"Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin is a poignant and introspective novel that delves into themes of identity, spirituality, and the complexities of family dynamics. Set in Harlem during the 1930s, the novel follows the Grimes family as they navigate personal struggles,...
"We Were the Mulvaneys," a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, delves into the complexities of family, identity, and societal expectations. Through the lens of the Mulvaney family's experiences, Oates explores themes of innocence, tragedy, and resilience. This AP Literature essay will analyze the novel's central...
"Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie is a captivating novel that seamlessly weaves together the realms of imagination and reality. Through the protagonist's whimsical journey, Rushdie explores the power of storytelling to shape perceptions, challenge oppression, and restore a sense of wonder....
Book enthusiasts are brimming with anticipation for a captivating new young adult fantasy novel slated for release in 2023. Entitled Fourth Wing, this literary marvel hails from the adept quill of author Emily Duncan, marking her second literary opus following the triumph of Wicked Saints...
Introduction 'Dear Martin' is an excellent novel for young adults written by American author Nic Stone. This is her debut novel and it specializes in discussing and portraying racism in the society. The novel is about an African American high school student named Justyce who...
Introduction Kennedy’s Revenge: The Election of 2016 by Stephen L Rodenbeck has an enticing format in which the book is split between both fiction and non-fiction, with alternate chapters for each. This interesting structure is something which originally drew me to the novel, as I...
Exploring the Boundaries of Fiction and Nonfiction Every book, short story, or novel ever written will have bits and pieces of fiction inside of it, and every different type of writing is considered to be a story. What exactly is a story? According to the...
Introduction When Louisa May Alcott published “Little Women” it became a hit around the world for children and adults alike. At the time it was published in 1868, it was instantly unique in the sense that it had characters that broke conventional gender roles, which...
Introduction J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace suggests that certain scenes throughout the novel played significant roles that were crucial for David Lurie to develop remorse and provide subsequent action. In the novel, multiple controversial scenes transpired that created dishonor for Professor Lurie but also regret. These scenes...
Introduction Disgrace was written in 1999, by the author, J.M Coetzee. Born in South Africa in 1940, Coetzee grew up during a time called apartheid, meaning: “a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race”. In Disgrace, the drama of violence and...
Introduction Social divisions in Borough Park, Brooklyn can shape an individual’s lifestyle through many factors. The novel Brooklyn by Colm Tóbín shows this through the characters Tony and Eilis. The education and economic opportunities that Tony receives are based on his parents’ social status while...
Introduction Originally written by Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn tells the story of Eilis, a sheltered young woman from 1950s Ireland who is persuaded to immigrate away from the comfort of her small hometown to Brooklyn, New York where employment and education prospects are much better. Her...
Introduction Brooklyn (2015), directed by John Crowley takes place in New York City during the 1950s. The film is a romantic historical film that is based on the novel of the same name by Colm Toibin. It tells the story of a young Irish immigrant...
Through symbolism, in trying to fit in according to societal expectations, one is conflicted about their identity which causes one to feel conflicted with their position in society, in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. Gyasi utilizes the symbolism of language to demonstrate that language can make one...
You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to live is to press play. 13 Reasons Why the bestseller book is written in 2007 by Jay Asher. It's a General Fiction. It's about a girl named 'Hannah Baker' who has...
In the novel Lord of the Flies, innocence was progressively lost through the boys. The boys were implanted in a situation where they had no other choice but to grow up and to develop faster. The boys were put in a very qisquenting situation and...
The 1950s was a decade plagued by traditional gender roles for women and men. It wasn't uncommon for a book to mention that the best career for every woman is, of course, taking care of her husband and home. Therefore, it isn't surprising that Ken...
Achebe says, “There is no story that is not true.” People tell a story for a great reason, the reason to share with the world to people, to understand what they are feeling deep inside them. Even if the story isn’t accurate, it may be...
Franz Kafka said, “A book should be an ax for the frozen sea within us.” This quote describes how our world is like a frozen sea...untouched and still. A book is supposed to break that stillness of a world, just like “The Kite Runner” by...
Most of the time Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is considered to be an anti-war novel, however, there are moments in the novel where Vonnegut challenges his readers in questioning their character's perception of time by having the unusual structure of storytelling. We can appreciate this novel...
I am here to talk to you about how the book 'Of Mice and Men' is pessimistic with the following: incomplete dreams, and ruined friendships. My evidence overshadows what is optimistic. If they think this book is full of a happy future and harmlessness, they...
Craig Silvey’s Australian novel “Jasper Jones” highlights the importance of an outsider to make the readers feel connected and helps to show how a single persons biased view can affect everyone, when it comes to human experience the representation of an outsider helps to shape...
The concept of family, at its most basic level, represents a sense of unity within the household. Within every family, there are distinct customs and ideals that are maintained. The familial environment often shapes a person’s character and values, at least in his/her youth. Whether...
Novelist, Tom Robbins is known for saying, ̈Our similarities bring us to common ground. Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.¨ Similarities and differences are something common in human society. The book “Persepolis” is about the coming of age of a young...
The Help, a famous novel written by Kathryn Stockett, which soon also became a movie, tells the story of how African Americans in the United States experienced racism. Specifically, it demonstrates shameful, humiliating and unbearable living conditions of black maids in the 1960s, the civil...
Suspense is dominant in both Poe’s and Shelley's novels. However, suspense is demonstrated similarly and differently by the two authors. Firstly, in the short story “The Tell- Tale Heart” Poe used the technique of suspense efficiently by employing frantic diction and first-person point-of-view to bring...
Guilt is one of the central themes and the center of the whole novel as readers' thoughts of guilts towards Perry and Dick vary as we learn more about their past. Regardless of who pulled the triggered and committed the actual murder, I think both...
The Virgin Suicides is an american novel written byˈJeffrey Eugenides and published in 1993. It is the first novel written by Jeffrey Eugenides, it is a tragedy novel. This novel deals with adolesence, love, death. The novel tels the story of the Lisbon sisters, from...
Nature is found all-around individuals and has allowed humans to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Just like the characters in Deliverance, nature acts as an obstacle and causes many of the characters to face difficult challenges. Nature can also cause individuals to think differently about...
Throughout the years, many different changes have happened in modern society. Protests, wars, and injustices have all contributed to making the world what it is today, yet no other means of change have impacted as much as literature. Influenced by the powerful words, carefully chosen...
In the book, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls talks about her unusual childhood of constant poverty and the chaos and confusion of her dysfunctional parents and their nomadic lifestyle. What is so cool about Jeanette’s story is that although Jeanette’s parents were irresponsible, neglectful and...
The theme of abandonment is relevant because without this theme there would be less context and understanding. In this story the children truly believe that their parents have abandoned them and there need by not giving them what they desire the most. But in reality...
It is a modernist novella and It takes place in Salinas,California during the great depression in the early 1930s. Steinbeck published many more novels in his life, he wrote 31 books and his most well-known books are Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath (1939)...
The flexible nature of Igbo community manifests itself in several ways in the novel. It is reflected in Uchendu’s assertion that the old and new generation do not have much in common concerning the willingness to keep relationships secure. Uchendu represents the past generation who...
William Golding uses the themes of loss of innocence, evil in the world, and the progression from civilized to savagery in his novel Lord of the Flies to portray his vision of society. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is about a group of sixteen...
Most of the authors in the literary devices intend to pass certain and specific messages to their audience. Majority of them evaluate the happenings in the society. As such, the messages aim at changing the society towards the ability by the people to maintain the...
The horrendousness of the truth is often masked by the distortion of the reality that is present in truth. The purpose behind George Orwell’s 1984 was to expose this truth of the world in a manner that would not take away from what was plainly...
The most damaging and dangerous explanation somebody can say is to 'Take care of business.' As Carlos Gomez once expressed, 'such a significant number of men in this world (are) living in this kind of calm urgency, limited in this crate of lethal manliness.' In...
Life is an inconsistency. It is excellent and hard. It is confinements and opportunity. It is everything and some of the time insufficient. It is incomprehensible but, the conceivable outcomes are unfathomable. It is baffling, in light of the fact that while it is every...
Societies can interconnect human life but can also isolate people from each other with the technology within. Station Eleven is a novel about a society devolving into a Dystopia, but it also explores what a society is. Mandel explores society through different perspectives by describing...
Individuals experience many things over their lifetime that make them who they are. Joyful, stressful, exciting and traumatic experiences are often things every individual goes through; the one thing that connects all of them is memory. Memory allows one to reflect on experiences that are...
The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is autobiographical account of her unusual and unconventional childhood. The book begins with Walls describing a lunch she had with her mother and describing how ashamed she was of her mother because she was homeless and shameless about...
The Glass Castle, Walls Jeannette, shared her experiences growing up with parents who are totally acting differently from a normal society. Their strange behaviors made Jeannette and her siblings struggling with how they should interact with society. However, Jeannette was having a problem with her...
Flannery O'Connor illustrates the religious decay of the south through the creation of flawed, contradicted and evil characters in her story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Though they appear to be complete opposites described within the text, the Grandma and The Misfit share...
Nobody would ever believe that an innocent diversion of kite flying could turn into an epic tale of betrayal and in the end, eventual redemption. Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner manages to weld this activity with the journey of one man from betrayer to...
Jeanette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, chronicles Jeanette’s unconventional childhood characterized by persistent poverty and the chaos and confusion of dysfunctional parents and their nomadic lifestyle. What is remarkable about Jeanette’s story is that although Jeanette’s parents were irresponsible, neglectful and careless, they did manage...
In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there are several samples of savagery that take place on the tropical island. The savagery is within the nature of a number of the boys hearts. The boys exhibit savage traits when the circumstances turn...
John Steinback was an author of many novels and also won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writing. One novel he wrote was Of Mice and Men which focused on two characters Lennie and George who dream of living on...
Betrayal is a common motif in Kite Runner, and it happens on numerous occasions, mainly with Baba and Amir. Baba betrays Ali, Hassan, and in a way Amir himself by secretly being the father of Hassan with Ali’s wife. Amir betrayed Hassan when he watched...
The history of humanity has been riddled with new diseases and mass pandemics that have threatened the collapse of society. In today’s media, artists like to imagine a world where this disastrous event does happen, when medicine fails and the world is thrust into a...
In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two men who live completely different lives are on trial against one another. Even though they seem to be only compared as different from each other, they also have compared similarities of each other throughout the novel....
I would highly recommend The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Glass Castle (2017) directed by Destin Daniel Cretton to anyone who needs a good laugh and cry! I believe that anyone who is of a mature age can enjoy the memoir and film...
For there to be betrayal, there has to be accept as true with first. For each individual in The Kite Runner, there had been trusts of all forms. Trust of family and near friends had been all betrayed. In the novel, The Kite Runner, Hosseini...
The representation of female gender is mostly sloppy and biased. It is belief that men are the bulwark of any society. However, their contribution to the overall development of mankind and the nature in general is great. Women on the other hand is saddled with...
Abstract: Women are given the position of ‘second sex’ since the time immemorial. They have been subjected to have a secondary treatment and they are deprived of the opportunities which are enjoyed by men. This discrimination pushes the fair sex into the background position and...
The adventurous and dangerous life of Olympic Runner Louis Zamperini in the book Unbroken isn’t just for entertainment. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is a biography of an Olympic runner Louis Zamperini who enlisted in the air force and when his plane crashes he becomes a...
Throughout the powerful novel Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini shows a relentless will to survive in extreme ways that most could not, also demonstrating many counts of leadership. Louis Zamperini has been innovative and...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus unleashes the lives of two young characters Kambili, the main character and Jaja, her older brother, that are brought up by a religiously rigid father, Papa, who adheres to Catholicism consequently overshadowing his paternal love. Papa eventually punishes his...
When raised in a country hindered by the hardships of domestic violence, voicing one's true thoughts can often carry savage consequences, Purple Hibiscus is no exception. When the voice of the Achike family is confined in an oppressive society and home under Eugene, an authoritarian...
What would happen if a group of boys from a civilized society all get stranded on an island with no adults? Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding and is about a group of schoolboys stranded on an island away from all civilization....
Boccaccio presents an earthly system of justice to show how messy human life is. This tells us that the divine system of justice (one that Dante adheres to) does not fit with the complications that life presents us. Dante’s use of his moral system, which...
Tuesdays With Morrie is a novel based on a true story about a professor named Morrie Shwartz and the memorable lessons he taught to the people around him, specifically his student, Mitch Albom. Morrie taught Sociology at Brandeis University. His earnestness towards teaching and the...
Some of the most important, famous and infamous things happened on a Tuesday. In late October of 1929, the New York Stock Exchange collapsed, a leading factor that led to the Great Depression. This is famously called Black Tuesday. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces...
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is one of the most interesting books that I've at any point perused. This true to life piece has even made me have an alternate point of view and made me consider the lesson of the story in an edifying manner....
The course Herman Melville charts in his novella, Billy Budd, Sailor, is long and convoluted, perhaps surpassing even that of Captain Ahab and his crazed pursuit of the white whale. Published nearly three decades after Melville’s death, the author’s last work of prose is set...
In the northwestern United States, there is a small island called 'San Piedro', where the Hatsue of the Japanese girl was born. She is graceful, gentle, and hardworking. She and the white boy, Ishmael, grew up together and lived together for a long time. With...
The Fault in Our Stars is a book by John Green and is 313 pages long. I really really liked this book for many reasons. But one important reason was because of the real-life lesson the book teaches. It enlightens the readers that everyone is...
Though the definition of great literature is ultimately indefinite and variable to an individual, it generally possesses several universal traits. Great literature is not only a one-time read; it is something that delivers a strong moral that stays applicable despite its time and cultural context....
A masterpiece War and Peace a famous Russian masterpiece written by Leo Tolstoy in the year 1865-1867 and was firstly published 130 years ago (Murphy, 2016) and of 1225 pages. The novel remained world acclaimed and is known for practicality of real life that he...
Dictionary defines the term novel as ”A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.” The novel, therefore, developed as a piece of prose fiction that presented characters in real-life events and situations. Novel as a literary...
Japan has been greatly affected by the events of World War II and the aftermath of it. Many great pieces of work have been created by the Japanese. The author Koushun Takami and the famous director in the anime industry, Hayao Miyazaki, are both from...
This entry begins with Jack starting his first year in high school. He saved eighty dollars which he had either solen or earned. He fantasizes of going to Alaska to escape and plans to take his mother with him. He and Arthur confide in each...
Holistic thinking allows for the highest benefit in all areas of a healthy life and planning for or taking action to support the healthiest outcome with balance in all areas. The term 'holistic thinking” in the Japanese culture refers to a picture of mentality in...
In the novel, The Invention of Morel, we learn about a Venezualan fugitive’s life on what is said to be a dangerous uninhabited Polynesian island. He resides on the island because he is attempting to hide from the police. However, one day more people show...
In Gods and Generals, Shaara tells old stories in his own style and prose, using factual information to create a realistic yet still entertaining narrative. The author’s tales revolve around four generals and the events surrounding them, particularly in reference to the Civil War. Shaara...
In the novel, White Noise, Don DeLillo, the author, leads us on a journey that follows the life of Jack, a chairman of Hitler Studies, and his wife Babette, who eventually shares the same fear of death as her husband. Throughout, the novel Babette makes...
Don Delillo's White Noise has a plethora of character's in the short novel that are dynamic and static. We are introduced to the main character Jack Glady and his family who are major characters and drive the story forward. They are all of varying degrees...
Claude McKay is a prominent African American writer of twentieth century. He was born in Jamaica in 1889. He has written four novels. His novels mainly focus on race, colour, sex, gender, social justice, education, culture, and so on. His fourth novel Amiable with Big...
Joseph Heller's novel “Catch-22” is a story that follows Yossarian, a bombardier stationed on the island Pianosa, by the Italian coast in the Mediterranean. His goal being to finally be discharged from combat. While following Yossarain’s plight we are shown details through Heller’s different literary...
In The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien, not many women are displayed with active roles; although they are present, it is evident that males are the focal point of the novel. Tolkien was born into the time where women did not have many...
With the release of her first novel White Teeth in 2000, Zadie Smith immediately made the world fall in love with the novelist, essayist, and short story writer that she is. Close to two decades, five more novels, and many short stories later, the English...
Few commentaries on the novel are silent on the subject of Oedipa’s name. Most take for granted that it is significant in a straightforward way: by referring the reader to some extra-textual network of meanings the name appropriates some or all of those meanings for...
Throughout John Steinbeck’s novel, “East of Eden,” forces of good and evil were represented through physical forms. The characters in the novel shared similarities with important figures in the bible and rehashed the stories and events that occurred in famous tellings of Christianity. Readers delved...
Anita Desai’s cry the Peacock is a powerful novel representing the estranged relationship of a Husband and his wife. The dreams of a simple, loving and admiring girl come to tatters after her marriage to Gautam, a practical minded and romantically dull husband. Maya, a...
Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock portrays the trauma of a married woman inflicted by a male dominated society. She gets enslaved by the belief that her family male members are her protectors. Once she realizes that they cut her off from their family domain, she...
Exile is a central idea present in the Poisonwood Bible and is displayed through the character, Adah Price. Adah Price is plagued by Hemiplegia, a genetic disorder that causes one whole side of her body to be limp. Due to her disorder, she has only...
The Russian novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn uses physical objects such as the spoon, bread, hat, and parcels, to represent Shukhov's inner struggle to survive his circumstances. Hidden throughout the book are symbols used to convey the deeper...
Although Henry Fleming goes into training as a new recruit, he doesn’t gather a soldier’s true discipline until he learns to overcome his fear on the war zone and accept the structure of military orders. For some people, Henry Fleming goes from a coward to...
The present study is an interpretation of women novelists of the Victorian age and their significant works. The Victorian era is known for the galaxy of female novelists. It was an era of material affluence, political awakening, democratic reforms, industrial and mechanical progress, scientific advancement,...
Perhaps a more fitting title for this novel is The Pursuit of Courage, as each interaction showed 18-year-old Henry Flemming learning to find courage. Henry's mind was a canvas painted upon with fantasies of warfare on par with the works of Homer. Encouraged to enlist...
Of Mice and Men was a novel published in 1937, it remains today by loved by people of all over. It’s easily a story of friendship under all odds. Now the question with this novel is should it or should it not be banned. First...
The story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” takes place in the city of Seattle where a homeless Native American, Jackson Jackson, embarks on a journey not to steal, but to earn money to recover his grandmother’s regalia. He goes through many obstacles to obtain...
As individuals, we all deal losses. At some point in time we lose connection with friends and family, we suffer financial loss, or we break down emotionally. We deal with the losses in a way that match our personality. There are stories that have an...
“A round, black, shining face is hers, so glossy as to suggest the idea that she might have been washed over with white of eggs, like one of her own tea risks. Her whole plump countenance beams of satisfaction and contentment from under her well-starched...
Literature can have a far-reaching impact on society as it conveys and introduces emotion, catalyzes one towards action, and creates an awareness which, often times, leads to social change. One of the most influential American books ever written, Uncle Tom’s Cabin had a clear and...
The novel “Uncle Toms Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe she writes one of the most inspiring novels of all-time. This novel exposes the cultural misconceptions of early America. This novel was written to fight against slavery at its peak in the 1850’s. Through this novel...
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a literary masterpiece that explores the issues of racism, slavery, and societal norms prevalent in the antebellum South. Twain's use of satire, irony, and humor in the novel enables him to address these issues effectively, making it...
Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of Zora Neale Hurtson’s most accomplished and acclaimed novels and works in her career. An African American writer born in 1901 at Eatonville, Florida, she attended school until her mother passed away, and accompanied a theater company at...
How would you feel if the person you truly love dies? In the search for unconditional love, sometimes you find yourself along the way. In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Janie (the main character) search for true love that...
Pauline Hopkins, a prominent African-American journalist and novelist one said “after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny or any supernatural agency” (Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces). In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist--Janie Crawford--is...
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