reading it is immediately lost due to the fact that the particular novel may not be interest to the student, the student may hurry to finish the novel and by the extent to which the novel is studied. The joy of reading a novel is lost when a novel is not of interest to the reader because the reader would not be able to relate to any of the characters, and would therefore...

Misery by: Stephen King Book Report The stories setting takes place in Western Colorado. In Western Colorado in a home of a retired nurse named Annie is where the whole story takes place. Annie's home is a two story log cabin out in the middle of nowhere. The closest neighbors are miles away. It takes place in the middle of winter snow storms. The story is about Paul Sheldon who is the author of a best-selling series of romance novels featuring its popular...

4. The novel from 1881 to 1914 Over the eighteen eighties there was a split in fiction. The first indication towards it was Henry James' essay "The Art of Fiction" (1884), which referred to the novelist's calling as a "Sacred office". Besides, there appeared a stratification of fiction due to primary education for all. Parallel to this, novelists saw themselves apart from the public, as dedicated men. This new modern conception involved dignity and a sense of glory. Another change was from the...

LITSEARCH www.litsearch.in ISSN 2277-6990 (Print) Writing the Real, Reviving the Tradition: A Reading of Bhalchandra Nemade’s Kosla (Cocoon) Somnath B. Barure Assistant Professor, P. G. Dept. of English, Vasantrao Naik Govt. Institute of Arts & Social Sciences (Morris College), Pandit Nehru Road, RBI- Square, Nagpur- 440001 An article in Lokrang- Loksatta, a Marathi daily in Maharashtra, reminded the age of evergreen Kosla, by a veteran Marathi discussing writer the Bhalchandra reasons...

Raw Essay Institutions can have positive and negative effects that can alter and individual's perceptions, judgment and values. "Raw" by Scott Monk, "Hard Rock" by Etheridge Knight and "Dangerous Minds" by John N. Smith help communicate an understanding of how such institutions can reform an individual. The novel "Raw" written by Scott Monk, is simple in style but introduces interesting and an acceptable insight to the concept of "the institution and the individual experience". Brett...

Name: Dean Ray Student Number: 12126632 Course: 2nd year B.A. Module: Eh4734 Word Count: 1190 Question 1. Discuss the importance of the urban environment in relation to The Catcher in the Rye by Holden Caulfield, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle, Angela’s Ashes by Frank Mc Court and The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. No matter what we discuss, whether it is a novel, drama, play or a type of film the urban environment will always have a major...

Blueback Essay In novels, characters are used to help the author show the way they are constructed. It is evident in the novel Blueback, by Tim Winton (1997), the construction of characters are what Winton uses to communicate the ideas that Abel is passionate about the sea, Abel fights for what he believes in and that Abel is loyal to his friends and family. These ideas are easily found, through narrative point of view and dialogue. It is clear that the author must deliver, character...

Stamford University Bangladesh Topic: Treatment of Female Characters in Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, The Scarlet Letter, and The Return of the Native. Course Title : Undergraduate Research Course code : ENGL-490 Course Teacher: Prof.Syed Anwarul Haq Submitted By : Marufa Akther. Id:03705884 Batch : 37th Abstract English novels deal with female characters in a very magnificent...

The novel ‘Disgrace' by J. M. Coetzee was an eye opening and a thrilling ride through the pages. This story has put a strong emphasis on the idea of nemesis in real life. Lurie, the main character sexually harassed his student and in return he lost his job, his friends, respect from colleagues, and in an indirect, cynical way his daughter was gang raped. He has to live with all sorts of regrets and intense thoughts about where he has gone wrong. Lurie tries to engage himself in his daughter's...

“How have Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway and Michael Cunningham in The Hours manipulated form to develop the characterisation of Mrs Dalloway in their respective novels?” Name: Nelissa Nezamuthdeen Candidate Number: 002592 – 011 Subject: English A1 Word Count: 3892 Abstract 300 words The purpose of my extended essay is to compare and contrast certain aspects of literary form employed in two novels which are closely linked, Mrs Dalloway by...

Write a critical analysis of Aphra Behn' novella Oroonoko, paying special attention to the representation of black Africans. What makes Oroonoko a positive character? Is he superior or inferior to the whites in the novella? Oroonoko a Royal slave or a monstrous Negro “ I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their...

The Rise of the English Novel English literature has a long and colorful history. From the masterfully written old English tales of Chaucer to the countless Shakespearian dramas to the poetic verses of Tennyson, England has produced some of the richest treasures of the literary world. Not until the eighteenth century, however, did a type of literature develop that completely broke the traditions of the past and opened the door to a whole new generation of writers. This new genre was...

Introduction The reason why I chose this topic is that during the second year we had it as part as our acquaintances and it was at that time that I had gone through its summary. I loved reading it and wished to know more about it in detail. Thus, when I came across it as a part our syllabus in M.A., I readily took it up as my research topic, as it was not just the novel but the form of the novel as well that particularly interested me. Because epistolary novel is something which I had come...

Revenge is a strong negative emotion, that some people may feel they need to do in order to lay something to rest. Some people may seek revenge because they might not be able to deal with the situation in another way. Others may want to get revenge because the person may possible deserved it. In some cases, revenge can be justified as a punishment. In a novel “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, revenge is justified as a punishment. If a person commits a crime, they should be punished as with any...

Jane Eyre can easily be classified as a romantic novel. The term “romantic” usually brings to mind images of love , however, it is much more than that. It is filled with emotion and freedom and can also be seen as the main conflict of the narrative because that is what the characters central struggles evolve around which is why “Jane Eyre” which can easily be classified as a romantic novel. Throughout the novel romance can be portrayed in many ways such as Berthas acts of arson. She is known...

Comparing and contrasting two fictional novels Telling the difference between two fictional novels is a simple task but finding a similarity within them both is a hard thing to do, or so you may think. When I think of the comparison of the two novels, which I need to pick, there are many books in which I have read before but none as interesting as what I am about to share. One of the books is “Daughter of the Sea, Hannah” by Kathryn Lasky. The other one is “The Fallen” by Thomas E. Sniegoski....

The Great Gatsby is a cynical novel To what extent do you agree with this, following you reading of chapters one and two? In the novel “The Great Gatsby” we see many references to cynicism. For example in the first chapter we hear from Nick Carraway the narrator of the novel who, himself reveals that he has a tendency to be quite cynical towards others. This is because he has “feigned sleep, preoccupation, or hostile levity”1 when he realises that for “some unmistakeable sign that an intimate...

D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers as a Psychological Novel – Sons and Lovers belongs to the category of psychological fiction. The remarkable development of psychological novel is a notable phenomenon of the twentieth century literary scene. The psychology of the characters and the typical problems, emanating from a particular psychological pattern form the staple of a psychological novel. This psychological novel has been ushered in by Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. The psycho-analytical...

Spies by Michael Frayn (Faber and Faber) There have been so many novels recently drawing on or purporting to draw on memories of a childhood under apartheid that we may be inclined to assume that this kind of inverse nostalgia is a peculiarly South African phenomenon. Even Barbara Trapido, who has lived most of her adult life in England, has chosen to set her latest novel in the South Africa of her youth. And yet, of course, the childhood-underapartheid novel is only a local variant of a...

The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century ( A Brief Summary of the first three lectures) 1- The first half of the eighteenth century marks the rise of a new literary genre: works of prose called today ‘novels’. 2- The novel has its roots in the short tales of the middle and Elizabethan ages, like romances and other adventure stories. 3- Romances- also called “French romances”- are fictitious, fanciful stories in prose about knights and...

In-Class Essay: Their Eyes Were Watching God Prompt: Their Eyes Were Watching God is concerned with issues of speech and how speech is both a mechanism of control and a vehicle of liberation. Discuss the role of silence and speech in the book and how that role changes throughout the novel. * Note – Janie’s speech and silence will be the main focus of the essay although references to other character will be made. Format: 5 paragraphs – Introduction, 3 body paragraphs, conclusion...

The epistolary novel is an old form of novel that uses letters written by and between characters to tell the plot. In We Need to Talk About Kevin there is only one writer, the mother Eva Khatchadourian, who is writing to her separated husband, Franklin. The advantages of the epistolary novel are that the reader is privy to the private thoughts and feelings of the character-writer; everything – the plot, the setting, other characters and any theme that the author intends – is depicted from their...

MPD in Novel Three Three is a novel write by Ted Dekker. Dekker good at write mystery novel, like Three and Obsessed. Three is a book talk about MPD, Multiple Personality Disorder, Is a mental disorder that let people have two or more than two unique personality in one body. The leading character of the novel named Kevin. Unfortunately, he has this mental disorder. At the beginning of the stroy, Kevin drove in his car by himself and got a phonecall from Slater. Slater need Kevin answer a...

The advantages and disadvantages of reading the novel Novel writing a long reference and display a variety of modes of human life. Novel is a central aspect of teenage life especially compelling novel nature lives to love. Just read the novel can bring positive and negative impacts that must be addressed by all parties. Reading activities are sure to open young minds on issues that are displayed in a readable novel theme that has been designed by the writer is associated with the current...

Review on Atonement It is not often that the protagonist of a story be the anathema of the story as well and it is even more of a rarity that the particular character be a young child. Yet, this is exactly what Ian McEwan has done with his Crime Novel, Atonement. McEwan intentionally turns his readers against Briony Tallis, a young girl transitioning from the naivete of childhood into the new and confusing years of adolescence; a point in one's life when mistakes are dubbed as necessary...

INTERVIEW 1 Shacochis' new novel, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, fuses his narrative versatility and his deep understanding of multiple cultures into what Robert Olen Butler calls hismagnum opus. Its suspense revolves around the murder in Haiti of stunningly beautiful Jackie Scott, but before its far-reaching web of interactions ends, it brilliantly unveils the darker regions of human sexuality, evoked inside a historical build-up of international political deceit—deceit with present-day...

Both ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro and ‘My Sisters Keeper’ by Jodi Picoult explore issues that are widely discussed but rarely put into practice. For example the most famously known cloned experiment is Dolly the sheep which was in 1996 and there have been very few cases where a family have decided to create another child for the use of medical reasons, the first case of this in the UK was in 2002. Both novels focus on people or one person who have been created for the use of other people....

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Jeanette, the single named narrator of the novel has lived for a long time with her mother and her father. Her mother is forceful woman who often seeks out conflict and who never sees the world with mixed feelings. For Jeanette's mother, the world contains enemies (the Devil, "Next Door," slugs, and sex) and friends (God, Auntie Madge, the novels of Charlotte Bronte, and slug pellets). Jeanette adds that she also fit into the category of friends, at first. Jeanette's mother shuns sex but wanted...

It is important to read and discuss Mukherjee's "A Wife's Story" as an integral part of twentieth-century American literature and not as an "exotic" short story by a foreign writer. As the essay accompanying "A Wife's Story" points out, Mukherjee identifies herself very strongly as an American writer writing about twentieth-century Americans. Although most of her stories are about South Asian-Americans (South Asia in the contemporary geopolitical arena usually consists of Bangladesh, India,...

American Novel as Romance There are two types of novels: the realistic or British novel and the romance fiction or American novel. The romance novel is a literary genre and the native tradition of the American novel. One of the basic differences between English and American literature is that the latter is constantly reassessing and reconstituting romance within the novel. It is said that romance signifies besides the obvious picturesque and heroic, an assumed freedom from the ordinary...

Essay on Book Thief Day One: Write notes about TWO possible topics for your essay from those suggested below. Power of Language One option: In The Book Thief, words have the power to both destroy and save lives. Examine how characters in the novel (for example, Liesel, Max, Ilsa Hermann, Hitler, Rosa and/or Hans) use words to destroy and to save. What are some of the effects of their words? Discuss at least two characters’ relationships with the power of language. Another option:...

In the beginning of the novel... 1) Victor's revenge in defying his father "But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity." (page 25) Victor continued to read the books of natural philosophy by Cornelius Agrippa, in defiance of his father's wishes. 2) Victor's revenge in pursuing math and science "...I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history...

VICTORIANISM AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. A discussion of Victorianism involves a consideration of a diversity of views about a glorious...

Elle: A Novel Analysis The Author and his Devises Douglas Glover is a known Canadian author of various fiction works that has capture readers of different nationalities, belief and preferences. While there were many other works of Glover such as notes Home from a Prodigal Son, The Enamored Knight, and novels such as The Life and Times of Captain N and 16 Categories of Desire , Elle, a novel based on a true or rather historic figure, Marguerite de Roberval, on her way to discovering Canada...

 The first half of the book was entirely gloomy and kind of depressing, but then I guess that’s (maybe) kind of the whole point.. to show the transition. Lincoln was like the most depressing, hopeless, lost person I’ve come across as a hero in a romance novel. His lethargy was almost palpable and the lost, directionless, purposeless feeling that pulls you back if not completely under at some point in life something that any reader could identify with..that I kept me reading..(its kinda hard to...

English 116 ‘Major Project Two: Summary of and Response to a Graphic Novel’ In the Graphic Novel “Daytripper” by Moon, Fábio and Gabriel Bá, we explore a miracle child Brás de Oliva Domingos. In each chapter of the novel we uncover Brás’s life; furthermore, explaining and revealing people and events that have influenced his life in addition making him into the man he is at the end of “Daytripper”. Brás’s story is filled with all his life’s little and big moments that keep including his...

Could the story of the novel exist without the class difference between Amir and Hassan? Make a case, using specific plot points and historical facts to ground your argument. Examine the concept of circularity in the novel. What important cycles exist in the characters' lives and histories? How is circularity connected to redemption? Explore the way in which courage is portrayed in the novel. What constitutes true bravery? What are the key moments when characters are brave and who is the...

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Graphic Novels Graphic novels are to be defined as novels in comic-strip format. They are usually shown to us either in series and have a continuous plot or it can be presented in shorter stories. One popular form of a “comic book” is called a manga (漫画). The Chinese character that is used to write manga translates into “whimsical drawings”. Mangas are different from most of the books out there in multiple ways. The beginning of the book for instance...

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The novel The Client of John Grisham evolves with the struggles of a young boy who had witnessed a suicide incident and who almost knew everything about a very serious crime but felt so uncertain to deal with these changes and consequences of the situations that happened. Mark Sway, the young hero of the novel (and also of the movie because it was filmed by famous Hollywood stars), was the aggressive type of person who wanted to try and sneak out on all things. And coincidentally, he and his...

Frankenstein Novel Evaluation Form, Structure and Plot Frankenstein, an epistolary novel by Mary Shelley, deals with epistemology, is divided into three volumes, each taking place at a distinct time. Volume I highlights the correspondence in letters between Robert Walton, an Arctic seafarer, and his sister, Margaret Saville. Walton's letters to Margaret basically explain his expedition at sea and introduce Victor Frankenstein, the protagonist of the novel. Volume II is essentially...

Seventeen year old Bella moves from sunny Phoenix to rainy Forks, Washington, but the new school is the least of her troubles. She soon finds herself attracted to a mysterious boy who seems to be infuriated by her mere presence. Soon, however, the truth comes out and the two become inseparable. Bella never dreamed she'd fall in love, let alone with a vampire named Edward. Throughout the novel, he fights to save her, from himself and from others. Those who will enjoy this novel most are teens...

After discussing the various reasons which have made the novel the most popular literary form today, let us consider the main characteristics of the modern novel. In the first place, we can say that it is realistic as opposed toidealistic. The ‘realistic’ writer is one who thinks that truth to observed facts—facts about the outer world, or facts about his own feelings—is the great thing, while the ‘idealistic’ writer wants rather to create a pleasant and edifying picture. The modern novelist is...

Tristram Shandy: An Anti-Novel Laurence Sterne’s novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1766. The text is suggested to be the autobiography of Tristram Shandy, as the title proposes, but the most of the events of the book occur even before Tristram is born. In fact the event of Tristram’s birth, which is first introduced in the very first chapter does not finally occur until Volume IV. The novel largely concerns itself with...

How to write a novel? The Snowflake Method For Designing A Novel Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That’s just life. If it were easy, we’d all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction. Frankly, there are a thousand different people out there who can tell you how to write a novel. There are a thousand different methods. The best one for you is the one that works for you. In this article, I’d like to share with you what works for me. I’ve published six novels and won...

NOVELS BY FILIPINO AUTHORS IN ENGLISH Updated on 14 June 2011 Alanguilan, Gerry. Elmer. SLG Publishing, 2010. [FANTASY/GRAPHIC NOVEL] __________. Humanis Rex! Fudge, 2005. [FANTASY/GRAPHIC NOVEL] __________. Wasted. Alamat, 2002. [ACTION/GRAPHIC NOVEL] Alanguilan, Gerry and Arlan Esmeña. Where Bold Stars Go to Die. Komikero, 2009. [EROTICA/GRAPHIC NOVEL] Alfar, Dean Francis. Salamanca. Ateneo, 2007. [FANTASY] Alumit, Noel. Letters to Montgomery Clift. MacAdam/Cage, 2002. [LITERARY...

The Elizabethan period is primarily known for its drama and poetry rather than its prose fiction, particularly since the advent of the English novel proper does not occur for another century. However, critics have increasingly stressed the importance of prose fiction in the seventeenth century and its role in the development of the novel. Several factors have played an important role in the emergence of the Elizabethan romance. One of the most significant factors in the development of the...

This bonus article can be appreciated by all writers and filmmakers but will be of special interest to writer-storymakers who are trying to decide where to best invest their creative energies and talents – the novel or the screenplay. I’ll begin with some general observations concerning the novelist and the filmwright, a film’s primary creative artist, and then I’ll describe the similarities and critical differences between the novel and the screenplay. The novelist creates and describes...

“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9 A Separate Peace Chapters 1–5 Name_____________________ Personal Response If you could talk to Gene, what would you say to him? Analyzing Literature--Recall and Interpret 1. At what time of year does Gene return to Devon to visit? What atmosphere, or mood, is created by setting the story during this season? What do Gene’s descriptions of the season suggest about his...

How to answer novel ‘The Curse’ Below are some tips that you can follow: ** Rememeber to write your answer in paragraphs ( at least 3) **If you are not sure how to answer, make sure include all these elements 1. how many characters 2. how many events/evidence 3. how many values/lessons/themes * manipulate your understanding of the story to fit the question – not to fit the question to what you know about the story **always have concluding paragraph to reinforce or sum up what...

BANKIM: THE ORIGINARY* FIGURE OF INDIAN NOVEL IN ENGLISH Y.V.R. Prasanna Kumar Research Scholar (M.Phil.), (Part-time), Department of English, S.V. University, Tirupathi. A. P.INDIA 517502 INTRODUCTION A great deal of Indian writing in English is in the form of novel. In the course of an eventful history, Indian novel in English demonstrated the capacity and resilience for innovations and attained the status of Universal Form. The post-independence India has witnessed a Sea change of...

[Salutations] Today I will be discussing how the Contemporary Australian novel Cloudstreet, by Tim Winton, is of value and how it is received in different contexts. I will firstly discuss how the novel is of value because of the presence of universal, timeless themes of: the search for a sense belonging and the importance of family. Being post-modern readers, we believe that the reception of a text depends on our context and value system. Consequently, a text can hold many interpretations. In...

History of Indian Novels History of novels was endowed with the rare impetus of Indian Freedom Movement, flourishing under its colossal umbrella. It would perhaps be just not a mere overstatement if stated that - literature and history are very much intimately linked. Literature is known to represent history without any exaggeration or a biasness of the mind set-up. And history is no better portrayed in Indian literature than the novels that have been rendered life with much pain,...

How does Persepolis give a voice to someone who has been silenced? Persepolis tells a story of a young girl called Marjane. She lived Iran wit h parents during a time of great hardship and struggle. This was a time when the voices of women and including young girls like Marjane, were silenced and not to be heard. The graphic novel itself is regarded as a ‘voice of silenced women in Iran’. In Persepolis, we see that there are many consequences that the people of Iran, including Marjane,...

Issues Harlequin, the successful company produces series romance products was founded in 1949 and had become a symbol representing series romance fiction. The Vice-President of direct marketing, Donna Hayes stated, the demand for single title women's fiction grow continuously while the demand for series romance remains stable. As the result, the problem Harlequin has is whether or not to launch MIRA, a new line of single-title women's fiction novels and if so, how to launch it. Analysis...

Lolita is one of the most unconventional literary classics of the century. Lolita is a twelve-year-old girl, who is desired by the European intellectual Humbert Humbert. As the narrator of the story, Humbert chronicles his abnormal childhood, adolescent experiences, and an adventure in a booming American as a European tourist and pedophile. But it is key to realize his first heartbreak as a boy manifests into his desires for nymphets. This point is made clear in both the novel and movie. I...

The Good Earth Novel Report Title: The Good Earth Background of the Author: Pearl Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Christian missionaries, and Buck was raised in China, attending a boarding school in Shanghai. In 1910, she went to America to attend Randolph-Macon Woman's College, in Lynchburg, Virginia. After graduation, she soon returned to China, marrying an American agricultural specialist in 1917, and living in North China. In the...

ZAMORANO[1] English 126 11/25/13 NOVEL VS. FILM As with all novels that are adapted into film changes must be made to fit with the tone of the movie Jurassic park is no exception. The changes can range from the smallest plot point to the biggest. It can be from changing a character personality and...

The Natural vs. the UnNatural In the novel and the movie, the Natural, many differences in the plot, the characters, and the theme give both a very different mood and overall meaning. Many small differences add up to give each work a distinctive feel to it and an important moral. Roy's relationship with Iris, the incident when Roy gets poisoned, and the ending all effectively display the differences that have such an important bearing on the outcome and effect of the theme....

Monday, December 27, 2010 The Rise of the Novel in the Eighteenth Century Introduction: In the eighteenth century the years after the forties witnessed a wonderful efflorescence of a new literary genre which was soon to establish itself for all times to come as the dominant literary form. Of course, we are referring here to the English novel which was born with Richardson's Pamela and has been thriving since then. When Matthew Arnold used the epithets "excellent" and "indispensable" for...

English 102 4 May 2013 Graphic Novels in Education Graphic novels and comic books have been some of the most debated topics recently in many different areas. Many people think that they could be helpful in education, while some others completely disagree. Some people think they are childish, and some think they require just as much comprehension as long, fictional novels. However, despite all the criticism graphic novels often get, the genre is growing recently. Many things have led to...

 The Victorian Novel: main features First of all in the Victorian Age the dominating literary form was the novel. It was in fact easier to be read and understood by simple people, its plot was more interesting than any other literary forms, the main protagonists of the novel were the same people who read it so that they felt deeply involved in the adventure told, the writer and his readers shared the same opinions, values and ideals because they belonged to the same middle class, the...

The significance of the title to the novel ‘The Pearl’. The novel ‘The Pearl’ by John Steinbeck is such a novel that really interest me as a reader. What is really appropriate is the title itself which incorporate ‘the pearl’, the essence of the story. The pearl is very significant to the title because without ‘the pearl of the world’, the story just would not exist. The novel could not stand by itself if the pearl is not found. We can also see that any story would not be interesting without...

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2,1 INTRODUCING NOVEL “THE PEARL” FORM 5 STUDENTS 2. LESSON PLAN 3.1 ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR TEACHING STEINBECK’S NOVEL “THE PEARL” 3.1.1 DEFINITION OF LITERARY TERMS 3.1.1.1 Setting 3.1.1.2 Theme 3.1.1.3 Characterisation 3.1.2 RATIONALES FOR CHOOSING READING MATERIALS TO TEACH CHARACTERISATION 3.1.2.1 THE STUDENTS’ LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY AND BACKGROUND...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great work with many excellent things that could be said about it. One thing that makes The Scarlet Letter stand out is the character of Hester Prynn, who is one of the strongest female characters in literature. Having a female character with such strength raises the question of whether or not The Scarlet Letter is a feminist novel; by looking at what feminism is and analyzing the book itself, one can see that the book is more a commentary on...